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I'd also be tempted if we offered Muel for Weegar

I'm a Sabres fan, not a Skinner fan; that's all it is. No matter how illogical I will always back my team Well if I thought of it I hope someone in his staff would of too.

Ok here's an idea Chicago wants to move up supposedly from 18. Buffalo wants out from Skinner's contract Skinner wants a buyout if we don't want him. We work out a deal where we send 14, Skinner(50%) and a '26 3rd to Chicago for 19. The condition on our 1st however is that Skinner must be bought out. Then everyone leaves happy Chicago moves up Buffalo's buyout caphits are halved Skinner gets to be a UFA

Kind of hard to if players don’t come to your team to begin with.

Would Ekblad be a good pickup?

Well if he had us on his NTC list what exactly can we do, kidnap his family and demand his cooperation as a ransom?

Well I hate him for it; we paid him a lot of money and it’s not like most of the teams who’d sign him wouldn’t trade a mid round pick for his services at 4.5 or 5mil He doesn’t even have to lose money and his NMC still allows him to go to a team of his choice. Most likely however Marner will be traded to Vegas for Theodore, Thompson and a 2nd and the Skinner will sign there for 1x3mil and score a bunch because that’s just how life is as a Buffalo fan. We can’t have nice things and anything nice we get is automatically guaranteed to fall flat. We can’t trade Skinner due to a NMC We can’t trade for the players with the skill sets we need because they have NTCs and NMCs against us.

There is however a real black eye to being bought out

Well he loses 7 mil total so I imagine he’d want to make that up in the next 3 years

GFD probably one of the possible trades that fell through for us

Stupid Skinner, just give us a few options or we'll be forced to play you 6 min a night on the 4th line.

This is definitely a precursor trade; we have plans to make another deal but are looking to stretch are assets as much as possible. Let's say Winnipeg wants a mid 1st for Ehlers; no reason we'd need to give them 11. 14 is more mid 1st. I could even see us deal further down and collect more 2nds in order to use those extras to make a separate trade.

Well, Necas would effectively be replacing Skinner due to his ask.

Well that's a start I guess; moves down a hair and picks up a 2nd. More assets to use in another deal.

Skinner on average has gotten more points in most years Necas 23 - 24 77 GP - 53 PTs 22 - 23 82 GP - 71 PTs 21 - 22 78 GP - 40 PTS 20 - 21 53 GP - 41 PTs 19 - 20 64 GP - 36 PTS Skinner 23 - 24 74 GP - 46 PTs 22 - 23 79 GP - 82 PTs 21 - 22 80 GP - 63 PTS 20 - 21 53 GP - 14 PTs Kruegerized 19 - 20 59 GP - 23 PTS Kruegerized 18 - 19 82 GP - 63 PTS

I'm frankly not a fan of Necas which is likely where this stems from.

the latter Effectively in my opinion, spending assets and money to sign Necas and buyout Skinner is a worse outcome than running it back entirely due to the fact I don't see Necas as much of a boost to this team if at all. If I have an IPhone 12 and I buy out the contract, then proceed to give up father's flip phone and purchase another contract for a slightly shinier IPhone 12 then all I've done is spend money and assets for the sake of it.

I would disagree with the top but that doesn't mean I want to run it back

From @Gabrielor ironically enough

I do love when players have dark and white hairs mixed. 😁

Maybe for a Cup Win but otherwise I feel it would end up uncanny

Thompson is a center and wasn’t good as a winger

I may just die if they trade for Necas after buying out Skinner; I’d be unable to fathom us ever improving

No, Power isn’t being traded