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I fear he'll never be able to repeat that glorious 2014-2015 season when he put up 14 points in 58 games. His career looks like a model for Nylander based on evidence to date. Except the part about being a good 4th line grinder and shootout specialist because I don't think Alex is either of those.

https://www.stateofithaca.org/event/1609042-rodriguez-ithaca/ He's playing in Ithaca this Friday if anyone is interested. I'd love to go but the concert calendar is already full.

So, when a team is in contention and wants to acquire a short term high talent level player why would they send back an equivalent player? The whole point is they are willing to sacrifice future assets for current value. I guess if you can find someone willing to trade you an injured veteran who you are counting on to come back the next year that might work. Sort of like how Buffalo got Kane in the first place. But those are rare. If you are a seller you are selling the present to buy the future to some extent. I hate that the team has been in this mode so many years in a row but it is what it is. As for Sam's draft, a cursory glance says right now I'd take at least 7 guys over Kane at any point in his career: Pasternak (25th overall), Draisatl, Arvidsson (4th round), Nylander, Ehlers, Ekblad, and Point (3rd round). Then there's a bunch of guys that will likely end up being better than Kane over their career (Montour (2nd round), Kempe, Fiala, and maybe Sam himself) to name a few. I'm sure I missed some. I sure wish JBot had gotten more for Kane. But it's not like he was subjected to highway robbery for 6 frickin' weeks plus playoffs of a streaky, low assist, high penalty minute power forward.

In a parallel universe Kane is traded in November for a late first, a fourth, and a 3rd liner with two years on his contract and Sabrespace howls that JBot got robbed as he should have waited until the deadline to maximize value amongst the throng of buyers.

Sure, some random yahoos said this. We don't know what Kane actually thinks or exactly how he was perceived, or Botteril's assessment of it. Kane was always very complimentary of the city and the team, for what that's worth. And if he is a "cancer" (I am not saying he is) the Sharks only signed up for 6 weeks of the regular season and the playoffs. Not enough time to metastasize in their locker room. Whereas signing to a long term deal is another story. And none of that changes that he was an UFA and the chances of re-signing him within the context of the Sabres salary cap situation were probably close to zero. So he was traded at the deadline.

Said no one. We needed a guy signed beyond this year, or some assets that would be. Good for Evander.

Not until Pegula sells the team. * * heavy sarcasm

This board makes me laugh some times. Dude is the 2nd leading scorer on the team, takes all the tough defensive assignments, just won more faceoffs in a season than anyone in history, and we don't like his attitude so let's trade his ass out of town? He was on Team Canada at the World Cup for crying out loud! This isn't Zemgus on Team Latvia. Folks, the team is short on talent, let's keep one of our few legitimately great players in his prime, please. Some winning cures all this nonsense.

It was the weekly Rip Simonik interview for me.

Eichel's 5 assist, minus 1 night clearly shows the uselessness of assists as a statistic.

My favorite part was pointing out the poor utilization of Sabretooth. Deserves it's own thread, really.

Kelley was a heck of a hockey writer.

This post is really sort of disturbing. I mean, I guess you're being angrily facetious but it comes across very creepy. Like, "court order to stay 500 yards away from the Pegula's at all times" creepy.

Money well spent. Once you have the basic things needed for life, spending on experiences with family and friends and having the memories is a much better investment IMO.

Only traditional Mandarin in Taiwan. It’s the ‘true China’ after all, no bastardized language allowed. She’s definitely Han Chinese ethnicity...albeit somewhat begrudgingly admitted. But I’m gonna ask her tonight if she might be Dutch or Spanish. That’ll be fun.

My wife is insistent on identifying herself as 100% pure Taiwanese. Sometimes I tip-toe around the fact that In her family history somewhere they came from China. She always replies that all branches she’s aware of are at least 5 generations on the island so she is in no way Chinese. Because, you know, screw China.

This trade is really going to help the Amerks going forward. Sabres? Not so much.

Cold eyed rational assessment. Thank you. If we get a 1st rounder or top prospect for Kane I'll be happy.

I would think it will be similar...far below what JBot allegedly was asking for in any event.

Some nice Rush by the organist there. I'm just looking for the positives.

Could Risto be drunk out there?

Make-up call for something there.

Risto not having a good one so far

Tragically Hip reference slipped in there by Dunleavy. I like it.