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I'd give him a few mulligans but he certainly hasn't helped himself very much either

I believe the Sabres even commented on the fact they started liking Benson while scouting Savoie during the Beyond Blue and Gold. Benson is a freak of nature and frankly if he were to keep growing stronger, add to his point totals, etc. He could very quickly vault himself into a top 200 ft player in the league.

I don’t think Pegula would be stingy if Adams wanted Marner, I just don’t see Adams wanting him

Salary Cap

If anything my hangup with Marner would just be his cap hit all else being equal. You’d be trading Peterka, Byram and a bit more just to get Marner + 2 league minimum guys. Im not trading Power for futures to fit him in either as we become no better than the Leafs, until this past season, with having little on defense and most of our money up front.

Leaf fans are just 2000 - 2020 Patriots fans without anything to back up their trash talk with. I roll my eyes hard at this entire post. When a team's fanbase dishes out ***** at every given moment you are most certainly allowed to call them out when they inevitably fail. Based on your opinion, Sabres fans should quite literally be perpetually depressed because we have no right to enjoy anyone's defeat. (The Toronto fans are angry that they didn’t go on to win the Cup. Their expectations may be unrealistic but at least they have them. What are the Sabre fans’ expectations? Low! Just qualify.) Every team's fanbase wants to win the Cup, make the playoffs, etc. Most fanbases however don't tout themselves being the Hockey Mecca, superior in all aspects to everyone else, and the Cup Favorite each and every year. Everything must be about them rather it be traditional/social media, print, and forum discussions. Start talking about anything on the hfboards and you'll get swarmed by Leaf fans looking to hijack it.

I feel terrible for Scheifele

Jared Spurgeon if Minnesota wishes to get younger with Byram; smaller RHD but plays dirty and has 1D experience. M-NTC of 10 Teams Alex Pietrangelo if Vegas does one of their random clearance sales on older vets; may help them garner cap space to re-sign Eichel thus keeping him out West. 1D experienced RHD in a similar slowing down part of his career. Full NMC though Looking for that Teppo Numminen type for the back end. Ekblad would be a nice conciliation prize but I fear his ask; the other 2 are 2 years left. Ekblad is already 29 going on 30. Forwards are a bit more of a headscratchers as I have a type of player I'm looking for but unsure who should be jettisoned to do so. Additionally I wish to extend Tuch

***** the Leafs, get it back Florida

Series tied 1-1

I have zero interest in an offer sheet; I'll make trades but I'm not willing to trade/transfer our 2026 1st

It’s a rather odd issue when it comes to JJ. His contract ask is unknown and couple that with his genuine value varying it makes him a hard player to pinpoint. Like I wouldn’t give him 8x8mil because he doesn’t give a consistent enough performance all 82 games and is a mostly 1 dimensional player. However I wouldn’t trade him for the sake of trading him.

I don’t think we have the cap space to be perfectly honest and I’d keep Tuch at 7.5mil over Marner at 13mil. That isn’t to say Marner isn’t a great player during the regular season and wouldnt be an upgrade on most players. But his contract demands would require us to gut our roster yet again just to fit him inside the cap.

Lance said he was there

Seems to be a trend, Amerks are one of the best in the AHL but get effectively Dead Puck Era'd upon reaching the Semis/Conference Finals. The amount Laval got away with while we got tagged for them is annoying but typical. Didn't help our team has been benched for almost 2 full weeks

***** Laval

I'm a huge anti-trade Power person but I would make this deal if we can get Dobson locked up reasonably. Like not 10 mil or something

Feels like overkill in the response of the NHL if that's all was said. Stupid, but not nowhere near a racist tirade or something of the like. Suspend him but give a time table. Otherwise it comes across as a threat to his name on the Stanley Cup which would honestly be a grave injustice to remove based on precedent. That being said, owners shouldn't have official Twitter accounts; its just asking for trouble.

My fear would be he'd want himself as that GM and I want nothing to do with 0 info and anti-beard mn

Then we have 3 Dmen making over 7.5mil and only 1 of them being independent. Byram needs Dahlin to be effective, Power likely is in the same boat Neither can step it up, apparently, when Dahlin is hurt and even just hold the line briefly nor does Power & Byram work as a pair very well.

He may of just cost them the series, FLA will be looking for blood

I was disagreeing that I don't care about the players we trade having success but not about making trades for immediate success. As such my worries won't alleviate until we are good again which is what I said prior but I guess it was misinterpreted.

Well what exactly are you proposing because I'm sure as hell not doing another rebuild or trading our top players for grinders

Until we are relevant in the league again; I'd rather not have to hear about more incredible success stories of players leaving Buffalo and their careers exploding. That's all. Unless the player asks out, then I only wish ill will against him.

The hope with Byram would be some team gets stupid and offersheets him with a 1st round pick level of compensation. Most of the teams that could do that are middling to fellow basement dwellers meaning we’d have another mid to early 1st potentially. Even better you could then use a conditional 2026 1st (the lower of the two) to get someone this off-season.