Sabres announce qualifying offers

[Weave]

12 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

McLeod signed fairly quickly. Is there any reason to be concerned that Levi hasn't signed yet? Or are they working on something longer term for him?

Wouldn’t that be delicious in an awful kind of way if the key piece in the Reinhart trade doesn’t want to be here?

[Dr. Who]

1 minute ago, Weave said:

Wouldn’t that be delicious in an awful kind of way if the key piece in the Reinhart trade doesn’t want to be here?

That one would surprise me, with an obvious opening at goalie. There's enough terrible to dwell upon.

[Weave]

Just now, Dr. Who said:

That one would surprise me, with an obvious opening at goalie. There's enough terrible to dwell upon.

I’m not expecting it.  But at this point nothing would surprise me.

[dudacek]

6 hours ago, Taro T said:

No urgency at all for signing Levi.  He can't be offer sheeted and he isn't arbitration eligible.  They'll have the rest of their ducks in a row and then get the deal done with him.

Yes, things seem to be going rather well on the contract front.

The Sabres had potentially one of the bumpiest contract situations in the league and I’m starting to see Adams has actually done a pretty good job of negotiating it so far.

Better cap minds than me did a good job of showing last year during the Skinner buyout talks how the Sabres would actually be in a rather precarious position under the cap this year given all their pending RFAs.

Priority one was getting a framework in place with Byram, Peterka, Quinn, and McLeod in order to get the starting point needed to chart his course of action, which clearly he was able to do.

Then he needed some certainty before July 1 with at least one of his 2 difficult negotiations, which he got with the Peterka trade.

He then neatly knocked off Quinn and McLeod early, and to reasonable deals to avoid distractions while shuffling the fringes of the roster to free up the cap space to ensure he kept his leverage with Byram. He added the big right-handed shutdown D, 3rd goalie option and forechecking badgers he wanted, and dumped a couple of role-playing too-pricey roster failures.

Now he can deal with Tuch and Levi at his leisure while still being able to complete any further tweaking after the Byram situation settles.

On some level it’s actually been a solid bit of business. He may have actually had a plan and has mostly executed it.

Too bad on the hockey level it doesn’t appear to have included any appreciable roster improvement.

Edited 6 hours ago by dudacek