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Then create a 2nd pair of Byram and Dobson. Or Dobson and Samuelsson and leave Byram with Dahlin

Trade Owen Power. Power and 9 for Barzal and Dobson. Idk if that's value but being bold

He could but Pegula doesn't want that. He wants to be heard and to have a yes man do his bidding. Skinner contract had to be 8yrs cuz Pegula. Samuelsson had to be signed ASAP cuz Pegula. Terry has his favorites.

At that point you're hanging out on Death's doorstep anyways, might as well knock every once and awhile for funsies.

Yes. I think there are players undervalued by their current teams who would sign for a chance. Noah Dobson for example might not get the contract offer he wants from his current team.

My God, just retire man. Enjoy your last years, take up fishing or pottery or spelunking.

You can't build a winning culture when you're Eeyore.

I'd take him over no one

I bet Lou is the guy. It makes too much sense and he's unlikely to get a GM offer. If Lou was so good adapting to the cap wouldn't his record reflect that?

Trump fired the Librarian of Congress in order to appoint a new one who could then put in a place a sycophant at the copyright office. It's all about literally creating a Maga deep state that serves only the billionaire oligarchs like Elon Musk.

We could also offer sheet other players.

That isn't a thing on any NHL team. More $$$ than Byram.

Here's RFAs if you want a right shot

The Sabres are 27th in xGF against. That's atrocious.

I've done the stats before. If you run a regression with faceoffs and win rate there's basically no correlation.

What? That's honestly nonsense. You might misinterpret analytics or not have enough data to form the full picture but to claim they don't align with reality is just hogwash. There's basically no correlation between team win% and faceoff win% I haven't looked in 2 years but bad faceoff teams aren't the non playoff ones. Edit: I looked it up. Buffalo was 7th worse in FO%. Calgary, Minnesota, and Colorado were all worse.

Im not sure the Sabres were that bad on faceoffs this season.

Analytics original job was to give market inequities and capitalize on them. A lot sports ppl forgot that along the way.

I don't honestly care. Hellebuyck isn't available. And 3/8 is only 37.5% although tbf, that's not all on Hellebuyck. To the Yzerman point.. what? Your counter argument to "get more high floor guys" is that Yzerman doing just that and failing is an outlier? I don't agree. Buffalo has both high floor and high ceiling players. They missed the playoffs because their only good defender got hurt and UPL turned back into the player he's basically always been. Sure, add more high floor guys to the defense or the bottom 6. I'm good with that. But that's not why we're here. At least impo. They should but just like puck moving defenders can be physical, here to often it's 1 or the other.

I don't care about making the playoffs. I care about winning playoff series. To the bold, that's been Yzermans plan. Hasn't worked great.

One could argue Adams has been addressing overall talent. I still don't want Hellebuyck. He turns into UPL during the playoffs.

I don't agree. You have finite assets, just acquiring the best say LW is silly. We need a defender, you only pigeon hole yourself if you decide you must make a move. If you can't find that veteran defender, you do have to hold. I do agree that it's harder because Adams is up against it.

If you can get Byram for that for 6yrs no more, and then move at least Samuelsson out, I can see this working but 7.5x6yrs is the ceiling.

Carbonneau has less hitting but a better shot and better skating. I like Martin's game. I wont worry if they pick him.

That's the other thing... what if we just paid Byram and let him play with Dahlin?