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Don't Leafs fans come in droves to Buffalo home games anyway?

My point is that in comparison to whatever teams were willing to over 6 weeks ago, I think the current offers will be worse. Now maybe the best offer anyone ever put on the table was a late second round pick for Jack - now it will be a third rounder. Second point, that everyone knows the Sabres can't start the season with Jack on the team - it will be too toxic and set the mood wrong from the start, of what will likely be the worse season in Sabres history. Third point, as a result I think the Sabres are between a rock and a hard place. No offer was good enough to trade Jack 6 weeks ago. But I think the current offers will be worse (because of point two, and the fact Jack will now miss nearly half a season). Therefore, the Sabres have overplayed their hand and we will get a low return for Jack.

As in the offer we received / was in discussion 6 weeks ago will have been better than the current offers in discussion. sadly because Eichel is our captain, this can’t just be put aside and have him represent the city whilst wanting out

I think the Sabres have missed the sell on this. I expect a fairly low return now.

Whilst I agree with the Sabres course of rehab it first. If they now agree he needs surgery, I don't know why they don't go for the artificial disk. It is not experimental, has been done on high-end players (including MMA, which is pretty brutal) and worse comes to worse, if it doesn't work you can always fuse it afterwards.

Distraction from playing in a post-Eichel team. The issue with the tank was how hard we steered into losing. I don’t want that to happen again. I want the team to play to win every night. And instilling tjay culture on a poor team is a hard thing to do. Therefore, I think it will be critical Eichel is not around to disrupt that.

I think it will be a huge distraction for the whole team if he isn't. That's bad when you're trying to reestablish a culture about people who want to be here, and teach them a new system etc.

Their best bet is a contract dump in an Eichel trade

I think Eichel was the wrong person for us to try and build a franchise on. That’s not to say he isn’t talented, or doesn’t work very hard. But I think his response to the whole affair is fairly telling, and not something I want to see from my captain.

Phew - back to normal. Signing a player I have never heard of for league minimum

Good signing - and cheap

He is also (generally) one of the more connected insider sources (but only for the Wild). Like Friedman, I mostly take what he says as true until otherwise proven.

Lol this story is a copy pasta in the hockey community. Eichel didn’t do this

Georgiev has requested a trade from NYR. Maybe they can get him?

So far a pretty lacklustre FA for us. We currently have the second lowest cap hit in the league. However, we have signed 23 players, whereas Ottawa (the lowest), are about 5 mil below and have 5 more players to sign. Also, our goalies - woof!

Correcting a wrong from years ago. Good

So why did this trade take nearly 24 hours to complete? It’s a standard top 10 protected pick… Maybe the league was stepping in begging Buffalo not to make another awful trade involving a reliable two way forward.

Have no talking heads commented on this yet?

If the RFA market is this rubbish, I hope KA starts offer sheeting everyone

This is a weird trade. I have never known such a slow lag between announce and the pieces being confirmed.

Man if Rhino goes for a late first, average goalie who was drafted in the 7th round and a 13th forward we have massively screwed up. He would have got more at the deadline

Jack gone honey bun. And that’s the right move - the earth is too salted for progress now. We aren’t a playoff team next year.

Urgh McCann to Tor. We could have used him

Ah yes you're right!!