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It’s really just difference of opinion on his value. I had it at about a 2nd and a sweetener (3rd or something), maybe a conditional 1st if lucky. I just hope Bjork looks good. Feed him whatever they’re feeding the other young guys.

No, I’m serious. If you were the Bruins GM, would you have traded your 1st for Hall? You wanted Hall kept? And resigned?

Too bad Adams wasn’t trading Hall to you then.

In the lead up to the trade deadline did most “experts” think Buffalo would definitely get a 1st for Hall? Is that what they pegged his value at?

Come on. If you don’t know iyer prashanth’s trade machine, then you don’t know nothing.

That was a nice season, but it’s not this season.

I don’t know enough about Bjork to make a judgment.

Congrats on the trifecta. GMs value players with playoff experience and leadership and reputation. Hall doesn’t have that.

What in the name of heaven and earth are you talking about?

Hall played mostly like poop. He has no record of being a playoff performer or a leader. He is very expensive. Considering everything I just wrote, I was kind of skeptical they could get a 1st for him. Including Lazar makes this weird, but if it wasn’t for that, the trade is about what I thought.

Is it even possible that there is not salary retention? Boston has that much cap space?

No. It’s not.

He seems like a Bruin. I wish people said he seems like a Sabre.

Apparently they just acquired Jeff Carter. May mean they are out on Hall.

What do you mean by “not a peep”. There have been lots o’ peeps.

Yeah, these are valid viewpoints. It’s a tough choice.

I think you mean, Could be very likely that’s a possibly very accurate take.

Could be either. If the buyer is sending the incentive piece to the salary dump team, that probably lowers what they send to the seller. If it’s the seller incentivizing, that probably increases what they get from the buyer. In theory.

Technically I would say that Hutton being awful messed that up. No way Seattle was going to pick him as bad as he was last season.

Hamilton has no information. He just read the same tweet that we did.

I know it’s strange to say, but I don’t really feel anything near this level of dislike for the Leafs. In my Sabres fandom, the two teams have never been good at the same time.

Sadly, I agree. That sucks.

I’ve gotten slightly weary of Dreger, because it seems like he regurgitates info with an agenda fed to him a by agents and such little too often. That could absolutely just be me though.

(1) If Dreger is correct. (2) Unless Toronto was one of those 3. Then there are 2.

Ok. So how many teams are left on Hall? If the number drops to 1, that kind of hurts negotiating leverage doesn’t it.