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It would vary which team, I'd tend to have a bias towards the immediate only because we could use it to buy a defenseman from MIN/ANA/OTT etc that's being exposed. Detroit and Vancouver I'd gun for either 1st

I believe we did give him an offer, he wanted to go to Calgary because the #1 job was up for grabs.

Some deadline deals if we continue to sputter. To BUF Duclair, A To ARI Girgensons, Z Struggling youth for struggling youth. To BUF Luff, M 2017 1st round pick (LAK) To LAK Kulikov, D ($2,100,000 retained) At about 49% retained, Kulikov should be able pick up a 1st, and maybe a random prospect. That is if he isn't injured the whole month of January. This 1st is vital, since we'd use it to snag one of the Wild or Ducks Dmen. To BUF 2017 2nd round pick (WSH) To MTL Franson, C ($1,600,000 retained) Franson's looked better this year, and at just short of 50% retention he should be able to pick up a 2nd/3rd

For Reinhart to be a center we would have to make a trade for a winger, for instance Girgs for Duclair or else we'd have a strong middle with mostly mediocrity on the wings. For example: Moulson-Eichel-Okposo Duclair-O'Reilly-Foligno Kane-Reinhart-Gionta Carrier-Larsson-Deslauries/Grant at very least we'd have enough potential scoring to run 3 lines.

I feel bad for Gorges, you can tell at times he still can play the game mentally but his body just isn't up to it any longer. Just think of the McDavid game, that takes defensive skill to pull off. His problem is he started as an average skater and passer and as he's aged and recovered from leg injuries his speed has become all but non-existent, thus preventing him from skating with the puck a little more thus forcing him to pass it more frequently thus exposing his passing inadequacies. If we can make him the 6-7 guy we can survive his final year of his contract. Franson has never had speed, but has offensive skill. Contract ends at the end of the year. That's fine. Bogo has either little hockey IQ yet a full tool belt, or is so injury riddled that needing pain tolerance has lessened his reaction speeds. Kulikov has been disappointing, he's everything Pysyk wasn't. Physical, more of a risk taker, puck carrier. But yet prone to stupidity at times and thus not terribly reliable. I get the sense that he's distanced himself from his more conservative play in Florida that he'd been worked into. He trying to do too much and it shows. If we are out of the hunt come Deadline day I'd see if I can swindle a team into giving us a 1st for Kulikov and maybe a 3rd for Franson

Me, I could use the money

Cute, could of been better if they actually sang it. Risto looked so awkward while Lehner looked like he might kill the cameraman. Oh don't forget Bogo hitting the microphone at the end.

*Throws Grenade*

1 year for 2mil or less sure.

I'm not only because 2 Sabres were on the scene immediately, Boychuck stayed on Eichel thus preventing any Sabres from actually going after him.

A win is a win no matter how but these games are always fun to watch. Eichel 3 pts And Risto with his quiet 2 additional points, its like he's some kind of point ninja sneaking in the background. Carrier at the end was certainly tripped, and he seemed to be hoping to hit Eichel to get him the hat trick too :(

We'd likely have a cash strapped mediocre Sabres team that never tanked and still holds to Vanek and company praying for something good to happen. And the Bills would be in Toronto, so while you may think he's a bad owner, at least we have an owner who will keep the teams here and with deep pockets to boot. :wallbash: Then what works exactly? Few FAs want to come here and there's very few in general. We averaged 9th before the tank, so effectively a non-playoff team that perpetually spun its wheels and couldn't improve because we middled it. We had two choices, stay the course and pray for a miracle or tank and at very least change the course in some regard.

It looks as if Darcy literally screwed up from 06 to 09 then had ok drafts from there. Zagrapan and Persson were his true screw ups, I'm not one to claim he should of known there were better players picked afterward, but 2 1st in a row that amounted to nothing..... that's downright sad. From there he seemed to hit one or two ok players and the rest were complete wastes. Ristolainen is the best guy he drafted since the 05-06 season, and he has little competition. Myers started great, Ennis started great but are injury happy and have sunk from their high points as rookies/2nd year guys.

Kane will be my favorite player if he'd shove his stick up Marchand's ass and then dances on his bleeding corpse. The refs gave the Bruins the game on that glove pass goal. Not even a review, yet they could kill our questionable goal and say no to it. Sad part was is had we actually showed up in the first we may still have won.So plenty of blame to go around.

My prediction: BUF 6 BOS 3 Goals: 1st PP BUF: Eichel - Reinhart, Ristolainen BUF: O'Reilly - Okposo, Eichel BUF: Eichel - Reinhart, Kane BOS: Marchand - Bergeron, Pastrnak 2nd BUF: Eichel - Guhle, Franson BOS: Pastrnak - Bergeron 3rd BUF: Guhle - Eichel, Kane BOS: Spooner - Krug EN BUF: Okposo - O'Reilly, Ristolainen Eichel: 3g 2a Reinhart/Ristolainen/Kane: 2a O'Reilly/Okposo/Guhle 1g1a Franson 1a

Eichel probably haunts Anderson in his dreams. Remember how shocked he was by his 1st career goal as well.

Awesome

Replace the young winger with a 3rd/4th and its far less insane. Actually pretty good.

That would be a loss for Buffalo, Sbisa is a garbage defenseman and Hutton while potentially good has proven very little. I would have no interest whatsoever in trading Nelson,and winger and Kane for that.....

Why didn't GMTM sign Pirri? Our team can't score and isn't really built to either.

To BUF: Virtanen, J (Foward Prospect) Burrows, A (Cap Dump) Hutton, B (Young Defenceman) To VAN: Kane, E BUF's 3rd or 2nd Any good?

That would be a Benning kind of trade. Kane and a 2nd for Juolevi and Virtanen

Just imagine Kane and a 2nd and 3rd for Tanev and Virtanen

Any interest in TVR from Chicago, I doubt he'd be expensive.

I wonder if we play him a game or two in Rochester before bringing him back to NHL speed? I'm guessing Eichel wants to get back for Dec 6's game against the Oilers.