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This is an unprecedented trade....21 pages and we don't even know the return, lol

Great, so we'll burn through Granato and then after 5 years of constant losing dahlin and cozens will have had enough and want out.

I'm trying to hold judgement until the trade is announced but this seems like the worst case scenario. The timing of this deal also strikes me as weird, why have it leaked at midnight and then have movement? Are they getting our 1st 2nd round pick? Im also curious to know what the hell the plan is for our roster this upcoming season. We've lost 90% of our toughness in risto and borgen and now Sam leaves a gaping hole on offense. There are no free agents that I want the sabres to overpay for and I was hoping the eichel or reino trades would bring back exciting forwards to watch.

Pendulum swings one with with the risto trade, it's gonna swing the other way for a reino trade.

He's probably exhausted.

All the best to Sam, our original tank fruit. Hoping the return makes up for this loss.

I believe Arizona has the 13th "slot" but they got their peepee slapped by the league and penalized a draft pick. I believe they were negotiating with draft picks or something.

This is great news! I can't believe people wanted to protect Borgen over Risto, lol. As soon as Borgen gets waived he'll end up right back on the Sabres.

The only pick I'm predicting is Sunday, February 13th. Tre White has pick-6 in the final seconds of the superbowl to seal the deal for the Bills. The Sabres ride that Buffalo Sports high to make a push for the playoffs and sneak in into the playoffs and end up winning the cup after going 7 games in all four rounds.

I'm looking at their page on Cap Friendly, https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/bluejackets , and they only have 4 skates signed past this next year. That feels really low? Not that I know much about the team but there's nothing they have that would make an Eichel trade palpable for me.

On the Instigators this mornign Dreger mentioned there was a "sleeper" team in the East who might emerge in the Eichel sweepstakes. I also saw a tweet saying depending on how the Seth Jones situation plays out with the Blue Jackers, Columbus might have 4- 1st round picks (currently have 5,25,32). I wonder if they are that team that sends us 5, 25 + whatever they have to offer? Do they have any great prospects?

Less interested...

What is an 8-day pizza? I am interested.

I think we'll be getting a goalie back via one of the Eichel, Reino, or Risto trades. Or signing a FA. There's no way Tokarski or Hauser should ever be considered to be in net again.

What about Ted Nolan?

A bag of pucks with no hockey sense and a severe neck injury!

Eichel & Risto for McDavid? Seems reasonable.

That blows my mind that Mike Smith has earned $50 million over his career, I guess it adds up when you play into your 40s. What a life.

Yeah, a lot of these picks are not what I would have chosen but then again I don't know anything about other players in the league and there's a damn good reason I'm not an NHL GM.

"Best team in the league has a better roster than the worst team in the league." Searing take right there.

I hate when that happens and you log in here and have to wade through 15 pages of reactions to get caught up with the thread.

The only thing attractive the Sabres have to offer for FA goalies is that if they sign the #1 spot is theirs to lose. I won't pretend to know the goaltending situation of other teams in the league but I can't imagine there's many more teams with ZERO NHL currently signed (I am operating under the assumption Ullmark is going elsewhere).

At the very least Risto will have value at the deadline, I'd rather get something for him than nothing. Or maybe he gets packaged with Sam for a better deal?