Brawndo

The Athletic mentioned that the Hurricanes and Pesce are getting closer to an extension in a post this AM. Also mentioned the Sabres and Florida are in on Hanifin

Exactly, with the cap being flat for one more year, the larger deals for players may not be available

https://twitter.com/mrdrdowdell/status/1672312773953331219?s=61&t=h0yvSDHtOEJBIIBDkE7IaQ

He refused a trade to any Eastern Conference Team last offseason

Once last summer

Couple things. Lebrun is reporting that the Devils are interested in a sign and trade with Hellebuyck (Good Luck Eastern Conference), if this happens Chad DeDomincis is wondering if Vanacsk becomes available. Although Gibson is not one of my top choices at all, Chad brought up another interesting point, Gibson starts very strong and fades as the season goes on, would splitting the net in a 1A/1B scenario with Levi prevent him from tiring out and keep his numbers up all season. Yes I would give up the non crossed out options

Looking at the list Morin looks more like at target at 39 or 45 Simishev and Wallinder are 19th and 20th respectively

McKenzies List

Something interesting that Lance Lysowski brought up on the Jeff Marek, the Sabres are in position to offer free agent short term deals with the expectation that we give the player a chance to have career seasons, as multiple players have career seasons under Granato, and this would allow them to hit free agency again, in short order with higher point totals and a salary cap that is expected to increase dramatically. He named Matt Dumba as a perfect example playing next to either Dahlin or Power. In addition, it does appear that many vets in Calgary such as Lindholm, Hanifin and even Backlund have told the team you’re not interested in signing long-term deals. This does open up the possibility that Brandon Tanev will be move as well as it does appear Calgary will need to go through a slight rebuild. Even if Tanev is moved to Toronto where he’s from, that might open up the possibility of TJ Brodie being available as it doesn’t appear. He is a favorite of Brad Treliving. These options on deals with one year left and it even possible short term contract extensions might be more palatable than trading for Brett Pesce, or Connor Murphy.

McKenzie’s List should be out sometime around 11:30am this morning (6/22)

The Sabres are in a unique position to benefit from an over the air broadcast of their games. They are the only US market whose television signals can easily be picked up by the largest Canadian market. Anyone who has watched FOX 29 knows that there is a segment of commercials for the Canadian market. The Sabres could easily sell ads to Canadian companies. This might be an interesting source of revenue, and also be a way to expand the number of eyeballs watching your games in a local market. The new MSG Streaming Service will cost somewhere between 20-25 dollars/month per reports. With 8-14 games per month that equals to about 3 dollars a game, that’s not a bad deal if you can only subscribe during the season

Sign me up for either.

Pronman’s 7 round mock for the Sabres from this AM

He would be a RFA and the cap is about to rise dramatically starting in 2024-25. He would be able to cash in again.

One year 6.4 Million is a 1st and 3rd. He would still be an RFA after that.

On tomorrow’s 32 Thoughts Podcast Chuck Fletcher shared a story from the draft floor about GMTM calling him to offer all three of the Sabres Second Round Picks in the 2014, which were picks 31, 44 and 49 for pick 18. The player GMTM wanted, Alex Tuch