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You keep equating size with toughness and acting like it's 1995 and I'll keep calling *****. It's as simple as that. Enforcers are dead. Tkachuk isn't that and neither is anyone else you listed. Also Marchand had played 0 nhl games at Benson's age. I love that your critique is Benson smiling, that's the dumbest thing I've heard. Buffalo needs more gritty talent, I agree. The size part is just useless bs about how it Buffalo was bigger they'd be better.

Really quickly, I want you to look up Bennetts size and Marchands and get back to me.

Kevyn Adams is an unimaginative loser who espouses a losing excuse filled narrative to explain his incompetence and complacency.

Why not

My point isn't to crap on Florida, the point is that different players will value different things.

Yea and I lived in Georgia so I'm well aware of the differences. Couldn't pay me to live in Florida though.

I think the most likely scenario is Buffalo starts ok and then upl sucks in November and Adams is fired before Christmas.

I haven't even mentioned the public school, insurance, or government in Florida. Gotta tell ya, if I'm a Canadian hockey player with a wife and want a family, ain't doing that in Florida even if their facilities are the best on the planet. The problem with these arguments is they assume almost all players value X the same when we know they don't.

You know what else can sway decisions? Family. Housing. Things that happen away from golf carts. I think it's ludicrous to say needing a golf cart to drive around facilities is somehow some magic benefit. Fun fact, the University of Georgia built their new field house and weight lifting facilities on top of each other so they weren't wasting time being bused around. Anyways... Buffalo has good facilities. They have 3 ice rinks next to each other. The Players have a lounge area. They have expanded recovery areas. Is it the best in the league? No, but it's better than quite a few places. If it was so ***** why would anyone sign here ever? Okposo, Hall, Moulson, Ehrhoff, Zucker, Dahlin, Thompson? Eichel? Why sign here if it's so ***** compared to Florida?

Smith is interesting. I don't agree he's a type we don't have. Still, you're trading at worst a 35pt top 4 defender for a lesser defender, and a B level prospect. I think Utah would have to add. I also think offers for Byram might be higher. Recent trades make me think he's worth 3 assets. Decent roster player, good prospect, sweetener.

Kesselring really only had 1 good season and only has about 2 seasons of play. I think Byram is worth more. He's younger, way more experience, way more points.

Really quick, because pet peeve, rugged defenders can be puck carriers.

They also have Lamoreaux and Lavoie in the pipe who are rhd. There could be a deal there. Idk how to balance it out though.

Could have had Cossa but Forton. I literally can draft better than the Sabres and I'm some dipshit on a message board. Do they need a lefty? I feel like their right hand situation is good.

Yes to your question. I'd like to help Novikov but we need to win hockey games, not extend our losing to 15yrs.

I heard they have palm trees in Florida.

Yea.

3-peat

My lord the Bandits putting in a scoring clinic.

It literally worked to get players. Do y'all just get amnesia about the ufas we sign?

Plus Florida has insane home insurance costs and players pay income tax based on where the game occurs so its not that much better. On top of that housing is cheaper in Buffalo and public schools are better. Really depends what you want. These guys are not freaking out over 500k less bucks

Why would Buffalo have golf cart parking? Players don't become ufas until 26, if Buffalo were winning, ppl would come here. This is just a distraction.

The Trump Budget Bill seeks to destroy public education by creating a tax shelter for capital gains and funneling tax money to private schools that can reject students they don't want. The end result will be even more severely underfunded public schools that are basically segregated. https://www.npr.org/2025/05/23/nx-s1-5397175/trump-federal-voucher-private-school