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Steal of a deal. He's a Vancouver guy I was hoping would get to UFA and would have had zero issues with a $2 million contract. Absolutely terrific bottom-6 player.
These excuses have been used for two years running and ignore the reality of one-year deals. They happen all summer, last summer, and this summer. I don't really view Malenstyn as much of anything. His possession stats are not great, but his defensive starts are bonkers. It doesn't excite me, it doesn't upset. Paying a 43rd seems a tad high but picks are way overrated.
A guy making 1.35 million is worth a 2nd round pick? Smh
I know I get it that it has taken way too long but they have to trust their drafting and development. We all know how it turned out when they tried to rush their rebuild by acquiring Kane, Bogosian, O’Reilly and Lehner to surround Eichel and Reinhart. All talented players but it just didn’t mesh together. These young guys have been playing in Rochester or earning their spot on the big team. That is what you want to see. If they see it through they will be better than Toronto and Tampa as soon as next year. They won’t just be a playoff team but a contender.
In Buffalo, yesA guy making 1.35 million is worth a 2nd round pick? Smh
Steal of a deal. He's a Vancouver guy I was hoping would get to UFA and would have had zero issues with a $2 million contract. Absolutely terrific bottom-6 player.
$2 M for a fourth liner. Talk like that well have you on the fast track from running Harbor Center to being GM
A guy making 1.35 million is worth a 2nd round pick? Smh
Yeah, I wish we drafted someone with that pick that may have made the team in 4 or 5 years or….not make the team.
Malenstyn is awesome at his role and is pretty much guaranteed to become a fan favorite. A player anyone would love to have on their team.Amazing how few times local Buffalo fail to get the story first. Nothing deal. Moves needle not at all
It's because of his jfresh card. The people who live and die by jfresh/xgf% just don't understand how a player with Malenstyn's deployment will never get a fair shake through those lensesI don't understand this sentiment. He brings physicality and performed well in absurd defensive deployments last year, and was effective in Hershey in prior years. He is exactly the type of player that the Sabres need.
You can argue about other moves (or lack thereof), but Adams acquired a brand new 4th line in Malenstyn, NAK, and Lafferty. I will take that every day over the weird cast of misfits and washed vets that Buffalo has employed in the bottom 6 for many years.
Or just hear me out. Use the pick to trade for someone who will actually make an impact.Yeah, I wish we drafted someone with that pick that may have made the team in 4 or 5 years or….not make the team.
After the Malenstyn contract, we're at $14.5M under. Add in UPL and Krebs and then another ~$800k for either an 8th Dman or 14th forward and we'll be somewhere around $8M left in cap space to start the year.
Therr was also other issues..I know I get it that it has taken way too long but they have to trust their drafting and development. We all know how it turned out when they tried to rush their rebuild by acquiring Kane, Bogosian, O’Reilly and Lehner to surround Eichel and Reinhart. All talented players but it just didn’t mesh together. These young guys have been playing in Rochester or earning their spot on the big team. That is what you want to see. If they see it through they will be better than Toronto and Tampa as soon as next year. They won’t just be a playoff team but a contender.
Or just hear me out. Use the pick to trade for someone who will actually make an impact.
Do you think its either make the pick or draft Malenstyn? Thats it? Thats the only options out there? smh
This is a very good defensive fourth liner and energy line player. At the NHL minimum, or near enough, he was fantastic. On his new deal, I'd hope to promote him into a third line role and/or see him produce more offensively to love the contract.
If the season is predicated on this guy, we have issues.Malenstyn is awesome at his role and is pretty much guaranteed to become a fan favorite. A player anyone would love to have on their team.
$1.35M would be a STEAL of a deal for a 3rd liner. $1.35M is exactly in line with a 4th liner of his caliber, if not even a bit cheap for a player like Malenstyn.
The Sabres revamped bottom 6 will absolutely make an impact for the team. One of the team's most persistent problems of the last decade has been that its "role players" have mostly just been guys who are misfits in virtually any NHL role. Malenstyn is going to be our new Larsson but faster and more physical. He's a guy you can bury in tough defensive assignments, and he'll do well with them, freeing up
I thought we were talking about Malenstyn now you want to talk about the bottom 6. This is the Malenstyn thread not the sabres bottom 6 thread. Thats a different topic.more easy minutes for the guys you want to put in scoring positions.
Apparently, they feel KA should have overpaid on the contract, too. Maybe we should give McLeod 8x$6M asap so we make sure we don't make this same mistake again.I mean would it make you feel better if the Sabres paid him $5 million dollars?
If anything, coming in under $1.75-2 million is added value. Not sure why anybody would downgrade the trade because he signed a bargain deal…
People are either way overrating what a typical 2nd round pick becomes or underrating Malenstyn. That second round pick probably isn’t helping you for 3-4 years anyways even if it does come good. I mean, seems like a great idea just having the Sabres waste another year hoarding prospects and picks while their team depth and lack of intelligent, fast and physical role players submarines another season.
I thought we were talking about Malenstyn now you want to talk about the bottom 6. This is the Malenstyn thread not the sabres bottom 6 thread. Thats a different topic.
I'm extremely happy with this trade, and signing; It's the exact type of player(s) we need NOW. If I remember correctly, Lindy Ruff was the coach of our Presidents trophy winning team, when Miller got run by that piece of shit Lucic. We have never recovered from that incident, hence the 13 year drought (in my opinion). I think Lindy has learned a few things since then, and has helped picking the recent signings.... hopefully these signings, (Lafferty, Aube-Kubel, Malenstyn, Zucker), along with the couple of others that are hitters, like Clifton, Tuch,, Byram, Cozens, and Dahlin, will spread to our other big guys.