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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30 at 6:09 p.m.
Thread: two big moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Birtle34</b></div><div>Could be a bobrovsky to Florida type scenario with sometime to decide, I believe there is a 4 year window, where the right veteran makes sense to share the crease with Levi and any other kid option competing, do you offer up larger for hart and have a extended tandem run hopefully in the budget, or Gibson that probably fits the term and money pretty well perfectly, or do you jump the line on helly and possibly buy 6 months to decide on the extension, because not in the running when the contract runs out. The need is definitely there, just the best course of action is questionable on assets to needed to acquire and budget going forward. Interesting quandary</div></div>

Tough to say what would happen
I am confident we have plenty of pieces the Jets would want
Not so confident we’d agree to the length of the extension that Hellebuyck would want
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30 at 5:52 p.m.
Thread: two big moves
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>SKWPG</b></div><div>I 100% believe that Helly and his agent will be allowed to speak with any team that WPG and Helly believe will make good trading partners. If Helly feels like it's a team he would sign long term with and that team speaks with him and they have an understanding in principle, the deal would be made based on those conversations. It would be unwritten in the contract or somehow put in there as a deal like... Helly for Krebs and Luukkonen. If Helly signs an extension before the draft, WPG receives the 2023 1st round pick (BUF). If he doesn't sign by then, but signs before the next draft than WPG receives the 2024 1st round pick (BUF). If Helly doesn't resign at all, then the deal stays as it is with Krebs and Luukkonen. Something like that. All parties "know" that Helly is signing a deal with BUF now, so win win win.</div></div>

U missed my point
Hellebuyck will presumably want a long term extension
Doubtful the Sabres will want to give a long term extension to a 31 year old goalie
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 21 at 2:00 p.m.
Thread: Thoughts
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Howie</b></div><div>It's fair if there's either a bidding war or willing to extend</div></div>

As of now, we don’t know either of those to be true though
There aren’t too many teams that can take on Hellebuyck’s full Cap Hit
If- and that’s a big IF- he is willing to sign an extension (at a reasonable number), then i think the Sabres would consider this deal
As a Sabres fan, I’d be down
But the Sabres Mgmt does like Levi A LOT,
and have considered him to be our “goalie of the future” for a while now
So it’s possible that the Sabres would drop out of trade talks if there is a bidding war &amp; the price gets too high
Our GM has been showing patience with his version of the rebuild- and it’s working- so he very well could wanna give Levi the year &amp; see how things go