DarthEbriate

She's skipping in a straight line... Skip serpentine! Serpentine skip! Also, it could be a lot of fun to just watch a team of talented youngsters try to outscore everybody 8-7. Will it work? Errrrrr..... But that's not important right now. It could be highly entertaining hockey.

If I'm another GM, my offer is shrinking even further. I mean... the Sabres don't want to win anyway. Why would I send a talented kid like Zegras off to get ruined here? Best keep him and let him play competitive hockey on my squad. Whatever my squad is.

Eichwalker: I don't know. I really thought he'd change his mind. PrinceMattEllis: He's got to follow his own path. No one can choose it for him.

He can buy every drink and appetizer, as he'll be making 16% of the team's salary.

So... the plan is UPL/Anderson in Buffalo, Tokarski/Dell in Rochester, and... Houser/Christopoulos in Cincinnati? This is the plan? This plan makes as much sense as Luke's plan to rescue Han in RotJ. Or any of the prequels. Or Rise of Skywalker. If this is the plan, it's garbage. UPL needs another 50+ starts to hone his game at the appropriate level. That's an entire (un-COVID-broken) season. His last appropriate level was the ECHL. This year, it's 50/50 split AHL with a veteran. He's a good pick. He was the #1-ranked European goalie at the time of his drafting. He has oodles of potential and can become an NHL starter. Don't blow it by rushing him. Sure, maybe he fails anyway, but don't overburden him and increase the risk of failure by bringing him into a loss-heavy dumpster fire where he'll get shelled. Get him to Rochester and keep him there. Get a real goalie here in Buffalo. ... which means including a goalie in the Eichel trade because we let all the goalies go wandering elsewhere before and during UFA. Gahhhhhhh!

Hehe -- just play him on the 4th line with Skinner and Okposo for 8 minutes a night.

The latter --- he's already playing pickup games with all the Bruins.

Even the Sens have a more engaged plan to play the kids.

Nah. Goalie schmoalie. Just keep Eichel and tell him he needs to score 100 points and we'll trade him.

Oh Sheevyn, bless your heart.

UPL could be better than Dell next season.

Or good negotiating by an agent who is looking out for his/her client and hoping to let him/her be a winner with a good organization.

Is our backup this year worse than [edit: visually compromised-] Hutton?

Easy. Meszaros. 1 year $12M.

Gotta stay cap compliant

GM Sheevyn: You wanted two goalies, Sabrespace? I give you: two goalies! I'm afraid our deflector shields will be quite operational when the season arrives.

Plan A? No. Plan B? no. Plan... are we into the Aurebesh language now?

I thought I could train Anderson just as well as Yoda. I was wrong.

GM Sheevyn is reading this thread. Done, and done.

I think we could all use some friendly John Sebastian tuneage.

This is going full Randy Wright for Shane Wright. Amiwright??? Eh? anybody? Don't leave me hanging

I don't believe it. That... is why we fail.

We let Lekkas go, right?