Zman5778
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Not all that surprising, if true. If Tanev is interested, he can sign here as a UFA after playing for a true contender.
And if he's not interested, I don't blame him.
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Not all that surprising, if true. If Tanev is interested, he can sign here as a UFA after playing for a true contender.
And if he's not interested, I don't blame him.
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If true, this gives me at least a tiny semblance of hope that KA is pursuing the right additions.
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Common theme...Adams has spent 2 years "talking" to other teams. You would think he could nail it down by now and get this team some help.
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This is a headline I have read with every player that has been traded. Adams kicking the tires but too scared to pull the trigger.
Eh. This hints at just more press that comes out after they aren't able to get a guy. It's nice to hear they're trying, but again there is no result there.
Lebrun implied this was a trade clause issue, not an Adams issue.
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Well that will continue to be the case if they target guys with trade protection.
True. At least ask, who knows maybe one guy is amenable. Tanev does have some experience of WNY having played at RIT for a year.
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I read that part but it doesn't change the fact that Buffalo is interested in other trades over the past two years and wasn't able to do anything because the price is always too high for Kevyn Adams...Just add it to the pile.
Sabres used to use the pegulacopter/jet to change players minds,
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These are not mutually exclusive issues.
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Ya, how does it even get to a rumor. You call ask if he will go to Buffalo and if not end of story but that being said players have waived to come to Buffalo. Robyn Regehr comes to mind.
It doesn't mean they are synonymous either. The implication in the post was that this was because Adams wouldn't meet the price. Indict him for what he hasn't done. Don't need to make up something else to further indict him for something he could not do.
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True.
But I was implying that Adams failure as a GM over the last 4 years is at least one of the reasons that players won’t waive to come here.
If Adams had built a winner, people would waive to come here.
Adams is quite possibly the worst GM at ‘strategic’ leaking. The leak about the Calgary players the night before the Eichel trade continues to be the worst attempt to try to drive up the price for a player I’ve ever seen.
Re: The Sabres and NTC/NMC
This is a problem of their own making. Putting Eichels career on hold for 6 months and stripping him of his captaincy continues to carry real consequences. It was noted Hanafin didn’t want to come here either. Buffalo is a hard enough sell without a cheap, spiteful front office.
This is a problem of their own making. Putting Eichels career on hold for 6 months and stripping him of his captaincy continues to carry real consequences. It was noted Hanafin didn’t want to come here either. Buffalo is a hard enough sell without a cheap, spiteful front office.
Buffalo was not a destination for 20 years before the Eichel thing. Their rank in least desirable destination in the player polls transcends this management and ownership.
Players are willing to go to Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Detroit. The difference is competent management and good ownership.
How does that change how Regier set deep foundations of this not being a destination or the economic brownout that is the local area? This has been an issue for decades.
It doesn't, but the current ownership, rather than take strides to put that behind them, instead brought it back in full force under the current GM. At least under Murray and Botterill, the Pegulas were willing to spend and they tried to do right by players. Adams was brought in specifically to spend the minimum. And combine that with the petty treatment they gave Eichel on the way out and putting his career on hold for 6 months, it's put us back at the very bottom of destinations.
We are never going to be a tax haven or warm weather city or big city. But we could easily compete with other mid sized, cold weather cities. But, no, even that modest dream of mediocrity recruiting has been dashed by incompetent ownership and management.
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Zman5778
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Boosh with 75% retention means that Toronto is on the hook for 690k in cap hit. Boosh is a barely-playable 3rd pairing tough RHD. That cost Toronto a 3rd and a 6th.
If we retain 50% on EJ, it'll cost a team 1.625M against the cap. I think Boosh has been better than EJ this season......
We ain't gettin shit for EJ.
That's my thought. Nothing for EJ, possibly nothing for Vic. A couple picks in the middle of the draft might be it, if that. *shrug*
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