Buffaslug
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Rumors Doggie Hamilton may be available. Sounds like tons of D out there on the trade market right now.
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Shocked. I thought he was the steal of the century last year and that Calgary would be home for a long time.
Has his value dropped to match near what they paid for him or are they seeking to get a return on their minimal investment?
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Resurrecting this thread just to say how much I appreciated it. I was largely still "lurking" on the forum during the thread, but I found the analysis, insight and discussion in here to be great, it really gave me the hope that there are still intelligent and thoughtful internet posters out there. add on top of it that they are Sabre fans and its a win-win!
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Speaking for myself only, the only time I will merge threads is when they are essentially redundant -- e.g. if there is a thread entitled "Should ROR be moved to wing?" and then someone starts a thread entitled "Is ROR better at center or wing?"
The reason I switched here from HFboards was because how much more lax the new thread setup is versus HFB. their megathreads redefine megathreads, well that and the people here are quite a bit more polite/kind.
What is the TBD being mentioned?
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WGR or TSN?
I'd love a professional and intelligent sabres focused resource, but I guess we can't have it all.
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Yes please. I'd give a later 3rd, no idea if that is too much or too little but we have 3 of them...go take a look at 3rd round pick success rates and tell me a 22 year old #1 overall pick with a change in scenery doesn't have a better chance at turning his career around on a young talented team.
I think this is where I am. I'm hedging my bets that someone will offer up a late 2nd and a middling reclamation project of their own so that EDM can explain it off as a "best for both worlds to change the scenery" and "he has the same possible upside"
Though its likely to be Hodgson/Kassian 2.0
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I think McCabe will be a top-four defender in his prime. If we pickup Fowler and draft somebody this year it will give us Risto, Fowler, McCabe, Guhle and 8 to toy with in the future.
I like it. Seems a bit heavy on skill though, maybe could use a 3rd pair thats a bit nastier.
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The Flames expect to leave Buffalo with a starting goalie. Ben Bishop and Brian Elliott the two likely names at this point.
The Matt Murray situation looks pretty messy heading into next years expansion draft.
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Yakupov.
Yes, No, and if so whats the price?
My apologies if this is discussed elsewhere in the 124 pages lol
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Yeh but dont think a draft pick gets there.
True, because obviously depending on players available, perception of buffalo's scouting department etc it could get dicey even on draft value, but being able to see his value converted into a straightforward numerical opinion from each member will show me how many are around my opinion, or if my opinion is way off base and may need to be re-evaluated.
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An actual player
Understood, but player value is subjective and changes on opinion and percieved need. my goal was to convert the value to a more defined currency.
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Anyone familiar with slickdeals.net?
the way they do it is a mod inserts a post at the very top of the thread that is treated like a wiki of sorts, has all the serious notes about the topic so that way the narrative is always available at a quick at a glance. I would love that kind of setup.
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If you had to trade Ennis for a draft pick straight up, where is it going to be?
Do not take into account who the trade partner would be, whether they have cap space/need etc.
I thought he'd be a regular 30 goal scorer by now, I suppose I still hold out hope that he will be.
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Vegas will have a very very nice draft spot, just sayin'
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2, Pegs does the Preamble
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Between Cagguila, Vesey, Stamkos and the rest of Free Agency will Murray possibly balk at making a major move simply because of the perceived possibility of talent coming at no other cost than greenbacks? Am I channeling too much Darcy Reiger here?
On the exact flip side...
How much of his motivation could be caused by Tim simply wanting to give the fans some excitement at a home draft?
My vote is to stand pat at #8, there is plenty out there after the 1st plateau this year, which is why so many teams are debating moving back. combine as many of our 2nd, 3rd's etc as necessary and see how many quarters it will take to make a dollar and get back in to top 15 with another pick.
Farming picks has been fun but we are looking at a mess in 3-4 years re: 50 contract cap if we do another round of the "grab college kids because it postpones any decisions we need to make for longer" type of draft.
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Wildcard asked a great question as to who we might be able to plunder by taking a bad contract.
I think it likely has been a focus of Murray's and it might lead us into unexpected pickups.
Teams that might need to clear cap space include:
Anaheim: has $19 million available but is not a cap team and needs to re-sign RFAs Vatanen, Lindholm, Rakell and Anderson, who could eat up the entire space between them. In addition, they have to fill the roster holes created by seven departing UFAs. They are probably looking to move Anderson and Vatanen, but have a ton of attractive prospects. Stoner at $3 million is their most likely dump.
Columbus has just $3 million available. Most of their roster is set, but it's not that good and they need to re-sign Seth Jones. They are burdened with a ton of NMCs, but Jack Johnson at $4 million is a potential dump. Hartnell has apparently agreed to waive. They have a solid prospect list.
Detroit has $11 million available to sign Mrazek Dekeyser and Pulkinnen and replace four UFAs. Everyone knows about their push to dump Datsyuk's contract but Howard's $5 and Ericsson's $4 are another pair of albatrosses, as is $4 for the broken-down Franzen.
LA has just $3 million in space. They have no key RFAs, but Lucic, Lewis and Luke Schenn are UFAs, and Pearson and Toffoli a RFA next year. They'd kill to dump Dustin Brown, but he and maybe an aging Gaborik are really their only bad contracts.
Minnesota has $7 million with Zucker, Dumba and Kuemper to sign this year and Grandlund, Neidereiter and Haula next. They'd love to dump Vanek or Pominvilles, but each has an NMC,
Montreal: doesn't have any pending signings to worry about, but they don't have much flexibility with only $5 million in space. Emelin and Desharnais are contracts they wouldn't mind dumping.
Rangers have $15 million to play with, but need to sign Kreider, Haayes and Miller and replace Eric Staal, Boyle and Yandle. Nash is obviously available, but he won't be a free dump. mark Staal or Girardi might be. They don't have many chips to spare as sweeteners.
Penguins are $2 million over the cap. Looking at the roster, the only logical solution is to trade Malkin for futures.
St. Louis have $12 million in space, but have to re-sign Schwartz this year and Shattenkirknext, as well as replace Backes and Brouwer. It appears their solution is to trade Shattenkirk without taking on salary.
Tampa has so many pending free agents that they will be a mess if they resign Stamkos, even if they trade Bishop, so Steve is gone. They'd love to find someone to take Carle.
And of course there are other teams that may not be desperate to clear space, but would like to in order to facilitate other moves.
Curious to watch how these statements and situations are resolved.
Very insightful post, a nice clean way to catch up on where the other teams are at regarding the cap in one line, handy information for draft speculation.
Long time lurker that just wanted to say thanks for the insight... (*slips very fat-ninjalike back into the shadows*)
Concerts you plan to attend this year
in The Aud Club
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I'm probably looking to sell a pair of tickets I got to the Lumineers on July 30th.
Location: Ommegang Brewery near cooperstown.
Yeah, its 4 hours away for most of you, but factor in Cooperstown and Ommegang and I thought I'd mention it in case someone wants to plan a roadtrip