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However he's a very good offensive defenseman, he's not supposed to be a team's #1 dman. #2 or 3 with top PP time is what he's great for

Rather than giving a sarcastic reply give actual reasoning...... Ehrhoff can be a great d-man as we saw there. Grigo was a 1st rounder 2 years ago.... Neither are garbage

Maybe Hoff and Grigo for OReilly? Well something like that

That play just made me move Ehrhoff to a trade asset, there's bound to be a vet d-man we can sign in the offseason.

Does NBC ever shut up about the Pens being gods......... Hell even when we were good they had a love affair with the Pens. Teddy with funny quote in interview

McBain has looked horrid tonight

Gold: USA, Miller gets revenge for 2010 Silver: Canada Bronze: Sweden, although Lundquist goes down in the 2nd, Enroth holds onto the 3 goal Swedish lead to take Bronze 4th: Russia, the stress of being the "home" team crushes many younger Russians and Ovi and Kovulchuk cause internal strife (Ovi tells Kovulchuck he's ruined many Russian players hopes in the NHL)

Enroth is a bit more than a back up, although I understand your point. What if we sent them Halak after a Miller to St.Louis deal? What about: Enroth, Pysyk, Armia, Stafford, and 2 2nd rounders for Eberle, Hemesky and Gagner Essentially, the 1st 3 for Eberle and Stafford +2 seconds for the other 2. Gagner and Hemesky have both fallen out of favor after all.

Here's my proposal: Edm receives: Buf 2nd rounder 2014, LA 2nd rounder 2014, Stafford, McNabb, Enroth Buf receives: Eberle, It may need some tweaking but I don't want to rid o Ehrhoff unless there's a vet D-man we can sign in the offseason. I also don'twant Myers crushed by the additional pressure placed on his shoulders.

I disagree, I see him playing for Buffalo before he retires. Near the end of his career however and as more or less the extra vet on a cup contender.

How about this idea? Miller to St. Louis for a 1st, Halak, and a prospect. Send Halak to Washington for Nevurith, Erat, and a pick (for taking the problems off their hands)

So far this seems to be playing out. Although with less offensively gifted players, he's been generating more points as a 2nd line center.

Based on that..... 2013-2014: Start horribly, draft 4th. 2014-2015: Start horribly, draft 1st. I'd be perfectly fine with that.

Miller is an enigma for me, while I doubt he wants to be a Sabres player in the current situation; I believe he loves the city and its people. I'd offer him a contract and if he's unwilling to sign I'd trade him to the highest bidder in the West.

So LeBrunn didn't talk about it?

Supposedly Buffalo is in the bidding war for O'Reilly, any thoughts. Girgs, Myers, Zadorov, and Risto would be untouchables to me.

Tyler Toffoli 9g 8a in 33 games. However in his last 11 games he hasn't had a point. He put up 2g and 4a in 12 playoff games last year. Scouting Report: http://www.nhl.com/ice/draftprospectdetail.htm?dpid=2277&tab=scr

If we trade Moulson without getting him to telling us he'd resign here I can't see Miller resigning. Toffoli & marginal prospect for Moulson and the Sabres 2nd rounder might work. I wouldn't be willing to take players with 3 to 4 year wait periods. I'd want at maximum players who'll be able to play for us in the 2015-2016 season along with "McDavid." Any later and you start making the Sabres, Bills 2.0 which = continuous rebuild.

You know if Edm drafts #1 as long as we have #2 we're fine. To be honest if the Oilers take Reinhart, that actually gives us the ability to ransom off Ekblad and still get a top 5 pick. Regardless, I'd trade players for 2015 1st rounders not 2014 1st rounders.

Spot on assessment on Girgs having an uncommon mindset, aside from his personality likely being different; I believe his past hockey experience have helped. Girgs, playing for the Latvian WJC team, always was against better, stronger, more skilled opponents than he and his team. Thus, while it took him sometime to get running, in the AHL he slowly improved more and more as he grew his confidence and didn't fear the superior players to the point of crippling his play. He then conquered that fear and went to the NHL and started again, however he caught wind quicker since although the NHL is far more skilled than the AHL, the people playing aren't much different in size or personality/style of play. Grigo however has always been one of the best wherever he played, he never had to deal with a truly completely superior team to his. Then he came to the NHL and was shell-shocked, plus got so little time to play that if he had screwed up, it would fester in his mind and fear would grow. Furthermore I'm glad to see the kid come to his senses, I hope he tears up the Q without mercy and gets that much needed confidence back. In this case, hopefully he woke up from his dream world of the NHL being handed to him with a silver platter.

Not to be a conspiracy theorist but........ What if all of this was planned from the start? As in Buffalo told Grigo to refuse to go to the Q in an attempt to force the Ramparts to release him. They have tried in the past to get him into the AHL, so who's to say this isn't another ploy to pull that off? At the very least in order to make a point against the ridicules agreement that's screwing over Grigs. Think about it, if the Sabres respond by telling him he isn't ready for the NHL, and he then replies that he's too good for the Q they can literally play out live why the rule is bad for the NHL. Especially if Grigo suggests going to the KHL, which obviously the NHL doesn't want anyone to do.

I meant one of the random 1st rounders we'd get, not our pick. The only way I draft Ekblad over Reinhart is if Myers is fetching us Eberle or better in a trade.

If we can convince Ott and/or Moulson to be traded and come back that'd be a plus. Miller I'm on he fence on what to do, but it looks like it'll be a trade. Thus Ott for someone's 1st rounder in 2015 and a 3rd rounder this year or (b) a 1st rounder in 2014 Moulson for a 2015 1st rounder and a 3rd rounder this year prospect or two. Miller for a 2015 1st rounder and something. See if Tallinder, Sulzer, or even McBain is worth something to someone. If option (b) is taken then trade that 1st rounder to Ottawa for their 1st rounder next year and a prospect Murray likes. During the 2014 draft, aside from grabbing an elite player at the top like Reinhardt, aggressively try to move up with the extra 2nds or even package a couple together to move up into the 1st round again, then trade it to someone willing to give you their 1st rounder next year. In the end, we could have 4 to 5+ 1st rounders in the 2015 draft. Then not only do the odds help us, but in the event we get #2 and want McDavid we'd have ample ammunition to move up.

You know, someone should send this to Pegula somehow.

Sergei :) Also playing is Alexander Radulov who jumped ship from the Predators.