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They are trading the wrong player, but they couldn’t keep both Power and Byram. Oh well. Now what can we get for him?

That’s the million $ question isn’t it. Is it because he thinks he knows something about hockey? It is because the NFL guarantees him a profit so he can afford to be more hands off? It is because the NHL lead him down the incorrect path to start and he feels the need to go it alone? No idea. I just know he has run this franchise into the ground.

Your question was too limiting. No one knows what the value of the pick is until you see what the offers are. However, the Sabres need to re-think how they do everything and that includes piling up picks and prospects like cord wood. Adams traded former 9th overall pick Matt Savoie for McLeod and McLeod turned out to be a solid two way middle six center with more offensive upside than he was given credit for. If we can get a middle six center for a former 9th pick, is it to far our of the realm of possibility that we could get a solid stay at home D to pair with Power?

Sure why not.

To answer my OP question, I’m just about done. If they don’t make major moves to fix the roster and management, I’m done.

Rigged against Buffalo

Because he does what Terry tells him to do. This is the classic yes man. Competency doesn’t matter.

Because we need change. We can't just keep doing what we have been doing and expect a different result. Any player we draft 9th isn't making an impact in the NHL for at least 2-3 years. That's a useless asset as far as I'm concerned. Find a cap strapped team with a crappy talent pool and trade them the 9th pick for an NHL player that helps us make the Sabres better. If they 9th pick isn't enough to get the right player, than add other assets, but get something done.

Package the pick with Byram and get some NHL assets like a goalie and top 4 D. If we end up taking someone, get the Bear or trade up to get Martone.

G-d I hate being right. NHL rigged as usual.

There is also evidence that he’s terrible defensively and may never be good defensively.

At least he’s close to NHL ready.

That's a stupid contract.

Sovereignty, the horse that won the Derby, also has triple crown winners Seattle Slew and Affirmed. Of course, for racing fans, he also has Mr. Prospector in his line.

By the way, all the horses in the Derby field are descendants from this horse.

Being on the infield for the Derby is a bucket list thing. It's like sitting in the bleachers at Wrigley or being in Assembly Hall (or Rupp Arena or Cameron) for a college basketball game.

It was rigged. With the 9th pick in the draft, the Buffalo Sabres select......

Two more concerts going this summer. Goo Goo Dolls for the 4th time and Simple Minds for the 1st time. Alison Krauss was great until sadly the rain came and washed away the 2nd half of our show.

Power played a fair amount with Dahlin last season. It was the Sabres 10th most common D pairing (out of 40) during the season and Power's 4th most frequent partner. They were good together (not surprising), but Power was lousy with everyone else until JBD.

Is it at State Farm?

It is with Jerry Douglas and Union Station. I’ve seen them before with Tony Rice. Also have seen Alison with Robert Plant. She’s great.

Heading to Allison Krauss tonight. Then off to see a Cure cover band tomorrow in Athens gA

What is #3 $. The Athletic said he gave us $5.3 mill worth of value last season. They gave Power a $4.7 mill valuation. Cap wages estimates 7 years at 7.277 for Byram. That is a non-starter for me if the Sabres retain Power. I do agree we need 3 new defensemen in our top 6. Dahlin, JBD and one of Power or Byram, plus 3 new guys who can actually player defense or are accomplished two way players like an Orlov or Gavrikov.

I’ll be honest and say I’m not enamored with either player. Since I know the Sabres are keeping one of the two, I’d prefer Byram because he does play with some physicality, and unlike Power, he does make an effort on defense. Still the stats are what they are and they show that neither player is very good defensively away from Dahlin. I also believe that if we’d get more value and save more cap $ if we trade Power. I know this is not a popular opinion, but such is life. PS you did say you want to bring both Byram and Power back next year in your proposal earlier in this thread. I just don’t think it makes sense with the $ required to re-sign Byram.

The redundancy is Byram to Power or Power to Byram. We need two offensive D, not 3. We have Dahlin as No. 1. The Sabres need to make a choice of Power or Byram, not both. From your list, I haven’t studied the in zone D play of most of those guys. I can say that Hughes is not a good in zone defender and Karlsson has never been good defensively. Those two for sure would be redundant in Buffalo if they were our 3rd puck moving D and we needed to pay them $7 mill to stay. By way Clifton/Byram xGF was 44%. Having a GF of 53% in 15 games seems more like luck. The pairing had 11 GF vs 10 against, but was demolished in scoring chances (42%) and HDC (42.35%). To put those numbers in context, that pairing allowed 116 scoring chances in 15 games while only creating 84 for the Sabres. The high danger chances were just as bad; HDCF 36 vs HDCA 49. Looks to like Reimer often bailed then out.