Huckleberry

Starting to think Melnyk wants to change the name of his team into the Nordiques.

According to leafs fans, he is signing with toronto ?

Personally when I look at Skinner as opposed to Kane, I think we now got a LW for Eichel who won't take shots from bad angles all the time like kane did. Jack will also finally have a LW that is better at controlling the puck in the offensive zone.

Maybe but besides him blowing baptiste/bailey away out of camp, the kid is still waiver excempt so sending him down makes to much sense.

Bogo/Okposo/McCabe/Bailey/Baptiste/Smith/Nylander ( though I think they still love the kid) looking for a 3:1 deal, I think they want to shed some contracts.

I think he had a shot at making the sabres this year even without all the trades.

Neither is the rest of the hockey world, that is just to weird.

I'm not talking about giving allegiance, I'm saying we have a good player that might stick around and might score up to 40 goals with Eichel if lucky. He waives his NMC to come here, Moulson was a UFA Who'm we used to get to the capfloor in our tank years. No other team was paying him that money. Lets not compare him to Moulson.

The sabres was one of few teams he actually wanted to go to. I think we got a keeper but we will see.

damn it, I was already getting excited about the sabres, but now I'm just more than excited. Someone better be planning the parade already ?

Yeah I guess Berglund could be usefull that way, I think Sobotka is even better on the dot.

PP1 Okposo -Skinner - Samson Eichel - Ristolainen PP2 Sheary - Mittelstadt - Pominville Scandella - Dhalin Skinner takes the face offs on first PP, or maybe actually let Samson or Jack try dunno ?

Personally I think he'll make more room, Baptiste, Bailey, Bogo, McCabe, Okposo, Beaulieu take your pick. 4/6 are gone by the time the season starts. No way Nelson isn't in our TOP 6 on defense. Botts is getting ride of the GMTM core, so I think he'll try to trade Bogo/Okposo for sure. Maybe add in Bailey/Baptiste or McCabe.

And he already got us a middle six winger in sheary ?

And also a pick that is lottery protected, so it can slide to 2020 also.

https://world.hockeyfeed.com/nhl-news/breaking-skinner-rejects-trade Only thing I could find for now about him rejecting a few trades. Every board I read suggests he had a very limited number of teams he wanted to go to.

When every other fanbase wonders why their GM wasn't in on this deal, then we did great.

what JBOTT did this offseason He got two LW for our top 6, got our bottom 6 stronger with Berglund ( who can fill in top6 ) and Sobotka. I'm getting to excited I should go to bed.

I think Carolina was with their backs against the wall on Skinner, they said they wanted to trade him. Skinner supposed to have turned down the Kings, and maybe a few others, basically they took what they could get. https://twitter.com/EASPORTSNHL/status/1025165676418236416/photo/1

https://www.tsn.ca/sabres-acquire-skinner-from-hurricanes-for-pu-picks-1.1152286 "Skinner ranks seventh among NHL players in having scored 74 even-strength goals over the past three seasons." And the fact he waived his no trade clause for Buffalo, he might be able to extend him.

https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/sabres-acquire-jeff-skinner-trade-hurricanes/ On sportsnet they are not getting this deal ? Hah same , Just hope he signs him.

Also our Powerplay will be lethal again. Our 2nd unit just got much stronger.

PU was actually one of my sleepers to make the team this year, he almost got his 9 game try out last year.

damn its early August and I'm getting optimistic again ? Said to see PU go, but we have enough center prospects.

If he and Eichel can find chemistry, this will be awesome.