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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 22, 2016 at 3:03 p.m.
Thread: Panarin
I'm with Shibbal18 on this one, I think Lehner has been doing great this year when you consider how bad the injury bug has hit the Sabres this year. With 31 games in the books O’Reilly was out for 6, Kane was out for 11, Eichel out for 21, Ennis has only played 12 games this year, Gorges broke his foot but was only out for 3 games, Kulikov has only played in the last 17, Bogosian and Deslauriers have only played 11 each. With the number of top bluelines and top line forwards we have had go down at the beginning of the year for us to be around .500 is amazing and speaks to how well Lehner and Nilsson have played to keep us within striking distance of 3rd place in the division. We are what 5 points back of Boston with 3 games in hand for 3rd place. The biggest hard spot with Lehner and Nilsson for that matter is getting a win in the shootout but we would have to have someone that can score a goal on the shootout for that to happen. I think GMTM tries to keep both Lehner and Nilsson next year if he can get good contracts. I think your going to see Kulikov stick around as well. I don’t see picking up Oduya on the 2 year contract either. I think trading Reinhart would be a mistake as well, your justification is because we are stronger on the RW then LW but you trade away a very good RW/C and bring up Nylander to play the spot you would have had Reinhart in? I would rather have Nylander on the LW with Jack and Kyle and leave Reinhart with O’Rielly and either Foligno, Ennis, or Kane on that wing.
Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 1, 2016 at 12:59 a.m.
Thread: NHL 2017/2018 $79 mil
Ennis will not be playing Center, more then likely will be LW on Eichel’s or O’Rielly’s line….. Eichel with be first line Center by 17/18…. Riemhart will more then likely be on Eichel’s right wing….. Ristolainen will get more then 3.4mil per year and will be first pairing not 3rd. O’Reilly and Okposo I think will be second line with Kane or Ennis on LW…. I also don’t see the Sabres picking up Pavelec as a starting Goalie will be on the wrong side of 30 and coming off a 0.904 SVS %.... The Sabres will resign Lenher if he has a good year which I believe he will…. The Sabres will also probably let Gionta go next year, maybe offer him a coaching job or something…. Unless Franson has much better year then last year he will not be resigned either…..
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 19, 2016 at 2:14 p.m.
Thread: VAN trade
Wow, where to begin: Risto is RD thus he would be first pair right side and Kulikov will be paired with him. McCabe is LD thus would be on the left side and would be on the second pairing with Bogo on the right side. Gorges and Franson would be 3rd pairing. McCormick has announced he was retiring due to medical, so would be on LTIR and not centering the 4th line. Larsson should be centering the 4th line and my guess is Foligno will be the LW on that 4th line as well. I don’t see Rienhart being on the 3rd line just so he can play center, so he would be on the second line RW, where he played last year. Ennis would be first or second line LW. Moulson should on the 3rd line LW with Girgensons at center.

The trade would leave the Sabres without another a good option to put on the LW with either the top line or second line depending on where you stick you Ennis. Not to mention, your basically trading Kane straight up for Virtanen which I don’t see the value coming back to the Sabres to make this worthwhile. I’m guessing because he was a 6th overall pick in 2014 so he should have skill but he has what 55 games in the NHL. This is also saying I don’t know much about Virtanen’s game just don’t see trading a top 6 left winger for a guy we are going to throw on the 3 line RW when we have a lot of RW ready to make the next step and short on LW top talent.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 12, 2016 at 12:49 p.m.
Thread: BUF (2016-2017)
All 3 of these trades are horrible for the Sabres.... Your giving up Girg and Franson, who both only have 1 year on there contracts, for an AHL defensemen and two 3rd round picks. I think if were going to sell both these players it will be at the trade deadline and would be for more then that. Your taking on 6 years of 5.9mil for Brown who isn’t the player Kane is, who we only have to put up with 2 more years before we can let him walk, and Brown will need a walker by the time we see then end of contract so will kill our cap down the road which Kane will not. Your giving up Ennis who only has 3 years left for a worse player in Callahan who is paid 1.4 mil more and has the extra year…. The only reason your cap space looks nice is because you didn’t bother signing our RFA Risto who will be getting 5-6mil a year and you dropped out Girg and Franson from this year but really that cap space isn’t need until Jack and Sam need new contracts, when Brown and Callahan’s contract would be killing us. You also have Bitetto starting as second pairing LD, like really he is 26 and played a total of 30 games in the NHL and making 600K? You have Gorges playing off side on top pairing, this is the spot that have Risto written in pen. BTW put the guy who already announced 3 months ago he was retiring due to injury on LTIR, psss its McCormick.