Carmel Corn

Another LHD? Rochester bound I presume

It feels similar to when I go to a Dairy Queen and see nothing but immature teenagers working there. No competent adult management to be found and the place is a sticky, filthy mess with terrible service. Our Sabres are the DQ of the NHL.

The building of the Smurf size army continues.

Seems to be the requirement for a FA joining Buffalo....between him and Drake, we're building a team of Smurfs

That will pack the stands...adding another 5 foot 9 inch monster to the roster.

Not signing any FA's so far on day 1 is actually not a surprise. GMKA is waiting to go dumpster diving for the scraps hoping they're willing to sign for pennies on the dollar after the big teams have shot their wads. Maybe expect another year of Reider or Sheahan type 1-year signings.

GMKA wants to build a team with players who want to be here....boy those crickets can sure be loud. He may have to end up suiting up himself if this keeps up. As far as the Pegula's are concerned, heck no......they're sound asleep on their yacht.

So maybe Ulmark joins Johannson in Colorado?!?!

I'd like to see the Av's re-sign Grubauer and Buffalo sign anybody in net...in hopes it may cause Linus to rethink his position. We still need two.

Sorry to say that we have not yet hit rock bottom yet....we're still falling!

We can trade to get salary dumps by the start of the season. Some teams are well over the cap and will need to offload players. We can absorb them as long as they are short-term players and rack up more draft picks in the process.

Low expectations for today. No Eichel trade, no key goaltending acquisitions either. Might even see GMKA to take on some bad short-term contracts in exchange for future picks in order to consume cap space. Buffalo will have to overpay to get any legit UFA's.

Despite the chatter, I'm still skeptical that anybody is offering anything remotely worth considering. Forget Krebs, Rossi, Byfield, Zegras, etc., at best we'll get an offer the second best prospect from any of these teams. Eichel remains a Sabre.

Caggiula > Eakin

We need RW bodies. Would prefer avoiding another 1-year older journeyman strategy and get younger talent that has a chance to stick around. This one could be interesting.

Seems to be that GMKA will go dumpster diving again to get a mix of bottom six vet guys on one-year deals, which worked so well last season. He needs bodies and to spend a little $ to get to a respectable cap number, but he doesn't want the new additions to be our pretend top 6.

Should have kept Sam and moved him at the trade deadline next season.

Oh joy....we have another draft that resembles the Tyler Myers/Tyler Ennis year. Insert Owen and Aleksander this time.

The Buffalo Sabres should change their name to the Buffalo "Smurfs"

Joe Sakic is a smart guy....war room in a brewery!!!

It's a small sample size, but I trust GMKA's trade skills more than I trust his drafting prowess so far.

Good read, thanks!

Yes, but now I think there has to be two blue chip prospects for any trade partner. Minnesota has Rossi & Boldy, but I highly doubt the Ducks will give up both Zegras and say Drysdale. Similarly, I don't see Byfield coming back with say Turcotte.

Could have traded down and got him.

GMKA could have traded down and still got Rosen IMHO