GDT: Free Agent Frenzy Edition!

[Der Jaeger]

I’ve still got fantasies of McCabe, Nylander, and a pick for Brodin on my mind

Botterill just needs to tell Fenton that Nylander is a gecko....

 

[DolanPlsGoSabres]

Botterill just needs to tell Fenton that Nylander is a gecko....

He's more like a chameleon, so I hope Fenton doesn't know his lizards well.

 

[SabresFan26]

Compher was an painful yet acceptable loss to get ROR, a top two way center. That equation only went wildly out of balance when we traded ROR.

He was obviously a big piece to the acquisition but we gave up a ton on that trade for a guy whose career high was 64 points at the time and had signed a offersheet/had some baggage with Colorado management

Compher (very good 2-way center with high potential), 2 1st round picks (Zadorov and Grigorenko), 2nd round pick for ROR and McGinn, a cap dump.

In hindsight, if we never made that trade, we'd look really good right now.

Vesey-Eichel-Oloffson
Skinner-Mittelstadt-Reinhart
Johansson-Compher-Rodrigues
Sheary-Larsson-Okposo
Smith-Girgensons

Dahlin-Miller (assume we traded a different 2nd rounder)
Zadorov-Montour
Pilut-Ristolainen
McCabe

Hutton
Ullmark

 

[Samsonite23]

Complaining about trading away TJ Compher in a package for ROR is one of the weirdest takes I’ve seen on this board. And I was a HUGE Compher fan watching him at Michigan.

We got one of the best young centers in the NHL back in the trade...who ended up winning a Conn Smythe.

 

[Husko]

He was obviously a big piece to the acquisition but we gave up a ton on that trade for a guy whose career high was 64 points at the time and had signed a offersheet/had some baggage with Colorado management

Compher (very good 2-way center with high potential), 2 1st round picks (Zadorov and Grigorenko), 2nd round pick for ROR and McGinn, a cap dump.

In hindsight, if we never made that trade, we'd look really good right now.

Vesey-Eichel-Oloffson
Skinner-Mittelstadt-Reinhart
Johansson-Compher-Rodrigues
Sheary-Larsson-Okposo
Smith-Girgensons

Dahlin-Miller (assume we traded a different 2nd rounder)
Zadorov-Montour
Pilut-Ristolainen
McCabe

Hutton
Ullmark

We'd look even better if we never made the second ROR trade

 

[Gabrielor]

So, what do we even look like right now?

My best guess was:

	NHL
Skinner	Eichel	Vesey
Olofsson	Rodrigues	Reinhart
Sheary	Mittelstadt	Johansson
Girgensons	Larsson	Okposo
McCabe	Montour
Dahlin	Miller
Hunwick	Ristolainen
Hutton
Ullmark
C.Smith	Scandella	Nelson
	AHL
Nylander	Asplund	Thompson
Leier	Burton	Dea
Elie	Porter	Lazar
Wilson	Malone	Cornel
Bryson	Redmond
Gilmour	Borgen
MacWilliam	Fitzgerald
Hammond
Johansson
Randell	D.Smith	Oglevie
Hickey	Paetsch	Gosselin
LTIR	Europe
Pilut	Ruotsalainen
Bogosian	Sobotka
Luukkonen

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Feels like too many bodies, bodies in the wrong spots (line 1, yuck), a team actually over the cap depending on what the deal is with Sobotka...

This feels like someone spilled blue cheese on a 1/2 finished puzzle...

 

[brian_griffin]

Paging @dotcommunism ...

Sabres need one of McCabe ullmark ERod or Larsson to go to arbitration in order for second buyout window to open, correct?

 

[dotcommunism]

Paging @dotcommunism ...

Sabres need one of McCabe ullmark ERod or Larsson to go to arbitration in order for second buyout window to open, correct?

No. It will still open even if no one actually ends up in an arbitration hearing. In the absence of any players going to a hearing, the window will open on the third day following the settlement of the last arbitration case (settlement meaning the player and team agree to terms on a contract).

 

[OkimLom]

Complaining about trading away TJ Compher in a package for ROR is one of the weirdest takes I’ve seen on this board. And I was a HUGE Compher fan watching him at Michigan.

