Summer 2025: NHL Offseason

[Mr Peabody]

1 hour ago, Turbo44 said:

Kiefer sherwood of the LW variety and 40 points which we don't need (though he shoots right)? I don't think he moves the needle at all (or very much anyway) and doesn't help us towards the playoffs. And you create another huge hole by trading Byram

I became enamored by his 460 hits last year.  Next closest was Olivier at 305.  Don’t follow Vancouver so could that be incorrect?  Regardless I agree we’d have a need at D but figured we could pick up a stay at home guy in the $2-$3M range. 

[Turbo44]

8 minutes ago, Mr Peabody said:

I became enamored by his 460 hits last year.  Next closest was Olivier at 305.  Don’t follow Vancouver so could that be incorrect?  Regardless I agree we’d have a need at D but figured we could pick up a stay at home guy in the $2-$3M range. 

Yeah I back of my judgment if he hit that much??

[Mr. Allen]

7 hours ago, Brawndo said:

 

Why would Vegas do this?  Why not just wait a couple days and get him without having to give Toronto anything?  Will Mitch not sign unless he gets an 8 year deal? 

[thewookie1]

1 hour ago, Mr. Allen said:

Why would Vegas do this?  Why not just wait a couple days and get him without having to give Toronto anything?  Will Mitch not sign unless he gets an 8 year deal? 

My guess would be it could be a masterful manner of tampering legally.

If you request to trade for a UFA in a sign&trade you can talk to the player. He's said he won't do 8 years now so a trade isn't necessary.

Edited 18 hours ago by thewookie1

[SABRES 0311]

So the draft is over. Is this the best configuration of our lineup right now barring more moves?

TBD Norris TNT

Zucker Kulich Tuch

Quinn McLeod Benson

Malenstyn Krebs Greenway

Dahlin Byram

Power Kesserling

JBD Timmons

UPL

Levi

 

[krakensabr56390]

16 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:

So the draft is over. Is this the best configuration of our lineup right now barring more moves?

TBD Norris TNT

Zucker Kulich Tuch

Quinn McLeod Benson

Malenstyn Krebs Greenway

Dahlin Byram

Power Kesserling

JBD Timmons

UPL

Levi

 

No you’re forgetting josh doan - unless we trade for someone benson is on the 1st line and Doan on the 3rd 

 

either way Doan us in that lineup somewhere likely 3rd line - they didn’t trade for him to sit him 

Edited 16 hours ago by krakensabr56390

[SABRES 0311]

1 hour ago, krakensabr56390 said:

No you’re forgetting josh doan - unless we trade for someone benson is on the 1st line and Doan on the 3rd 

 

either way Doan us in that lineup somewhere likely 3rd line - they didn’t trade for him to sit him 

If we dress a lineup where Bensin is in the first line the season is over before it begins.

[LGR4GM]

4 hours ago, SABRES 0311 said:

If we dress a lineup where Bensin is in the first line the season is over before it begins.

Who? 

[shrader]

32 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Who? 

Ben. He sins a lot. 

[krakensabr56390]

5 hours ago, SABRES 0311 said:

If we dress a lineup where Bensin is in the first line the season is over before it begins.

That’s where he played at the end of last year and his numbers were great… Not that I don’t want to get an upgrade there but that’s who actually played the best

[Archie Lee]

5 hours ago, SABRES 0311 said:

If we dress a lineup where Bensin is in the first line the season is over before it begins.

I wholly disagree with this. Benson on the left wing on a line with Thompson on RW, and Norris or Kulich at centre, will have one giant question mark,  and it won’t be Thompson or Benson. 

[aristocrat]

Petterssons no trade kicks in Tuesday. Could we see a move today? I look at our centers and laugh. 

[Archie Lee]

12 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Petterssons no trade kicks in Tuesday. Could we see a move today? I look at our centers and laugh. 

Until we see otherwise, I think the safe money is that the Sabres will spend to an internal cap that comes in under $90 million.  I could be wrong and this is the year they go big. 

It sounds like the Canucks are keeping Pettersson (unless there is news I’ve missed), but if he is available the Sabres could take a run. If the Sabres moved Byram and Norris in a Pettersson trade, they would still have room to add Robertson for futures. A top line of Pettersson centring Robertson and Thompson, would certainly change how the Sabres are viewed. 

[Turbo44]

6 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Petterssons no trade kicks in Tuesday. Could we see a move today? I look at our centers and laugh. 

I'd be worried about his knee. He was one of the fastest players in the league 2 years ago and correspondingly was 100+ year player. Since the injury, hi tope end recorded speed has been pedestrian as has his scoring.  Plus his attitude was questioned several times by teammates. Feels like a Taylor Hall signing and at a cap hit of $11.6m for 5 more years, i pass.

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[Dr. Who]

22 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

Until we see otherwise, I think the safe money is that the Sabres will spend to an internal cap that comes in under $90 million.  I could be wrong and this is the year they go big. 

