DarthEbriate

I'm not worried about Benson not responding to a coach. I'm worried about Benson being a self-respecting SOB who wants to win and telling the GM of this team via agent: There is no counteroffer. We don't want to be here. Trade, please.

Two good signings for Rochester. Metsa won't ever get a look over Bryson. Metsa would hate to be stuck in the press box.

What good is Levi hitting if you've wasted Tuch's cheap days, Dahlin and Tuch get tired of waiting on a goalie prospect, and Power never achieves full power? Levi will price himself out of Buffalo by the time he's good.

And it's so easy to leave. Don't worry. You won't be branded a quitter by the league -- how you gave up on your teammates and such. You'll be praised for your intelligence and desire to win. JJP (and I guess JBD, too) laid the blueprint for how to simply coast on out of town. Benson is a RFA next summer.

Jarmo working the phones after hours. Probably Fiddler-Schultz insurance in case he doesn't return to the Amerks.

As it stands: 14 forwards and 7 defensemen. If they want to carry 8D to start the year, it should be noted that Doan and Kulich are exempt from waivers. Kozak is not -- so there is a slight possibility that Kozak sits as F13 and it's Doan v. Kulich for the final starting spot.

Check it out. Got an ATO with Rochester at the end of 2016-17, and then never really got off the 4th line the following season. But then, to Liiga. With Luuko, Danforth won the Lasse Oksanen Award for regular season best player (MVP), and the Veli-Pekka Ketola Trophy for leading the league in scoring with 60 points in 56 games. In the 2020 COVID season, he played in the KHL with Vityaz and scored 55 in 58 (6th in scoring in the KHL that season) Played on that 2020-21 gold medal World Championship Canada team with... Owen Power. (and JBD!)

Reactions abound! Nice contract, very good 3C, low 2C when injuries hit. Nice.

Adams' next move is to wait until 7/5 for Byram, McLeod, and Timmins to file for arbitration if they haven't already been traded.

Except the top of the organization hasn't held a press conference in years. Adams talks to the top everyday and "has all the resources he needs" to run the ship as he sees fit, and makes sure that every trade is approved. Adams is, for all intents & purposes, the head of the organization and the face of the franchise.

Shorter skater, but he would have ranked 4th among Sabres forwards in hits last season (Malenstyn, Cozens, Krebs).

Well, we were in on a lot of conversations. Big conversations. But in the end, we hadn't planted enough palm trees. And our fans were fed misinformation, which really gets my goat, and I'm sad for them that we just have to go into the season with our RFAs, except for McLeod whom we took the picks for on the offer sheet because that 5x$4.5M was just too much because he'd block Helenius in year 3. But I have all the resources I need! Something like that?

Upthread I guess 1 x $1.5M, so Sheevyn is doling out the big bucks and term.

I'm surprised the Sabres gave a 2nd year. It's against Adams' programming to do so for the other goalie. But heck, "We got Lyon!" Now Levi can wreck it all (and gosh I hope he does).

Next order of business. Levi has good training camp, waive Lyon.

It's so on-the-nose, and no hashtag for the Blues. Don't click the links! It's spam!

Fun note: Eliteprospects has him listed as LW/D. Maybe he can offer a bit of flexibility with his brawn. This prevents Dunne, Novikov, and Komarov having to be the retaliation heavyweights. Props to 23 for staying on his skates.

Big. Twice as many PIMs as games for Henderson the last two seasons. Regular season enforcer, not a playoff contributor. It's fine. Edit: All AHL... don't worry, he won't make the Sabres roster except as a one-game call-up against those scary, scary Panthers. This is strictly protection for Rochester's kids.

Gotta stay quiet because of tampering? Or Adams saw that Allen signed for $1.8M/year and realized he didn't have to spend so much cash as he thought for the palm tree tax.

They did. Misled us simple-minded online-TV watchers. What'd you miss? We traded Eichel...

If I want a path to the ECF -- meaning don't run into Florida or Toronto in the first and/or second round for the 1st three years of my new contract -- I choose Carolina.

As TSN just discussed, you're a playoff team. Your 2026 1st is a lock to be 17 or afterward (or is it?). Offer sheet Byram for 1 year -- Buffalo can't match because if you match you can't trade him for a year (no deadline sweepstakes). That walks him directly to UFA next summer and... he alone is not getting the Sabres to the playoffs... is he? Can Adams take that bet? So... present a contract giveaway trade and a lesser pick. And if Buffalo doesn't like it, you offer sheet Byram. If you're... say... Vegas, you'll figure out a way to make it under the cap by opening day.

Future D-partner to Clifton in the race to McKenna.

He doesn't stink, he can get to 20 goals (in the right setup). Now, would I rather have Ehlers as the LW1 and have Benson on the 2nd? Sure. But I'm not paying Ehlers $10M+ because he's the biggest ticket out there... he's never scored more than 64 points. He's JJP-production with 200' game. That's great, but I'm not paying that much for it. I'd rather have Tuch extended at 9 and Mangiapane at 5 than Ehlers only in 2026-27. Doesn't want to be here. And he's not wrong.

Sign Mangiapane to be LW2, bridge Byram and Timmins. Lock up McLeod, Kozak, and Levi and call it good.