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The problem with trading for a goalie at the TDL is they have minimal time to adjust to the type of play of the new team. Ryan Miller mentioned he had problems going from the Sabres to St Louis. Now if the Sabres are playing a tighter defensive structure next year, the transition might be easier

Reilly Smith, who had two less goals but 16 more points and is a much better offensive play driver than VO went for 3rd Round a pick. It was Vegas Original 2024 3rd coming back to them, so that should be late. The Sabres would probably have to retain 50% to get anywhere close to that return for VO.

I didn’t see it listed, but Friedman mentioned he has control over the team he goes to.

Hanifin is an offensive first defensive and really isn’t what Power needs. Johnson and Clifton fill that role better than he does.

Friedman was discussing Pesce being part of the return to San Jose for Karlsson, He mentioned that Pesce can block a trade to SJ. Interestingly he brought up the same point for Buffalo, I wonder if both teams were told no by Pesce’s Camp.

There is analytic evidence that shows Gibson’s Performance decreased as the season went on and there maybe with a reduced workload ie splitting games with Levi, those numbers may stay strong. The problem as Mike McKenna pointed out on Sabres Live OT a few months ago is that Gibson has refused up until this point to adapt to newer goalie equipment or change his style at all, Mc Kenna lumped Quick into this as well.

In Lance Lysowski’s article today, he talked about how important it was for him to graduate from College and how much work he had to do make it happen. He is really close with Nathan Paetsch and sent him pictures for the graduation. I imagine that’s why he didn’t sign right away as he was burnt out from a long hockey season and then catching up on school work. I also heard that Novikov moves very well for a big guy. Adams also mentioned that the Russians will be staying in WNY to train for awhile this summer.

With this

From His Agent

Apparently Friedman refuted this report on 32 Thoughts Podcast Today

Miles better

It would not surprise me if Benson makes the team before Savoie in 2024-25

Chevy got quite a haul for PLD, I imagine he is keeping a high price for Hellebuyck for now.

Yzerman has had five drafts as Detroit’s GM. The First was 2019 and he had 11 picks his second they had 12, Only 3 of those 23 picks from 2019 and 2020 have played in the NHL. So stockpiling picks is great, but eventually they need to turn into actual players. They finished ahead of the Sabres once since he became GM and were still 11 points behind the Sabres with all their UFA signings last year. This timeframe even includes the Sabres trading their franchise player and multiple other assets. The UFAs they brought in are going to block younger players from getting NHL Games, I think the Sabres Plan of putting the younger players in position to succeed is the proper direction. Scott Wheeler of the Athletic did have the Detroit Prospect Pool at 4th and the Sabres ranked 6th, but that did include Power, Quinn and Peterka graduating from the prospect pool into the NHL. Looking at the two organizations, which core and prospect pool would you want moving forward? Yzerman may be a great GM in Detroit, but he really needs to start showing it soon.

Jarry just signed an extension with Pittsburgh, he is not going anywhere. The Wild are desperate for cap space, Gustavasson reportedly wants an Oettinger type bridge deal which was 4 million AAV. They have 7.3 million left with 3 RFAs to sign. Would MAF waive fo come here for a year. Probably not as he doesn’t want to move his family, Samsonov and Murray in Toronto. Murray already said no once and is injured alot. Are they better than Comrie/UPL? Here is what Chad DeDomincis had to say about the Sabres search for a goalie Speaking of which, they’ve yet to address goaltenders at the NHL level. I have said throughout the offseason that my understanding is that they would like to improve at that position, but if it made sense for them. A source told me that they spent time yesterday exploring the goaltender market and will continue to do so over the next few days. The free agent market dried up on them quickly, so the obvious route to improvement is via trade. In my opinion, for Adams to succeed this offseason they need to do something in goal. It sounds as though they’re going to continue to work away at it, but won’t overpay for something. Currently on the NHL roster they have Devon Levi, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, and Eric Comrie. The thought was that Comrie may be sent down to the NHL, but that path appears to be blocked now with three goaltenders occupying that spot. It would say it’s close to a 0% chance that Adams has the desire to have his team rotate three goaltenders again next season. Therefore, once again, it would appear something has to give there. The trade market in the NHL hasn’t got underway yet. There are a handful of players that are going to be moved throughout the league. Now that the free agent period is over, I wonder if we start to see that open up in the next few days

90 Defenseman, damn KA really improved the depth! I’m kidding of course, I have 90:typos per post

Yep

Buffalo doesn’t have a need for Nylander, but the other three I definitely could see taking a swing, especially Nashville Bertuzzi is the best of all three, one step forward, two back I guess

Domi to Toronto one year 2.5 Million

Who has the cap space?

Friedman reports the Leafs and Bertuzzi are working on a one year deal