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This group certainly doesn’t spark fear in anyone. On a brighter note, from everything I’ve read and seen says Doan and Danforth are dawgs, beloved by their former fanbases for non-stop effort. Maybe they’ll be a little easier to cheer for this year? I know we got fooled before.

Scrimmage is usually 3-on-3

Small kudos here to Fairburn. Rare thing this day and age to see a Buffalo reporter break Sabres news.

Somebody good wanted to be be here for a fair contract. I honestly can’t decide whether to go with joy, cynicism or weathered indifference. Maybe:

I don’t know if it’s tied at all to Byram, but I suspect the SAbres have legit interest in Ehlers and probably made a pitch: they have the roster fit and they have money. But I suspect other teams have more money and/or better fits. I think in terms pipe dreams, we have a better chance with Robertson if that one is real. Dallas has been quiet and we have the picks and prospects.

And there’s your Lafferty replacement. Kozak still gets to be Kozak and Terry pockets only $300K. But we can still make up the difference in the Byram trade. But maybe in Rochester? In other news, didn’t Danforth used to play in Rochester? Was he ever Sabre property?

Byfield is their only young forward with top 6 potential, they don’t want to give him up. The Kings also signed two D this morning. Doubt they are adding a 3rd. I suspect they’re out on Byram.

If I’m Calgary I make this move any day of the week. You’re not beating that hanging on to to Andersson until the deadline, Vegas isn’t giving you that and Andersson’s not helping you out by signing anywhere but Vegas. Maybe the Sabres get another 1st for Andersson at the deadline, maybe they ride him into the playoffs. Not sure they’re going to get a better player for this season than Andersson in a Byram deal. And is term that important if only going to be for a guy like Cam York.

Here is the roster situation for an alleged Byram suitor, with him allegedly looking for a $7M deal. Blues are a $1M over the cap, and a full roster. They are actually 2 players over and looking to create roster space for rookies Snuggerud and Dalibovsky. Jake Neighbours is someone the Sabres would be interested in, but some kind of big contract would also have to go. They’d almost certainly prefer to dump Falk or Leddy to clear space. Fowler, who was very good for them but is a UFA next summer, makes more sense for the Sabres. Brayden Schenn was also on the market and would fill a short-term hole for Buffalo. A better target for the Sabres is Parayko, but the Blues are weak at RD, so that’s probably a non-starter. The Kyrou ship has passed. He has full trade protection along with the Blues other top forwards. Would the Sabres do something purely short-term by building a deal around Fowler or Schenn, if either would accept a trade? Would they take as little as Neighbours and a pick? To me the best case scenario might be that the Blues primary goal is to get younger. They have 1 LD under 30 and that might make them more willing to deal Parayko,a 32-year-old RHD. Maybe the Mailloux deal this morning for Bolduc was a move to get another RHD in the system to insulate moving him out? More likely, they decided to address that issue, at least for this season, solely with the Mailloux trade. Seems like a tough match here to me.

Yeah, I mean it seems fair, but it seems surprising given the lack of UFA choices. Maybe no one else was offering 2 years?

Sabres have more than most with $21.3M.

Lots of bad teams with room for a big get: Ducks, Jackets, Hawks, Penguins Flames and Wings all with at least $15M to play with.

SAN Jose has $44M under the cap and 8 roster slots open. Potential for some bad contracts there. Ehlers and Granlund the two top 6 forwards left. Winnipeg and Carolina the 2 good teams with room to sign them.

Looks like UPL has some competition: “Niilopekka Muhonen signs ELC with the Stars”

I warned you guys; Helenius for Rust, Byram for a pick and a lesser D. Those deals are still out there.

Millions? From Terry?

Don’t think he’s good enough for Rochester.

Vegas lost 2 good defencemen: Hague and Pietrangelo. Not sure where they are in terms of cap, but it’s tight. They are forward heavy at the moment and probably want to juggle things. The potential interest should be there. Not sure what they’d be willing to give up though.

Probably only got a contract because of his Junior Sabre roots. Hope he does well for himself in Jacksonville.

Don’t think the Sabres have a plan? Trade Peterka, promote Quinn to take his job, save $4M Promote Quinn, add Doan to take over his slot, save $2M Trade Clifton, acquire Timmons to take his slot, save $2M Trade Jokiharju, promote Johnson to take over his slot, save $2M Trade Lafferty, promote Kozak to take over his spot, save $1M Maybe Kevyn Adams is a little smarter than you give him credit for Now if he can only trade Byram in order to free up that spot for Kesselring and save another $6M? Mission accomplished!

I hope the Sabres do right by JBD when he comes back to town. The fans at least deserve that.

Damn, some of the best. I don’t know what to say.

He’s 6’4” 231 and has 77 PMs in 25 NHL games. This one’s for you @inkman

Well, there’s the boy who can chuck ‘em.