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GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA
Joined: 02.11.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:03 PM ET
Still don't give up hope on hall its so quiet and that's how the Sabres operate
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Oct 11 @ 6:06 PM ET
fitz torching the 49ers

turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:10 PM ET
Take Fluery and a Marchessault for Okposo and waive Hutton

Saves them 6 mil for a top 6 Player

- sbroads24

Like it - waiving Hutton won’t get any takers and sending him to the minors only saves so much
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Oct 11 @ 6:12 PM ET
Take Fluery and a Marchessault for Okposo and waive Hutton

Saves them 6 mil for a top 6 Player

- sbroads24


They probably need to clear around $8m to squeeze Pietrangelo in and have a bit of a cushion.
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:13 PM ET
I'm counting on Mitts making our team...and being good. Too high of a draft pick for this not to happen. He HAS to be good for us.
- kritter65


Don’t count on it he could be another nylander. Some guys are driven others not.
Cozens and Tage have added a lot of muscle supposedly, it’s why Tage was extended before Mittelstadt probably
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:14 PM ET
Still don't give up hope on hall its so quiet and that's how the Sabres operate
- GERBE!!!75PTS


Dman it stop it gerbe. Just give me a winger from the 2nd tier list and possbily a middle 6 LHD and I’ll be happy. Don’t see how we add another goalie wiThout the Hutton situation getting ugly.

Still hall with eichel would be deadly
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:17 PM ET
LV have a deal in place to relieve cap by trading MAF? Give me MAF and Tuch for Hutton, but taking in $10m cap for us is probably unrealistic. Maybe they’ll retain $2m of MAF?
- turbo044


They're not trading Tuch.
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA
Joined: 02.11.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:20 PM ET
Dman it stop it gerbe. Just give me a winger from the 2nd tier list and possbily a middle 6 LHD and I’ll be happy. Don’t see how we add another goalie wiThout the Hutton situation getting ugly.

Still hall with eichel would be deadly

- turbo044


Thats probably what hall is thinking if jack can get skinner 9m what could he get me

With money so tight around the league he might want this so he can cash out in year 2
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:20 PM ET
Can confirm Alex Pietrangelo and #Vegasborn are indeed working towards completing a contract.

https://twitter.com/andys.../1315414894980878336?s=19

7 x $8.25, modified NMC was what I heard yesterday.... as the sides work on a deal, we will see how much that changed #VegasBorn

https://twitter.com/NHLRu.../1315078086124343297?s=19
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:21 PM ET
Thats probably what hall is thinking if jack can get skinner 9m what could he get me

With money so tight around the league he might want this so he can cash out in year 2

- GERBE!!!75PTS


Ralph would play Hall with Eakin due to his practice habits or something 😅😂
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Oct 11 @ 6:21 PM ET
If Mitts would've stopped eating Bon Bon's and Snickers Ice Cream Bars over the last 6 months we would have probably had a goalie.
- Buff36


So the AZ died?
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:23 PM ET
To be honest this board is the only one talking about Hall and Buffalo, not even a whisper anywhere else. I’m assuming we don’t get him (for my own mental well-being) but am interested how quickly the
Hoffman’s of the world sign after the Hall domino falls.

Realistically the gerbe plane thing Didn’t happen as it would have leaked, like the pietroangelo trip to LV, and Canadians aren’t allowed to go into the states anyway.

The hall Ralph love affair is real

The pegula internal cap is also probably real

so maybe we do have a 5% chance Of
Hall signing in Buffalo.

More likely is a Toffoli or dandonov. Hoffman would be lethal with eichel too

- turbo044


The only reason I’m even slightly considering Hall is bc he obviously likes Kruger a lot

Guys who don’t have any connection here (like Toffoli & Dadonov) seem unlikely to come here unless we overpay
gordong
Location: NY
Joined: 02.06.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:24 PM ET
The jet picked him up in Kingston
- GERBE!!!75PTS

Just stop you have no idea why the jet was there, none... you’re throwing crap up on the wall hoping something sticks.
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA
Joined: 02.11.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:24 PM ET
Ralph would play Hall with Eakin due to his practice habits or something 😅😂
- kingcong39


Hall and Ralph like each other so I don't see it
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:24 PM ET
They probably need to clear around $8m to squeeze Pietrangelo in and have a bit of a cushion.
- IonSabres


Fleury = -7m
Tuch =-4.75m
Hutton = +2.85m
Mittelstadt = +1m

= LV savings of 7.9m

Or substitute marcheshault who makes $5m
gordong
Location: NY
Joined: 02.06.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:25 PM ET
Ralph would play Hall with Eakin due to his practice habits or something 😅😂
- kingcong39




kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:25 PM ET
Fleury = -7m
Tuch =-4.75m
Hutton = +2.85m
Mittelstadt = +1m

= LV savings of 7.9m

Or substitute marcheshault who makes $5m

- turbo044


Tuch is not even a possibility.
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Oct 11 @ 6:25 PM ET
Ralph would play Hall with Eakin due to his practice habits or something 😅😂
- kingcong39


A+
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:26 PM ET
Damn it stop it gerbe. Just give me a winger from the 2nd tier list and possbily a middle 6 LHD and I’ll be happy. Don’t see how we add another goalie wiThout the Hutton situation getting ugly.

Still hall with eichel would be deadly

- turbo044

dadeadhead
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I don't want to say Greztky was a dude when I was watching. Mentalorgasm5 , NY
Joined: 07.16.2006

Oct 11 @ 6:26 PM ET
I'm counting on Mitts making our team...and being good. Too high of a draft pick for this not to happen. He HAS to be good for us.
- kritter65



Well he either

A)makes the team
B) gets traded
C) no way he goes unclaimed and plays in the AHL.


75% he makes the team
24% traded
1%
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA
Joined: 02.11.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:27 PM ET
Just stop you have no idea why the jet was there, none... you’re throwing crap up on the wall hoping something sticks.
- gordong


True but its odd they picked up some one from Kingston when thats where hall is ..

If it was not directly in his home town and it was not reported that buffalo would make him an offer

I wouldn't make a big deal
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:29 PM ET
Tuch is not even a possibility.
- kingcong39


I agree BUT nobody is taken on the MAF contract without significant enticements. Tuck had a down year last year and I wouldn’t even take MAF for a 1st as that 1st tends to be almost a 2nd.

Any ideas ???
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Oct 11 @ 6:32 PM ET
So the AZ died?
- IonSabres

I don't know, just that his value has plummeted and is not helping the Sabres cause.
turbo044
Joined: 02.18.2009

Oct 11 @ 6:32 PM ET
Well he either

A)makes the team
B) gets traded
C) no way he goes unclaimed and plays in the AHL.


75% he makes the team
24% traded
1%

- dadeadhead[/

Does he have to clear waivers to be sent to Rochester this year? I don’t think so though I could be wrong
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Oct 11 @ 6:32 PM ET
I agree BUT nobody is taken on the MAF contract without significant enticements. Tuck had a down year last year and I wouldn’t even take MAF for a 1st as that 1st tends to be almost a 2nd.

Any ideas ???

- turbo044


Marchessault is a much more likely possibility with the contract Tuch has, especially considering the playoff performance Tuch had.
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