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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 12 at 3:07 p.m.
Thread: Serious changes
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>Look you and I have totally different outlooks on the team but you are definitely smart enough to recognize the trade route is basically closed to them. Anyone worth a damn in this league has no trade protection. And most of free agency is a terrible way to spend your money. See all of Kevyn Adams' free agent signings.

Even if you have a far more positive outlook on this team than I do, there's no denying their best (or i guess surest?) shot at being anywhere close to good is to keep drafting and waiting.</div></div>

Yes keep drafting players I agree with that. However to say there aren't good players available that can help our team improve immediately and that wouldn't be rentals either is far from true. There are also some UFA options that wouldn't be bad ideas.

Trade targets: Borgen, Walker, C. Tanev, Jiricek (very unrealistic) those would all help us on the D side. Lots of options to improve our forward group in the bottom 6 too. Goaltending I admit there are few options for trade

UFA signings like Matt Roy or Dylan Demelo would be wise adds and players that shouldn't cost an arm and a leg towards the cap
Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 12 at 2:49 p.m.
Thread: Serious changes
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>CD282</b></div><div>How much for Alex Tuch?</div></div>

Not available but his value is equivalent to 3 1sts I'd guess

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Fail4Nail</b></div><div>I think Andersson is good, but I think you can get a better RH dman if you're offering that much.</div></div>

Like whom? Andersson is a beast he's exactly what we could use in the top 4

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>The value here is probably close on all of it but like none of those guys are getting moved for a combo of NTC and team timeline (Andersson is probably Calgary’s next captain)

The Sabres need to stockpile some picks and start adding some high upside d-men, like buium or parekh. The trade route isn’t viable for them and free agency seldom bears fruit</div></div>

Plenty of targets that meet our needs that don't have NTC. Agree we need to draft high level D men but that doesn't help the team for many years and we need to be improving the NHL roster right now.

<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KrakBirds23</b></div><div>There's not really much incentive for Seattle to trade players with term for players in contract years. The pieces could have more potential but overall trade looks really lopsided in Buffalo's favor.</div></div>

Gourde, Tanev, and Borgen are both UFAs after 2024-2025 they don't have term. All three players I traded to them are younger, team controlled (RFAs), and have higher ceilings. No way Seattle would decline that lol
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 24, 2023 at 5:19 p.m.
Thread: Next Year
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>AntiAnalytics</b></div><div>Just bc we overpaid for Greenway, that doesn’t mean his trade value will correlate to every other player we might trade for

Sabres *might* not wanna pay that price for Kampf, Simple bc we are happy continuing to develop Krebs in our “defensive center” role, they’d making acquiring Kampf unnecessary

And i felt the need to “state the obvious” bc it seems like we are talking about 2 different things
1- what YOU would do
VS
2- what Adams will do

I’m interested in what’s gonna happen in reality
I personally think bringing in a good defensive center makes sense (i think we agree there)- i just don’t know that Adams feels the same way</div></div>

Hopefully all of the goals we allow against and our atrocious faceoff numbers make Adams aware (if he isn't already) that we are in desperate need of someone like a Kampf or Sturm to help us in that department. Hopefully he also realizes that we don't need to keep all of our later round picks in every draft and that moving one or two of them for a player like that would be wise... Time will tell I suppose