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I wasn't making an excuse; just stating an annoying fact. Most players worth overpaying for and trading a Savoie/1st rounder/etc are protected barring them being within their ELC or having some struggles.

Thompson when healthy, Cozens could eventually

Thing is will said players waive NTC/NMCs.

If he were any other guy I'd be interested, but he's a headcase.

Good guy, good captain, never truly lived up to his contract but I applaud his loyalty and steadfastness among the many struggles he faced while here. I wish him luck in Florida playing with his old buddy Reinhart

Based on the random player this was very likely just a friendly move captain for a chance.

You can see Dahlin is the only one with even an inkling of what Byram is doing and is trying to do so on the fly while the rest continue to be statues for the most part unsure as to what they should do.

Why does it seem like every year we never get anywhere? We’ve had a large number of great players during this drought and those same players go on to be great yet without question we fail

Never bothered to show us the replay either

Frankly I don’t think we’ll ever get better since coming to Buffalo seems to suddenly force every player to lose all competence.

I honestly just love how you guys want our defense to play physical and strong in front of the net yet one of the guys who does it sucks because he doesn’t do it exactly the way you want. Id like Dahlin to stop knocking players into his goalies but at very least the intention to punish the offensive player is there.

This team is honestly cursed

No wonder we’ve been penalized 3 times, Kea is the ***** ref

No

Colorado also makes me curious how they intend to sign any of these new acquisitions. They have 11 players under contract at 76 mil which honestly is incredible. Wonder if we have another trade with them on the docket for after the season?

Unsure, he might honestly not care about going to the playoffs.

As RFAs you don't have much of a choice. Especially young RFAs

Its a stall tactic; even if all three pop off next year we can bridge the two forwards and give Byram a reasonable length deal.

Leino did too

But did they not earn their shot after breaking records in Rochester? Plus I wouldn't of wanted to sign a longer term contract to begin with.

Biggest issues here is the lack of roster spots, sure we could of signed players but then we couldn't have guys like Peterka or Quinn up last year.

Young rosters tend to not have high cap hits; there's no requirement that Adams wasn't spending due to Pegula doing his best Athletics impression.

No, I honestly don't believe there has been any owner imposed cap; however I'm saying that COVID may have played a part into the whole EEE stuff that gets conspiratory levels of interest on this website.

COVID also happened so that can't be ignored

Nope; we'll just have 3 top end defenseman hopefully