Summer 2025: NHL Offseason

[dudacek]

The Kypreos Sabre “insight” offers nothing but his personal speculation about what he’s seen reported elsewhere.

[Porous Five Hole]

6 minutes ago, dudacek said:

The Kypreos Sabre “insight” offers nothing but his personal speculation about what he’s seen reported elsewhere.

Same for all the national guys and local beat alike.  This front office does not leak anything.  

[Flashsabre]

LOL Vegas can’t help themselves. They just have to make the big splash everytime and end up sending out the shiny new toy they just acquired.

swapping Hertl for Marner doesn’t help them that much.

[rickshaw]

Vegas can’t help themselves? You say this like it’s a bad thing.

Think what you like but Sabres could only dream to have ownership and a GM doing whatever it takes to be relevant year in year out with a chance to win.

Marner to Vegas would be a huge move for them and he’s younger and better than Hertl. Great moves if they happen.

[Flashsabre]

15 minutes ago, rickshaw said:

Vegas can’t help themselves? You say this like it’s a bad thing.

Think what you like but Sabres could only dream to have ownership and a GM doing whatever it takes to be relevant year in year out with a chance to win.

Marner to Vegas would be a huge move for them and he’s younger and better than Hertl. Great moves if they happen.

Vegas has destroyed their team building since winning the Cup. It will come back to bite them as there is zero loyalty to players.

I would love the Sabres to be like Vegas but I think they are going a little overboard.

[PerreaultForever]

If they do not trade him I expect Peterka will get offer sheeted. What Sabres do with that will be anyone's guess. Probably match and then trade. 

[dudacek]

39 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

If they do not trade him I expect Peterka will get offer sheeted. What Sabres do with that will be anyone's guess. Probably match and then trade. 

Pretty sure you can't. At least not for a year.

Edited yesterday at 08:17 PM by dudacek

[The Jokeman]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

If they do not trade him I expect Peterka will get offer sheeted. What Sabres do with that will be anyone's guess. Probably match and then trade. 

It depends who makes the offer, if it's the Rangers I might let him go as don't see them significantly improved with JJP. Yet if it's Tampa mmmm tougher call. 

[dudacek]

52 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

It depends who makes the offer, if it's the Rangers I might let him go as don't see them significantly improved with JJP. Yet if it's Tampa mmmm tougher call. 

Neither the Rangers nor the Lightning can make an offer sheet in the expected JJP $7-9.3M range. They don’t have their picks.

Only 12 teams can:

https://puckpedia.com/offer-sheet-tracker

Edited yesterday at 10:01 PM by dudacek

[PerreaultForever]

2 hours ago, dudacek said:

Neither the Rangers nor the Lightning can make an offer sheet in the expected JJP $7-9.3M range. They don’t have their picks.

Only 12 teams can:

https://puckpedia.com/offer-sheet-tracker

The teams I could see doing it do have their picks.  Chicago, Anaheim, Pittsburgh, Boston, and most of all Philly. Calgary, Detroit, L.A., Montreal all in there too. 

Philly and Boston are the two teams I would watch the most. They do not want to wait and draft. They both think they can win now. 

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, The Jokeman said:

It depends who makes the offer, if it's the Rangers I might let him go as don't see them significantly improved with JJP. Yet if it's Tampa mmmm tougher call. 

I'd worry more about Boston as I said. They are thinking they can get back in it quickly. So I can see them offer sheeting Peterka and if not that I think they will pay big for Boeser. Maybe more. They also might trade their pick for Dobson before Sabres even get a chance to offer theirs. 

[Andrew Amerk]

If so many teams are supposedly interested in JJP - isn’t that a sign of a player that the Sabres should keep?

Like, seriously, what are we doing here?

[CallawaySabres]

9 hours ago, Andrew Amerk said:

If so many teams are supposedly interested in JJP - isn’t that a sign of a player that the Sabres should keep?

Like, seriously, what are we doing here?

It doesn't matter, all these guys want out and there is nothing Buffalo can do about it. 

[LGR4GM]

11 minutes ago, CallawaySabres said:

It doesn't matter, all these guys want out and there is nothing Buffalo can do about it. 

Yes there is. They could build a team that wins. 

Edited 7 hours ago by LGR4GM

[CallawaySabres]

Just now, LGR4GM said:

Yes there it is. They could build a team that wins. 

It's too late for that, there is no improvement from year to year. Last year was a disaster so it's too late for Peterka. Now Buffalo has to make it a priority to stop this from happening to Dahlin and Tage. The moves this summer will determine if that happens.

I would argue that this is the most important season in Sabre history. If there is a repeat from last year, they will have to start from scratch, book it. 

[Brawndo]

Oilers trading Evander Kane to Vancouver 

[DarthEbriate]

4 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Oilers trading Evander Kane to Vancouver 

Going home for a season. That's a good move for Edmonton to free up (unless retention in play) $5M for defense/goaltending.

For Vancouver, they get muscle, and maybe a longer-term hometown discount extension to wind out his career as a 3/4W. There are worse grinders out there.

[ponokasabre]

2 minutes ago, DarthEbriate said:

Going home for a season. That's a good move for Edmonton to free up (unless retention in play) $5M for defense/goaltending.

For Vancouver, they get muscle, and maybe a longer-term hometown discount extension to wind out his career as a 3/4W. There are worse grinders out there.

Wonder if it’s for Demko?

[French Collection]

54 minutes ago, ponokasabre said:

Wonder if it’s for Demko?

2025 4th round pick. Cap dump.

Edited 4 hours ago by French Collection

[HumanSlinky39]

2 hours ago, DarthEbriate said:

Going home for a season. That's a good move for Edmonton to free up (unless retention in play) $5M for defense/goaltending.

For Vancouver, they get muscle, and maybe a longer-term hometown discount extension to wind out his career as a 3/4W. There are worse grinders out there.

VAN is taking on the full salary.

[Doohickie]

On 6/20/2025 at 11:06 AM, Flashsabre said:

Outside of Zucker what deals have Adams made that helped the team improve and push them close to a playoff spot? 

McLeod is okay too.

And frankly I don't have a problem with the 4th liners he brought in.  They were expendable and got dropped as appropriate.  I don't think our 4th line was the problem.

On 6/20/2025 at 11:35 AM, ponokasabre said:

Eric Robinson... id gladly take him back over Lafferty ffs

That's the least of our problems.

[Doohickie]

On 6/20/2025 at 11:58 AM, PromoTheRobot said:

then half-azzes it

You can say ass here.

[PromoTheRobot]

33 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

You can say ass here.

Actually I can't. The naughty word filter got me. "half-*****"  See!

Edited 3 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, Brawndo said:

Oilers trading Evander Kane to Vancouver 

Canucks the new team to hate.  Fans not happy with this move. They didn't re-sign Boeser and then they helped a rival and took on this locker room problem child after the issues they had last year. This will go badly. 

[Brawndo]

3 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

Canucks the new team to hate.  Fans not happy with this move. They didn't re-sign Boeser and then they helped a rival and took on this locker room problem child after the issues they had last year. This will go badly. 

Yep especially with Quinn Hughes possibly looking to leave