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They sent all 31 jerseys to the top 50 prospects or so I believe

I was meaning the final 16 😉 One more game / a few more hours and we probably make the play-in

Do I think the Sabres make the playoffs with Staal rather than Johnasson this year? No I don't. Therefore it isn't all that different. Maybe you think Staal is the thing that tips us over the edge, in which case let's agree to disagree. 10 points, C vs W and a similar level of experience isnt the difference to me

It was a joke. However, that move is only useful if there are 3-5 more trades to bolster it. Otherwise it isnt all that different to signing Marcus Johnasson in terms of shake up

The Buffalo way. Miss the playoffs. Tweak the roster and bring in a new third line player. ??? Miss the playoffs.

There is almost always a rogue choice within the first 7 picks that is a surprise

Darn. Two players of interest are off the table

Danault came 7th in Selke voting. He isn’t playing 4th line minutes. He apparently wants out of Montreal because he wants top 6 minutes.

Not a bad pay day when the average salary is about $100,000 in the league!

Personally I think i'd rather trade the pick for a top 6 RW or top 4 LD or top 2 RD. We need to win this season to keep Eichel around.

Dahlin - ??? ??? - Risto McCabe - Joker I think Risto brings something to the party that Montour and Miller dont. Obviously there is a top RD on the market this year. However, I think Mountour might be good enough - such that we end up with 1 top D-man and 5 top four d-men. Maata would have been great, if we could have got a trade for Miller

I hope the convo went like this: Jack: I hear you want an internal cap. Are you looking to rebuild? Pegula mouth piece: No we are not looking to rebuild Jack: If the team still sucks and you didn't maximise every available resource, including money, to fix it, I am out. Pegula mouth piece: Yes fam. We will spend to the cap

Eichel probably doesnt want to rebuild. Who would? Teams called about McDavid a few years ago too. This isn't news. But hopefully, it is enough to make the Pegula's open their purse strings and take advantage of a once in a lifetime opportunity to kickstart a successful team

I thought Jeff and Eric weren’t the best of friends..?

If Edmonton offered McDavid and Drai and their first and agreed to retain 50% of their salaries for Eichel, would you do it? Obviously you would. So there is no point making great claims about how untradeable someone is. A GM should listen for EVERY player. No one is untouchable, they just have an extortionate price. If you offered #8, Eichel and Dahlin for Crosby, do you think they say no? Even though he is the face of the NHL, has brought them 3 cups etc.

Wennberg and Elvis would be a pretty good haul - fix 3C with an age-appropriate defensive dude who can step up to 2C if injuries occur. Costs more than I would like, but that might be a good bargaining ship to reduce the cost of the goalie pick up. What do Columbus need? 2nd this year + 2nd next year + Miller + b-grade prospect for Wenn/Elvis?

Yeah but both Malkin and Crosby are 1st line centres. I agree with Curt. People expect a 50 point centre to be an average third line centre because of this. And that just isn’t the case. Glad to hear a positive view on Cozens. Although I think I’d welcome someone having one about Casey 😛

Yea and I don’t want to throw away another year and probably Jack playing for the Sabres because the 2C we thought we fixed wasnt

Broadly I really like this move. It fills the gap we needed and is clearly a show of confidence in Cozens. Johnson was a fine player for us, but nothing special so the cost was great. I have two concerns with it. Firstly Staals age. He has played well last few years but you can’t not think on a rapid decline happening. Two, he was reportedly very comfortable in Minny and I worry he will be less productive because he doesn’t want to be here (a comment on Minny or Buffalo). But he is always touted as a professional and will help Jack and Dylan.

Third liners are much easier to pick up, so a much better position to be in. I would quite like McCann or Copp or someone like that on the third line - a player who could step up to the second for short stints

That seems like a high price. Casey is 5 years younger. Copp has averaged 0.3 pts/game whereas Casey is 0.34 I don't know Copp's game, but is it really so complete to overcome a 5 year age difference and worse point production as well as us providing the higher pick?

Is he anything more than a marginal upgrade on Sam? Trading one top 6 player and our precious trading assets for a broadly comparable one doesnt help our lack of depth in the top 6. Or our lack of 2C (Lindholm is C/RW like Sam)

Farewell Eichel, may you lead a team to glory

I think Murray was historically a good talent spotter. And I think he would have been better being Scouting Manager, rather than General Manager

I think the concern is from the fact JBot usually only made one 'big' move and hoped that it would fix the issue. We need several decent ones to make waves next season. Also the fact is has been over 6 months of nothingness. We're all desperate fro Sabres related material!!