It sounds like the Canucks are keeping Pettersson (unless there is news I’ve missed), but if he is available the Sabres could take a run. If the Sabres moved Byram and Norris in a Pettersson trade, they would still have room to add Robertson for futures. A top line of Pettersson centring Robertson and Thompson, would certainly change how the Sabres are viewed. 

I really can't imagine KA pulling off those kind of deals, especially in a compressed timeframe. 

1 minute ago, Turbo44 said:

I'd be worried about his knee. He was one of the fastest players in the league 2 years ago and correspondingly was 100+ year player. Since the injury, hi tope end recorded speed has been pedestrian as has his scoring.  Plus his attitude was questioned several times by teammates. Feels like a Taylor Hall signing and at a cap hit of $11.6m for 5 more years, i pass.

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I agree. I'd love to find a way to get Robertson, though.

[aristocrat]

Ehlers petterson tage top line is a legit top line. But I have a better shot with Sydney Sweeney than that happening. 

[Turbo44]

13 minutes ago, aristocrat said:

Ehlers petterson tage top line is a legit top line. But I have a better shot with Sydney Sweeney than that happening. 

Wouldn't work salary cap wise - adding close to $20million in cap would put us well over $95.5million

1 hour ago, Dr. Who said:

I really can't imagine KA pulling off those kind of deals, especially in a compressed timeframe. 

I agree. I'd love to find a way to get Robertson, though.

I think it's doable as Dallas is dead against the cap and wants futures.  We have plenty of futures.  Robertson is absolutely the best possibility for the Sabres.  Look at my proposed offseeason in the thread I just started - It's my detailed plan

[Taro T]

17 hours ago, aristocrat said:

Well he only has a year left on his deal so they could negotiate the 8 year before the trade I guess

Yea, Mitch you wanna come play on kulichs wing or jack eichels? 

He only has about a year left on his deal.  1 year and 2 days to be precise here on Sunday June 29.  A player can't sign a new contract with more than a year remaining on a current multiyear deal.  (They have to wait until January 1 to sign a new deal when their current deal is only for 1 season.)  So, Adams could make a trade with Dallas today and have a gentleman's agreement with Robertson that he'll sign an extension on Tuesday, but if Robertson decided to walk away from that deal and play out his current contract the Sabres would have no recourse to force him to sign nor to force Dallas to nullify the trade.

Robertson could very well get moved but would be surprised if it happens before Tuesday unless it is to a team he REALLY wants to play for.

And guys do get traded before "extensions" can be signed, O'Reilly being the most recognizable example here.  But there is a legit risk involved from the team's perspective and can't see a GM for Buffalo or Columbus or any other "destination" team being dumb enough to take that risk.

[Archie Lee]

19 minutes ago, Turbo44 said:

Wouldn't work salary cap wise - adding close to $20million in cap would put us well over $95.5million

For it to work, Byram, Norris and a contract in the Quinn, Greenway, Samuelsson territory would need to go. 

[Taro T]

17 hours ago, Mr Peabody said:

Now go get Sherwood and Demko from Vancouver and we’re in the playoffs.  That’s the kind of trade I’d be okay with Byram and ?

Love the idea of landing Demko.  Realize that there's little chance he'd be the only player leaving Vancouver.  Hate the idea of Buffalo being the team that believes it can turn Petterson around.  So, very much like this trade idea.

[Flashsabre]

It’s from Eklund so put it as a total not happening but still fun to read:

”There are rumors out there right now that they are looking to trade for Bo Byram… the name that is bouncing around in the rumor mill is Byfield… doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but it’s out there…. Look fo LA to be aggressive because they really have pulled completely off of Marner.”

[shrader]

1 minute ago, Flashsabre said:

It’s from Eklund so

It’s amazing how many posts still start with this phrase

[LabattBlue]

5 minutes ago, shrader said:

It’s amazing how many posts still start with this phrase

Can’t remember for sure back many years back who loved to post the hockeybuzz rumors…bam bam?

[Turbo44]

11 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

It’s from Eklund so put it as a total not happening but still fun to read:

”There are rumors out there right now that they are looking to trade for Bo Byram… the name that is bouncing around in the rumor mill is Byfield… doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me, but it’s out there…. Look fo LA to be aggressive because they really have pulled completely off of Marner.”

So according to him, since they moved away from Marner they now target Byram who plays a totally opposite position?  Seems typlcal Eklund.  That site was basically funded by all the post of Sabres activity.  He failed to keep a good Sabres Blogger and everybody left (including me).  It had to be a blow to his revenue stream?

[Flashsabre]

23 minutes ago, Turbo44 said:

So according to him, since they moved away from Marner they now target Byram who plays a totally opposite position?  Seems typlcal Eklund.  That site was basically funded by all the post of Sabres activity.  He failed to keep a good Sabres Blogger and everybody left (including me).  It had to be a blow to his revenue stream?

His site is the perfect social experiment. I don’t know if he has ever actually broken a trade but it’s still fun to read his BS from time to time.