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Trade Deadline Thread (March 3)

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Ace said:
They’re wasting Cozens, Tage, Dahlin and Power making like 10 million total RIGHT NOW.

Next year they’ll waste Dahlin and Power making 7 total.

In two years they’ll say they can’t move futures because of all the big contracts. For the players they wasted while they were making nothing.
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This doesn’t make any sense. This is the last year of Tage or Cozens cheap. What do you think, we are in a cup window or something? We should have rentals to make a push? If you’re talking about players with term, then this year of cheaper contracts doesn’t matter as the contracts would extend into next year.

Your thinking is so flawed on so many levels…starting with your idea that we are in some window RIGHT NOW. Our window hasn’t even started.

And it’s also a bad faith argument since you kept saying we need to make moves because we were going to be bad. Doing a 180 and using the opposite reasoning to justify your same criticism is so disingenuous
 
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enthusiast said:
It’s hard to say. Ottawa is two points back, it’s not like we’re miles apart
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Right. Point is -- Adams COULD have beaten it if he wanted to. A piece we could NOT have matched was if Ottawa put like Jake Sanderson or some high-potential defenseman. That's the only piece we could not match.

Everything else is a want.

Adams wants to hold onto the 2023 1st, that much is clear. I'm OK with the decision......just not OK with a popular Sabres blogger saying we "couldn't" match it.
 
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enthusiast said:
I think I’d be less annoyed if they didn’t just ship off a solid and interesting prospect for another bad defenseman. If you want to stock up on the valuable future assets instead of trading them for a good player, fine, do it. If that’s the case, though, don’t make the Stillman trade.
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Ah but you're forgetting the *untapped potential* that will be unlocked with Donnie's magic wand.
 
Ace said:
PDOcast disproved this talking point weeks ago.

and hearing Roenick say it today was all the proof I needed it wasn’t true
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Good offense. Average defense.
 

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Zman5778 said:
Right. Point is -- Adams COULD have beaten it if he wanted to. A piece we could NOT have matched was if Ottawa put like Jake Sanderson or some high-potential defenseman. That's the only piece we could not match.

Everything else is a want.

Adams wants to hold onto the 2023 1st, that much is clear. I'm OK with the decision......just not OK with a popular Sabres blogger saying we "couldn't" match it.
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Chad’s just trying to sound mysterious. The implication I guess is that he “knows” that Adams won’t give it up as an unflinching policy. Which seems dumb if true but hey maybe so
 
Zman5778 said:
Right. Point is -- Adams COULD have beaten it if he wanted to. A piece we could NOT have matched was if Ottawa put like Jake Sanderson or some high-potential defenseman. That's the only piece we could not match.

Everything else is a want.

Adams wants to hold onto the 2023 1st, that much is clear. I'm OK with the decision......just not OK with a popular Sabres blogger saying we "couldn't" match it.
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Even if we had to add a small piece, it’s not like we couldn’t. I’m with you on Chad’s analysis not really making any sense
 
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ValJamesDuex said:
On Sabres Live Marty said the locker room became incredibly dejected every year when the Sabres did not make deadline moves to help the team.
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Im sure the team is giddy about breaking the playoffless streak. Adams giving them hardly any help down the stretch wouldn't match the mindset of the players. It's telling the team 'we dont want to sacrifice hardly any of the future for improvements to the current team' while the players who are playing for the team NOW want to win. If they weren't tight in the race, then it'd be different.

Im not even talking about a major trade; even the Niederreiter deal would've sent a good message.

Remember Beane trading for Benjamin? It didnt impact the future of the Bills at all, but it sent a message to the team. It turned out to be a terrible trade for the Bills, but the mindset behind it was correct, imo.
 
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in fairness, if you calculated winning percentages under each owner the pegulas might challenge for all time low
 
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