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Skinner is likely to be better next year as most of his career he’s been 1 on 1 off since getting healthy.

At the end of this season, Leino's contract will leave the Sabres book. Hopefully that will lift the curse as we haven't played in the playoffs since that contract was signed.

I actually wonder who would be considered a higher value player. A mid pair RHD or a rather young 3C. I'd actually guess Montour would be more valuable at this immediate time.

The thing is with Couture is that he is already 30 making 8 mil for 7 more years If they want a 1st, first I'd want to know where our pick is; then I would want salary retention. Eichel needs help and bringing in wishy-washy guys won't work as we've seen.

The team that showed up in the 3rd could be a playoff team; problem is they show up only once in awhile. Goaltending was atrocious until that penalty shot and it effectively cost us the game. Dahlin played very well, Promo wants to run him over on that play near the end, but it honestly looked like the puck hit some snow that had piled up and in combination with his exhaustion he was unable to fire the puck with any oomph. I just want to know where that effort is most games. I can easily root for those guys at the end of that game who were sitting they were so exhausted.

Here's my proposal: 1. Jettison UFAs that you can at the deadline and acquire assets; whatever that may even be. 2. Trade McCabe for Miles Wood (Swapping two players with nigh-identical contracts and similar roles yet different positions) 3. Hug Eichel and tell him the fans love him. 4. Sign Reinhart for 7 mil or less per year with a contract at/over 5 years. 5. Trade Mitts and our 2nd to SJ for Couture (Some Shark fans are open to this idea with how their cap situation is) 6. Trade Montour to WPG for either Copp or Roslovic and a 3rd in 2020 and a 5th in 2021 (I fear his contract asking price in comparison to his actual team impact) (Should we ask for more?) 7. Figure out what to do with Tage Thompson 8. Sign Ullmark for about 2or3x3mil and Olofsson for about 3 to 4 mil over 3 to 5 years. 9. Find a more physical defensively minded LHD Thus far I have Olofsson - Eichel - Reinhart Skinner - Couture - Cozens (Skinner can swap wings if Cozens is a lefty) Wood - Johansson - Roslovic Asplund - Lazar - Okposo Dahlin - Miller Pilut - Risto ??? - Joker Ullmark Hutton Ruotsalainen/Smith/others for Forward extras Need an extra dman Would like to upgrade back up still and have 7.1 mil in cap space for the spots mentioned. -Burying Hutton = 1 mil approximately -Thompson still needs a contract as well

He's literally a F/D in Florida for some reason lol. He had 17 goals in about 400 games prior to this Glad it was the Leafs though lol

Wouldn’t make that trade, even if Toronto were in the West. A young skilled Dman is worth more than a young winger.

I don't want new lottery tickets and the ability to watch Dahlin turn into the next Chara story in a different city.

Well trading Dahlin or Eichel for that matter wouldn't do anything but add more chairs.

Reinhart, Risto, and throw anyone not signed into a wood chipper. (Excluding Olafsson) Waive Hutton and depending on Okposo's condition either waive him put him on LTIR You build through bringing in hungry players who will never surrender, maybe a few old vets who still want to play. Trading Dahlin will accomplish nothing, it will just be another ROR trade.

What he said is so true its scary. They need a Marketing/PR President and Hockey Ops President for the Sabres. Kim has done an ok job with the Bills but it seems between her multiple diversity boards, Bills stadium things, and being a Mom that things are beginning to fall through the cracks and the Sabres seem unable to fix any problems that are left over. We need a new Ted Black that at least gives us some lip-service and takes a beating on the radio occasionally. We need someone legit above the GM who can either get rid of Botts or get him to actually do what he was supposed do in being a cap wizard. I'm honestly ok with RK for now. But we need a new special teams coach because our present one or two in charge need to be fired into the sun.

Hmm, well we are certainly screwed 10 ways to Christmas If we were to fire Botts who the hell are we going to be able to hire? It would either be another rookie GM or one of a few god awful GMs. I feel bad for Eichel and Dahlin. You could even see Dahlin's body language say "Seriously..." when the 1st empty netter went in.

My hope is that RK is hoping he can get Frolik to play the Sobotka role for Skinner and Johansson and help that line do well like they had up until Sobotka's injury. If it doesn't work I hope he'll just move Skinner up with Eichel.

I’m confused by why people were angry at Eichel. He made 3 or 4 really nice plays on McDavid. I am fascinated by how he plays a passive role in 3v3. He seems to only use his speed if he sees an opportunity and I really don’t see that as a negative

A very odd night to be sure. Some thoughts: The events seemed partially staged; which was unusual. Al Macinnis' shot was faked; and I have no clue why they would do that Binnington won in part because of the only 2 or 3 trick/fun shot attempts The target shooting tech failed so badly that Luongo made fun of it The last event was great on paper but in practice was a confusing mess. Not to mention they changed the OT rules for it. I've seen women's hockey before and what we saw tonight made it look far more sloppy then it is in actuality. Fastest skater was the Top 4 and the Bot 4 but was at least interesting I did not need to see Brett Hull's ugly mug again. (I did enjoy seeing him fail miserably) Why did they bring out a Blues legend at the start and not have him take a shot?

No one was moving to help; Dahlin is his release valve but aside from Reinhart moving a little to the corner no one else really moves which then requires Eichel to make a perfect pass just to keep the play alive.

We should of had a powerplay for the last 35 to 55 secs seeing as Eichel was hooked, held, and slashed at least 3 or 4 times. Can we please send Bogosian to Rochester. If Boston can waive Backes then we can waive Bogosian. I'm sick of watching him just give the puck away every other time he's handling the puck.

I still see no point in going after the owner; he's done a lot of good for the area. He's far from perfect but I'll never understand the sheer anger pointed to our ownership.

No, I refuse to help the Leafs become better in any sense of the word

As a hypothetical, if SJS asked you for Mitts and 2 2nds for Couture would you do it?

I think Erod is traded and Wilson is the 1st sent down. Lazar and Asplund will eventually alternate in where needed

If Housley were still here I'd be all for it, but seeing as our present coach has been here for merely 43 games I'm not interested. If this were 2 years from now with ok results I'd say hey Ralph, would you like a role as Hockey Czar with a raise; we'd like to bring in this successful coach to take us to another level but we earnestly believe we still need you here to truly make that happen.

They told us there was a problem and that he wouldn't get here until sometime this week. Maybe the Czech government is off due to the holidays

Had he not caught the ball it would be considered a dead ball as we've seen all year. However he caught it in the air thus meaning the ball was live. I've heard that it shouldn't of been a touchdown but rather a safety with it being Bills ball after the punt off.