FLSabreFan

Love Rossi, he's my favorite, but seems like NJ snags him if available. Lundell makes a ton of sense if you believe Cozens is a 2C; making for a future down the spine of Echel, Cozens, Lundell...that would be sweet. Holtz dosn't get enough love here...Sabres could use an elite finisher on the RW, I'd be fine with him. Let's hope Rossi drops in our lap!!!

Anaheim wants a Right-handed D, so if that stay that route, Drysdale it is at 6. Hopefully NJ takes Sanderson at 7 leaving Rossi for the Sabres

8-OA plus Sam or Olo etc would be a massive overpayment IMO. Yes, Sabres need a short-term fix there, however the Flames aren't exactly sitting pretty with their fan base either...the pressure there maybe as bad or worse. It cancels each other out, IMO. Calgary might realize that Monahan gets them a 1RW + and hope that JG + can get the a serviceable C...say from Philly ... Giroux +

I think the better question might be How long before someone kills Kevin Adam's and his staff of 3 in Hockey Ops for drafting Sanderson at 8

Ok, so in a vacuum, I'd like to get Johnny Hockey and Monahan while retaining Sam too. However, I believe the Cap at $81.5 for 2 or 3 years will prohibit that given Dahlin, Joker and other pay raises. Skinner Eichel Olofsson will be about $23.5m. JD, Monahan and Sam will cost ~$21m...keep in mind Okoposo and Mojo cost $10.5m. That's $54m with 4 more F spots to fill, lol. Undoable. Keep in mind it is possible for the Sabres to inact an internal budget for the next 2 - 3 years while Revenues stablize and return to more normal levels.

Anybody interested in dealing Sam + for Monahan. The + would be their choice of Asplund, Mitts, Tage or 2020-2nd. In this equation for the Sabres would be the expectation of Risto and Montour being dealt for RW's to backfill for Sam and the open 2RW position. Guys I would want, that have been part of rumored discussions around the last TDL are Alex Tuch and Josh Anderson. My goal is obviously to secure a decent 2C while retaining 8-OA and Cozens, and backfilling with surplus RhD's who are redundant to Joker and Miller to a lesser degree

I'm new to the community, will sign-up later. Good discussions here. On the Pegula/Adam's hire, I too plan to give him time before making judgements...he sounds like he has a clue so far. Tim'e will tell more. As far as the Pegula's go, I have grown very disenchanted with Kerry and Tim largely because of their apparent involvement in the Operations side of the house, deeper than I believe it should be. I am concerned with their plan to hire an inexperienced GM and then make him fire 70% of the experienced members of that side of the house. It just doesn't leave a whole lot of support for Adam's in a very key year for the organization. We'll all see how it goes but if seems like they are making his job twice as difficult.