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6'2' 190, skates like the wind and has 5/5/10 in 8 games? And he was a late birthday who didn't play hockey last year? Looks like some scout did his homework on this kid.

Butcher, Pysyk, Hagg, Miller are UFAs, Power, Johnson should be signing ELCs at the end of the year and Samuelsson is probably ready. Hinostroza, Eakin, Hayden, Caggiula are UFAs. Quinn, Peterka and Krebs are close. We also have the cap space to take on contracts at the deadline from teams who need it. The math ain't too hard. We're going to be active but it won't be for anything big.

Nine NHL execs give Lebrun their takes on the trade. No surprise it’s a mixed bag - from Buffalo screwed up the timing and got a 3rd line winger and a prospect with questions, to Buffalo did as well as could be expected, Tuch’s a good player and Krebs could be a top 6. https://theathletic.com/2935714/2021/11/04/lebrun-what-9-nhl-executives-think-of-the-jack-eichel-trade-to-vegas/

https://www.sportsnet.ca/nhl/article/nhl-prospect-notebook-sabres-getting-peyton-krebs/

It seems I have no emotional attachment to Eichel whatsoever. Hell of a talent. Liked watching him play. Surprises me, actually.

Mike topped 100 PIMs 8 times for the Sabres. Tuch has 70ish in his career. intimidation and “keeping guys honest” is not part of his game.

I think this switch has tripped for me too. Asplund, Bryson, Thompson, Dahlin are ready for what they’re going through this year. I suspect Casey and Henri as well. It doesn’t look like Dylan is there. Adding him to Rochester gives him a chance to be part of something like the lockout was for the Vanek/Pominville crew.

I’ll say it again, hoping the Knights might give us a high pick is so 2018 Blues and 2014 Islanders. Jack is going lead Vegas to its 1st cup and the pick will be 32. I’m going to watch the Amerks. Seriously. I’m not going to find a ton of entertainment in the game day threads this year.

I was defending him last week because I thought his 1st 5 games were excellent. The past 5? Not so much. I don’t think it’s a coincidence his performance and the team’s have mirrored each other.

You know, there was a discussion a week or so ago on here about the value of a 12-foot pass. Think about the number of 12-foot passes that were completed in the 1st week of the season, then think about the number that were completed last night. We need more 12-foot passes.

Tuch has 71 career PIMs and, as near as I can find, 2 career fights. He 301 hits in 249 Vegas games. He’s no Foligno

Skinner Mitts Tuch Asplund Tage VO Girgs Eakin KO Caggiula Cozens Hino

Bryson and Miller outstanding work. Hopefully we feed off it and that turns things around.

Oh lord, this is the Bad News Bears.

You have to admit the Blues/ROR parallels are pretty clear. We were saying the same thing three years ago around this time. The Sabres were looking improved. The coach was popular. We weren’t convinced yet Dylan and Peyton, I mean Casey and Tage, sucked… 😘

While I agree with your point, this wasn't designed to be "1st interview after the trade" it was (right from Friedman's mouth) scheduled before the trade and was designed to be "interview to help force trade."

Alex Tuch is anything but a throw-in. He's very good player who is just 25, fits the "plays fast, has character" mold we are creating and has a power forward prototype game that we lack both currently and in the system. He's easily top 6 forward for us now and likely will remain that way for a while. Very happy to have him.

Two parties who once seemed perfect for each other discovered 6 years later that they no longer wanted the same things. I don't blame Kevyn for wanting to push the reset button. The organization sucked and it was needed. I don't blame Jack for wanting to be focused on winning now entering his prime after five years of losing. It was a divorce. And, hard as it might be to accept for kids (us), it was the right move for these particular parties at this time.

It was reported that the future considerations in the Butcher deal were and will continue to be literally nothing. I suspect that is the case here. It's often industry jargon for 'free'

They are helping us I don’t know if this is right, but regardless we are close to the floor. This gives us about $6 million in cushion to move out salary without dropping below the floor at no real cost and it doesn’t hurt us on the other end since we aren’t hitting the ceiling. Not sure what the benefit is for the Islanders because I haven’t checked, but I imagine it gives them flexibility at the other end and an opportunity accrue cap space. I doubt the futures will be anything at all, or if they are, it will be negligible. But we might.

Is the Boychuk thing basically a cap hit with no real money hit that allows the Sabres to not worry about the floor as the pull players up and down? He’s a $6 million one-year cap hit on LTIR.

He said and then kinda backed off that the interview and any resultant fallout was something that people (the Sabres) wanted to avoid. Basically, I thought he was implying that a frustrated Jack interview had been arranged by Eichel’s camp as another lever to get this done. I think the fact that Elliotte got the interview certainly should feed the flames of where he was getting info from in this process.

Friedman just told Marek that Krebs was always a player Buffalo targeted and that he was put on the table about a week ago. He spoke to Jack face-to-face this morning. Clips coming later. Interview was scheduled before the trade happened and he thinks it would have gone a lot differently if it had not. Suggested the desire to avoid that may have helped close the deal.

75 per cent on the 4 1sts. But he also checked off his following goals in the trade: avoiding retention; avoiding cap dumps, avoiding conditional picks, and adding legit top 6 (centre) prospect. Do we buy this? Every indication we got was the difference between "more or less" was named Peyton Krebs.

What I was pointing out was not that Adams “won”, more that he pretty much accomplished what he set out to do. Whether that equates to a win is the story we will watch unfold over the next few years. They were. But the ranking was “young players” not just “prospects” and included guys like Dahlin and Cozens. Krebs is a huge add, and that ranking didn’t include the leaps Quinn, Peterka, Levi, and to a lesser extent Power have shown early. I’m going to stand by my take, they have among the best collections of young talent in the league. Let’s hope this time they become something.