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1 minute ago, That Aud Smell said:
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Yep.
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That's good news.
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11 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:
Doubtful. I think Doan stays in Buffalo.
Doan and Zucker are going to wind up in the top six. Along with a occasional appearance by Greenway, when he's not injured.
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6 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:
Shorter skater, but he would have ranked 4th among Sabres forwards in hits last season (Malenstyn, Cozens, Krebs).
A lot of players would have ranked 4th among Sabres forwards in hits last season. A day one signing for a guy who will barely average 9 minutes a game.
Can't wait for the behind the scenes video of Adams' draft day. I'll bet he takes 2 hours trying to figure out his lunch order.
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Just now, Porous Five Hole said:
Weird cuz Kozak just signed a new three year contract.
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2 minutes ago, dudacek said:
The Sabres have more than $20M in cap space and only Bo to sign.
Only thing preventing them from matching an offer is themselves.
If they’re trading him, they are getting at least a 1st, 2nd and 3rd back in relative value.
Adams still doesn't know where Byram fits. He still can't figure out what Dahlin's partner needs to be.
If Bryam is Dahlin's partner, you sign him to a multi-year contract, and even over pay a little to nail down your first pairing.
If he's not Dahlin's partner, you trade him, because he's a potential 1st pairing guy that you don't need.
It's that f'n simple. You have the money. He's willing to be here. But you're too stupid to know what a partner for Dahlin, your franchise player, needs to be. So you fart around until you lose all leverage.
Adams is just the worst.
Somebody call up that television producer to get his take.
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1 minute ago, Mr. MVP said:
Ahhhh. This could be so big if we get this right or wrong. He’s an important asset. Adams has to get this right.
It's like watching a monkey try to perform brain surgery.
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1 minute ago, Brawndo said:
It would be hysterical if Bryam gets an offer sheet.
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Just now, The Jokeman said:
Gotta build Rochester first, makes perfect sense :eyeroll:
And you have to wrap up Rathbone early. He's not going to last long on the market.
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9 hours ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
That's going to save Terry a bunch of money in jersey lettering.
He only had to buy one vowel with Mrtka.
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Noah Body.
Just kidding. Rust. He seems in Adams wheelhouse.
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6 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:
I always forget about Zucker. Maybe starts as the 2LW and Quinn on the third line.
Then you forgot Quinn. 😉
(Sorry, the Sabres institutuional mediocrity is making slap happy.)
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3 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:
Third and fourth lines are getting kind of crowded. Greenway, McLeod, Benson, Malenstyn, Krebs, Doan, Lafferty, plus Kozak.
You forgot Zucker. 75% of the fowards are 3rd or 4th liners.
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55 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:
I heard on this board we were doing something HARD to Marner tomorrow 🪖
A pass. We're giving Marner a HARD PASS.
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8 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:
Probably because teams want to control the development of top prospects.
"Spend to the cap!"
"Not like that!"
Well, yeah, "not like that." Who's happy that Samuelsson's contract gets the Sabres close to the cap? It's a waste of resources.
Spending unwisely is just as bad as an internal cap because both prevent a team from acquring talent that can help a team win.
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1 hour ago, aristocrat said:
Byfield would be great but the kings just extended him last year so doesn’t make sense at all unless we give up a lot.
There's no way that rumor is true. If Adams pulled that off I might have to start saying nice things about him.
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They might be better, but they are not a playoff team.
Adams needs to show some out-of-character competency this week to make this season something more than another colossal waste of time for the franchise.
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Just now, Weave said:
And not related to Gilles Meloche
Good thing. Gilles has the 3rd most losses and 4th worst goals-allowed in NHL history.
Nobody needs that bad voodoo hanging on him.
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It looks like his ceiling is Jay McKee. That's not bad.
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6 hours ago, dudacek said:
Interesting theory, although it seems it would have clearly involved tampering of some sort.
I would imagine prospect-loaded Utah would have rather given up the picks, so I guess in your scenario Adams would have used the threat to match as leverage in order to get what he wanted, which reports seem to indicate was very clearly Kesselring?
This type of tampering would be necessary because the trade wouldn't have gone through if Peterka didn't agree to sign with Utah. So they had to agree to terms, which look a lot like offer sheet terms, which Peterka probably preferred.
And Utah was probably willing to give up the prospects, because if they waited until July 1st, more teams could jump into the bidding war for Peterka. So, knowing Adams preferred players over picks, they were able to shut other teams out of the Peterka derby with a trade.
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37 minutes ago, dudacek said:
Not enough has been made about Peterka being a UFA at 28. They're looking at the AAV and ignoring the term.
2nd contract players who get paid 1st-line money get that money for giving up UFA years on the principle that UFA years are worth more.
For example, JJ's new teammate Clayton Keller gave away 4 UFA years in order to sign a $7.1M AAV deal. Nick Suzuki gave away 4 to sign a $7.8M deal. Lucas Raymond, same deal for $8M.
JJ gave up just 1 and still got $7.7.
The deal is based on an offer sheet. Offer sheets usually max out at five years. You can't spread the money out more than 5 years on an offer sheet.
Armstrong probably let Adams and Peterka's agent know he was going to offer sheet Peterka. He let Adams know the number and Adams didn't want to pay , and didnt want the the draft pick compensation, so they figured out a trade.
After the trade, Utah still had to sign Peterka, so Peterka's agent probably held them to the offer sheet numbers. Peterka could have refused to sign a longer term contract, and would have still been open to offer sheets from other teams.
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7 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:
If Kesselring brings some physicality to the Power pairing that’s a plus. Maybe power will grow some balls too if he sees his partner being a man.
At this point, we don't even know if Kesselring can handle top 4 minutes.
And that's why this deal kind-of sucks. It's a production vs projection deal, and Adams was on the wrong side of it (because he claims he's in win now mode).
If Kesselring craps out of a top 4 role (like Clifton did), we're looking at a giant bust of a deal.
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Like the players, but hate the trade for so many reasons.
Pretty much par for the course for the Adams reign-of-error.
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Just now, K-9 said:
Not sure, but I think I detect a note or two of truculence in this thread.
Sabres Development Camp June 30th Harbor Center
in The Aud Club
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Hopefully someone photographs Mrtka standing next to the shortest guy at camp. Those are always fun...