Rumor: Dominik Kahun not tendered QO by Buffalo

[Empoleon8771]

Remember when Penguins fans lost their shit that the Penguins traded a cost controlled Kahun for Sheary and Rodrigues? All 3 of them won't be returning to either team.

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[Canadian Canuck]

Crazy amount of people not being qualified.

 

[hamzarocks]

Come to toronto. Replace AJ

 

[AfroThunder396]

Devils should be all over this.

 

[theslatcher]

But... Isn't Kahun good?

 

[Esq]

But... Isn't Kahun good?

He's OK. Definitely a contributor, but don't expect too much.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

The better Dominik.

 

[DesertPenguin]

As a Pens fan I'd be happy to throw some money at Kahun or Rodrgues again. Our top 6 is set but the bottom 6 is a box of (nice) spare parts without a set alignment yet. We could fit either in.

 

[Peter Griffin]

This one is surprising, wasn’t his QO less than $1M? Buffalo must’ve been seriously afraid of arbitration.

 

[Empoleon8771]

But... Isn't Kahun good?

He's a player that good teams churn and burn through, basically the same boat as Connor Sheary. The difference this year is that the pandemic changed "good teams" to "teams who are not rich".

 

[voxel]

Come to the Oilers to play with your buddy Leon.

 

[AveryStar4Eva]

This one is shocking

 

[Flyer lurker]

Bizarre. its no like sabers need the cap room.

 

[serp]

This one seems strange. The QO wasn't that big and how much was arbitration going to award him realistically anyway ? Guess the Sabres are really struggling with money

 

[780il]

He is friends with Leon, maybe he’d sign with us idk

 

[HaNotsri]

Bizarre. its no like sabers need the cap room.

Rumours about internal cap of 70 million.

 

[RWatson29]

His cap hip would only be 837k. This is beyond baffling. Sabres better already have a contract worked out or this is just plain stupidity

 

[tsujimoto74]

What in the actual f*** tho

 

[Bounces R Way]

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[Blackhawkswincup]

Hawks never should have traded him

A good player to have around who is solid in every aspect of game

 

[tsujimoto74]

He's a player that good teams churn and burn through, basically the same boat as Connor Sheary. The difference this year is that the pandemic changed "good teams" to "teams who are not rich".

Based on what they did with the Sabres, Kahun is a far better player than Sheary. All Sheary ever did was fall down a lot and look completely lost. Unless we were playing the Pens, then he was good for a goal or 2.

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

His cap hip would only be 837k. This is beyond baffling. Sabres better already have a contract worked out or this is just plain stupidity

I'm guessing it's the latter. Welcome to Buffalo

 

[ICanMotteBelieveIt]

Crazy amount of people not being qualified.

Agreed. Some good players too!

I guess every dollar count due to a decrease in $ because of COVID.

 

[JKG33]

It's like Buffalo seen all these RFAs not getting QOs and wanted in on the party, despite having an obscene amount of cap space

 

[Empoleon8771]

Based on what they did with the Sabres, Kahun is a far better player than Sheary. All Sheary ever did was fall down a lot and look completely lost. Unless we were playing the Pens, then he was good for a goal or 2.

Kahun today may be better than Sheary today (which the analytics don't agree with, but whatever), but Kahun today and Sheary in 2018 are basically the same.

Good teams churn and burn through those players. They get them on ELCs and cheap contracts and then they trade them when they become too expensive. The pandemic is just causing more teams to be not willing to take on those kind of players for that price.