dudacek

Salary laundering does not seem to be a thing this year. Those are pretty complicated deals to drop last minute, but I guess we will see.

If he doesn’t sell Eakin it’s because nobody wanted him. If he doesn’t sell Hinostroza or Anderson it’s because they were more valuable to the stretch run than the offers were to the rebuild. If he doesn’t sell Miller, it’s an out-and-out failure. We don’t need him, there should be a market, but no one is going to overpay. And no one is going to respect Adams less because he stood firm on a 2nd when no one offered more than a 5th. Colin Miller is not a player you draw a line in the sand on.

They can be, but this is hardly an example. Dahlin had a rough two-week stretch and people overreacted to a handful of high-profile blunders in back-to-back games. He was good to start the season prior to that stretch and - other than that blip - his play has been steadily improving basically since Krueger got fired. The number of bad hockey takes in November was embarrassing and saying that “Dahlin sucks” should be the default view until “games count” is another example.

I'd rather not trade from the Dahlin, Power, Jokiharju, Samuelsson, Levi, Portillo, Cozens, Quinn, Peterka, Krebs group until their values and roles become more established, unless they are being traded for someone who adds to that group. Mayfield would be a fine add, but he is not that.

That's someone I could see Adams being interested in.

Not arguing your point. Food for thought: in Makar's rookie season he was 21, the same age Dahlin is now.

Canes, Rangers, Pens, Caps, Preds, Wild, Knights,Stars, Kings, Oilers… Still plenty of quiet teams in a race, and pretty tight to the cap. More shoes to drop.

This isn’t a question to me. Quinn is a big part of the Sabres future and already has it. The only way Power takes 22 from Quinn is if Quinn lets him. Power’s other number (Team Canada) is 25, which is also taken, but by R2, a player with a much more tenuous Sabres future. That is more interesting. Personally, I’d love to see Power grab 5, or even 3 or 6 - great defencemen numbers. Ideally, he’d be 2, but that door has been closed (wrongly, IMO, but that’s another discussion).

So Miller was bad in Vegas because his points slipped in his last 27 games there, you compared him to Nate Beaulieu, and his defence sucked in Buffalo. Got it.

So he won’t be available for tonight’s game?

He had 29 points in 65 games in his last Knights season and was an analytics darling when we acquired him. The price of a 2nd and a 5th was generally considered fair. “Bad” does not describe Miller’s play on Vegas. “Bad” describes Carter Hutton’s play in Buffalo.

You didn’t respond when I asked earlier. In your mind is the current run of 5-3 against teams in playoff races the equivalent of the 4/28 record they put up the three previous Marches combined?

It is a significant birthday for my significant other. There will be no Sabres for me today.

Miller averaged nearly 40 points per 82 games in Vegas and was a contributor in a Stanley Cup final run. You have weird definitions of bad.

What the hell does Florida even have left in their asset pool? Im betting this is for a 4th.

Embarrassed the previous night, then moving on to one of the toughest arenas in the league. Should have been a lot more pressure in Calgary. Add the trade deadline as a pressure point for the UFAs equal to “make the team” as the preseason bubble players.

Flames lowest shot total of the season last night and before last night they had only lost 4 times at home. One of our most mistake-free efforts of the season.

The hands and the vision Quinn showed in tight on both his goal and his assist on Peterka’s second last night were top-drawer sickness. My god, to even see those plays were there, let alone to complete them…

Not going to make the NHL? What, are they crazy? How many AHL players have put up his numbers at his age and not made the NHL? I think it’s possible he doesn’t make the team next year out of camp, but that’s about numbers: his age, and the number of other raw players (Cozens, Quinn, Krebs, Samuelsson, Power, UPL) who will get featured roles. But he will be a regular by season’s end.

You’re not going to get it. Going rate seems to be a 4th.

You can be fast and not play fast. That, more than anything was the issue to me. Nobody was pushing the play.

Best lineup of the year in all likelihood.

I think it’s pretty much out there that the Sabres were talking to the Sharks about Reinhart before ending up flipping him for Levi. But Jeff Marek just dropped a nugget that another team in heavy for Sam was St. Louis, which didn’t happen when the Blues declined to include Ville Husso.

If Adams gets 1st for Miller it's because he has mind control powers.