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Good riddance Most overpaid, under qualified piece of on planet Earth Not sure what news is better, franchise QB, Dahlin or Brandon being out

This might sound like sour grapes coming from a frustrated Sabres fan, and maybe it is, but, Vegas winning proves the NHL is a f**ed up league. The expansion rules were way too favorable for them. They got the best of both worlds, a mixture of youth and experience without the headaches all teams deal with regarding the cap and timing of talent in a tight window. Reminds me of a quote from Jurassic Park: 'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox" Vegas never had to build anything, develop anything, overcome anything; they simply showed up, went shopping and were given a team that had talent to win. I give them credit for coaching the team, but, if you ask me, the NHL fast forwarded this franchise 5 years+ to the detriment of the integrity and grit required by other teams to become successful. It would be a colossal mistake to repeat this with Seattle, but, I'm confident the NHL will Oh, any while I'm telling the kids to get off my lawn, they are also training their fan base to take winning for granted, when we all know franchises ebb and flow -- let's see the commitment in the fan base with years of losing. Yes, I know, sour grapes

Only metric against Buffalo is size. Otherwise, it's in the Top 5 in NHL.

F. With the possibility of a D if somehow his three draft classes pan out.

+1 Of course Atlanta has 5X the number of people and about 100X the amount of money. With that said, most of these are "easy" to do, at least, you think they would be. I was back visiting family and went to a couple of games, it's depressing. At a minimum do #4 and #5 Oh, and FIX THE DAMN TEAM !!!!!!

The tank didn't fail, GMTM failed. In his attempt to accelerate the rebuild, he has in affect extended it, and quite possibly ruined it.

I did say "at this point". His ppg ranks outside the top 100 and his salary ranks inside the top 60, so, he's under-performing based on what he's being paid. Yes, the team around him sucks and he's dealt with injuries, but bottom line is bottom line. I also can think of several more egregious GMTM decisions pretty quickly, so, I won't die on my sword on this one

The list of GMTM mistakes grows longer by the day ! At this point, Okposo is on that list, too The Moulson signing was wrong on many levels, term too high, his value peaked in a year we wanted to tank

There was that practice a month or so ago when Falk screamed at him saying he was "selfish" I agree, other than that, the rest of so-called issues the past 1 1/2 years have been unsubstantiated rumors --- unless, of course, teams did homework and found out there was something else out there

The more I think of this the situation, the more I'm convinced Kane's reputation tanked (pun intended) his value. I am really curious what type of FA contract he ends up with, especially as it relates to TERM. I can see him getting a 1 year deal.

Overwhelming consensus is that Buffalo was big loser at deadline. We can debate who to blame, J Bot, GMTM, Kane, racism etc. etc. It is what it is. We got very few assets for the pending UFA's on the team and for a fan base that has suffered over the past several years this only serves to further dampen the faint glimmer of hope. It's depressing. Not hopeless, but certainly not encouraging.

I think if you list all the assets that were moved today and what they yielded in return, objectively you'd say Buffalo got very little It's completely fair to raise the issue of WHY Was it J BOT making a bad deal or was that the only deal out there The committee in defense of this trade can only point to one reason, wait and see --- however, at this time, with the information we have in front of us, it's a bad deal No Buffalo sports figure deserves the benefit of doubt anymore --- we all collectively gave it to GMTM and got burned, let's have J BOT EARN trust

No, if this was the best deal out there, from my perspective something is always better than nothing. My issue, is, I have to think J Bot had a better deal a month or 2 ago and waited hoping to get something even better and it cost him -- or he hoped that waiting for the first trade of deadline (i.e. Nash) would set a higher bar --- In the end, we got what we got, but in the end, San Jose gave up very little for a legit Top 6 rental

How would everyone feel if J Bot said, "I didn't trade Kane because the best offer I could get wasn't good enough and that offer was a conditional 1st in 2019 if team resigns him, a 4th in 2020 and a 3rd or 4th line center" ?

J Bot set the expectations to the fan base when he said a 1st, a prospect and a player and I should have known better ? Suffice it to say, when dealing with Buffalo sports team, LOWER your expectations, WAIT until next year and above all else DRINK HEAVILY !!

I'm trying to see it that way, praying I'm wrong, help me out, how is this a good trade ?

Interesting that SJ didn't propose a contract as part of trade and then a condition of trade is they must sign him to give up a 1st --- I'll bet 99% chance Kane is rental and signs elsewhere Hate this trade There had to be more value out there, if not today, month ago Rookie GM gets played I can't see it any other way

Supposedly teams are asking about ROR -- based on the value JBot got for Kane -- please, NO !!!!!!!!

How does this apparent lack of value for Kane at deadline translate into his free agency prospects ? Sounds to me like he might be had on the cheap

In end, I think Kane's locker UGH ! This sucks

Done. Details coming Go to Bob McKenzie twitter feed -- he's got it

San Jose closing in on deal for Kane per McKenzie

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Might walk quietly, but, I heard he can slam a mean door

Calgary or Carolina