Sabres have elected arbitration with Byram

[thewookie1]

20 minutes ago, Ducky said:

A 38 point D man is worth 7m?

Should he no, will he, probably

[SabreFinn]

Is this a possibility to get BB on a cheaper contract and by that get more teams interested? 

[Turbo44]

18 minutes ago, SabreFinn said:

Is this a possibility to get BB on a cheaper contract and by that get more teams interested? 

Doubtful as any team trading for him would prefer term at a higher cost than 2 years at 6m or so and UFA after that. It’s fine for Adams cuz in 2 years it will be Jaro’s problem

[Standing Room Smoking Cigs]

Bo seems to have a good agent. The agent knows as other GM's know last year was outlier when he didn't get concussed. It definitely plays a factor in trade value, and money going forward, along the higher insurance rate for him. Lafontaine had a great agent soaking the Rangers so he was set for life. Bo is not a Lafontaine, and I think his agent knows that 7 million in arb, will set him up for retirement. Don't ever wish upon another being taken out the game earlier than on their timeline, but concussion issues a factor in this...

[JohnC]

7 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

I doubt he got "trash offers" but I imagine they were not player for player offers. I bet he got a lot of offers involving picks and prospects and if he'd taken those and then flipped them to someone else he'd have gotten what he wanted as we alluded to earlier. 

If he were only getting futures for offers it certainly would be considered trash offers from a Sabre perspective. 
 

 What seems to be developing is that currently the return isn’t as high as hoped. And it seems BB’s contract expectations are not being met by the market. So it might be in the player’s interest to bet on himself by signing a short team deal and improve his future market value. And it would be better for the Sabres to have him on the team, even if for the short term, rather than peddle him for less than perceived value. This can be a situation where individual interests mesh.

[Pimlach]

Woke up to four pages of this.  Anything I can say or think has  probably been said.  
 

Two more years of Byram at ~$7M when you have Power at $8.3M and Dahlin at $11M is not a great situation for a lot of reasons.  
 

On the other hand I don’t trust Adams to acquire futures and then flip them with any success.  It’s not something he has shown us he can do.  

[JohnC]

12 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Woke up to four pages of this.  Anything I can say or think has  probably been said.  
 

Two more years of Byram at ~$7M when you have Power at $8.3M and Dahlin at $11M is not a great situation for a lot of reasons.  
 

On the other hand I don’t trust Adams to acquire futures and then flip them with any success.  It’s not something he has shown us he can do.  

Sometimes the unfavorable situation you are in is better than the alternative response that would get you a less than value return.

It’s understandable why you are uncomfortable with having so much cap $$$ dedicated to the blue line. However, teams get constructed differently and still succeed. So if this is a blue line dominate team for the short term, then so be it. 
 

As far as our GM liability, this is another creation of our peculiar owner. 

[Sabres Fan in NS]

This is a smart move by Adams.

Gives an amount of cost certainty and means there can't be an offer sheet that is insane.

I still think the Sabres will sign Bo(hemian) to a 4 year $6.5 to $6.75 AAV contract and this case never gets ruled on.

When do we know what the Sabres are offering in arbitration?