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Would we be "selling high" though? or does he still have even more upside? I'm not sure, but I think he can still be better. Not sure he can do that in this system as a Sabre but I'm not sure he's peaked yet either. I personally want the make up of this roster altered but I also know I'm unlikely to get that.

Well here's the problem. If you trade away every player who says they aren't happy here you end up with a lot of players saying they aren't happy here so they can be traded. It's a precedent. It's the never ending downward spiral and it has already been said that we have become the league's farm team. I don't know if there's a way out of it with constant half measures. I want to add to this roster not subtract from it. If I can upgrade sure, but trade away to trade away no, that's not progress.

Not everybody is going to believe what I believe. I think Ottawa likely felt that way but Adams didn't. Maybe there's others who feel he's worth the gamble. idk.

In the pre cap era there were always a few teams that spent way more than others. Only one team won the cup just like now and it was rarely the biggest spending team. So in many ways it's still the same as it was. You want true equity you 1) base the cap on after tax salary 2) you can allow players to come off LTIR and be on the expanded roster but the on ice team has to remain cap compliant. So if a team like Vegas wanted a Pieterangelo off LTIR they'd have to sit somebody else or dress less players. Their choice. It's a simple fix. league don't care though. They like favored markets and big markets winning.

I really badly want Norris traded because I simply do not believe in his health and his ability to stay healthy. Demko has said he wants to stay in Vancouver. I don't know if that matters or not, but if so I don't imagine he'd want to be in Buffalo long term. His injury status also concerns me. I am not however, trading UPL until after we have established another goalie here. I want Levi to have to force a player out and the goalie issue being too many goalies and not a thin crop reliant on Levi stepping up to succeed. Get a better D and the goalies will look better too.

Once again proving that analytics have less value than many people believe.

Rick Dudley, Senior advisor to the GM. Just saying. The only thing that has kept us from being them is Pegula.

Florida doing what Florida does and they do it best. Edmonton losing their cool. Up to their leadership to get them back on track and to play disciplined next one or it could be over. Florida is such a well coached and disciplined team of rats. I wish we played like them.

Really? It was a hypothetical so, if you do x your D is thin. FFS. Ya sure, I've been pretending to be a Sabres fan since the 1970s. That's the real narrative. You cracked the case Sherlock. F I

Sure, I'm not big on his salary and that's why I said if you could move Samuelsson then sure. With that subtraction the addition has less cap impact and the team is a little better. Problem I see is if they move out Byram then what? You really have no partner for Power or Dahlin. What you gonna do play them together for 40 minutes every night? Your D is very thin and Power isn't even fully cooked yet.

over valuing assets is a thing with fans in general and definitely with Sabres fans. Don't you find it funny that everybody is always throwing him into deals? Did you see anything in his call up time that makes you think he's an NHL player? I did not.

Didn't say Chara was "clean" just that he wasn't a dirty player or rat like Marchand or Bennett. Stevens laid head shots on people that's the thing with him. If you had your head down and went to the middle on him you were dead. Pronger was a cross checker and ankle chopper.

Bennett is a mean sob and dirty but to me Tkachuk is the bigger rat. He's the crosscheck, spear, stick you in the ribs and then play innocent guy. I think currently he is the league's biggest actual rat.

Miller might be a bottom pairing guy on a good team but (assuming Byram is moved) he'd be 3rd best D man on the Sabres. Nobody wants Samuelsson unless we eat contract (which we won't) and Rosen has little to no value. You can make a Jokiharju for Nylander type deal with Rosen but otherwise he's a throw in. KA waited too long on moving him for real value. You want value for prospects they have to more unknown upside like Savoie had. So sure, I'd trade Samuelsson and Rosen for him but that's not going to happen and I'd trade Rosen and Samuelsson for a bag of pucks anyway.

What are you talking about? I have already said McLeod was a good deal but we needed to make more of those. Zucker was fine but didn't really move the needle. He was a mid level aging forward with an injury history that devalued his worth to many teams and so he came here when we overpaid him. Okay, that's fine, but it wasn't anything miraculous. It was a usual underwhelming free agency. You've got used to a very low bar my friend. Adams is in his 6th year and he still hasn't filled the glaring holes on the roster. You know the second he realized he might be drafting Power he should have been searching high and low for a veteran D partner for him. Should have made that happen regardless of cost. But no, we're just going to have "development years" and let these guys flounder and develop bad habits. Sure, why not. Fly little birds fly, be free! Ridiculous franchise. Ridiculous GM.

It's only "sometimes" because mostly we just aren't in any conversation. We are irrelevant to them.

I think Pronger was much dirtier for big D men. Scott Stevens ended people, period. Just ask Eric Lindros. Nurse is really dirty. He doesn't get the scrutiny of Bennett because he plays with McJesus, but he is incredibly dirty and the dirtiest D man in this final series.

Is that what happened with Reinhart and Eichel? I guarantee you if we do not get substantially better this year Dahlin will demand out.

Where? I'm on a Bruins board and it's really not a thing. The general attitude there is very different for obvious reasons. Swayman took most of the heat/blame this year and half of them always hate management regardless of what happens. As an aside, I've seen a lot of posts lately saying "get Peterka" now that they hired Sturm as head coach. The other Sabres they like at various times have been Tuch and Thompson. Dahlin isn't mentioned but that's probably because they have McAvoy. Nobody else. And yes, Sabres are sometimes mentioned as a lesson in how NOT to do things.

I couldn't care less about winning trades and he shouldn't either. Just get what your team needs by whatever means you can. Overpay a bit for Malenstyn? Ya, I'll say. Equivalent players have moved through the waiver wire. The Savoie trade was a good one because it shifted maybe later to known commodity now. He needed to make 3 more similar ones. The Ottawa trade remains to be seen. Both teams were ready to move on from those main pieces for different reasons.

Don't you think Chara's height accounted for that difference between the two of them? They both hit to hurt. Peca wasn't big enough to end any careers but he KO'd Selanne pretty darn good before coming here. May is definitely in the running on the dirty side. I will also confess to him being a favorite player at the time. Much like Dudley earlier.

I've been suggesting this for years. He wants to "win" trades and that's his focus rather than solely on making the on ice roster better. He most definitely has more faith in his own picks and players he traded for than players who were here when he got here. This is not unusual for GMs but it's not a good strategy. A good GM recognizes a mistake and tries to fix it asap.

Pretty much how I feel on the bold. I was goalie, D man for Power, 2 way checker and a tough guy before free agency started and he didn't get it done. Also, he did nothing to try to right the ship mid season or in the losing streak. They just let it keep going with their "we believe in the players in this room" bs. The Dahlin injury is an excuse. It's funny but I don't see any Boston fans saying if we'd only had McAvoy and Lindholm we'd have made the playoffs. Injuries are going to happen every single season and if you sign the injury prone (Norris, Zucker, Greenway) you increase that possibility further. I can see this excuse already built in to next year. Depth is part of a GMs job as well.

This is where we will disagree (forever). I've heard him speak and seen what type of person he is and I do not believe he went out to intentionally injure anyone. Sure, he hit hard, and sometimes crossed the line in the heat of the moment but he was not an intentional dirty guy. I think Bennett and Tkachuk intentionally do things to try to hurt people. Marchand used to but not much in the last part of his career. Mike Peca laid people out and I bet you don't feel the same way about him as you do Chara. Which brings to mind a question though. Dirtiest Sabre of all time? Who would that be? Off the top of my head maybe Barnaby, although if you go way back there are other candidates. For example as much as I loved Dudley, he was dirty af.

I accept that, but I'd also say a version of Chara is exactly what this team currently needs.