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I'd say probably to some degree. Once the Sabres were officially eliminated the Pegulas saw the fact they were going to be going about 9 month without much revenue so they decided to cut as much salary as they could.

The good news is that pretty much the entire league is in a similar boat so we won't be alone or in a case like Florida or Arizona who hemorrhage salary all the time.

Begs to question what the hell is going to happen around the league. How in god's name do they plan to fix our team....

Here's my proposals https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1908663

Technically we take on 7 mil because we send back 7 mil Slight change, MAF has 2mil retained

I came up with Hutton, Johansson our 2020 2nd and 2021 4th for MAF and Stastny Hell, add the Risto + a little for Letang and while we will have got older we would certainly have a new bloc of players with a large amount of experience and it would certainly change how the Sabres look.

At those numbers I'd do a 5 year deal. Maybe 6x7mil would work as well. Reinhart is a great player, just not 9mil great. (Neither is Skinner for that matter)

He’s not a 3LW unless he’s in a completely winger inundated team.

Technically he’s a 2/3 LW Olofsson is a 1/2 LW Kahun is a 2/3 RW/LW/C Kahun could be a C but I certainly wouldn’t put him there intentionally aside from injury coverage.

He’s 33 at 7.5mil for 2 years Risto is at about 2 mil cheaper for the same 2 years. This type of move would immediately help a Dahlin as it would give him a former 1D to learn from. It’s the same rationale as going after Pietrangelo or Keith but on a much shorter term. Yes he has injury concerns but I don’t care at this point; our defense is made up of scraps from other teams, mediocre disappointments and youngsters with potential. Even if he just teaches stuff to Dahlin and Jokiharju we are better for it. If he’s healthy we’d have a legitimate top pairing and with a 2C we’d have a legit shot at being a playoff team. That was my rationale behind the idea. The only reason I thought of it was because some Pens fans were saying Rutherford would likely screw up and trade Letang for a Ristolainen. (I think HFBOARDS and CapFriendly are far too negative towards Risto regardless.)

Risto for Letang anyone?

No, Reinhart is as good as Ehlers thus making moving down and the extra 2nd make 0 sense

I'm thinking Alright here's what I came up with for now. https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1895879

The playoffs require you to at least have some players who will run others through walls when all else collapses.

I'm meaning physically hard to play against. Copp and Cozens would be the only guys willing to hit anyone. Ok, using your idea I've formed a team but am at a loss at what else to do. Not to mention what the heck is Larsson going to want for his contract?

Honestly, if you swapped Ehlers and Copp's position I'd be fine with it. (If Ehlers were a Center and Copp was a Winger) But to me a true 2C is far more worthy of throwing around a 1st than a high tier winger. Skilled yes, but softer than a baby's bottom.

Your trade proposal is too rich for my taste. Just saying though if we got Ehlers I might go Skinner-Eichel-Ehlers Olofsson-2C-Reinhart Johansson-Cozens-RW3 Asplund-Lazar-Okposo Thompson is a tad troublesome though due to his inexperience and I really don’t want him with Cozens.

For no reason I feel like Risto and a 21 2nd for Ehlers will happen

I’d guess they still are.

That would be a rather sad attempt to fix our team.

I'm not interested in trading Pekar for the 3rd back but the idea is good. We need Pekar's future pest on this team since we completely lack his type of player. 0 interest in Dylan Strome; he's too slow and doesn't do much of anything for long stretches. Plus he's rarely good when not with Kane and/or Debrincat I'm not keen on the Tampa trade barring some amount of pick protection.

Anything pop up as of late; it is understandable though if you are still busy getting into the school swing of things.

My guess would be if Toronto can’t make room and St. Louis tells him to leave Buffalo would be in the running due to location. Besides that I’d be unsure what he’d be drawn here by aside Eichel and Dahlin

I thought he left over the Sabres awfulness

Just so you know, he wasn't exactly an innocent man. But innocent until proven guilty truly seems to be a lost art in this day and age. That being said, why the cop fired 7 times into the guy at point blank range makes no sense.