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Smart move to give them flexibility

And he still put up 52 points in 65 games. In a "bad" season. That is pretty good. The equates to 66 points in 82 games. Not superstar level, but still more points than Rheinhart has ever put up.

We could make the playoffs... end this drought right now... but for this to succeed, there is someone else we need! Taylor Hall! Cause he knows what to do with the puck on his stick! Taylor Hall! Noone has his resilience or matches Eichel's practical, tactical brilliance! Taylor Hall! We are gonna need someone like him eventually, what's he gonna do on the bench, I mean?? Taylor Hall! You want to fight for the Atlantic back? You need Eichel's right hand man back! Taylor Hall! Get Eichel's right hand man back...gotta get Eichel's right hand man back! Gotta get his agent on the phone and get Eichel's right hand man back... Taylor Hall...Eichel's waiting here for you.... If you sign by tomorrow night... the playoffs will be ours by early light... The Atlantic will never be the same.... Taaaaayyyyyyyyloooooooorrrrrrr Haaaaaallllllll......

Welcome to the Adams Administration!

What comes next? Hall's been freed... Do you know how hard it is to lead? You're on your own... Eichel said Wow! Do you have a clue what happens now?? Good teams rise...bad teams fall! It's much harder when it's all your call... All alone, with Taylor Hall... When you get hurt and the fans hate you don't come crawling for a trade... Da da da dat da dat da da da ya da Da da dat da da ya da! Hall's on his own... Also...would this be a great time to say "Welcome to the Adams Administration"? 🤣🤣🤣

If we were that bad then he was part of the problem wasn't he? I mean he was out there a lot on the PK when it kept getting scored on. Don't see it as a huge loss.

Guess we now see why they didn't qualify Kahun...they were all in on Taylor Hall

He has a no movement and no trade clause

Wow...Sabres suddenly have at least 2 potent lines now...teams can no longer just focus on Eichel's line... Now if the D and goalies could get it together we have a good chance of ending the playoff drought!

Wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow wow!!!!

Sabres continue shopping at Goodwill while the rest of the NHL shops at Macy's

And our housing prices, even with the recent price increases are probably half of yours in Atlanta. Do the math...does $250 a month more in property taxes cost more than an extra $1000 on a mortgage? Pretty clearly no.

I mean I am not sure if this team realizes they haven't made the playoffs in like 8 or 9 years but they should probably start acting like it and not like they just made a deep run and all they need are a few depth signings. Adams has been there as Beane literally transformed the Bills in 3 years into what will likely be a perennial playoff team, I hope he took notes.

Huh??

It's a 1 year deal.

How did he pull this one off?!? Johannsson makes 1.5 million a year more!

Cancer does suck...my Mom died from it as well... the unfortunate truth is, it's the ultimate form of population control...

Nobody is promised tomorrow...therefore send not to know for whom the bell tolls...it tolls for thee..

Sabres were in Montreal when the season got cancelled. If that game would have been played and the season cancelled the next day, it would have been to determine who made the playoffs... Kind of crazy when you think about it.

You should look at Hockey reference dot com and go to NHL Draft and you can sort each year by points and it shows where they were picked...it also shows all the prior stats all the way back to junior and foreign leagues for all years

Pastrnak didn't really have much production so I don't think in that case there was anything to ignore...

Maybe...but I mean how accurate are scouts in top 20 picks? Maybe top 3 or 4 they are very accurate...maybe more so than any other sport, but I mean you have Pastrnak taken 25th, Larkin taken 15th, Point taken 79th, Aho taken 35th, Barzal taken 15th, Connor taken 17th, Konecny taken 24th, Boeser taken 23rd, Debrincat taken 39th, Robert Thomas taken 20th... These are all good to very good players, some near stars that have way outperformed many of the players taken before them in the same draft...my question is why do the Sabres never seem to be able to find any of these players(other than the flyer they took on Olaffsson)?

I was just going by what I have heard a few times from guest analysts on WGR...other than Lafreniere I don't really know a whole lot about this year's crop of talent.

Apparently after the first few guys there isn't really much difference between someone at 5 or someone at 20 this year...might be worth trading down if possible...

No. He was tried there for quite some time and failed miserably. Wing is where he belongs. He can't handle the extra responsibilities of a center.