Confirmed Buy-Out [BUF] Sabres buy out F Jeff Skinner

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Pittsburgh? Nah, too young.

 

[ameselare]

I bet he goes to Colorado. Nichushkin replacement.

I don't think Bednar can work the same miracles on Skinner that he worked with Drouin and Nichushkin. Just don't think he will end up working out in their system. And I like Skinner as a player, and wouldn't hate if my team (Canucks) tried him out for cheap if I didn't already know that Tocchet wouldn't like him and he wouldn't fit in the system.

 

[KeziaTML]

Come to Toronto, have a big year and earn a big contract somewhere else. It's what we do.

 

[Yatzhee]

Such a Buffalo move to sign a guy with a career high of 63 points, suffer through him having a 14 and 23 point season, and then buy him out after he’s bounced back and averaged 63 points over the last 3 years.

Fair play, but not remotely accurate. Skinners been afforded the opportunity to play wing with some very good NHL players. Eichel, Reinhardt, Thompson, Tuch. He's not worth keeping if you want a player to be more than streaky. And that's the truth, whether you realize the reality of his time with the Sabres or not.

 

[JoeSakic13]

you're free jeff.

i hope he signs with a playoff team.

Former Sabres player? Yeah he’s getting a cup ring next year.

 

[BFLO]

Finally. Best move Adams has made in his 5 years as Buffalo's GM.

 

[Vitto79]

$22M in cap space and nobody really of note to re-sign, did they need to?

I don’t get it either

 

[ameselare]

Come to Toronto, have a big year and earn a big contract somewhere else. It's what we do.

Would Berube tolerate his lack of defensive effort?

 

[BobRossColton]

I don't think Bednar can work the same miracles on Skinner that he worked with Drouin and Nichushkin. Just don't think he will end up working out in their system. And I like Skinner as a player, and would like my team (the Canucks) to try him out if I didn't already know that Tocchet wouldn't like him.

Just stick him on a line with mittelstadt and lehkonen

 

[VanillaCoke]

Sign in Van

 

[Mighty Makar]

Welcome to Denver.

 

[KrakenSabresMike]

Everyone clamoring on here for their team has not watched this player closely enough to know that unless he is a severely sheltered first line, he will be net negative to your team. Say what you will about Buffalo, but he was trade for only a second round draft pick from Carolina for the same damn reason they knew he could only play on their first line and even then would offer nothing else except for the scoring.

He will get you some goals, but how many is he going to cost you going the other way? Can’t play in overtime, can’t plan him on anything, but the first line with people that will cover for him, and how much are the other players giving up on their offensive prowess in order to cover for his complete defensive Insufficiencies?

This is not me being biased… It’s all over BUF media and analysts talking points, which is why Buffalo is doing the right thing buying him out, even if it wasn’t this year it was going to happen next year.

Let me end on this… I actually really like Jeff Skinner, the person, and he had some nice moments in Buffalo. But it’s not about nice moments or him making hilarious videos and having a generally positive attitude. The on the ice stuff speaks for itself.

 

[BFLO]

It's already live on Capfriendly. Wow!

 

[Yatzhee]

I don’t get it either

You'd understand completely if you were a Sabres faithful and had watched the team all these past years.

 

[Faceboner]

Farewell skinner thanks for the goals hope he gets to go to a playoff team

 

[Ledge And Dairy]

This never really made sense to me when it started getting rumored. Sure the cap space is great for this year but UPL was the only player that was getting any sort of significant raise. The next 2 years are brutal. 4.5M dead cap in 25/26 and 6.5M dead cap in 26/27. They have a lot of young, high potential kids coming off ELC's in those years. Sure Kulich, Ostlund, Savoie, and now Helenius dodge it but you gotta account for Byram, Levi, Bensen, Peterka, and Quinn. Then I also can't imagine there is any chance they let Tuch walk either.

 

[Dirty Dog]

$22M in cap space and nobody really of note to re-sign, did they need to?

I think this as much about getting him off the team than it is about his cap

 

[Vitto79]

You'd understand completely if you were a Sabres faithful and had watched the team all these past years.

Is he bad defensively?

He scores goals and they have space

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

This never really made sense to me when it started getting rumored. Sure the cap space is great for this year but UPL was the only player that was getting any sort of significant raise. The next 2 years are brutal. 4.5M dead cap in 25/26 and 6.5M dead cap in 26/27. They have a lot of young, high potential kids coming off ELC's in those years. Sure Kulich, Ostlund, Savoie, and now Helenius dodge it but you gotta account for Byram, Levi, Bensen, Peterka, and Quinn. Then I also can't imagine there is any chance they let Tuch walk either.

And the $2.5M for the 3 years after that when those guys won't dodge it.

 

[Iwishihadaspacebar]

If the Leafs are keeping Marner, stick Skinner on the same line and watch him score 30.

 

[Ace]

New goal song just dropped

 

[Ace]

Is he bad defensively?

He scores goals and they have space

If he was bad defensively they could have lived with the contract for another year. He’d have to be the most improved player in the league to achieve bad defensively.

 

[BFLO]

Is he bad defensively?

He scores goals and they have space

 

[ameselare]

Just stick him on a line with mittelstadt and lehkonen

I really don't think you've watched him play very much. As KrakenSabresMike said, you can stick him on a line where guys will cover for him but it would negatively impact the line overall. And again, I know it doesn't seem like it, but I do like Skinner. Just won't work in certain systems in my opinion.

 

[tsujimoto74]

$22M in cap space and nobody really of note to re-sign, did they need to?

Parting ways with Skinner isn’t about the cap space his contract takes. It’s about who he is as a player and how that fits into the team now.