Trade Deadline Thread (March 3)

[Diaspora]

Stan Jiricek from Bricklayers Local 188? He likes Genny light and Wardlynski's over Sahlen's.

Don't give me dat baloney.

 

[zenthusiast]

Multiple GMs wanting to rebuild a team will do that!

I guess the buck stops with whoever hires those guys and approves those visions, then

 

[Zman5778]

What in the what? Blueger had positive value????

 

[CowbellConray]

Gimme Sissons and Fabbro for 2 seconds and a minor prospect

 

[slip]

Chad tries to explain later in that thread that it is the Sens pick being (right now) higher than the Sabres pick that made the different.

Because clearly a two point lead over Ottawa in the standing with over 20 games left to play makes any attempt to equate the value of their first rounder vs ours utterly ridiculous.

JFC Adams you suck at making trades to fill holes, vs making trades to send off disgruntled a-holes that have no desire to play for Buffalo.

Reactive and cowardly is how I'd characterize your tenure so far. Grow a pair already.

 

[Ace]

People who think Adams has done a good job should be the most angry. Imagine what he could do it they didn’t have almost SEVENTY FIVE MILLION of accrued cap space right now. Or if he’d stop overvaluing prospects and picks…most of which they can’t sign and there isn’t room for because they’re almost all skill forwards

 

[SundherDome]

Sissons would be a very good pickup for us. Would easily toss them a 2nd for him. Fabbro is still rumored available too.

I could be talked into Josi as well

 

[WiHockeyGuy]

Gimme Sissons and Fabbro for 2 seconds and a minor prospect

NSH is definitely reaching critical mass where they are going to need bodies in return. They have a ton of guys out with injuries and are purging contracts left and right.

 

[EichHart]

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.

Wasting? Do you see the east? The goal is the cup and no matter who we trade for we have zero chance at that this year.

 

[sabremike]

They took all the goodwill and positive vibes they built up this season and crashed it straight into the ground worse than the Hindenburg.

 

[The Blunder Years]

It’s just not making sense to me because we’re talking about players that if acquired would be with the team beyond this season. How the f*** does trading draft picks for a pretty young top 4 dman under contract for two more seasons that can insulate your 20 year old #1 pick who has to play with f***ing Jokiharju not help our “long term sustainability”

 

[Zman5778]

I could be talked into Josi as well

He's damned good. And he's going to age well. But that contract scares the bejeebus out of me.

And also rumored to be not available (with Saros and Forsberg)

 

[WiHockeyGuy]

They took all the goodwill and positive vibes they built up this season and crashed it straight into the ground worse than the Hindenburg.

The fan base being rabidly bi-polar isn't the team's fault.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

I imagine it would be like Ottawa where you need to charter a flight to get to a home game

Honestly I like their location, and get why they put if there. They figured Ottawa would expand and Kanata (and Petawawa, Penatenguishine, etc) would become part of it like all of the towns around Toronto. It just didn’t work because companies didn’t go to Ottawa.

 

[is the answer jesus]

With Ottawa only being 2 pts behind, I can't believe that would be much of a factor. There's about a 50/50 chance Ottawa finishes higher then Buffalo.

I feel similarly, but I'm not the Coyotes. Perhaps they view us as the better team. I doubt that was anything that was significant enough to get in the way if the Sabres actually wanted Chychrun.

 

[Sabreality]

They took all the goodwill and positive vibes they built up this season and crashed it straight into the ground worse than the Hindenburg.

good grief

 

[SundherDome]

People who think Adams has done a good job should be the most angry. Imagine what he could do it they didn’t have almost SEVENTY FIVE MILLION of accrued cap space right now. Or if he’d stop overvaluing prospects and picks…most of which they can’t sign and there isn’t room for because they’re almost all skill forwards.

 

[Chainshot]

Wasting? Do you see the east? The goal is the cup and no matter who we trade for we have zero chance at that this year.

The holes they have to fill extend past just this year and won't be filled internally any time in the timeline of the best players on the team being their best players.

 

[sabremike]

The fan base being rabidly bi-polar isn't the team's fault.

 

[EichHart]

The holes they have to fill extend past just this year and won't be filled internally any time in the timeline of the best players on the team being their best players.

I expect Adams to fix our team this offseason. This year was never expected.

 

[Dirty Dog]

I guess the buck stops with whoever hires those guys and approves those visions, then

i guess. I think that’s a bit simple, especially since he has had the team 11 years and we were intentionally bad for over a third of it. But heck, maybe he has the right guy now in charge. Seems like they are definitely on the right path.

and since the bills are looking at probably their second best period of success, and potentially best ever…seems pretty good to me.

A decade of ownership over two sports teams, and already has the bills as maybe their best and the Sabres maybe building something successful.

I’ll take it

 

[Zman5778]

The holes they have to fill extend past just this year and won't be filled internally any time in the timeline of the best players on the team being their best players.

I'm confident that Kevyn knows this. The multitude of rumors linking us to Chychrun shows me that he knows we need another top 4 D at the very least.....sooner rather than later.

At some point he knows he needs to make a move -- I just think it's coming in the off-season, not the TDL.

 

[WhereAreTheCookies]

NSH is definitely reaching critical mass where they are going to need bodies in return. They have a ton of guys out with injuries and are purging contracts left and right.

Maybe they go crazy and trade for JT MIller

 

[Hasekperreault23]

True. If he brings in another quality defensman, then all will be forgiven.

Im still going to vent, though!

Who is available though? Like seriously who?

 

[Sabresfansince1980]

This Chychrun trade is proof that the front office is not serious about making the team better right now, even with moves that improve the team for the near future. Who knows what it is...Adams being complacent, working under an internal budget...I don't care really. The bottom line is that KA's quotes about long-term sustainability is just a smoke screen for operating at the bare bottom level of operations for the time being. That's it, no avoiding this conclusion.