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When one looks at his possession stats he's a player who was once good who isn't anymore but is still playing the same role.

Zero interest in moving Power for Tkachuk; end of story. Not interested in moving Power in general for anyone

I want to upgrade the team but not gut it. To get a new 3C shouldn’t require roster players to be used in the acquisition. Additionally, I don’t Tkachuk as enough of an upgrade from a Quinn or Peterka to be worth the massive overpayment we’d need to add towards it. I think Marcus Foligno is a great guy but I have zero interest in trading Peterka to get an heavily overpaid 3rd going into 4th liner. Frankly I have no intention of touching the Top 6 players in Thompson, Cozens, Tuch, Quinn, Peterka, and Benson. Skinner could be had but I’m not interested in a buyout this year or bribing a team to take him. Defensively Dahlin and Power aren’t going anywhere and Samuelsson has a similar status purely due to style of play. Neither UPL or Levi should be traded no matter the offer. Im not looking to move Clifton or Greenway Byram I want to see under Ruff before I make any decisions Krebs is meh, but I wouldn’t just dump him on the side of the road. To me any Peterka + for Tkachuk trades feel way too costly to stomach for a player who could just pull the same thing with us in a year or two. Since I wholeheartedly believe he wants to play in St. Louis. if Ottawa doesn’t work out. I don’t want to trade multiple cakes for a mysterious cake that may contain peanuts. Sam Bennett was had for 2 2nds, find me that acquisition. Find me a non-Savoie prospect and 11 for a legitimate player akin to the Reinhart deal.

Cut out Laughton who legitimately is a trainwreck defensively in a defensive system. Gourde isn't a bad option for a 1 year bridge

Yes & No Yes this roster could make the playoffs with some tweaking No without any adjustments or purely internal promotions.

Even Tkachuk doesn’t interest me depending on the ask

I just used what was mentioned earlier on. My cutoff is at roster players besides Krebs

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/5216813

For me, I'd give them Savoie and 11 for JEE, but as soon as you start talking about Peterka or Quinn I'd no longer have any interest.

Any interest in Coulturier from Phill at 4.75mil a year?

Trade Value is a fickle thing; teams vary on how they value your guys as well as their own. Anything from recency bias to a GM not liking Russians can cause major fluctuations in a value. A team's circumstances also play a part in rather vet players or draft picks might be more useful. Unlike a a draft pick which has a set hierarchy, players can be valued radically different from team to team. For instance, in theory, a team a game breaking center like Boston would value a Savoie more than a deep center team like Vegas but that requires you to eliminate salary and stylistic evaluations. Not to mention, a player's true value may never be truly amounted too. Let's say Connor McDavid is worth exactly 8 1sts; now if you were to throw that offer out to all 31 other teams how many would bite? I'd imagine a good number would but many still wouldn't due to money or his contract length being a concern. But what happens if a team offers 4 1sts in 2025 and 4 1sts in 2032 (somehow) The value should theoretically be the same as a team giving 8 straight 1sts but the Oilers may have a different angle. Both are 8 1sts but the 4-4 choice gives them quicker access to half the bounty. Now what happens if a 3rd team offers 5 1sts in 2025? Value wise it wouldn't be 8 1sts but would 5 1sts in an immediate setting. So evaluations are a crapshoot.

No thank you, I'm in no way interested in trading Power even for a great player like Tkachuk

Not planning to thank you very much lol

Levi isn't available; if UPL falters or gets hurt we'd literally be where we were 2 years ago with a mess of journeyman

Honestly I just wish he’d give his full effort and feistiness every game. When he’s jawing at the opposing players and jitterbugging around he’s a great player. His issue is when he isn’t feeling it, he’s practically worthless.

I doubt it was Pegula who demanded a full NMC. He’s at fault for being willing to pay Skinner 9mil since he didn’t want Botts to let him walk after scoring 40

That's far too rich for my blood. That's 3 1sts and our most defensive dman

The Combine for the McDavid/Eichel draft was the last time. Was downtown so I decided to slowly drive around the HarborCenter to see if I could spot a player I could recognize. So, with no one behind me, I went 20mph down Washington St. next to it. About half way down, McDavid, Marner, Strome and one other Canadian kid came out of the side door. McDavid, not paying attention walked directly off the curb into the road never even looking for traffic. Obviously my speed made it easy to stop but Marner grabbed McDavid by the sleeve and yanked him back onto the sidewalk. So that's the time I nearly hit a #1 slated prospect with my vehicle.

I'll try not to almost hit Celebrini with my car this time around.

He tends to be at least somewhat trustworthy with his predictions.

not HC, that's just idiotic. They aren't a soccer team

Probably my most vivid Sabres dream was just a regular game that I quite literally watched an entire game (I believe I was on Benadryl that night which could explain the extremely deep sleep I was in) This was years ago but it was incredibly realistic. So the idea that you could have an extremely detailed dream isn't unrealistic in the slightest.

The issue here would be is Savoie ready to step right in and become at least 33% of Skinner’s production? Id also check if we could trade Skinner for Trouba or Coulture before buying him out. In no small part because I really don’t want him to sign 1x1mil in Toronto

If you buyout Skinner yes you get a cool 7.5 mil in new cap space for this singular year. However, any replacement for his production will make the combined cap hit the next two years worse than we'd have if we just waited. Imagine if you will we replace his production by signing a 5mil player for 3 years. Well, this year he'd have a cap hit of 6.44mil, next year it would rise to 9.44mil and then in two years it would be a whopping 11.44mil. It's not exactly easy to straight up replace a 25+ goal scorer and not take a beating over the next two seasons in cap space which we'll likely need for Peterka, Quinn, Benson, Levi, etc. Trading him is far better way to rid of his cap hit, albeit partially. Your only option with a buyout this year is to sign a player to a 1 year deal, hope Quinn/Peterka fill the hole and then sign another 1 year deal at 4mil next year and 2.5mil in 2 years . Otherwise you are making a larger cap hit for the position.