Trade : Conor Timmins and Isaac Belliveau from the Pittsburgh Penguins in exchange for Connor Clifton and the 39th overall pick in the 2025 NHL Draft.

[SabresBillsFan]

Fire Adams and Terry sell the damn team. This team is an embarrassment to the city and a laughingstock of the entire league!

[JoeSchmoe]

Timmins is good! Huge upgrade over Clifton who dragged us down pretty bad the last couple seasons.

Sucks we had to give up a 39th pick to do it... but I'm happy.

Note: he's also a "local" kid from the Canadian side.

[Flashsabre]

Gibson to Detroit 🤬

Buffalo can never have nice things

Go after Demko.

[PromoTheRobot]

2 minutes ago, Mr. Allen said:

Throwing 2nd round picks like they mean nothing

You wanted them to trade 9.

Just now, Flashsabre said:

Gibson to Detroit 🤬

Buffalo can never have nice things

Go after Demko.

We dodged a bullet with Gibson. 

[bob_sauve28]

2 minutes ago, SabresBillsFan said:

Fire Adams and Terry sell the damn team. This team is an embarrassment to the city and a laughingstock of the entire league!

Because of this??? 

[Mr. MVP]

1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You wanted them to trade 9.

Yes.  And get back fair return with a good player.  Not just throw it away for some suck bag.  He did the same thing last year. 

[LGR4GM]

Guess the defense is gonna be different. Adams has added 3 nhl rhd since the deadline and 4 if you wanna count Mrtka 

[Turbo44]

2 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Absolutely nothing. It was a joke 

 

 

Timmins, 26, had 15 points (3+12) in 68 games last season with Toronto and Pittsburgh. The 6-foot-3, 213-pound defenseman is the second right shot added to the roster via trade in the past week, following the addition of Michael Kesselring from Utah on Thursday. (The Sabres also used their first-round draft pick on a right-shot defenseman in Radim Mrtka.)

During Timmins' 5-on-5 ice time in 2024-25, his teams outscored their opponents 39-30 and held advantages in expected goals (52.2%), shot attempts (51.6%) and scoring chances (51.9%), according to Natural Stat Trick.

Solid analytics but with PT of 16:55/game, he's been used as a 3rd pair dman. Not exactly ideal for a playing partner with dahlin. Does Timmins have any toughnress to him?

[Mr. MVP]

And this lessens the market for Byram again.  We’re either keeping him for a year or two, or getting bad value back. 

[PromoTheRobot]

Just now, bob_sauve28 said:

Because of this??? 

We didn't get enough back for Connor Clifton apparently. 

[SabresBillsFan]

Just now, bob_sauve28 said:

Because of this??? 

No, Adams is ***** terrible and Pegula is too much of a fan boy.  He’s the Jerry Jones of hockey who is in way over his head. Hire a proven GM and move Lindy Ruff upstairs!

[Turbo44]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You wanted them to trade 9.

We dodged a bullet with Gibson. 

Why - only 2 years left on his contract and you don't like his 2.67 gaa or .917 sav%? you honestly want UPL in the net over Gibson? 

KA accumulating a lot of cap space - he better plan on fukking using it. Sitting on $10m in unused cap is simply unacceptable. We have the ammunition to get Robertson, go do it.

[bg17]

Looks like a decent upgrade based on these graphs.
 

But that’s no reason not to hate it. 

Edited June 28 by bg17

[WhenWillItEnd66]

Solid dman coming back to bolster our crappy defense. A 4-6 dman with good analytics. Also size too. A help the team now player but not flashy.  Totally OK with this. We do not need more prospects!!!!

[K-9]

7 minutes ago, Thorny said:

Another guy where injury history very much a question mark 

Agreed. But he managed to play in 68 games last season so maybe he’s on the upswing in that regard. I think he’s an upgrade over Clifton as a 3rd pair D. 

[Brawndo]

 

You can’t miss on your second round pick if you trade it!

 

Kidding of course, this is a good pick I also would not have minded Jordan Spence for a 3rd, but they do seem to want bigger defenders 

[Scottysabres]

Did we save some cap space on this? Terry’s got to be close to being able to get that barnacle removal service for the yacht he’s been after.

[Mr. MVP]

15 minutes ago, Thorny said:

Bump 

It’s almost like when you’re playing the NHL video game and you set your trade bait to acquire RHD and you just keep hitting accept. 
Shoot.  Maybe Jackson is calling the shots for the Sabres recently

[Thorny]

Just now, K-9 said:

Agreed. But he managed to play in 68 games last season so maybe he’s on the upswing in that regard. I think he’s an upgrade over Clifton as a 3rd pair D. 

Ya it’s fine 

[Rasmus_]

14 minutes ago, bob_sauve28 said:

Absolutely nothing. It was a joke 

 

 

Timmins, 26, had 15 points (3+12) in 68 games last season with Toronto and Pittsburgh. The 6-foot-3, 213-pound defenseman is the second right shot added to the roster via trade in the past week, following the addition of Michael Kesselring from Utah on Thursday. (The Sabres also used their first-round draft pick on a right-shot defenseman in Radim Mrtka.)

During Timmins' 5-on-5 ice time in 2024-25, his teams outscored their opponents 39-30 and held advantages in expected goals (52.2%), shot attempts (51.6%) and scoring chances (51.9%), according to Natural Stat Trick.

 

He's a soft player, when this team needs to get more physical.  He was awful in Toronto.  Maybe his offensive numbers/possession numbers were fine in Pittsburgh last year.  However, he's not a good player.   He throws away assets, when it makes NO ***** SENSE.  We have endless amounts of cap, and Clifton is expiring.  This trade is horseshit. 

Edited June 28 by Rasmus_

[Pimlach]

12 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

What in the Blue F%#k is going on?

 

Five years of playing without RHD, now Adams is stockpiling them. 
 

[Flashsabre]

I thought for sure they were going to announce Brian Rust as the return

[LGR4GM]

Who do you want 

Clifton and the 39 pick who will help us in 2030 

Or Timmins and a ahl D? Timmins is better than Clifton probably and certainly bigger. 

[Rasmus_]

1 minute ago, Flashsabre said:

I thought for sure they were going to announce Brian Rust as the return

39 and Clifton for Rust, would have made sense.  This, DOES NOT.

[Thorny]

At least we didn’t make all the picks