We got one of the best young centers in the NHL back in the trade...who ended up winning a Conn Smythe.

It’s because prospects are valued a lot more than actual players.

 

[joshjull]

 

[itwasaforwardpass]

So, what do we even look like right now?

My best guess was:

	NHL
Skinner	Eichel	Vesey
Olofsson	Rodrigues	Reinhart
Sheary	Mittelstadt	Johansson
Girgensons	Larsson	Okposo
McCabe	Montour
Dahlin	Miller
Hunwick	Ristolainen
Hutton
Ullmark
C.Smith	Scandella	Nelson
	AHL
Nylander	Asplund	Thompson
Leier	Burton	Dea
Elie	Porter	Lazar
Wilson	Malone	Cornel
Bryson	Redmond
Gilmour	Borgen
MacWilliam	Fitzgerald
Hammond
Johansson
Randell	D.Smith	Oglevie
Hickey	Paetsch	Gosselin
LTIR	Europe
Pilut	Ruotsalainen
Bogosian	Sobotka
Luukkonen

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

Feels like too many bodies, bodies in the wrong spots (line 1, yuck), a team actually over the cap depending on what the deal is with Sobotka...

This feels like someone spilled blue cheese on a 1/2 finished puzzle...

At this point theres even more crap that needs to be removed from the roster than talented players added.

Why won't someone just trade us an elite two way center for all of our garbage?

 

[TehDoak]

At this point theres even more crap that needs to be removed from the roster than talented players added.

Why won't someone just trade us an elite two way center for all of our garbage?

I mean, who was that GM who gave away the conn smythe winner for a few draft picks and salary dumps? Let's call him.

 

[old kummelweck]

I mean, who was that GM who gave away the conn smythe winner for a few draft picks and salary dumps? Let's call him.

 

[brian_griffin]

I’m lazy... what’s the rumored asking price for Brian Boyle? It can’t be unaffordable, so I assume he’s trying to choose a contender? Anyone willing to give him 2 years at $1M total above his best non-Sabres offer to come to BUF? I would. Does $3M per eliminate other bidders?

 

[Husko]

What do we think of Oscar Lindberg as a sort of under the radar, low risk 3rd line center option?

 

[GellMann]

What do we think of Oscar Lindberg as a sort of under the radar, low risk 3rd line center option?

I would like the acquisition of Lindberg

 

[Husko]

What do we think of Oscar Lindberg as a sort of under the radar, low risk 3rd line center option?

This fancy graph seems to suggest that this season with the Knights Lindberg made pretty much everyone he played with (with the exception of Holden) significantly better. That's one of the most incredibly clean cut WOWY graph's I've ever seen. It's anti-Sobotka level.

 

[Chainshot]

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This fancy graph seems to suggest that this season with the Knights Lindberg made pretty much everyone he played with (with the exception of Holden) significantly better. That's one of the most incredibly clean cut WOWY graph's I've ever seen. It's anti-Sobotka level.

Criminy! That’s stunning.

 

[Husko]

Bonino has been much talked about as a common sense target. My question is, is he still actually good? Or is he on the fast track to Sobotka-ville?

 

[Dingo44]

Bonino has been much talked about as a common sense target. My question is, is he still actually good? Or is he on the fast track to Sobotka-ville?

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Yikes. And I was on the Bonino bandwagon.

 

[vcv]

Am I the only one that see's an ice rink there?

 

[Buffaloed]

Am I the only one that see's an ice rink there?

I see a giraffe standing on a slope.

 

[Zip15]

Bonino has been much talked about as a common sense target. My question is, is he still actually good? Or is he on the fast track to Sobotka-ville?

This is why the Preds want Sissons to move into Bonino's role. I think he's a target of Botterill's due to his familiarity with him, and he fills what I imagine Botts seeing as a defensive middle-6 center role.

 

[Myllz]

Bonino es no bueno. The only reason he's brought up in a positive light is because of his excellent playoff run with the Pens in 15-16. Outside of that, he's not very good.

I would take Lindberg, though.

 

[joshjull]