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Pominville was another. Also signed relatively high profile UFAs in Okposo and Moulson and Johansson, also re-signed O'Reilly, who we acquired as a rental, so he wouldn't go to UFA. It's amazing how many do come despite the ***** show we've been.

Has the NHL ever issued a bigger punishment for cheating?

Apparently a number of teams kicked the tires on Kapanen, then pulled back. "Dubas also moved out a player the organization had grown tired of, both on the ice and off. Some teams that were initially interested in Kapanen decided against the deal after digging a little deeper into some of that." — Mirtle in the Athletic.

From James Mirtle in the Athletic: https://theathletic.com/2022080/2020/08/25/mirtle-kyle-dubas-begins-leafs-off-season-with-clean-win-and-hes-not-done-yet/ "Frederik Andersen. The Leafs starting goaltender can apparently be had for a “useful” but low-cost asset in what would largely be a cap-clearing trade. Andersen could be a really intriguing option for a team without a lot of cash, as he has only $1 million in salary remaining due to a large signing bonus the Leafs have already paid. I wonder if the Oilers might be a fit given they want to overhaul their goaltending situation, although they’d have to find a way to make Andersen’s cap hit work." He's a rental. One year, $5 million. Interest? (Kerfoot and Johnsson also being dangled for cap space(

Know nothing about him. Pedestrian numbers. https://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php?pid=173480

I bet good money the only way Sheary is back in Pittsburgh is on minimum wage-type deal. Scratch that. I bet good money the only way Sheary is back in Pittsburgh the NHL is on minimum wage-type deal.

I read that as "Well...no. But only because Dahlin, and the Sabres can't take credit for that."

Waitaminnit? So LGR is actually a Jets fan doing everything he can to make sure we don't take Sanderson?

Philip Danault is a matchup dream. One of the better defensive centres in the league and probably a better all-around player than Monahan. Love to add that guy.

Sending positive thoughts.

Agree with your point. That said, I wouldn't trade the Sabres group (Cozens, Johnson, Dahlin, Samuelsson, Mittelstadt, Davidsson, Nylander, Asplund, plus 2017 #54 Lukkonnen) for the Kings (Turcotte, Bjornfot, Kaliyev, Kupari, Thomas, Vilardi, Anderson-Dolan, Clague, plus 2019 #50 Fagemo). Would you? Including Dahlin and Jokiharju in with Sabres prospects certainly changes the perspective. The Kings have yet to graduate anyone from those four drafts.

Was wondering the same. Can't see them qualifying him. Might just be Pittsburgh needing to move a contract to balance things out, but the Leafs may also try to sign him cheap now to fill out the bottom of their roster.

From what I know of the prospects involved, it's basically Kapanen for pick 15. Kapanen has hit 20 goals and 40 points once in his career. So you know it's the fact he can probably do that for two more years at just $3.2 million that the Penguins are paying for.

I think Rossi is very much within our reach. And I think he represents the best-case scenario in the minds of Adams and his team. He just seems to represent what Adams is preaching, and I also think he's Ralph's type as well. Assuming Perfetti to Detroit, I don't see Ottawa grabbing a second centre at five, or Jersey grabbing Rossi with Hughes and Hischier in tow. So all we need is Anaheim to prefer someone else.

Pittsburgh has no cap space to give, so there are obviously follow-up cap dumps coming from them.

I thought the most interesting comment Adams made in his recent presser was when they were asking him about contracts in the context of roster construction. He basically said "It will be become clear in the next month or so." That tells me there is a plan in place that will be executed as the timing comes right. The Kapanen trade marks the beginning of the falling dominoes. September will be an interesting month and I don't think we will be bystanders.

Truth.

We aren't talking about anything other than our current prospect depth up front. None of those teams — 1/4 of the league — have a significantly better list of five players than the Sabres. Some are clearly worse. I can do the next tier — Calgary, Columbus, St. Louis, Arizona, Chicago, Montreal, Washington and Carolina — and I suspect the results won't be significantly different. Our group is mediocre compared to the league, not terrible.

