Darryl Shannon's +/-

If they are interested in growing the game and making more money, you'd assume both parties would be interested. This reeks of an owner's concession to pay less money. Short sighted logic. If they didnt allow nmc's, you wouldn't have to worry about bargain deals in no tax states.

Who was or is available that they could spend the money on? On likely a one year deal if you want to extend Tuch? Would people be happy if we tossed oloffson 4m for one year? There are teams with almost 20m of cap space right now. 5M is a rounding error for an nfl owner.

Google said his most common linemates were tuch and thompson. Its certainly possible that loss can be absorbed. Plus....our prospect pool of mature players seems to have left handed wingers ready to contribute. We traded in our useful commodity for a partner for OP.

Im not singling out your comment alone, more the attitude currently of the sabres fanbase because it is interesting to me. The team sucks, but we want to extend everyone to long term deals? We can't trade peterka because he's going to be a superstar? We need to spend to the cap, but who are we going to spend the money on? After like a day of free agency Jeff Skinner was one of the best free agents left. The way I see it, Byram is currently dman 3 or 4 with warts that the analytic community is quick to point out. But hes still super young too. A 2 year deal still gives you leverage to sign or do a sign and trade next year. I'd think the last thing all parties would want is a 5+ year deal.

He was fired due to performance. Let's not pretend that he was doing a great job and wanted to make sure he had the resources to continue. If memory serves his walking papers were probably being drafted on kids day at the arena where the camera was on him throwing water bottles and paper.

Maybe the better way to put it...I don't think you have room to pay 3 dmen elite $$$. So if its dahlin and power who stay, you need to move Byram. And the underlying numbers spin the narrative that byram isn't a plus player without dahlin.

I'd like to get rid of Byram and I'm high on Östlund. Could totally be wrong, but Östlund feels like a 2 way player we haven't had in a long time.

I like the 2nd trade better

I think so, even back to the eichel and reinhart trades. I just wish trading was easier in the nhl overall, it would help us get better faster. As for Norris....I think moving on from Cozens alone was a plus sadly.

If you're looking at asset value, kevyn got more value here compared to keeping mittelstadt. And his trade record actually is pretty decent, despite all of the doom and gloom in this fanbase.

Healthy scratch multiple times this year....I'm shocked he got a 4th.

Why are people so literal about this? The guy flew to a different country after an enormous win by the team he owns that is worth 5x the Sabres. Did you want the sources to say it's fire and brimstone? It's pretty clear this regime is on thin ice. The question is who gets traded or fired. Or both.

Limit the max term of contracts and maybe only two no move clauses per team. Trades and turnover are good. Allow cap room to be traded.

I wish they published all of the locations associated with no trade/move clauses. Would make it easier for fans to know trade targets and also be pressure on the front office if you are on every one.

The real question is how much better we are with Dahlin, Power, Cozens, Quinn and Peterka being a year older. Doesn't seem like that is being brought up much at all. Good news is we replaced Skinner, Vic, Kyle and Zemgus with players who play a much harder game.