Summer 2025: NHL Offseason

[shrader]

16 minutes ago, OverPowerYou said:

Is NHL GM the toughest GM job of all the sports? You win (or lose) the Stanley cup and literally have to start thinking about resigning players, the draft and free agency immediately 

The bouncyball draft is actually a couple days before the NHL and they still have one game left to play. 

[PerreaultForever]

Burakovsky to the Blackhawks might change the narrative of them drafting Martone to be Bedard's winger. JBot dumping money to pay Marchment I guess. 

[krakensabr56390]

2 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Burakovsky to the Blackhawks might change the narrative of them drafting Martone to be Bedard's winger. JBot dumping money to pay Marchment I guess. 

Very incorrect - with Marchment salary the kraken have 18 million in SPACE now with only Kakko and Evans to sign. They may still buyout gru - that gets them to 22 million - ownership has major pressure on them to win so they’re trying to do something big. I would anticipate a top six overpaying in free agency or trade for a higher priced true top line player.

 

also, the narrative here in Seattle has been buying out burky as he has not been healthy or good in 2 years. Nice guy having met him. But people here are thrilled with the fact, someone took him without any retention in fact, sort of shocked.

Edited 14 hours ago by krakensabr56390

[PerreaultForever]

19 minutes ago, krakensabr56390 said:

Very incorrect - with Marchment salary the kraken have 18 million in SPACE now with only Kakko and Evans to sign. They may still buyout gru - that gets them to 22 million - ownership has major pressure on them to win so they’re trying to do something big. I would anticipate a top six overpaying in free agency or trade for a higher priced true top line player.

 

also, the narrative here in Seattle has been buying out burky as he has not been healthy or good in 2 years. Nice guy having met him. But people here are thrilled with the fact, someone took him without any retention in fact, sort of shocked.

I meant extending Marchment beyond this season coming up. He's only got 1 year left I think. 

[LTS]

19 hours ago, mjd1001 said:

The fun of being a Sabres fan:

-NHL player transactions (trades, signings, extensions, etc):  In the past week, 26 of them.  0 from the Sabres.

-Since June 1 (last 3 weeks).  NHL total transactions, 57 of them (mostly re-signings, a few trades).  0 from the Sabres.

-Since the beginning of May, there is ONE Sabres player transaction, Signing D Erik Brannstrom to a three-year contract. The rest of the NHL well over 100.

I mean, I'm not a person to say make a move the the sake of it, but there really isn't much to talk about here lately.  You would think the team that has the longest playoff drought would be one of them that would be wanting to make the most moves to change things.

These kinds of metrics, while interesting, don't necessarily paint a complete picture.  How many teams overall have been involved in the transactions?  How many transactions are those that realistically the Sabres would not have been involved in?  (ie. Toews in Winnipeg).

I would discount all re-signings as those tend to occur throughout the summer.  When looking at re-signings you have to consider the category they are in.. are they extensions of a player with 1 year left, a UFA, an RFA, etc.

The most notable are probably players with 1 year left on the contract. Of that only Tuch is the real interest. Sure Clifton is in that category (as is Lafferty). A sit stands, it takes two to sign and I have no doubt those players have all said effectively, let's see how you improve the team before i decide to commit in Buffalo.  So it would make sense no transactions have been made there.

The UFA class is James Reimer... they aren't signing him now.

The RFA class we know well, but they won't make qualifying offers until the Monday after the draft I would imagine.

Overall I think the LACK of transactions is more indicative of the potential to make a move.

So I'm not worried at all right now, any more than I remain unconvinced this owner can ice a winning organization. So why worry?

[shrader]

43 minutes ago, LTS said:

These kinds of metrics, while interesting, don't necessarily paint a complete picture.  How many teams overall have been involved in the transactions?  How many transactions are those that realistically the Sabres would not have been involved in?  (ie. Toews in Winnipeg).

I would discount all re-signings as those tend to occur throughout the summer.  When looking at re-signings you have to consider the category they are in.. are they extensions of a player with 1 year left, a UFA, an RFA, etc.

The most notable are probably players with 1 year left on the contract. Of that only Tuch is the real interest. Sure Clifton is in that category (as is Lafferty). A sit stands, it takes two to sign and I have no doubt those players have all said effectively, let's see how you improve the team before i decide to commit in Buffalo.  So it would make sense no transactions have been made there.

The UFA class is James Reimer... they aren't signing him now.

The RFA class we know well, but they won't make qualifying offers until the Monday after the draft I would imagine.

Overall I think the LACK of transactions is more indicative of the potential to make a move.

So I'm not worried at all right now, any more than I remain unconvinced this owner can ice a winning organization. So why worry?

And then there’s the new additions to the front office that could potentially need some time to fully weigh in. If we make it halfway into July with next to nothing happening, then we seriously need to talk. 

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, LTS said:

These kinds of metrics, while interesting, don't necessarily paint a complete picture.  How many teams overall have been involved in the transactions?  How many transactions are those that realistically the Sabres would not have been involved in?  (ie. Toews in Winnipeg).

I would discount all re-signings as those tend to occur throughout the summer.  When looking at re-signings you have to consider the category they are in.. are they extensions of a player with 1 year left, a UFA, an RFA, etc.

The most notable are probably players with 1 year left on the contract. Of that only Tuch is the real interest. Sure Clifton is in that category (as is Lafferty). A sit stands, it takes two to sign and I have no doubt those players have all said effectively, let's see how you improve the team before i decide to commit in Buffalo.  So it would make sense no transactions have been made there.

The UFA class is James Reimer... they aren't signing him now.

The RFA class we know well, but they won't make qualifying offers until the Monday after the draft I would imagine.

Overall I think the LACK of transactions is more indicative of the potential to make a move.

So I'm not worried at all right now, any more than I remain unconvinced this owner can ice a winning organization. So why worry?

Oh there's no reason to worry because you can rest assured Sabres will do far less than you expect (or want). That's pretty much an annual thing. The only major shake ups come with new GMs who get to tear down and start over. Every year we see rumors of trades involving Sabres and I think it's safe to say every year every team comes in like vultures and they kick the tires to see if anybody is available or if they can get a player for picks and prospects and why wouldn't they? 99% of those calls though are going to go absolutely nowhere. 

Byram will likely get moved as they won't want to meet his price for what he is. idk if they will get a good player back or not. Talk lately of Philly being interested. I'm not personally interested in anybody on their roster aside from Michkov, Sanheim and maybe Konecny none of whom are available. If it's somebody like York plus no thank you. Peterka disgruntled? who knows. Likely moved. We likely lose that deal. I have zero faith in Adams being able to do anything substantial with this roster.

There's an old adage in the NHL. Tearing down and selling is easy. Building back up is hard. Adams has proved that is true one more time.