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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 18 at 12:03 p.m.
Thread: custom made version 2
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>zackhendo</b></div><div>Well it's a contradiction because people (not neccesarily you.. although you did like the post) are saying "Nothing in that trade is a need for the Sabres, so while he's a high end prospect for Vancouver he's another body in an already deep forward prospect group in Buffalo. Sabres don't need 1sts and prospects. Get a top 4 RD with those pieces and move that for Mittelstadt".

Do you see the part, again, where it says 'Sabres don't need 1sts and prospects'.

So when they are other teams' firsts and prospects they are worthless but when they are the Sabres you're 'not going to toss them around like $5 bills'.

First rounders are the currency of the NHL. It's like if you had a car and wanted a truck but instead of selling your car for cash and buying a truck you only wanted to trade it for a truck. That obviously limits your available market and is very likely going to result in not getting top value for your car.

Regardless I don't think Mittlestadt is a fit for the Canucks team at all so we can all happily go our seperate ways.</div></div>

BUF needs to get older, not younger. We've already got 1sts and prospects. We've already sold our cars for cash. We're shopping for a truck.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 15, 2023 at 11:04 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 13, 2023 at 6:01 a.m.
Thread: TDL if they can somehow get back in the mix
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>They won't. Its the worst kept secret that ownership no longer retains salary or eats bad deals. There's a reason why in a year where the goal was the playoffs, the sabres were like the 3rd lowest spending team. Thats not an accident.</div></div>

Yep, for proper cap management in the future. They have a lot of players coming up that will need new contracts: Mitts, Krebs, UPL, Levi, JJP, Quinn....

If you use this website and sign those players to contracts in the coming years, it's pretty easy to see that while there is cap space this year, BUF is going to need to manage the cap wisely in the coming years.

To assert that a franchise that has given huge contracts to Eichel, Skinner, Dahlin, Power, Tage, Cozens and Samuelsson is frugal is plainly ridiculous.