Curt

Kevyn Adams was an NHL player for a decade and won a Stanley Cup. I think it’s a little silly to suggest he is clueless about how pro teams come about have a specific culture. Im sure he also knows better than us what time and space he has been given to do with the team what he will. Also, what is the difference between creating a culture, and developing a culture?

I was asking the guy who said that Power’s improvement was exceptional.

I do understand the context of the league he played in. What do you think he improved on most throughout the season?

Of the players who are currently part of the organization, Arttu Routsalainen will score the most goals for the Sabres in 2021-22.

I said the one with IMPRESSIVE plays. I’m just fooling around, but seriously it’s not particularly impressive, and there are a couple plays in there that I would actually consider bad plays. It does do a decent job of showcasing the best facet of Power’s game, his transition offense.

I have one simple question. Where is the Owen Power highlight package filled with impressive plays?

If the Sabres acquire another 1st round pick, it would be a good idea to draft a goalie. Wallstedt or Cossa.

And a top goalie named Wallstadt

I was searching for something like this. Yours is better than anything I would have come up with.

I doubt that very much. This is just a move to help the team out. Seattle isn’t taking him and Skinner seems to want to stay close to home very much. Maybe you were just joking around though.

We are going to ***** around and find out.

Just a little glitch while the Matrix was running an update.

If they have a deal in place for Seattle to take Miller, why go through this public spectacle of Skinner waiving his NMC?

I don’t know about Aaron Rodgers. I’m not trying to tell you that Eichel is going to dog it or act like a total jerk. He loves playing hockey and he will probably do his best. However, when someone is in a situation/job that they seriously don’t want to be in, it affects them. It affects the level of enthusiasm they are able to muster up, and it’s usually noticed by and affects those around them. Even if Eichel isn’t actively trying to be a problem, his unhappiness will show. They guys are human just like everyone else. On top of that, it’s not just Eichel being unhappy, the team is actively trying to trade him. The other players all know that. Next season Eichel is going to be like a dead man walking in the locker room. All the other guys will look at their captain and know that he is probably gone soon. It takes away from everyone having the feeling that they are all in it together and in the moment. All the talk will be about Eichel and when is he going to get traded. It will be a distraction, even if Eichel is doing his best. That’s my view on it.

You asked me why I personally believe that Eichel wants out of Buffalo, and proceeded to do a pretty good job of laying out the reasons that he may want out of Buffalo. Everyone has a “breaking point”. Between the repeated failure 6 times over, the repeated management changes, the disagreements over handling of his injury, and Kevy Adams shopping him on the trade market, I believe that Eichel has surpassed his breaking point regarding his relationship with the Sabres. I don’t agree that it’s an impossibility that having a disgruntled captain, best player, and face of the franchise on the roster could negatively affect his own play, or the play/moral or his teammates. To dismiss this concern as nonsense, is foolish, or even naive. Have you never worked with someone who was not happy to be there?

Did you intend to reply to me? This post doesn’t seem to be addressing the things I wrote. I mostly agree with the things you wrote. I believe that Eichel is beyond disgruntled and actively wants out of Buffalo.

This has got to mean separate offers for both Jack and Sam, as opposed to one offer to acquire both, right?

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Basically. It saves them a bunch on the cap next season, then saves them only a little for the following 3 years, then cost them a little for a few years after that.

Why is it impossible now? Or less likely than before the buyouts? They just opened up a lot of cap space for 2021-22.

So, you are using future tense. I believe that we have run out of future tense and are now in present tense. How long can you say that he will want out soon if this keeps up? I think we got there, we’ve past that point, Its not that Eichel may theoretically want out at some point in the future, he already wants out. Thats just what I believe.

Houser isn’t signed. He’s a free agent.

Tokarski should be ahead of him on the depth chart. When they last needed a goaltender, they turned to Tokarski before UPL.

Hasn’t Rask already made it public that it’s Boston or retirement for him? Pekka Rinna is bad, and might be retiring too. Kevin Dubnyk! the goalie so good that you don’t know his name. He has been bad the past two seasons. Frederick Anderson has not been too good in a couple years. I think you are giving guys too much credit for their past reputations and not looking at how they have actually played the past couple years. I would take Ullmark over any of them, excluding Rask.

They come for the AC.