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Disagree. Other than Gaustad (and that is debatable), what UFA-to-be dump did we make that brought equal on ice performance back? Each one was a downgrade.

Winnie fleeced us. There. I said it.

Unless Botteril thinks Kane is part of a locker room problem (and there is no way we can have any clue about this), I think the team would have been better served by icing the best team possible to continue to learn how to win than by obtaining a low probability lottery ticket and an AHLer.

Buffalo does not win the lottery.

I'm not complaining about anything JB did. The market for Kane was poor, obviously. My beef is with the "we have to get something" mentality that leads to very good players being moved for baubles. This probably isn't the thread for it, but.... I disagree wholeheartedly with the idea that it is somehow prudent to move a rental player for pennies on the dollar. You almost never get back the quality of player you give up. It is a guaranteed downgrade to your roster in nearly all cases. IMO, if you let a player that you don't expect to re-sign go to rental stage, you are being incredibly irresponsible. Move that player before the rental season in an honest to God hockey trade that gets equal value returned. Anything else is setting your team backwards. And this team has been doing exactly that since, what? 2011? 2012? In this case (Kane), my reaction is sour grapes. JB is in his first year, so it's not like he was around to make that decision last season. But this organization simply does not have enough depth of talent to continue to move players for a fraction of their on ice value as rentals. I'd hope any one year contract players that aren't part of the path forward get moved this offseason in hockey trades before we are forced to suffer through another deadline day of lottery tickets and AHL players that only move this team further backwards.

So, a lottery ticket with a small chance of becoming a 50% chance at an NHL'er, an AHL'er, and a lottery ticket with a 10% chance at hitting. Good thing we got some value for Kane. :blink: This team can't afford to downgrade it's talent, but yet that is exactly what it continues to do.

Please, no.

I'd be good with Stewart in blue and gold again.

Wow. Candid.

Knew that.

Noone CC'd Eichel on the memo re: Bruins hate.

Pretty solid game overall. And fook the Brunes.

Boston. And Philly.

Whoa. Stick around.

I also think he's looked better once he settled back in to being where he belonged. He was out for 4:02 that shift. Wow.

I'll say. You could have told us you interpreted my post as saying we all expect GA to make those kind of trade scenarios. I worded it so it could have gone both ways.

You don't want the answer.

You were the kid in the back seat saying, "are we there yet?" over and over and over.

One in the hole is better than 2 in the hand?

You get a gold star. Assuming both Kane and Pouliot go, we can expect to see a couple more JAG's in the lineup so Rochester stays intact.

I still say he's out of the NHL once his entry level deal is done. He'll be underwhelmed by the offer and head home.

Kane is going to Dallas. No idea what they have for kids, so no idea what's coming back in prospects. We'll either retain enough salary to make it work, or take in a contract like Marc Methot to make it work.

They didn't eliminate their entire NHL worthy roster to get that lottery eligible position so they had an actual core when Austin arrived. And it shows today. Fer cryin out loud, I'm tryin to eat my lunch and post this at the sme time. I wiped it out and had to start over 3x. Almost said F it. I really don't want to hate Gio....