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For this team, nothing would make me happier than a winning streak. Wins are more important than Kevyn getting fired (even if they are not mutual exclusive).

I just don’t want them putting Ellis out there if this team has already quit. He deserves better than that.

Guess it’s not too early for this thread to hold interest.

The issue is Tage doesn’t know any better. He could be that leader, but he developed in this mess and what he sees is normal to him. Same for Dahlin. We need a leader to come from the outside. Preferably with the coach and GM that made him a leader.

Couldn’t agree any more. It doesn’t matter the industry, we’ve all worked for upper management that were clueless or don’t act like they care. It can be incredibly demotivating.

Don’t worry, Kevyn is going to trade for a top 6 winger last summer.

I‘m not in favor of signing Tuch. Get what you can get for him and blow it up. Wipe the slate clean. Let the new HC/GM what to do with Tage and Rasmus. At this rate, I would’ve been better to just waive Cozens with the hope someone else kee would pick up his contract. Now we are stuck with one that’s just as high.

It’s a sign!

This is a real thing in the Corporate world. People who are killing it will get raises, but are usually kept at what they excel at. The ones who suck, get promoted.

It’s not shocking. Good decision.

I wonder why we didn’t just trade for this guy. Seems like a decent prospect, but it’s an all (succeeds in NHL by some miracle) or nothing (sinks because he came up too early, is waived, and goes back to STL) situation. Maybe they didn’t want to hurt Devon’s feelings? Maybe it’s best to give him as much time as possible and we make the decision in the later half of the year. Another wasted season though.

Kasparov got $17M and McJeaus gets $12.5M?

It’s a gripe be can bring to the NFLPA. They are the ones that pushed for guaranteed contracts. The reason he can’t rip up that contact is because it is 100% guaranteed. Players can’t have it both ways. If this was the NFL, that contract would’ve been reworked already.

So, the question becomes, which will come first: the day of alien disclosure by our government or the Sabres making the playoffs?

So basically they are being used as a tool for his agent (and Tuch) to get a better contract.

I hope they give him some time off so he can focus on his problem. There’s no excuse for this and plain stupid, a kid being in the car too makes a bad situation 100x worse.

As long as they don’t get hurt, they can do whatever they want.

Yeah, but we have had excellent/elite play from Dahlin and Tage. I expect this to continue. However, given their already elite play and yet we are still not a playoff team, the push to make it into the playoffs is going to have to come from someone else. So, the question is really, outside of the play we already received last year and the year before, who is going to have to emerge to push us into the playoffs.

I answered Quinn. Could be Norris as well. It needs to be a player that will need to step up his play significantly. I think Quinn is potentially that person.

I’d give them a 3rd.

The problem is signing an older player, even a very good one, with a bad contract to a team who hasn’t made the playoffs in forever is not a sustainable way of producing post-season success. I get why a perennial playoff would do this, because they wouldn’t be depending on this guy to make them a great team over the next 5 years. It would be about the next 1-2 years. We’re nearly up against the cap and not even in any postseason discussions. If they can get Calgary to retain salary, I’d do it solely to try to bring in a guy a winning attitude, never mind what he’d produce on the ice.

It’s large, but next year it will be massive: 25-26: $4.44M 26-27: $6.44M then 3 more years at $2.44M

Quenville certainly knew about what was happening (and didn’t do anything), but he wasn’t the person accused of the act. This isn’t to say Q is a great guy; I wouldn’t want him to run the Sabres. I just don’t feel comfortable with any of these people, guilty or not. This wasn’t something completely fabricated like the Duke lacrosse players. Something happened that night, legal or not, that many of us wouldn’t take part in. Pass.

He was as a jerk? Well, that settles it! Cancel away (I guess).

But Cozens did. It’s just a cleaner comparison to look at the production differential between Cozens and Norris. I still think we benefit more because Norris’s baseline is probably better peak Cozens, with the huge caveat of health.