Curt

Quinn Hughes is not the same age or in the same age year. He is 20 and in his age 20 season.

He is a 19 year old defenseman. How many 19 year old defenseman are even in the NHL? How many are the highest scoring D on their team? Is there even any D in the NHL who was better at 19 than Dahlin is now?

Oh, I wouldn’t be so positive about Hutton. It’s possible that you are right, but he has a history of decent performance as a backup and GM’s are going to looking at more than just this season. He isn’t making too much for someone to take shot on him as their backup for a year. And I think there is no way that they waive Hutton. There is too much respect for him.

I’ll Play. UFAs Forwards Frolik - gone Sheary - gone Vesey - gone Girgensons - gone Sobotka - gone. Larsson - sign for 2-3 yrs @ $2-2.5M Wilson - gone or signed for Roch UFA - Defense and Goalies Nelson - gone or signed for Roch Gilmour - gone or signed for Roch Hammond - gone - UPL to the AHL next year RFA’s Forwards ERod - gone Lazar - gone or signed for Roch Thompson - 2-3 years @ $1-1.25 2-way Mittelstadt - 2-3 years @ $1-1.25 2-way Olofsson - 4-6 years @ $4.5-5.5M Reinhart - 5-8 years $6.5-7.5M RFAs Defense and Goalies Pilut - 2-3 yrs @ $1.25-1.5M 2-way Montour - 4-6 yrs @ $5-6M Johansson - 2-3 yrs @ $1-1.25M 2-way Ullmark - 2-3 yrs @ $1.5-2M, all depends on if Mike Bales likes him. Goalie situation: I actually trust Bales to make decisions about the goaltending position and who should be acquired from outside. I think Hutton is going to be moved and someone new brought in to share time with Ullmark. Where we disagree most is: Larsson - The results ARE there for him. When he is out there Buffalo gets more shots and goals than the opposition. I think he definitely should and will be retained. Olofsson - He is a top-6 sniper. He is going to command more than $4M, I think, especially on a longer term deal. Why screw around with bridging him. Lock him up! Reinhart - I don’t know exactly how management feels about him, but I would sign him long term and I think that would cost $6.5M+.

It takes 2 to one-time.

Reinhart’s shot has been consistently improving year over year. He is getting to the point where it may actually be above average. When he came into the league it was pretty weak.

Thanks for the correction. I knew Sudbury was loading up for the playoffs, I thought their record was a bit better though. My bad.

Please. All those middle 6 guys. Sheary, Vesey, Frolik, Asplund, Larsson, Okposo would be All Star level or close to it in the AHL. Johansson would be like AHL MVP or something. Guys like Matt Moulson, Nathan Gerbe, Chris Terry are top AHL players.

You could be right. I’m thinking like a Alex Keerfoot/Jean-Gabriel Pageau type of player as his ceiling. We probably wont know until he gets an extended look in the NHL. He is already putting up around a point per game in a league nearly the quality of the AHL at age 22.

Vancouver is in the middle of a 5 game road trip. They have been out scored 14-4 in the first 2 games. Im predicting a 3-1 Sabre’s win this afternoon. Goals by Okposo, Reinhart and Ike with the EN.

Why do you think that? He seems to be quite a versatile player.

This is kind of my view. Buffalo hasn’t done bad at finding NHL players. It’s not that they’ve drafted a bunch of guys who flamed out. It’s that they have done a bad job of drafting/acquiring impact players. Not enough guys who have developed into high end players.

Probably like a 3rd liner who plays a solid 2 way game and can chip in a little scoring, ~15 goals/30-35 pts, despite being undersized. That’s my expectation.

Nah. Possibly a few games in the AHL at the end of the season though. 5 assists in one game is pretty impressive, but he is playing on a line with Quinton Byfield, the probable #2 player in the upcoming draft, and Sudbury is a very good team. Pekar is probably going to put up crazy numbers the rest of the season.

Bonino I would say is more of a high end 3C. He is having a career year, points wise. Henrique I would call a decent 2C. I mean, he scores 20-25 goals every season. What’s that? A 3rd/4th liner?

I think they need to add 2 top-6 forwards. One of which being a solid 2C.

Why do you think that Pageau could get a deal like that. I think there is absolutely no way. He is getting used like a 1st line C right now and he is going to put up like a 55 pt season with solid defense. If he goes back to being a #3 or middle 6 C he is going to be putting up 30-40 points w solid D just as he has for years now and making $6M??? Between the two, give me Granlund.

Yes and yes

This would be a tragedy.

They already did this in the year 2014ish. They ditched everyone who was any good. Do you think perhaps it’s difficult to build a culture of winning, hard work and effort while loosing tons of games because the team has no talent? Also, you in particular keep flopping back and forth on this. When they win you say they put forth good effort, when they lose you say they don’t try hard and everything needs to be blown up. I think the more likely explanation is that St Louis is a very good team and Buffalo can not match them on a player by player level.

Never saw it. I’d recommend the book though.

You missed the joke. Went right over your head. 1984

Lol, Duck! That one almost took your hat off!

I’ve got none on hand. I’ve seen it written about before though. If I come across anything I’ll try to remember to send it your way.

This thread is for trade RUMORS and SPECULATION. Rumors are often not true or don’t come to pass.’ Speculation is literally just made up stuff. With this in mind, the content of this thread should not surprise.