Confirmed with Link: Svechnikov signed $7.75M aav, 8yrs

[spockBokk]

The answer at 2C is obviously Jack Eichel.

 

[bleedgreen]

In an ideal world we can bundle Trocheck, Nino, a couple prospects and picks and land Eichel and be able to run Eichel-Aho-Jordo-_____ down the middle for a while

but I do realize this is also fantasyland talk

I’m not 100% sure Jack isn’t a petulant brat but at the same time the opportunity to get a guy that good is hard to ignore, and yes with Eichel/Aho plus Slavin/Pesce it’s hard to see us not competitive for the playoffs right there and an increased threat to win the cup.

 

[Svechhammer]

I’m not 100% sure Jack isn’t a petulant brat but at the same time the opportunity to get a guy that good is hard to ignore, and yes with Eichel/Aho plus Slavin/Pesce it’s hard to see us not competitive for the playoff right there and an increased threat to win the cup.

I'm just saying, if TDA wasn't a worry due to his attitude, I'm not sure why Eichel would be

 

[bleedgreen]

I'm just saying, if TDA wasn't a worry due to his attitude, I'm not sure why Eichel would be

I don’t disagree but Tony is on a one year show me deal for peanuts and Jack Jack is a 10 mill a year maybe diva we’re married to for years.

 

[Svechhammer]

I don’t disagree but Tony is on a one year show me deal for peanuts and Jack Jack is a 10 mill a year maybe diva we’re married to for years.

no argument. At the same time, I'm not sure I would fault an elite player for being frustrated with being stuck in Buffalo their entire career, literally holding back their career trajectory.

 

[bleedgreen]

no argument. At the same time, I'm not sure I would fault an elite player for being frustrated with being stuck in Buffalo their entire career, literally holding back their career trajectory.

That’s a new age concept to some extent. All teams rise and fall, you should be happy to be in the NHL....a captain....the leading scorer....and a fan favorite until your team turns it around. Today players who are still kids can land career long contracts and be rich for life without having earned or won a thing. It’s an honor to play for the Buffalo Sabres, and if he’s someone who reads social media or something ridiculous like HF and feels pissed or embarrassed, and can’t see that there’s another side of this coin that’s likely coming I wouldn’t want him anywhere near this team.

He could be someone later generations look back on fondly if he did the work required and helped Buffalo turn it around. 97 wasn’t happy to go to EDM, but that guy shows up every day, punches the clock and goes to work without complaining about shit. Don’t tell me that team has been run much better.

Jack would definitely make us a better team, and at the same time the Sabres will likely be a much better team the moment that guy is gone.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

That’s a new age concept to some extent. All teams rise and fall, you should be happy to be in the NHL....a captain....the leading scorer....and a fan favorite until your team turns it around. Today players who are still kids can land career long contracts and be rich for life without having earned or won a thing. It’s an honor to play for the Buffalo Sabres, and if he’s someone who reads social media or something ridiculous like HF and feels pissed or embarrassed, and can’t see that there’s another side of this coin that’s likely coming I wouldn’t want him anywhere near this team.

He could be someone later generations look back on fondly if he did the work required and helped Buffalo turn it around. 97 wasn’t happy to go to EDM, but that guy shows up every day, punches the clock and goes to work without complaining about shit. Don’t tell me that team has been run much better.

Jack would definitely make us a better team, and at the same time the Sabres will likely be a much better team the moment that guy is gone.

I mean, I don't disagree with the idea that the Oilers have been run poorly. I've said the same thing for years. Buffalo's management, however, has been that much worse, to the point that I feel no ill will for Eichel (and remember, everybody else on the Sabres!! Reinhart and Risto asked and got the exact same thing!)

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I kinda don't want Jack Eichel being the highest paid player on this team. Something about that guy makes my spidey sense tingle.

 

[bleedgreen]

I mean, I don't disagree with the idea that the Oilers have been run poorly. I've said the same thing for years. Buffalo's management, however, has been that much worse, to the point that I feel no ill will for Eichel (and remember, everybody else on the Sabres!! Reinhart and Risto asked and got the exact same thing!)

They’re under new management and I don’t think Adams has made a bad move yet. You can’t blame Adams for what he inherited.

If you don’t want to be the man, and go through good times and bad.....don’t sign a max contract with the team you’re going to have to go through good times and bad with. He chose this. Those other two had already done their time and made it clear they wouldn’t stay as ufa. Jack gave all that up with his mega contract.

 

[TheReelChuckFletcher]

I kinda don't want Jack Eichel being the highest paid player on this team. Something about that guy makes my spidey sense tingle.

I really don't care about that. The Canes didn't give him that contract, the Sabres did! You trade for his talent.

