Confirmed with Link: Buffalo Sabres Buy Out Christian Ehrhoff (Signs with PIT 1 yr $4 million)

[Unfriendly Ghost]

But anyway, I've changed my mind on this one. Ehrhoff would be a pretty awesome upgrade, handedness be damned. He's more willing than Kronwall to join the play, and he's a better shooter across the board. I think he'd look excellent on the right side on the power play as a trigger man. He's got a particularly wicked wrister for a defenseman.

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[Bench]

Signing Stralman is comparable to adding another Ericsson or Dekeyser.

Signing Ehrhoff is comparable to adding another Kronwall. Their career ppg are .45 and .49 ppg. Before Ehrhoff went to Buffalo they were nearly identical, IIRC.

How excited are you for the next few days? You've been banging the Ehrhoff drum for ages, right?

I think he's a Wing. I know he'll get other offers, but this just seems like a glove fit. Hemsky and Ehrhoff to Wings. Book it.

 

[ricky0034]

How excited are you for the next few days? You've been banging the Ehrhoff drum for ages, right?

I think he's a Wing. I know he'll get other offers, but this just seems like a glove fit. Hemsky and Ehrhoff to Wings. Book it.

I was in favor of giving up Tatar for him at the trade deadline

never imagined he would be a UFA

 

[Bench]

I was in favor of giving up Tatar for him at the trade deadline

never imagined he would be a UFA

This is a Christmas present for the Wings. They need to lock him up. Don't go cheap, Kenny, give him what other teams are going to give him.

Vancouver regrets ever giving him up, I know that for sure.

 

[Chance on Chance]

This is a Christmas present for the Wings. They need to lock him up. Don't go cheap, Kenny, give him what other teams are going to give him.

Vancouver regrets ever giving him up, I know that for sure.

Yes please. Dont try and look for some discount that isnt there to play for the wings

 

[Frk It]

How excited are you for the next few days? You've been banging the Ehrhoff drum for ages, right?

I think he's a Wing. I know he'll get other offers, but this just seems like a glove fit. Hemsky and Ehrhoff to Wings. Book it.

I have. I'm going to try not to get my hopes up. If we get Ehrhoff I will be genuinely ecstatic.

If we got both those players, I will start counting down the seconds until the season starts haha.

 

[PuckDynasty]

The Wings will probably have to overpay to get either Niskanen (might be tough with him with being from Minnesota) or Erhoff. I'm totally ok with that, and I hope other Wings fans are too. It's what we have to do to stay competitive.

 

[crashman]

How excited are you for the next few days? You've been banging the Ehrhoff drum for ages, right?

I think he's a Wing. I know he'll get other offers, but this just seems like a glove fit. Hemsky and Ehrhoff to Wings. Book it.

I like the way you think...I hope you're right!



I just watch got done watching some Erhoff highlights, he's a really slick skater and seems to have a great shot. I never wanted to see him traded here because of his contract and losing the assets, but getting him as a UFA is a whole different story.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Ehrhoff becoming available also might save us from Boyle

 

[Probie]

Buffalo Sabres Buy Out Christian Ehrhoff

Bob McKenzie @TSNBobMcKenzie
BUF has initiated compliance buyout procedures on Christian Ehrhoff. Not official just yet but BUF has begun the process.


I'd think he'd be great in detroit, he's not a righty but he'd do us some good getting the puck out of our zone and would help out the powerplay.

Had to edit this, damn iphone spelling...

 

[Frk It]

Add some detail to this thread title please. You got me way too excited for a second.

 

[Chance on Chance]

Add some detail to this thread title please. You got me way too excited for a second.

2nd this, I was like hell ya

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Changed the thread title. Terribly misleading.

 

[ap3x]

Uh, no. Look at what you're saying here. You're suggesting that a right-handed defenseman is such a priority that they would promote Marchenko/Sproul before signing Ehrhoff. Because of handedness.

No. The priority is to improve the defense. Beyond that, it's to improve the puck movement from the back end. And the ideal is to have all of that in the form of a righty. But if the best option overall is a lefty, you go with the lefty.

And please. Let's all balk at the idea of signing a defenseman til the ages of 37/38 when the alternative is signing a defenseman who's almost 38.

This. Right-handed version of Ehrhoff would be perfect. But we aren't in the position to miss that chance just 'cause we want the best package available, simple as that.
Unnecessary risk to wait for a better deal as we might end up with empty hands (worst-case).

 

[Crymson]

This is a Christmas present for the Wings. They need to lock him up. Don't go cheap, Kenny, give him what other teams are going to give him.

I'm anticipating disappointment. I've lost faith in Holland; he seems to always have an excuse.

This time there should be no excuses, but I think there will be anyhow.

 

[Bench]

The mutual interest rumor...

Adrian DaterVerified account ‏@adater
I'm hearing the Wings-Ehrhoff have mutual interest

Dater is a beat writer for the Colorado Avalanche.

 

[ArGarBarGar]

Where would a Colorado Avalanche beat writer get that kind of information?

 

[Crymson]

Where would a Colorado Avalanche beat writer get that kind of information?

Dater was a hack when he wrote for the Denver Post, and he's a hack now. I'm not sure how many people here will remember, but he was the primary beat writer for the Avalanche during the rivalry days. He's a fool.

There's a small chance that he actually heard this, but I think I'll stick to the likes of McKenzie and Dreger.

 

[Bench]

Where would a Colorado Avalanche beat writer get that kind of information?

Good question. It's also a weird rumor to make up, though, as well.

 

[The Zetterberg Era]

Where would a Colorado Avalanche beat writer get that kind of information?

Colorado is big competition for him, they should want him bad. Unfortunately, I don't trust Dater at all. He does have a lot of contacts in Detroit from his compilations of the Avs perspective on the rivalry. He wrote books on it and is the primary Avs beat writer. But I don't look at him much different than Rossi in Pittsburgh aka pretty terrible. But at least as an excuse for him until this new era the Avs were probably the toughest team in the league to get info from.

 

[chances14]

to be fair, during the last lockout dater was the first to break it on twitter when it ended

 

[probertrules24]

Where would a Colorado Avalanche beat writer get that kind of information?

Maybe he heard that Ehroff was in Michigan and bought a new truck. That always confirms it.

 

[Claypool]

I'm all for getting Ehroff if it means getting rid of Smith, Quincy, Kindl, and Lashoff. I still think they'd want a right-handed d-man. At they very least it means less competition for Boyle.

 

[Bench]

Maybe he heard that Ehroff was in Michigan and bought a new truck. That always confirms it.

Too soon. Those wounds haven't healed yet.

 

[crashman]

Regardless of the "mutual interest" rumor, I don't think I'd be too much of a stretch to assume that Ehrhoff would be interest in signing here. I'm sure he knows the Wings were interested in trading for him at the deadline and it's just an all-around good fit.

Plus, by signing here, he can stick it to Buffalo on a regular basis. He might no have hard feelings because they already paid him so much money (and will continue to), but I'm sure it bruises a players ego when they're bough-out.