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and now Matt Ellis... er Colton Ellis... we have Solid AHL tenders...

Does it help, maybe in setting a number range... but does it really with Kaprizov and McD off the market does this make him one of the if not the Premium FA out there in 2026.... I think he tests the market... just my guess...

This is exactly what I think... we dont have an NHL caliber starter, we arent gonna go get one, lets go buy 50 pull tabs and hope we hit a 2 dollar winner...

as well as lack of physicality and being really easy to play against...

For the Sabres it is... just sayin... actually its more of an operating model than a plan... I am feeling like this thread is going to age much better than I originally thought LOL.... 🙂

Mentioning Ullmark, I wonder what he would have become if he stayed instead of going to a very solid Bruins team... I am guessing he wouldnt win a Vezina...

especially when he is not even asking for the bag... heck, you pay Jordan Greenway 4mm for a half a season...

So I am not actually going to disagree here because of something that you alluded too... the only reason I see not to extend him is if those sweeping changes involve new GM, POHO and a tear down of the team... like literally a complete tear down... Dahlin Thompson Power etc... like you accept you are going to trade those guys for assets and start all over again... the philosophy "you lost consistently with them, you certainly can lose without them:...." Not being a proponent of the complete tear down (definitely am a proponent of blow up the FO) I do not want to see this happen... we have already lost one generational player via trade and one Bona fide Superstar in Reinhardt cause we didnt extend him... so to me if you believe this core has any value you have go to extend him... if not and you wanna see em all outta here then... I get where you are at....

There is another piece to this with Tuch on top of exactly what you said... its the human piece... this is the one guy who wants to be here more than anything, home town, live and die etc... he was your real return for giving up Eichel... you have failed for 14 years, your core players are less than content with golfing every April and you have an effective leader, scorer and pretty good two way hockey player that you let walk.... that to me would be a final straw concern for some of these players... like how can you not pay this guy... how committed are you to winning.... dont exetend him, miss the playoffs again... and I can pretty much promise you some folks are gonna want to be traded...

Adams thinks he brings leadership to the ice bath and sauna rooms... plus muel apparently hits the golf ball 325 ... Adams just shoring up his April 10th Scramble 4 some. trust the process.... lol... but seriously we simply need to accept that Greenway and Muel are 40/60 to be in the line up any given night... the fact that Adams paid them like mainstays and leaders of the team... doesnt make them so... they are nothing more than occasional fill ins that I literally expect zero from.

Ida kept Kassian on this team. Mule not so much

fair point.... I think I am gonna put more stock in the Farmers Almanac Hockey predictions based on the flatulence of live stock... just sayin... LOL

Can we just assume he is hurt and have folks let us know when he is back... cause he is pretty invisible in the ice despite being a large dude

One can hope

Glad to see Doan play well... maybe Kesselring ... other than that...

So I am not saying he wont put himself in a position to contribute... he may... I am just saying Savior is a pretty weighty goal for the young man... but if you are correct I will certainly applaud!

I will take Jarkko...

He did look pretty good out there.... but if he is the savior to me we are a few years away... I agree here... the quickest and easiest way is to literally, have your goalie let in a goal a game less... or .5 or whatever... but improvement in net is absolutely required to turn this around.

I wouldnt hate that but it would render our tiebreaker with the Ravens null and void unless we tied... but I would take it... seriously wondering which is the better option now dammit... I gotta think but my wife is in the bathroom...

I totally agree with you... I just hope that he does it before the talented players on this team bolt...

Oh, I think you are putting that nicely... I think the owner is clearly unaware that he is out of his league AND hires sycophants that bolster his delusional notion that he is some kind of a hockey guy... problem is after 14 years couldnt you figure that out TP? Like do you avoid mirrors at all costs?...

It wouldnt seem that way, but what happens is from what I understand in JBs case the ligaments that hold the big toe in place tear... so, imagine an ACL on a knee... this is defacto and ACL/LCL on a toe... clearly a lesser injury than an ACL... BUT alot of your planting, cutting ability, and balance is manufactured by the stability of that toe... without that your toe would pop up straight and you couldnt really protect yourself or use any real agility...

You dont do that unless you are Cinci or Cleveland... just sayin lol but you are right probably not even them... people have to remember, one of the toughest football players I knew was Jack Lambert and Turf toe put him in retirement.. clearly there will be better treatment, but this stuff is no joke.

Works for me LOL

This perfectly describes exactly where we need to change... not everyone or every player, but much more than we have now... way to easy to play against and it shows ... I shudder to think what would happen to this team in the playoffs when it really got ramped up...