Randall Flagg

Thanks for the kind words! The volume of movement is just because they're best/worst case scenarios, and in the best case scenario I would have us upgrading every single thing I perceive to be an issue, and we have a few issues. I'm not sure it's realistic that Malkin can be moved for that kind of package, and I'm not sure how I feel about his most recent season, but I can't say it's not a tantalizing idea. Also, if you're into Ferlund/Donskoi for the side of the game they can bring, if we lose out on those two for money issues a nice alternative could be Brett Connolly. If that lineup were to somehow materialize I'd definitely watch with more anticipation than the last few years have given.

I'd totally be willing to beat other teams for this guy. Load him and McCabe up with some tough but not ridiculously frequent minutes Hmmmmm, not sure Kreider's in the cards for us then. Though he looked real good next to Jack at that tournament I guess that's Skinner's spot though

He's in that class of player that you don't worry about legs giving away anytime soon because the skating is so strong for sure

Do the Rags have another first round pick? If so, I'd be interested to see if we could build something around giving us Kreider for swapping firsts

Right? Like sure, for Horvat, but you know they're not giving him up, and the gap between him and their next asset is maaaaaaaaaaaaassive

Tampa is probably the least dangerous team to trade Risto to, in that I don't think there is a possible combination of completely awful assets to get back. There should be something worthwhile coming back if it happens He had a down year and they have some cap issues and want Duchene (I think they need to re-sign another defenseman too) I'd bet on PK bouncing back more than this season being the new PK.

Zactly. Marner's already making life miserable for Toronto should no other team lift a finger, we can make trouble for those other two.

Probably Toronto because spreadsheet nerds hate Risto. Presuming we could do something else nifty like get Miller out of Vegas somehow, I'd be down because I think Kadri is pretty damn good

I actually think Washington won that trade even if it was straight up

Imagine offer-sheeting Aho instead Sebastian and Sam feeding a young pup like Olofsson, talk about "protecting" a young player if by protecting you mean giving him the easiest time possible offensively

If not offer-sheeting Marner, someone should throw 4 mil sheets at Kapanen and Johnsson just to make them squirm more, screw trades

Man seeing "Brawndo" and "posted just now" in an offseason trade rumor thread is like the Sabres fan version of watching the puck drop in an NHL playoff game

@LGR4GM @rakish do this more often

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Bleed 'em dry Mitch

YOU HAVE A PODCAST WITH LIGER OMG Liger you sound just like I do on recording I love this so much

I just didn't like his style in the 30 seconds of hockey I've seen him play. Please don't take anything I say about prospects/the draft seriously ?

How did Samuelsson do this season, anyone know?

I'm picking on Dreger because it drives me nuts that he claimed both last season and no one called him out on it

7 + McCabe + Nylander for Zibanejad 7 + small thing for Zucker + 12 7 + prospect for Ehlers I'm out of ideas, not sure if id do any of these

1.) depends on who you listen to, because according to Dreger, the phones were hot for Kane weeks before the deadline, and several offers had been bandied about. But according to Dreger, people only started calling Jason as the deadline was minutes away, and there was no serious interest before, and only one serious offer made during the entire season - the one we took.

Liger has me convinced on that Newhook guy. Newhouse. I forget his name. Newhook. it's Newhook, got it. I also like Krebs a LOT. And Turcotte. But I don't really know anything so whoever they pick is fine As long as it's not Cozens

I so wish that had kept working out for CBJ so more teams would decide to go for it like Jarmo did.

"keeping the late 1sts" Sir, the Sabres have the fewest wins in the entire NHL...since they ended the tank and tried to start winning. What on god's green earth makes you think those first rounders will be late

Since I've only been here for a few hours, I missed the Mitts sucks bender. Though he does suck - I just think he won't fairly soon! Cirelli's ceiling is higher than Casey's because if you make a list of the things they've done with evidence on tape, looking for the potential each has shown, Cirelli's last calendar year is more impressive than Tyson Jost college production, anything anyone can do in high school, and a bad NHL season. You can squint at their general team-level situations, but shift in and shift out, the things they do on and off the puck are light years apart right now, and those things have little to do with the team around them. Casey's trademark play was spinning off the boards with the puck into that no-man's land between the point and the circles, and then losing it. Cirelli's was burying shorthanded goals and barraging the slot with reckless abandon, playing with feverish effort and a sole purpose of making sure the puck gets to where it has a high chance of going into the net. Also, Mitts' zone starts were among the top three most "sheltered" in the league of players to play half a season, while Cirelli was around 40% and faced tougher competition, so I'm not even convinced that Mitts had a "tougher job" by virtue of being on a bad team And if you watched that world's tournament, it's why he looked like he was the one driving play on the same ice as guys like Stone, Couturier, Reinhart. He wasn't being carried anywhere, he is his own player, and that's why those models I mentioned above pick him out. They have their flaws, but they also saw a Selke contender playing on the 17-18 Sabres with a -23, and an Art Ross candidate in a different "sheltered" Tampa center. I agree with the idea that we shouldn't be "down" on Mitts, I just think my "high" on him is a different "high" than other people's I guess