If they were to keep Benson then a trade needs to happen.
Not attacking you, but I really don't see where another $~4+M in cap space has any incremental value beyond the ~$9M cap space they have today. i.e., any potential weaponizing of cap space shouldn't need more than they already have given that the retained limit is 50% of an SPC. I can't see them taking multiple contracts, with retention, in trades this early in the season unless there are massive additional injuries and Savoie and Quinn's rehab timelines won't have them ready to play until next year. As the season passes, the available cap space will grow in terms of number / flexibility of deals they could do to weaponize it. So again, no reason to add to it now (or likely later).
Got no problem with Kane at around 2m for 1 year.
At this point waive Olofsson.
We have 3 full offseasons of sample size. It will take infinity, because it won't be treated differently.
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how is the best goalie giving up 4 or 5 a night. Levi with the slowest reaction ever caused us to be down 1-0 on a completely worthless effort in the first MINUTE.
Calgary barely did anything in our zone their goalie was just awful too so the score ended up close. Most of their best chances actually came shorthanded thanks to Tage and Skinner giving up uncontested breakaways with horrid passes. Levi's terrible performance cancelled out Vladar's awful performance if we had a good goaltender in last night he would have stole the game from them.
The Sabres really haven't given up a lot of chances but now they aren't getting a ton we only lost with 5 goals against once and that was including an EN so far.I didn't realize this was the Calgary GBU, my bad.
I'm speaking generally. Don't really want/need to dissect how a different goalie might've handled every shot last night.
They look like a team playing shinny on a nightly basis. There's no competitive structure to the team, they are a team being carried by how the talent is feeling that night only. When they are feeling great, they look formidable. When they are pressured into slowing down or things are clogged up, they will struggle. They are not going to win any games via means of their forecheck system or structure. Which you can probably say about most teams, but you can actually see that stark differences between the team playing loose and the team trying to stay in a structured way of the game.
Oloffson is a fine 14th forward like Bryson is a fine 7th D. Ideally, we are waiving a goalie and one of Rousek or Biro is keeping the likes of Krebs and JJ accountable in the lineup. In a pinch, Oloffson comes in to fill in a game time decision when needed. But they aren’t waiving a goalie so VO should be waived i guess.
