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Well some teams do it

With maybe the exception of Appert, the rest of the coaching staff only has one year remaining on their contracts, didn’t want him to feel left out

Rakell has better all round metrics, Rust is a defensive black hole

Seattle just fired Bob Woods-hire him as a PP Specialist for one season

They will never reach Adams level of incompetence, but Drury and Verbeek are not good GMs

Pittsburgh has a lot of interest in Helenius and the Sabres supposedly have an interest in Rust and Rakell. The former has no more trade protection as of July 1st and the latter has a 8 team NTC. I could see a scenario where the Sabres make the pick at 9 for a forward and if they acquire another later first this year for Byram-taking a defender with that to replace anyone moved out from Rochester. Chad DeDomincis also mentioned on His Pod that Tuch is looking at an extension of 5-6 years in the 8-9 million range.

The return would most likely include defenseman in addition to a first. San Jose-Liljegren and 30th for Byram? Philly- 22 and Cam York? I have a feeling we will be underwhelmed by the return

The Sabres Rights to Him expired on June 1st

Dallas is firing Peter DeBoer