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I have a brand new, autographed....aw never mind time to heal. :beer:

Rumor I head is that he is interested in TB or Vegas as a no tax states and warm weather. His wife is from Ottawa but she apparently is fond of TB area. From people close to the Lightning. Could be self serving but it makes sense.

Derek Roy

maybe puts a new spin on Eichel's "just happy to be here" comment. I'll hang up and listen.

This is a reasonable take. The downside to that strategy is the lack of spots for the younger players to grab. You can have so many players on the NHL roster. If Asplund or Olofson are ready, what do we do with Pommers, Berglund etc. Waiting for the contracts to expire also has a cost.

No you probably can’t. The issue I have with the trade and more deeply the Sabres is more rooted in the people being hired to run the show. There seems to be a common theme at both the bills and sabres about having the right people. That may be fine in other endeavors but sport is largely about talent. Some times the most talented aren’t the best people. The deadline to trade ROR was largely artificial. They could have waited a day and other teams who may not have the cash resources could have been brought into play. But the focus should have been on the return. It didn’t need to be the Lindros trade, having watched Berglund and Sobotka get caved for the last 4 years doesn’t seem to be a return that helps us get out of the basement. I am tired of rooting for the draft at Thanksgiving.

See above.

They do. Phone running out of juice couldn’t scroll back to the top.

You lost any credibility with your first sentence. ROR ‘s cap hit is the same for the league year. The bonus meant he arned it all in one day. It didn’t double.

There is no reason we have tomwait for tomorrow. None at all. Good managment doesn’t wait they do everything they can to be competitive in the moment. Dahlin isn’t tomorrow he is here today. Same with Casey. Make the team, talent wise better today. That is Bobbleheads job. I will hope that more trades are coming. Flip these picksmto TB for Johnson or to Ott for Stone but there is no reason we should be setting the bar low today. That ship has sailed.

Based on what? This the weirdest take on this whole trade. The issue isn’t who is the problem the issue is the solution didn’t make the team better. Say it was Jack and they traded him for this “haul”. Is the team better? No. GM Bobblehead didn’t get assets back to make this team better today. Maybe he trades picks or whatever or gets lucky in the draft. Great. But trading an asset like ROR should get back quality not quantity. Winnipeg is looking for a center, what about Ehlers straight up? That helps us today. The only thing I am certain of in this deal,is that Bobblehead felt he had to move him. Why? I have no idea. And frankly I don’t care. But to panic because of some facetious deadline about the bonus and garner a return that doesn’t help today is ludicrous. If ROR orchestrated this, then even less reason to accomodate him. Sakic waited out he market on Duchesne and got twice the haul as part of the solution.

I probably did, but it didn’t have to be rushed and for amcrap return. Pegula could afford the 7.5 to do it right and get something valuable in return. Look at how much unproductive cap,we are carrying for the next 4 years. Banner day at the Bender household.

And since when has daddy warbucks cared about 7.5 mil? The ask goes up sure. But what was the freaking hurry? Make that payment and Az, Car and maybe even SJ and Ana become suitors. Certainly the Isles would have joined in the fray and there is the smoking wreck in Ott. If ROR had to be moved don’t use the facetious payment timeline as an excuse for this skow of garbage in return.

If it,wasmThomas or Kyrou or Dunn it would have at least given them something tonuse this year, to you know try and win. On a day when the path through the division became the QEW, we traded our AKs for flintlocks.

Yes more cap dumps. Love me some cap dumps. Yummy. Hey how about Seabrooke he signed through the next millenium?

Thompson is a pylon. Good hands and shot but slow. Berglund and Sobodtka saw there best days in the first Obama administration. The only value or should I say risk to St Louis was the potential of losing a lottery pick. Otherwise we gifted them a 60 pt center.

I get that sentiment. It would have been much moremreassuring if that message was accompanied by a piecemthatnwas going to help get them overmthe hump insteadmof creating a bigger hole. Kane and Ror production is a gaping hole to fill.

Lead whom? The husk of Pominville? The corpse of Bogo? Hunwick? Larrson? Stop me when I get to someone worth leading. Casey will be thrown to the wolves. Dahlin too. We have seen this show before. And not one valuable piece coming back. And to top it off he agreed to top 10 protection? That would have been the only thing to makemthis palatable, i.e. the Blues winning the Hughes sweepstakes and having to hand it over.

GM Bobblehead is the laughingstock of the NHL. I wasn’t a fan of his hire, but I had to give him a chance. He blew it. Doing nothing to help the roster during the season helped create the locker room dysfunction. The team saw no help come in the door from waiver moves or otherwise. Taking on cap dumps in Pominville Hunwick and now Sobotdka and berglund without adding any quality propspect is unconscionable. I don’t care if ROR was the second coming of Jack,the Ripper, he was our Jack the Ripper and worth a hell of a lot more. But there is a bigger issue and that is why this ninny was hired in the first place and the two people who hired him did so. This idea of Pegula type people is why Bobblehead is here instead of a seasoned NHL GM. They like certain traits that do not have anything to do with building a winning hockey team. I was never a fan of the original trade for ROR not because he was a bad player but because I thought it was a hastily thought out way to accelerate a rebuild that was gonna take time. A timing issue and created unreasonable expectations on the timeline. But the timing of this is worse. He just told Jack, Sam Casey and Dahlin that your time is not now. Wait three to five years. I have not felt this angry at Sabres management since the Drury Briere fiasco. This sucks.

Well said.

Don’t forget Kadri and they have a good d in Reilly and Liljegren and and Sandin will be serviceable. The Atlantic now goes through TO, no doubt.

A nothing injury today, in lightbofnthe med tech we have. Couturier is a beast.

Less they have Couturier, a ROR clone and younger

I was wondering who would step into the breach and shoukd have never wondered at all.

Let's hope so. I share your disdain but the Flyers are putting together quite the roster. Courtouier (sic) is quite the player. I hope JVR is the poison pill that kills them. Ps. Hope all is well.