DarthEbriate

Has anybody said... oh, there it is. The troubling part is it probably just won't be in a Sabres uniform and selling now is selling at the absolute lowest value.

Financials for Pegula to pay out less overall, yes. From a cap hit perspective, the Sabres are on the hook for higher hits for a longer time because of this. It's all EEE for Pegula's pockets. Edit: Just like he didn't want to pay ROR's incentive/bonus and ordered him traded before it took effect. Buy out this summer [2024]: SEASON INITIAL CAP HIT SAVINGS CAP HIT (BUF) 2024-25 $9,000,000 $7,555,555 $1,444,445 2025-26 $9,000,000 $4,555,555 $4,444,445 2026-27 $9,000,000 $2,555,555 $6,444,445 2027-28 $0 -$2,444,445 $2,444,445 2028-29 $0 -$2,444,445 $2,444,445 2029-30 $0 -$2,444,445 $2,444,445 Buy out next summer [2025]: SEASON INITIAL CAP HIT SAVINGS CAP HIT (BUF) 2025-26 $9,000,000 $5,000,000 $4,000,000 2026-27 $9,000,000 $3,000,000 $6,000,000 2027-28 $0 -$2,000,000 $2,000,000 2028-29 $0 -$2,000,000 $2,000,000 from 6/16/24: https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/36996-jeff-skinner-rumors-trade-and-buyout-speculation-swirling/

It's all about the fit. You can find yourself with a Bunting alongside Matthews really easily. Earlier this year in Florida it was Evan Rodrigues on the Barkov-Reinhart line. And if you've got Lemieux-Jagr, you can be the luckiest go-to-the-net and fight-on-the-boards guy in the world in Kevin Stevens. I thought Ruff would've done it much earlier; I thought we'd even see Malenstyn in the top 6 line in camp. Not because he's got the skill to be there, but because the team needs a grinder to open up space for Thompson and do the work while the sniper hunts for space.

The only comparable players: Center, signing age 20-23, contract start date 2023 are: Tim Stutzle, Robert Thomas, Josh Norris, and Nick Suzuki. For what it's worth, Cozens' deal is the cheapest among them. Kotkaniemi falls in the same parameters, but had signed an RFA offer sheet for a 1-year deal, then an 8-year deal that was only $4.8M (and hasn't really even lived up to that, as yet).

For the first sentence, absolutely. (It made more sense from financial and cap perspective to buy him out at the end of this year.) But, his production was replaced. JJP had already taken over for him on the top line at the end of last year and despite having gone completely cold is still on pace to exceed Skinner's point production from last year (which was admittedly very poor for a 1LW). The issues are that the entire second line (and by extension the powerplay) is basically a complete void of offense, and the top line has been very uneven. If you're a one-line team, that line has to be dynamite. The Sabres' is not.

GM Sheevyn Palpatine Palmsatine You know, in 15 years, I'll have to post, "Somehow... Palmsatine returned."

Just made a minor adjustment there.

Wednesday 12/11 - home game with TNT on the broadcast. Friday 12/20 - home game with ESPN+/Hulu on the broadcast controls -- but it's a Toronto game so you won't get as much home team audience participation. Wednesday, the cat will be out of the bag nationally.

Meanwhile, surprise surprise, the Bruins/Flyers game goes to OT so they're each collecting loser points. Utah moves ahead of Buffalo. The Sabres would pick 8th overall if the season ended right now. Depending on how games go the rest of the day, they could be drafting 6th overall tonight. One-third of the way through the "win-now" season.

So, you're saving all this cap space the last 4 years so you can pay JJP and Quinn big extensions. What if JJP refuses to sign long-term? What if Quinn is just broken? And Zucker walks (he'll have already been traded, but still). And Byram demands a trade?

I think Kulich thought he ran out of space, but yeah, that smacks of what-the-hell-ness? And he's been playing alright overall today, too.

Somewhere with palm trees, warm sand. (Though sadly we just left Rhode Island / We did what? / Just forget it.)

And so it is.

Nice pass by Kulich. Send that kid back to Rochester, ASAP!

They do perpetually if you're always the youngest team in the league.

Cozens moving his feet, has a good shift, helps draw a penalty. You know... that kind of effort would look good in a 4th line winger.

Cozens needs the press box. Or a complete change of scenery. He'll maybe someday score 30 again, but at this point, he'd be a -30 anyway.

Cozens passed way too far behind JJP/Benson? on the rush. Utah praising the backcheck, which was there, but the pass was godawful.

You need the Fire Adams chant to be heard on the visitor's broadcast during in-game action.

I'd say when he chooses them. He's using Granato's staff, plus Appert.

Did Zucker finish the period? I noticed that McLeod was skating with TNT-Tuch toward the end of the period. Maybe I just didn't see him.

And they could've been your starting tandem the last two seasons, with Ullmark walking this past summer (or traded at last year's deadline if they're not in a playoff spot). One team is putting in a good effort team-wide. The other has Benson, Kulich, Kozak, and Malenstyn leading the way.

Like Josh Allen, they had Eichel and Reinhart and ROR and Dahlin. They attracted ex-MVP in Hall. They signed a top free agent in Okposo one year. But then (except Dahlin so far), they traded all those guys (admittedly, in varying circumstances).

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