News: Jeff Skinner waives NMC for expansion draft

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I was impressed with Asplund at the end of the season. Seattle would have taken him.

Looks like Borgen will be their guy now.

Borgen will be protected
Risto won't be if not moved beforehand

 

[KingsFan7824]

Team players don't take insane contracts they can't live up to and screw the team's entire salary mass structure.

There's team player, and there's dumb. If a team is going to willingly offer you a franchise killing contract, it's not your fault if you take it. That money will do far more for you when you're 57, than any win will do when you're 30.

Blame the Sabres for that putrid contract. They were desperate and dumb, coming off the Okposo disaster, and O'Reilly debacle. If Skinner wanted to stay in the area, and the only other possibility is a Leafs team that can't give him any money, why are you offering so much? Probably because other teams were in the mix, but then you call his bluff.

Skinner may be at fault for other things, but the money is all on Buffalo.

 

[dredeye]

6 seasons at 9mil? WOOF.. I knew it was a bad contract, but I had no idea it was that bad.

That’s what happens when you go spend crazy in an off season

 

[SundherDome]

Just some housekeeping.

- This is not to entice Seattle, it is to open up a protection slot.
- Jeff is, indeed, overpaid.
- Nobody blames Jeff
- Jeff is well liked
- We have no interest in diminishing an asset to move him.

Continue

 

[SundherDome]

There's team player, and there's dumb. If a team is going to willingly offer you a franchise killing contract, it's not your fault if you take it. That money will do far more for you when you're 57, than any win will do when you're 30.

Blame the Sabres for that putrid contract. They were desperate and dumb, coming off the Okposo disaster, and O'Reilly debacle. If Skinner wanted to stay in the area, and the only other possibility is a Leafs team that can't give him any money, why are you offering so much? Probably because other teams were in the mix, but then you call his bluff.

Skinner may be at fault for other things, but the money is all on Buffalo.

Specifically that bumbling blow hard who is now the Kraken AGM

 

[tsujimoto74]

Borgen will be protected
Risto won't be if not moved beforehand

Big doubt. Why would the Sabres protect a 25yo who's only played a handful of NHL games over a guy who's been in their top 4 for years?

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

Blame the Sabres for that putrid contract. They were desperate and dumb, coming off the Okposo disaster, and O'Reilly debacle. If Skinner wanted to stay in the area, and the only other possibility is a Leafs team that can't give him any money, why are you offering so much? Probably because other teams were in the mix, but then you call his bluff.

Skinner may be at fault for other things, but the money is all on Buffalo.

The ownership bid against itself. Laughable incompetence. $72 M over eight years? The Sabres believed someone else was out there with $10 M x seven years. Even at the time the extra year should have meant $8 M tops for Skinner because that's $64 M. No other team would have offered that much over 7 at a $9 M cap. Pegulas are too smart to hire proper management.

 

[Davenport]

I hope Seattle takes him and Skinner scores 50 next year.

Maybe not 50, but he is capable of 40 - as he demonstrated in Buffalo.

 

[Jeune Poulet]

There's team player, and there's dumb. If a team is going to willingly offer you a franchise killing contract, it's not your fault if you take it.

Don't really know what you even mean when you say "it's not his fault if he signed it". Like, did they have a gun to his head? He signed it. So did they. They are both responsible parties and he isn't living up to his end of the bargain at all.

That money will do far more for you when you're 57, than any win will do when you're 30.

If you think your bank account matters more when you are in your 50s than your accomplishments and life's work when you were younger, that might be your own deficit. I'm not yet 57 but I'm thinking about my accomplishments, my family, my friends. At this point I could probably semi-retire and live exactly the life I want but I work because I like it, not because I need to.

An extra 30% income isn't what really matters, unless you are at the low end of the ladder and struggling to pay the bills.

Like, having money is nice and everything. There's a huge difference between having 50k in your account and having 1M. But having 60 millions in the bank instead of 90M is probably not the main factor that will determine your happiness in life. Skinner could probably be a happier player right now if he had signed a shorter contract at around 6M. And he'd still retire with more money than any person needs.

 

[SEALBound]

Would be a hell of a roll of the dice...I say do it Seattle!

 

[The Blunder Years]

Come on Bottsssss… you know you want himmmmm

 

[couture23]

I was impressed with Asplund at the end of the season. Seattle would have taken him.

Looks like Borgen will be their guy now.

Asplund was like our only player with a positive xGF lol so I'm glad other fanbases are noticing his play.

 

[Ementy]

6 seasons at 9mil? WOOF.. I knew it was a bad contract, but I had no idea it was that bad.

HF when the Skinner contract was signed: "Looks good and fair to me"

HF when Draisaitl contract signed: "OMG HES RUINING ALL FUTURE CONTRACTS, what a gross rip off over pay"

 

[Adele Dazeem]

Seattle picks him, he regains form and pots back to back 40 goal seasons.

 

[DuklaNation]

One of the worst contracts handed out ever. I'm sure many were saying it was fair and good value at the time. Sad.

 

[BrindamoursNose]

This is like the government declaring they're making food free for all citizens, but the only food that qualifies are rocks.

 

[Rubi]

So does Skinner want out of Buffalo too?

 

[BloFan4Life]

Big doubt. Why would the Sabres protect a 25yo who's only played a handful of NHL games over a guy who's been in their top 4 for years?

Risto said he doesn't want to be here. One year of Risto isn't worth losing Borgen over.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

So does Skinner want out of Buffalo too?

Yes. To Toronto.

But the Leafs aren’t trading for him unless he comes with a 1st, a Dahlin, a UPL, and a Cozens or Quinn.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Risto said he doesn't want to be here. One year of Risto isn't worth losing Borgen over.

Risto has said it the past three years. I’ll be surprised if he’s not starting the year in Buffalo.

 

[Dr Quincy]

This is like the government declaring they're making food free for all citizens, but the only food that qualifies are rocks.

If it's Pop Rocks, I'm in.

 

[BananaSquad]

Botterill about to convince Ronny F to take Skinner.

 

[5 Minute Major]

What if a side agreement is reached where Seattle takes a 6 million dollar guy that isn't producing, trades that guy to Buffalo for future considerations and agrees to select Skinner?

 

[GM Armchair]

Borgen Dahlin Joki being protected unless a trade is worked out

Is this your opinion or has there been a leak of the Sabres protected list.

 

[allsilverdreams]

Offer Seattle a 2nd and 3rd this year and 2nd next year to take Skinner.