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Forum: Armchair-GM22 juill. à 15 h 25
Sujet: Lets pretend Eichel was a good human being
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Byrr</b></div><div>Don't you mean pretend the Buffalo front office were good human beings and let Eichel get the surgery he wanted?</div></div>

Jack: "Hey I want out. But first let me get this neck surgery so if anything goes wrong and I cant play anymore and you guys can also just lose out on the EIGHTY MILLION that you lined up for me... cool?"

FO: "Um no, if you want to stay you can get the surgery. You demanded a trade before the injury, so, if you want out, you can get your new team to let you get your neck surgery"


This isn't complicated. It would've been so f'in stupid for the Sabres to assume 100% of the risk when Jack was demanding a trade after the team just gave him 30 million dollars.
Forum: Armchair-GM28 juin à 18 h 48
Sujet: 22-23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>gretzkyghosts</b></div><div>
Finally, we actually do not know how much money will be spent this coming year, but trading for Bishop certainly appears that the team will keep the cap close to the floor.
That is not to say, if a team were to make a silly offer (e.g. Mrázek and a first for future considerations) then I could see them taking on more cap than the floor.</div></div>

Yep, I agree. I think it could be a harbinger of just letting the kids play, *but it could also mean literally nothing*. Thats the point - no one knows - its all pure hypotheticals and speculation, so no need to shoot down moves with that as the reason (Stadel has been poo-pooing moves bc "the sabres arent spending" long before they ever acquired Bishop)

Having an extra 5 mill above the floor with negligible cash is a nice asset if they want to sign a vet UFA to a 1 year deal and retain half and flip at the deadline if theyre not competing. If they were considering chasing UFAs (BEFORE BISHOP) and got none of them... they'd have to scramble and pay idk John Hayden 5 mill. Now that they have Bishop's cap hit, the floor is a non-issue.

Also, maybe I wasnt concise on the point of LTIR/weaponizing cap space... not saying they should spend to the cap, but they could and Bishop's contract would STILL be irrelevant.
Forum: Armchair-GM26 juin à 21 h 57
Sujet: 22-23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>You do realize that LTIR eligible cap relief is only for teams that are spending to the cap right? Otherwise the cap of the player on LTIR will count towards the team cap. How does the move give them flexibility? They already have a ton of cap space? The fact that the cash is negligible relative to the cap hit makes my point.

It's not speculation, feel free to message any of the buffalo writers and reporters who are plugged. it's the worst kept secret that they have no intention of spending past the floor. I didn't "shut him down" merely mentioned it was unlikely. Yall a sensitive bunch on here.</div></div>

I literally just said its an irrelevant contract. If they try to sign guys but they want too much term/$$ - or they try to trade for a guy with term but the ask is too high from the trade partner - they can safely walk away because they have a backup plan with Bishop's money to get them to the floor. I bring up LTIR because if they for some completely sane reason use their single most valuable asset this year (cap space), the contract will still not be relevant.

Yes, and those writers are paid to speculate. Go write a blog post and stop being the fun police. You actually post "the sabres arent spending" on every single post involving a Sabres move that adds any cap lmao.
Forum: Armchair-GM26 juin à 21 h 39
Sujet: 22-23
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>Their first move was literally buying 5 million in cap space to get to the floor at the cost of like 2 million actual dollars less 60% of that covered by insurance. Teams intent on spending big generally don't open the off season with that sort of move.

Edit: They'd take this deal I bet but they won't get anything more than picks so they'll probably let him get his arb award and deal him at the deadline, hopefully after he inflates his totals.</div></div>

Or their first move was getting a late pick and flexibility in the event the big moves they could potentially make don't come to realization. And you just explained why the move was completely irrelevant for their intentions this year. 5 mill of LTIR eligible cap space for 1 year is literally irrelevant for Sabres' cap purposes, and the cash is negligible.

This is pure speculation - the same pure speculation that you do on every post involving any Sabres move. Want to mention it? Go ahead. Stop shutting down anyone who spends more than 500k of the Pegula's money
Forum: Fauteuil - DG2 juin à 20 h 0
Forum: Armchair-GM27 mai à 23 h 56
Forum: Armchair-GM27 mai à 23 h 44
Sujet: Kakko offersheet Doing Florida a favour
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Buffalove</b></div><div>I don’t care about taking the $12mil in Cap- EXCEPT- doing so has much more value than this proposed trade brings back
What I’m saying isn’t complicated</div></div>

No it's really not. You are just both drastically over value it and ignore the fact that the Sabres should look to take advantage of the situation that they're in, even if it means they're not squeezing out 110% of the value of the moves. Just because the Panthers are cap strapped and the Sabres won't be for probably 6 years (without irresponsible UFA spending), doesn't mean this isn't a very good deal.

To be clear, I'd like more too, but your ask is insane if you don't think it's worth it even if they got Lundell on top of 3 very good pieces, which they're literally* getting for free (* I mean literally unless you're actually Terry Pegula and have to cut checks to these guys).
Forum: Armchair-GM27 mai à 23 h 18
Sujet: Kakko offersheet Doing Florida a favour
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Buffalove</b></div><div>Only way it’s worth considering is if they really make it worth our while
And the above trade proposal does not do that it all
It flat out sucks

We take over $12mil in Cap dump off their hands,
and for that…. We get ONE year of Gudas
It’s a pretty terrible idea

Now if they were to include Lundell, it gets interesting
If they were to include another good piece, it then becomes worth it imo</div></div>

Who cares that they're taking 12 mill? You're getting a 2nd (Gudas' value), a 3rd (retained, Hornqvist is easily worth that), and a very good starting goalie. Your team gets dramatically better with Bob, and Gudas brings what this team is SORELY lacking. I don't get why fans here care about spending cash... there is almost no chance that this deal inhibits them cap wise whatsoever for the next 4 years. They're not in a place to spend big money on UFAs with all the young players they have
Forum: Armchair-GM27 mai à 23 h 12
Sujet: Sabres spend cash
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Stadel</b></div><div>Lingering effects of the pandemic and a worse average attendance than the Coyotes. They already started doing this last year. Thats why they brought in the analytics dept. Try and squeeze more out of each dollar.

It's more or less the worst kept secret that theyre bleeding and until they draw fans back they're not spending past the floor.</div></div>

Pegulas spent big money the entire time they've owned the team. They didn't last 2 years because there was 0 hope for this team, and they were moving the face of their franchise. It's completely rational for them to not spend or make any significant moved while they waited for their rookie GM to make arguably the biggest trade in franchise history - especially with the points you made about attendance.

Fans were rightfully pissed at ownership and Kreuger ran the team into the ground. But the pandemic is over, and the buzz around the team right now is up to 11

You're not wrong about the analytics team, but I don't think it means that they won't try to squeeze every bit out of 82.5 mill. Every team in the league is doing it, and what the Sabres were doing before wasn't working.
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