red devil
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The forum must have added some more hamsters for reinforcements as it isn't slow anymore
posters bolted and left to drink beer.The forum must have added some more hamsters for reinforcements as it isn't slow anymore
The Price contract was not irrelevant it was a pain in the ass that had to be dealt with and still has to be manipulated.The Price contract has be LTIR’etired: it’s irrelevant to us now.
Anderson and Gallagher are collateral damage from an incompetent previous management. But as far as team building, what youth is ready to step into those roles for next season? Roy will get his chance, as he did this season. Mesar, Beck and Farrell all still need serious seasoning.
There’s no need to do anything with Anderson or Gallagher for this season. They can likely line up Gallagher for an LTIR’etirement of his own this season if he doesn’t perform and if Anderson sucks again this year I fully expect him to be bought out next summer to open up his roster spot.
Yep, this is how I feel too. Today went a bit bizarro world in my opinion. The only deal I would have been comfortable doing was for Patrick Kane and that’s it.You should be happy the team entered this day with a set of strict criteria on the kind of deals they were willing to hand out and didn't diverge from that out of panic or a urge to please/look active.
The Sabres haven't made the playoffs in 13 years, we haven't made it in 3 years. The Avs made the playoffs one time in a span of 7 years before becoming a consistent playoff team and ultimately a contender. This isn't going to be resolved in 3 years, and signing flawed players like Toffoli/Monahan to outrageous contracts just to get us from being a bottom 5 team to a bottom 12 one isn't solving anything.One injury away from Hagens/Martone. Lovely.
Were aiming for the Sabres rebuild.
don't think so. this the line up for the fall.There is still more than 3 months before the season start in October. Hughes and the rest of the management team can make changes throughout the Summer. They don't have to make all of their moves on July 1st. They can always look for free agent bargain deals for players that missed out on the 1st few days of free agency and can continue to test the trade market to see what is available.
The Price contract was not irrelevant it was a pain in the ass that had to be dealt with and still has to be manipulated.
Do you not think we would be much happier if it didn't exist?
What don't you understand about what I'm saying?
If Gallagher and Anderson aren't there to begin with Hughes would already have worked on and found better younger replacements.
Making our good players better by having better support players is what team building is about.
Looks like the best for a Savard trade at the deadline is Colorado only 5 d signed and the fifth is De Haan.
Won't happen.MTL is the 4th team with the most cap space, I think they are still looking at trades including Laine and Ehlers.
Not one reporter had the guts to ask any tough questions. Gutless.
Fans pay 1000's of dollars a year to fill that arena and are now facing another season where half the home games will be totally meaningless.
They are very lucky this isn't Minnesota or Nashville.
that is the very pointNot one reporter had the guys to ask any tough questions. Gutless.
Fans pay 1000's of dollars a year to fill that arena and are now facing another season where half the home games will be totally meaningless.
They are very lucky this isn't Minnesota or Nashville.
CopeExcept our core (Suzuki/Caufield) has already tasted the cup finals.
There is nothing remotely close between our situation now and the Sabres rebuild.
Fans aren’t forced to go to games. Nor are they forced to even watch them on TV. I for one at least find the games entertaining. Certainly more entertaining than the garbage we saw under Bergevin.Not one reporter had the guts to ask any tough questions. Gutless.
Fans pay 1000's of dollars a year to fill that arena and are now facing another season where half the home games will be totally meaningless.
They are very lucky this isn't Minnesota or Nashville.
The forum must have added some more hamsters for reinforcements as it isn't slow anymore
Yeah I like bringing in new players too but like you mentioned, none of the deals are ones I'd be in favor of giving out (not to mention we'd probably have to offer up more money to boot). The only one I see them making would have been Perron but even then he doesn't move the needle in any direction and is also not a complete player either. This free agency class is pretty weak too, there isn't too many great players entering their prime to offer up for (maybe DeBrusk).Trust me, I love the dopamine hit of looking on Twitter and seeing we signed a new player. It’s great.
But today is going to be a horror show for a lot of teams in about 3 or 4 years. Some of those deals stink really, really bad.
I would have loved Monahan, Toffoli, Marchessault, or Stamkos. But the first two got outrageous deals. Marchessault was a bit long for my taste, and Stamkos is a bit too much money. All good.
The rest I do not care about at all. Chandler Stephenson for 7 years? Joel Edmundson for 4 years in the year 2024? No thanks.
Ehlers can keep his 4 playoff goals elsewhere , dudes a loser when it countsMTL is the 4th team with the most cap space, I think they are still looking at trades including Laine and Ehlers.
Plenty of action can happen before camps shut down.- We are not trading a prospect for another prospect (sideway move)
- Trades were tried, but didn’t work
- Confortable with our top 6
- Growth to be organic
Unless Hughes as become a smokescreen kind of guy, this is the roster we should have in September.
No worries about the UFA's the reality is I was only interested in bolstering our weak ass bottom.He has absolutely no reason to over pay UFAs or rush any of our prospects to fill the role of Gallagher or Anderson. It’s completely counter productive.
Anyone he could’ve landed today as a “splash” to replace these two, we’d regret it in short order just as we regret the contracts Bergevin handed out to those 2 in the first place.