Derrico

Nice D falls to us? I’m not opposed going D again (I realize this is unpopular opinion).

Right?! Doesn’t even smile for the pic!

How do u feel about that? Personally don’t love the sound of Lekkerimaki but who knows….

Happy bday to our Yanks south of the boarder. Considering what’s happening in other parts of the world, couldn’t ask for better friends and neighbours.

I sure hope so. Then again we’ve been hoping Adam’s can accomplish this for the third straight offseason now…

@dudacekhas already convinced me I’ll be fine if Sabres take him at 9.

Maybe but that’s putting a ton of faith in a guy who is unsigned and never played in an nhl game before…..

Nope. Sabres have catered to individual players before and it’s blown up in their face. Sabres come first. If Levi and Portillo are threatened by someone already in the organization they’re not who I thought they were anyways.

I know we have quite a few fellow Canuck’s that frequent this site. A big Happy Canada Day to you all!!

The amount of times I had to watch Aaron Dell…..Was that not evidence enough?!?!

It ***** better be

Meh, it’s June. To me this shows Sabres fans still have energy to talk about a minor move for a team that has been a shitshow for a decade straight. Gives me optimism for what our gdt May look like next season 😉

Nobody is advocating for artificially ensuring Quinn/Peterka stay in the minors (or even give out long term ufa deals with respect to your albatross comment) and absolutely nobody is advocating for trading the young core for high priced players just to ensure they get to the cap floor lol. Option 1 (no it doesn’t have to be Mezeros level and nice name dropping exGMTM just so anyone on the fence will think it’s now a terrible idea). There are vet FA or other guys who actually play hockey you could trade a very low level draft pick for that may even contribute off the ice for some of these young guys as well. I enjoy reading your posts more than maybe anyone else on here but your comment ‘in return….and an insurance policy against falling under the cap floor’ is very non-Dudacek. The Buffalo Sabres will be just fine reaching the cap floor. Zero insurance policies are needed. Again, I don’t really care that much about this deal, my main point is simply that it is easy to reach the cap floor and the Sabres do not need any insurance policies or whatever to get there. There are many avenues and several of them involve acquiring players that will be around the team and helping on and off the ice. My preference is to either sign a couple of vets on short deals (I’ve already provided my best potential examples in this thread) and think it is very realistic that it could happen (I don’t understand all of this because Buffalo mentality). Or, considering there are loads of cap teams looking to offload a guy that may not be living up to his cap hit, should be extremely cheap or may even be able to pick up an asset for a guy who can actually contribute. If zona can manage to reach the cap floor every year, I think Buff can find a way without trading for dudes who don’t even play in the nhl anymore.

PK Subban, MA Fleury, Palat? Stastny have anything left on a short term deal? Trade candidates?

I’d sign up for that

If you want a specific name I heard Marty on the instigators talking about paying pk Suban big money on a short term deal. Right hand shot, could mentor power, showed he had something left last year, from all accounts his brother was treated well. I don’t hate that idea. Again, if he was willing to take a 2, maybe 3 year deal at a much higher avv. There are so many names of guys that could actually help this team. Especially with Tuch now in the fold (everything I’ve read is he’s well respected in the league), plus trajectory of this team from March on, I refuse to believe we won’t be able to reach the cap floor because of A lack of free agents who would sign here. I fully understand the need to save money a few years down the road to hopefully pay this good young core. I’m not advocating huge long term free agent deals. Im mearly saying the Sabres would have zero problem hitting the cap floor even if not for this deal.

I really don’t understand this ‘nobody will sign in Buffalo’ mentality. Yes, the team has been crap for awhile but I’m sure some noticed around the league the finish to the season the team had. I’m sure there are others seeing the signs of a pretty good core developing. Not to mention the Sabres have all the room to overpay a little. The Buffalo Sabres and any other team will have zero difficulty in reaching the cap floor.

Love it when anyone comments about how important it is to get to the cap floor. It’s very very easy for a team to hit the floor. You sign some dudes. This trade is a whatever but in no way did the Sabres have to make this move. To even suggest it has an importance to the Sabres in anyway to get to the cap floor is comical.

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Hope the return is decent. Adding salary cap space should be expensive.

Wasn't he the fighter pilot? Or am I thinking of Billy Bishop?

Agreed. I don’t want to hear their excuses. We better not be going with Anderson/UPL this coming season. Get an nhl calibre goalie in here to really see what this new core can do. It’s too important. I don’t want excuses, I want management that will get it done.

Thanks as always for your insight Brawndo! To the first point it’s about friggen time! We have some highly respected analytics guys over seeing the process. They are needed more then ever to keep the momentum of this rebuild going. to the second point. Barf. I’m with you on PLD and agree that a stud who fits the timeline would be a huge add. But not at the expense of depleting all of our organizational depth that we have finally started building.

Barf

Agreed they should stay the course and no quick fixes. Im only saying that the team improving should be the expectation and it shouldn’t take a 5 year plan. Let’s hope KA can find us a goalie and we take the next step. I’m not saying contender but year 3 under KA it’s time to be in the playoff hunt late in the season.