 

[Svechhammer]

Meh, I don't fault anyone who wants out of a toxic franchise, and Buffalo is straight up toxic. He's been there for 6 years, and the most help they've given Eichel is, what, signing Jeff Skinner to an absurd contract only to demote him to the 4th line? Yeah, I'd say f*** that as well. Eichel shouldn't have to eat a shit sandwich for the next 5 years because Buffalo management can't get out of its own way, especially if being in such a bad environment can/will impact the money he will be able to make on his next contract.

 

[bleedgreen]

Meh, I don't fault anyone who wants out of a toxic franchise, and Buffalo is straight up toxic. He's been there for 6 years, and the most help they've given Eichel is, what, signing Jeff Skinner to an absurd contract only to demote him to the 4th line? Yeah, I'd say f*** that as well. Eichel shouldn't have to eat a shit sandwich for the next 5 years because Buffalo management can't get out of its own way, especially if being in such a bad environment can/will impact the money he will be able to make on his next contract.

So Buffalo does exactly what we did with changing management and coaches and they’re “toxic” despite everything Adams inherited being done before him? I assume you didn’t watch much under Granato. They were a much better team. They fired the coach that put Skinner in the fourth line.

They’re not much worse than we were for parts of our decade of suck. I feel any of us throwing stones at them should bubble wrap the glass house they live in. This year was some special level of suck but I think they got past it after the coach got fired. They still have this mess but I think once it gets figured out they’re on their way back up. They have some good pieces to build around.

Toxic has become the new fetch.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

I really don't care about that. The Canes didn't give him that contract, the Sabres did! You trade for his talent.

I know you don't. You don't care about anything!

 

[Lempo]

I know you don't. You don't care about anything!

I have slept very poorly and started reading this "I don't know you" and then got confused as Hank doesn't mention that it's his purse.

Because, in a way it is.

 

[The Faulker 27]

Jack Eichel looks a lot like Mark Bryan from Hootie & the Blowfish.

 

[HisIceness]

Jack Eichel looks a lot like Mark Bryan from Hootie & the Blowfish.

"I'm such a baby yeah, the Sabres make me cry"

 

[Blueline Bomber]

"I'm such a baby yeah, the Sabres make me cry"

For the longest time, I could never figure out if he meant the Dolphins, the NFL team, or the actual animals.

Wasn't until I heard a Post Malone cover and he replaced Dolphins with Cowboys that I assumed he was talking about football. Unless Postie has a really strange childhood fear...

 

[HisIceness]

For the longest time, I could never figure out if he meant the Dolphins, the NFL team, or the actual animals.

Wasn't until I heard a Post Malone cover and he replaced Dolphins with Cowboys that I assumed he was talking about football. Unless Postie has a really strange childhood fear...

Rucker is a Dolphins football fan, in the music video for that song he and Dan Marino toss the pigskin around.

 

[Chrispy]

For the longest time, I could never figure out if he meant the Dolphins, the NFL team, or the actual animals.

Wasn't until I heard a Post Malone cover and he replaced Dolphins with Cowboys that I assumed he was talking about football. Unless Postie has a really strange childhood fear...

And if you grew up rooting for the Dolphins, you understood immediately.

(Yes, I grew up in CT and chose to be a Dolphins fan.)

 

[TomppaKoo]

Too much money and too long a term for another greedy Russian that has not really proven himself in any way. This is a bad contract.

 

[Navin R Slavin]

Too much money and too long a term for another greedy Russian that has not really proven himself in any way. This is a bad contract.

If this is a joke, I don't get it.

 

[DaveG]

And if you grew up rooting for the Dolphins, you understood immediately.

(Yes, I grew up in CT and chose to be a Dolphins fan.)

Hot taek time: I still maintain that Marino is the GOAT and it's an absolute crime that the Dolphins completely failed to field a competent team around him on a consistent basis.

If they had traded him to Pittsburgh in the mid 90s as had been rumored at various times the Steelers have a minimum 3 more super bowl wins.

 

[Tryamw]

Hot taek time: I still maintain that Marino is the GOAT and it's an absolute crime that the Dolphins completely failed to field a competent team around him on a consistent basis.

If they had traded him to Pittsburgh in the mid 90s as had been rumored at various times the Steelers have a minimum 3 more super bowl wins.

Imagine a Quarterback that completes every throw get's 25+ yards an attempt but his receivers fumble it and the other team always recovers.. IS he not the Greatest QB of all time? They NEVER get a Superbowl win of course since they never get a win..

Marino is one of the Best QB's I had ever seen. But yeah other then that first year his teams were garbage.. D and O...