I’ve now looked at the stats, my best guess is that Buffalo’s stats guys don’t like counting hits much. It’s been a trend for years regardless of players. Even a Buffalo vs Toronto game with a large number of altercations seem to end up on the low end of hits. Even our post game guys have commented on it before

You listed 3 players, 2 that are in the press box and one thats a captain. You havent even come close to justifying a trade for him, let alone Buffalo magically putting him in the middle 6

Buffalos primary goal this season is further development, winning is a secondary byproduct of that. Foegele may have value, but he does not have value to Buffalo specifically.

They need the kids (Cozens, Krebs, Mittelstadt, Quinn, and Peterka) getting ample ice time while surrounded by veteran leaders (Okposo, Tuch, Skinner, Girgensons, Hinostroza).

There are also only a handful of teams in the league willing to take cap dumps right now, and many more teams trying to actually dump contracts. Edmonton trying to dump a 3rd/4th line player has them with little to no leverage among that handful of teams who do not need him. That means whether you like it or not if he goes to one of those teams Edmonton is going to pay for them to take him. Maybe a team likes him enough they would pay for him and use him in the bottom 6, but it won't be a rebuilding team trying to develop it's players.

That's an interesting observation, thanks. You prompted me to look up the splits, and it looks like you are correct: the Sabres register 18.54 Hits/60 in away games but just 11.51 Hits/60 at home.

However, that 18.54 number is still only 30th in the league, so it is an area that they need to work on.

It's honestly a very strange thing to witness lol.

You should be happy to keep him then
We don’t want him
Deal with it

Nope
Girgs wears an “A” for a reason

Ummmm….
not paying to strengthen our forward who’ll be sitting most noghts

And definitely not concerned about upgrading over a guy who will never play

I didn’t say we “wanted” it

I said it was false of you to say we said we “wouldn’t trade Eichel”

That’s 2 COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THINGS

Wow….
Just stick to your own team

We don’t want Foegele, deal with it