The Kings have the best group of forward prospects in the league; from what I've seen, it's not particularly close. The statement being debated is whether our forward pipeline is "near empty". Compare our top five to the teams who are just ahead of us in the NHL pecking order, the eight who lost in the qualifying round: Minnesota: Kaprizov, Boldy, Khovanov, Firstov, Hentges Nashville: Tolvanen, Tomasino, Trenin, Afanasyev, Pitlick Winnipeg: Vesalainen, Harkins, Smith, Spacek, Blaisdell Edmonton: Lavoie, Benson, McLeod, Rasinen, Maksimov Pittsburgh; Poulin, Legare, Hallinder, O'Connor, Puustinen NY Rangers: Kravtsov, Barron, Pajuniemi, Henriksson, Aaltonen Toronto: Robertson, Bracco, Abramov, Der-Arguchintsev Florida: Denisenko, Tippett, Heponiemi, Noel, Hutsko Buffalo: Cozens, Mittelstadt, Thompson, Asplund, Ruotsalainen Can we really say we are significantly behind that pack? Cozens certainly challenges for the top player of the overall group. Mittelstadt and Thompson stack up well against the other 2s and 3s. Most of us have never heard of any of the 4s and 5s. I think our forward group needs improvement. But the idea that it is a gaping black hole is overrated once you start looking around. It really comes down to whether or not you've written off Tage and Casey.

Go to sleep, man. You’re delirious.

A lot of the prospect rankers I see don't count Mittelstadt and Tage because of the number of NHL games they've played. Just like a lot of Sabres fans. It's a legitimate point of view, but it's one I don't share because a) they aren't on our team, b) they are in our system and c) they are still young enough to improve. As far as I am concerned, they are still in our pipeline.

Sabrespace, summer 2003.

Casey has shown more than Alex Nylander did and Alex was traded for Henri Jokiharju, a 1st-round pick who put up 70-points in his D+1 junior season and spent half his D2 season in the NHL. Joki wasn't some "out-of-nowhere" player. His value was well-known to prospect watchers. A lot of scouts loved Casey's game two and three years ago. He played 93 NHL games and put up 37 points before he turned 21. I suspect he has more value than you might think.

I see this all the time, but is is actually true? We have a 19-year-old 8th overall pick centre who played on the first line for a gold medal junior team and is ranked among the top prospects outside the NHL and was among the highest points per game in the WHL. We have a 21-year-old 8th overall pick centre who put up 23 points in 27 games as an AHL rookie after a slow start, and just 2 years ago was ranked among the top prospects outside the NHL We have a 22-year-old 6'6" 225-pound 26th-overall pick RW who scored 14 goals and 25 points over 27 games in the minors before a shoulder injury halted his progress. We have a 22-year-old 33rd-overall pick centre who plays a two-way game, who slipped back a step after looking to be on the verge after putting up close to a point per game in the 2nd half of his AHL rookie season the previous year. And we have a 22-year-old undrafted two-way centre who was among just a half-dozen players in the Finnish Elite league to average nearly a point a game. It's like people minimize how many teams don't have a Dylan, reject the reality that Tage and Casey are still prospects in the pipeline, and forget that Arttu and Rasmus3 exist. It's not like we're flush with young forwards, but 5 guys not on the team with a reasonable chance of making the team is OK relative to the league, no?

Are you being rhetorical? Because I thought I did. "BPA" (for me) = most likely to have a productive, successful NHL career in a significant role. If Holtz, Lundell and Sanderson are there and I think Holtz is Ehlers, Lundell is Kadri and Sanderson is Nurse, I'm probably going to take the one who best fits my team needs. But if I think Holtz is Pouliot, Lundell is Brassard and Sanderson is Dougie Hamilton, I'm taking Sanderson, regardless of positional needs. This.