And to repeat, it's not that Quinn is a bad prospect, but when a fan base has been subjected to mismanagement for years, they have every right to feel skeptical when a consensus mid-first round pick gets taken at No. 8 ahead of two consensus top-six picks, one being his own teammate who led the CHL in scoring.

It wouldn't surprise me if Rossi was part of the Staal trade - "if he's there, don't take him" kind of thing.

Or not idk.

Can we get some trades now?

So are we letting Montour walk ?

So are we letting Montour walk ?
- GERBE!!!75PTS

Appears so.

The Buffalo News said the game could be a forfeit if the Titans were found to violate protocols.
- buffalofan19

Only old men get their news from a paper........

Ottawa is going to be so facking good.

4 2nd rd picks.

I assume we will see trades and they will still have soem left over.

It wouldn't surprise me if Rossi was part of the Staal trade - "if he's there, don't take him" kind of thing.

Or not idk.

Can we get some trades now?
- jcragcrumple

If so fire KA now.

After looking at what the Sabres have in prospects, Quinn fits what we need in our young core of players. We now have 2 young “snipers” to mold (Olaffsson and Quinn) with hopes of 1 of at least panning out. With a high pick like this I felt it was more of a need to go with a winger as we have Cozens whom the goal is to mold right behind Eichel for years to come hence bringing in Staal. So yeah we sit here wanting Rossi or Perfetti but really do we want to use a 1st round pick to mold a 3rd line center??? To me you can find that in the 2nd -4th rounds. Ideally you want to hit with your 1st to be a top 6 player not a top 9. So Quinn made more sense on Adams’ perspective to take than another Center.

If so fire KA now.
- ImThatGuy

Can’t fire the owners.

Pretty evident they are calling all of the shots

Ottawa is going to be so facking good.

4 2nd rd picks.

I assume we will see trades and they will still have soem left over.
- ImThatGuy

Not worried about Ottawa they will trade tk when he wants a 10m contract

It wouldn't surprise me if Rossi was part of the Staal trade - "if he's there, don't take him" kind of thing.

Or not idk.

Can we get some trades now?
- jcragcrumple

It seemed to me that everyone knew who they were taking prior.

Many looked to be prerecorded early on so it wouldn’t surprise me if that was part of a side deal.

Ottawa is going to be so facking good.

4 2nd rd picks.

I assume we will see trades and they will still have soem left over.
- ImThatGuy

Means nothing unless they develop them properly and put them in positions to succeed.

We were Ottawa once. Tons of picks, prospects, yada, yada.

We were going to be great, too.

Tampa has 4.6M in cap and they need to sign Cernak, Cirelli and Sergachyev. Among others.

I think GMs are putting their hands up with other GMs trying to pawn high salaries/caps onto them. When trades happen, people are going to be very surprised how little value the team gets in return for the 4,5,6,7M players.
- TheSabresTaco

Well I think the hold up has been the ask.. They wanted quality picks for players like Tyler Johnson, who is clearly a cap dump to at least Tampa at this point. He could be serviceable for that contract somewhere else getting more ice time, but they really need to take a hard look at what they expect to get in return for sub par players the past couple years just because they have a shiny new piece of jewelry to accompany them to their next stops.

If so fire KA now.
- ImThatGuy

So, are you an Ottawa fan now, or are you going to follow Seattle's new franchise?

I think you nailed it with the last paragraph and I would say this isn’t a bad pick by any means. There’s also some large question marks around the two Centers and with cozens being groomed to take the 2C spot it makes sense to fill out your top six right wing spot. Personally I would have went with Jarvis in this spot with that in mind, but that’s another player in the high risk high reward category. At the end of the day these are all lottery tickets and we’ve seen players that were bonafide top 5 picks not do anything in the pros so only time will tell.

If I was a sabres fan one thing I would look for in Quinn this upcoming season is to balance out the goals and assists. The NHL is a harder place to score goals so to work on his playmaking will help in transition to the nhl

So, are you an Ottawa fan now, or are you going to follow Seattle's new franchise?
- RichardRoma

{RAGE INTENSIFIES}

It wouldn't surprise me if Rossi was part of the Staal trade - "if he's there, don't take him" kind of thing.

Or not idk.

Can we get some trades now?
- jcragcrumple

If that was the case, I'm not thrilled with it. But why wouldn't they just have made that part of the trade. I don't think anyone would have been too upset with it, seeing as Staal is clearly better and signed for less. To move back one and still get the same players that they got (and actually would have saved Buf some face TBH)

The process? Stupidity.

The process? Stupidity.
- FinnGod

The Canes are gonna be real good shortly methinks.

Meh

Like dynamite

The process? Stupidity.
- FinnGod

Do you want to kiss Sebastian Aho on the mouth?

My guess is that Jack Quinn was named after the Hughes brothers.
- TheSabresTaco

i thought it was quinn the eskimo

It wouldn't surprise me if Rossi was part of the Staal trade - "if he's there, don't take him" kind of thing.

Or not idk.

Can we get some trades now?
- jcragcrumple

I agree, seems like we "won" the stahl trade hands down.
Probably had a little secret hand shake

Tell flaccoville, he's still really upset

The Canes are gonna be real good shortly methinks.
- SDSabre

Will they be your new team?

Will they be your new team?
- RichardRoma

We have enough homers on these threads already.