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So what I see for the Sabres is- Thompson as an offensive center, he produces offense like a #1 center, and his defense is, let's just say the best defense is a good offense. Cozens put up a career year offensively, his two way game was not great, but I expect him to be a 200 foot center, and if his linemates stay peterka and Quinn, they should a very good two way line. We don't have a third line center right now, I'm not at all a mittelstadt believer, and Krebs is still progressing, still raw, but our best internal look at a #3 center. Lindholm is on a great deal, but it's running out. That's two firsts, a second, and whatever you value jokiharju at, for one year of lindholm, and the Sabres have first round center prospects in savoie, kulich, and ostlund all coming. It's too much for a rental, and assuming his next contract is gonna be 7 years at 50 million or so (I have no idea, this sounds close) it would be better for somebody else to get him. I'm thinking Minnesota, LA, maybe montreal, somebody who could really use lindholm and might be more interested in signing him long term, even if it would require cap gymnastics.