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Forum: Armchair-GMApr. 14, 2023 at 12:16 p.m.
Thread: Buffalo moves on from Victor Zemgus Kyle and Tyson
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DDossett</b></div><div>I have to say my biggest concern here is age followed by goal tending. I heard "youngest team in the league" as an excuse a lot this year as if the teams age wasn't apparent when starting the season with sheehan, bjork, and hinnestrozza on the roster and there was just nothing 20mil could do about that for a season. This is looking like the same mistake. Who is your captain?

Whats your plan for when upl goes IR in january and levi has already played more games than he's ever played in a season? Hart was awesome when he got his first starts, knight was going to be the greatest ever, UPL was an allstar. I really hope the plan is not to have levi in buff next year but wolves gotta eat too l guess.
Mitts has been on fire...for a few games maybe, a garbage fire most the season tho. During the tank zegmus got a few goals as a 1C when ennis was out. If you think mitts is figured it out how bout keeping him as depth to move up to cover injury? Don't you kind off want to push for playoffs next year? Does trialing a 1c and adding 2 rookies seem like a way to do that?
I like adding veteran d, Orlov will probably take a different offer but its a good shot. Clifton is a more stable defender than joker but he's probably going to want more than that and some one will offer it, say 3mil x 6. Doable.
Im very concerned about your forward depth as you called your call ups up to start the season, perhaps spend that 10 mil on 2-3 guys that will help with the "youth problem" and then waive them if kulich or some forces thier way in. Savoie could be an exception but it should be because he's NHL ready not because he's surpassed the CHL.</div></div>

First, great feedback and a ton of really good questions.
Yup, this team will still be the youngest team in the NHL even with adding Orlov.
That of course is a concern considering all of the errors that go along with <strong>On The Job Training</strong>.
Being an eternal optimist, Peterka's and Quinn's first season production (12-20-32, 14-23-37) is very similar to Cozens' (13-25-38), a bit rosie outlook but they could break out as he did.

While Mittelstadt has been the Sabres best player over the past 10 games, remove his terrible slump of 16 games from November 4th to December 7, the remaining 65 games he has 10 goals, 51 pts and +4.
He also has more pts this season than he had his previousl 3 seasons. Maybe calling him a top line center is a bridge too far.
He has also demonstrated that he has become a solid 200 ft forward, consistantly digging the puck off the boards in the defensive zone.

You are correct we can pay both Orlov and Clifton a bit more.
Orlov is signed for two seasons when Peterka and Quinn will want a raise.

You are correct, offer both Girgensons and Okposo contracts.
Over all this line up only adds one young player, Savoie.
All of the younger players will be a year older, stronger, smarter, mature and more capable of handling adversity.

Lastly, Malcolm Subban has been a brick wall since mid March.
He is 5-0-4 with a 2.25 GAA and a 0.921 SV%.
It was a great move to acquire him last year.
He may even push Luukkonen if he can continue this production.

Finally, upgrading the defense, adding Goodrow coupled with the experience gained this year should be sufficient to get this team into the playoffs next year.
Forum: Armchair-GMMar. 2, 2023 at 8:07 p.m.
Thread: Still man
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DDossett</b></div><div>I wouldnt resign him and i'm not sold on UPL. Saros would be there while levi developes. If UPL or Levi disapoint maybe i resign him. Buy im probably moving on regardless. I'd just hate to not make a long shot cup run next year and im ready to move on from all the peices above in the future anyway.
im also getting Sissons whose on a super reasonable deal for a few years to bounce around my bottom 6.</div></div>

For what it would actually take to get Saros,
you’d be giving up quite a bit to have him for just over 2 years

And he’s likely not enough to realistically make a Cup run next season- maybe in his last season here?
But if we aren’t gonna extend him, then he should probably be traded by the deadline at the latest
Shouldn’t let him walk for nothing
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 25, 2023 at 1:23 a.m.
Thread: Can we afford Meier moving forward
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>sabres89</b></div><div>I think you are close. I do agree portillo doesn't have much value, maybe swap him for a 2nd? That's two mid firsts, a second, and mittelstadt, who is gonna have a look at 50 points this year. And mittelstadt shouldn't break the bank either. That's a decent offer, if jersey wants to beat it, have at it. Not sure how you removed olofsson, I'm assuming for picks, might be more difficult than that. I really like olofsson, but there's only so many teams that are shopping for a 5 million dollar shooter, and chances are they don't have 5 million in cap space, so they are gonna wanna give us cap back with the pick. But yes, it looks like there should be room. If I've gotta throw somebody else over- jokiharju and upl are both over 3 million. Wanna make an omelet...</div></div>

I left out Olofsson simply bc i think he’s a guy who might not be here long term- regardless of what we might be able to get for him in a trade
He could be a piece in a Meier trade, he could even leave as a UFA
I didn’t really care to address it, bc the point i was trying to show was that we could fit Meier moving forward IF we wanted to

As far as Jokiharju &amp; UPL go,
I also showed how we would have Cap Room to upgrade from those 2 if we wanted

Things get a bit tight, depending on how many other players we’d wanna bring in, but we could do it
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 6, 2023 at 2:03 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 7, 2022 at 1:26 p.m.
Thread: Lookin
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