2019-20 Roster Speculation Part 16: Not much left to speculate about

[Der Jaeger]

Here's a future trivia question to win you a beer at a bar: What NHL team traded away one member of both pairs of the 2019 and 2020 William Jennings award winning goalies?

toronto

 

[joshjull]

Wouldn't have been the last if Tallon didn't give away half his top 6 for free.

Thats probably true. I think the Panthers issues have definitely been compounded by Tallon. But organizational infighting before he got there was an issue as well. It’s what led to Gallant getting canned and the ham handed way it was done.

 

[jc17]

Well at least it seems like we dont have to worry about our analytics "department" imposing their will

 

[Jim Bob]

Buffalo Sabres stunned by Pilut's departure, thought KHL offer was negotiation tactic | TradeRumours.com

Talks about rumoured clause halfway down.. Where there's smoke.

Someone has been smoking something?

Pilut is gone.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Monday morning.....

Reinhart
Mittelstadt
Montour
2020 1st
2022 1st

for

Monahan
Gaudreau

Only if Calgary poops the bed in the qualifying round.

 

[Shootica]

I'm generalizing here, but it feels like half this board is projecting Cozens to be in our opening day lineup in one breath, and ripping the organization apart for bringing Mittelstadt up too early in the next breath.

Does it not feel like groundhog's day in here to anyone else?

 

[Der Jaeger]

Aggressive off-season.

- Calgary loses to Winnipeg.
- Reinhart, Mittelstadt, Montour, 2020 1st, 2022 1st to Calgary for Monahan and Gaudreau.
- Rights to Pilut to Rangers for Sabres 2021 3rd round pick.
- Ristolainen to Anaheim for Bruins 2020 1st and Max Jones.
- Offersheet Sergachev in the $6M range (will cost 2021 1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- Re-sign Larsson
- Sign Sekera

Skinner - Eichel - Johansson
Gaudreau - Monahan - Olofsson
Jones - Kahun - Thompson
Asplund - Larsson - Okposo
x Lazar

Dahlin - Jokiharju
Sergachev - Miller
McCabe - Borgen
x Bryson, Sekera

Ullmark, Hutton

 

[itwasaforwardpass]

Greiss isn’t coming to Buffalo. I coach with him in the summer. Not happening.

Did he hear Sabres horror stories from Lehner?

 

[Buffaloed]

Back in the bad good old days Terry Pegula would have shown Pilut some love and made him feel he was wanted. No so with the Black Widow.

 

[OkimLom]

I'm generalizing here, but it feels like half this board is projecting Cozens to be in our opening day lineup in one breath, and ripping the organization apart for bringing Mittelstadt up too early in the next breath.

Does it not feel like groundhog's day in here to anyone else?

yep, but it’s a matter of acceptance of what to expect from management more than anything.

 

[lauraP]

I'm generalizing here, but it feels like half this board is projecting Cozens to be in our opening day lineup in one breath, and ripping the organization apart for bringing Mittelstadt up too early in the next breath.

Does it not feel like groundhog's day in here to anyone else?

with botts at the helm that's whats gonna to happen. I remember saying last year and the year before that our season depends on mittlestadt being a 50 point 2c which has been true. so you better believe cozens start with buffalo.

 

[Der Jaeger]

Did he hear Sabres horror stories from Lehner?

family reasons

 

[DJN21]

Aggressive off-season.

- Calgary loses to Winnipeg.
- Reinhart, Mittelstadt, Montour, 2020 1st, 2022 1st to Calgary for Monahan and Gaudreau.
- Rights to Pilut to Rangers for Sabres 2021 3rd round pick.
- Ristolainen to Anaheim for Bruins 2020 1st and Max Jones.
- Offersheet Sergachev in the $6M range (will cost 2021 1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- Re-sign Larsson
- Sign Sekera

Skinner - Eichel - Johansson
Gaudreau - Monahan - Olofsson
Jones - Kahun - Thompson
Asplund - Larsson - Okposo
x Lazar

Dahlin - Jokiharju
Sergachev - Miller
McCabe - Borgen
x Bryson, Sekera

Ullmark, Hutton

no first round pick belonging to us for 3 years knowing our history of tanking is never a good thing...

 

[lauraP]

no first round pick belonging to us for 3 years knowing our history of tanking is never a good thing...

That's a very win now roster. we pretty much have calgarys first line on our 2nd and a very young d-core that could be really refreshing. i'd say go for it, it would be a fun team to watch for 3 years at least

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

Aggressive off-season.

- Calgary loses to Winnipeg.
- Reinhart, Mittelstadt, Montour, 2020 1st, 2022 1st to Calgary for Monahan and Gaudreau.
- Rights to Pilut to Rangers for Sabres 2021 3rd round pick.
- Ristolainen to Anaheim for Bruins 2020 1st and Max Jones.
- Offersheet Sergachev in the $6M range (will cost 2021 1st, 2nd, 3rd)
- Re-sign Larsson
- Sign Sekera

Skinner - Eichel - Johansson
Gaudreau - Monahan - Olofsson
Jones - Kahun - Thompson
Asplund - Larsson - Okposo
x Lazar

Dahlin - Jokiharju
Sergachev - Miller
McCabe - Borgen
x Bryson, Sekera

Ullmark, Hutton

'
LOL. You still have below average goalies.

 

[Jim Bob]

The 10 best (and worst) free-agent signings in Sabres...

Worst signings

1. Ville Leino

See, no surprises. When a player gets a six-year contract for $27 million, scores 10 goals in 137 games and gets bought out after three seasons, he’s No. 1 without debate.

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It’s hard to imagine Leino ever falling from No. 1 on this list.

Pretty much...

By the numbers: The 15 worst NHL free agents of the last...

12. Ville Leino, 27
Signing Team: Buffalo Sabres
Date: July 1, 2011
Contract: $4.5M x 6 years

“Starting today, there will be no financial mandates on the Buffalo Sabres hockey department,” Terry Pegula said in 2011 after becoming the owner of the Buffalo Sabres. Perhaps there should have been.

6. Christian Ehrhoff, 28

Signing Team: Buffalo Sabres

Date: July 1, 2011

Contract: $4.0M x 10 years

Anytime a deal goes extra long for a non-elite player in his late 20’s, it’s almost always trouble. For Christian Ehrhoff, it didn’t look like it would go that way. Ten years is a very long deal, but the actual price made it palatable. At just $4 million, the deal only expected 1.3 wins per season, a mark Ehrhoff projected to be well above for the first half of the pact.

Dom was really down on the really long deals, like Ehrhoff's. He had Kovy's 15 year deal in NJ as the worst.

 

[tsujimoto74]

New thread: 2019-20-21 Roster Speculation: Neither on- nor off-season edition