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I disagree. I would feel like the first team valued me at that number, and the second team was hoping to low ball me but were forced to raise their offer. It would certinaly not make me feel like a core piece to a franchise that had not made the playoffs in a decade. That would play into where I decided to go. There is a pattern of poor talent evaluation with the Sabres - Samuelsson was signed for $30 million just over a year later after we were begrudingly offering $20 million for Ulmark.

Or even trade him for a 7th rounder if he doesn't want to sign here

Did Chad specify which draft he was talking about? Maybe he meant Bo will be traded at or around the 2026 NHL draft

Yeah but sounds like Utah isnt efficient, effective and economic, so who's the real winning organisation

It's clear Adams et al are banking on young players improving. It's not an unfair hope, but I would like us to actually improve the roster and then have the internal improvement move us from bubble to competitor. Power should be better in his zone. Quinn should bounce back. Benson and Kulich should improve. Kesslering may have a breakout with more opportunity. Don't underestimate Doan being a better forechecker and defensive player than JJP. Actually JJP being a rush player means he actually may not flourish on better teams that dominate possession. Regardless, this team needs to get another one to two top 6 players and a top 4 D to actually be competitive I think. We should have used 9/26 picks / Byram to do it.

Lyon always played great against us, so if nothing else, this signing stops him stealing about 4 points from us in the standings

If the arbitration is below a certain value (about $4.8 million) the team can't walk away. So if he's given $1.5 million, you're stuck paying that for an 8th defender. If this guy was basically a thrown in for the Norris trade, it makes sense they never saw him as more than that. He also signed for basically league minimum - he clearly isn't well regarded.

Why would we need to improve? The answer's in the room.

Honestly, if I was Dahlin and I see what we've done so far, I'm going into the GM's office and saying if we don't make the playoffs you're trading me

No, you're right. I mis-remembered the max contract as UFA age. My bad.

New CBA reduces the age you become a UFA. When does that come into effect?

I assume we'll just trade him one-for-one for Rust

Yeah but we got JBD with it!!

It really feels like this front office has no clear plan or idea what they're trying to achieve

Not if he LTIRetires right?

One of the reasons we've linguered in misery for so long is because of the minimal moves Adams makes. New GMs make about the same number of moves in an off-season as he has in 4/5 off seasons.

Marchant playing till he's 43? I wonder if the league will review that signing

We've heard no talk of a McLeod re-signing. I wonder if he will be traded

Do the fancy stats suggest he could actually support Dahlin? Rather than just be a plug Dahlin drags around the ice?

If he played with Karlsson, do we see him as our support for Dahlin?

I like Rust, but his age, contract and potentially being propped up by Crosby means I wouldn't trade too much for him

The guy had 39 points on an awful year. Honestly I don't think this is that bad. I don't think people realise what's happening to the cap and what players values will be.

I quite like this trade... Im a bit of JJ-skeptic. I think he's a good supporting piece but him and Thompson reminded me of Kunitz and Crosby (obviously not to the same level). We got a young big-two way right shot defence man. We should be trading Byram for a top 6 player and ideally trade 9 for another top 6 player. Imagine if we could sign Gavrikov and our top four is suddenly: Dahlin - Kesslering Power - Gavrikov With a top 6 of: Tuch - Norris - Thompson Benson - Rossi - Someone Not awful...

Have the Sabres ever beaten Jake Allen?