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Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 12:05 PM ET
Only issue with FA for the G is there will be several teams who are looking for a starting G...could translate to higher contract costs...but still, I agree with your plan.
- IonSabres

Agree about cost, but not to many could outbid us, if we wanted to. There are trade options I just hope Adams doesn't have to use that route.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 12:08 PM ET
You keep looking for "decent" goalies 36.

Decent is not going to move the needle with this team.

Craig Anderson was slightly less than decent.

Lunaion's guy dt31 could be considered decent or close

- Boss34

So what is
DK
Campbell
Husso etc. I consider them decent goalie's, if you don't that's fine. I don't consider them great but think they would move the needle
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Jun 10 @ 12:09 PM ET
Mitts value is so low you are better off keeping him and hope he turns it around. What we get for him would prob not be worth it at this time. Unless it’s like a nylander/joker trade
- Fattony1187


I agree with you Tony. Low value for mitts.

If you remember back to training camp, mitts was going to be our savior #1 or 2 center.

He finished strong, rather us not trade guys with so much top 10 pick upside. This team can't afford more players playing well around the nhl , that the Sabres gave up on early. 2.5 million is a livable contract for 2 more years IMO
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Jun 10 @ 12:09 PM ET
https://twitter.com/Kevin...yde4Gm1lOaZlxhCcddyg&s=19

Sabres apparently retiring Miller's jersey
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 12:10 PM ET
https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1535292524146921476?t=KZyde4Gm1lOaZlxhCcddyg&s=19

Sabres apparently retiring Miller's jersey

- Hank Balling

Nice!!!
jochfr
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Nashville , TN
Joined: 07.11.2009

Jun 10 @ 12:11 PM ET
they sold 2 franchises

I think one is going in tampa and the other in miami

I will let you know when the grand opening is for tampa, as I will be there

- homiedclown

Is that place still open in Nashville?
I forgot about it.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 10 @ 12:13 PM ET
https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1535292524146921476?t=KZyde4Gm1lOaZlxhCcddyg&s=19

Sabres apparently retiring Miller's jersey

- Hank Balling

uh ohhhhhh, some people are about to be triggered.
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Jun 10 @ 12:13 PM ET
So what is
DK
Campbell
Husso etc. I consider them decent goalie's, if you don't that's fine. I don't consider them great but think they would move the needle

- Buff36


Decent-of an acceptable standard; satisfactory.

Kuemper is really good
Campbell is good
Husso is interesting and appears better than status quo


Ufa IMO are better than decent, but I understand your just using terminology after drinking all night πŸ˜‰
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Jun 10 @ 12:15 PM ET
https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1535292524146921476?t=KZyde4Gm1lOaZlxhCcddyg&s=19

Sabres apparently retiring Miller's jersey

- Hank Balling



This is really good for ticket resale.

Probably raise miller to the rafters vs. Anaheim?
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 12:17 PM ET
Decent-of an acceptable standard; satisfactory.

Kuemper is really good
Campbell is good
Husso is interesting and appears better than status quo


Ufa IMO are better than decent, but I understand your just using terminology after drinking all night πŸ˜‰

- Boss34

Sure!! What ever
jochfr
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Nashville , TN
Joined: 07.11.2009

Jun 10 @ 12:26 PM ET
This is really good for ticket resale.

Probably raise miller to the rafters vs. Anaheim?

- Boss34


That sounds painful.
they should just raise his jersey.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

Jun 10 @ 12:30 PM ET
uh ohhhhhh, some people are about to be triggered.
- ImThatGuy


Why?
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Jun 10 @ 12:38 PM ET
You keep looking for "decent" goalies 36.

Decent is not going to move the needle with this team.

Craig Anderson was slightly less than decent.

Lunaion's guy dt31 could be considered decent or close

- Boss34


Who's your target?
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Jun 10 @ 12:41 PM ET
https://twitter.com/KevinWeekes/status/1535292524146921476?t=KZyde4Gm1lOaZlxhCcddyg&s=19

Sabres apparently retiring Miller's jersey

- Hank Balling


Are they hoisting a Mr Softie truck to the rafters along side his Jersey?
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Jun 10 @ 12:44 PM ET
I don't think there has been a more polarizing player with the Sabres fanbase than Ryan Miller.

Based on the standards the team has set for retiring numbers, he does belong up there
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Jun 10 @ 12:53 PM ET
I don't think there has been a more polarizing player with the Sabres fanbase than Ryan Miller.

Based on the standards the team has set for retiring numbers, he does belong up there

- Stripes77


I'm rather neutral on him...
I also think he took too much poop from the fan base...but he brought some if that on himself in representing the team as the voice of the team and being rather negative.
He was good overall, not great in my book, but solid.
Stripes77
Referee
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Where ever Matt Ellis allows me to be, NY
Joined: 07.30.2012

Jun 10 @ 12:54 PM ET
https://twitter.com/Buffa...tatus/1535303404490309639
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Jun 10 @ 12:57 PM ET
I'm rather neutral on him...
I also think he took too much poop from the fan base...but he brought some if that on himself in representing the team as the voice of the team and being rather negative.
He was good overall, not great in my book, but solid.

- IonSabres


Hard not to be negative after mgmt/ownership totally Fd up the Brier/Drury contracts & lost them both
I’d have been p!ssed too
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Jun 10 @ 12:57 PM ET
I don't think there has been a more polarizing player with the Sabres fanbase than Ryan Miller.

Based on the standards the team has set for retiring numbers, he does belong up there

- Stripes77


He put the years in and he was a great community guy.

The wildest Miller stat for me is the year he played 76 games (07-08). We'll never see anything close to that ever again
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 12:58 PM ET
https://www.spotrac.com/n...ee-agents/goaltender/ufa/
So who on that list moves the needle?
jdfitz77
Buffalo Sabres
Location: buffalo, NY
Joined: 05.21.2007

Jun 10 @ 1:00 PM ET
https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/free-agents/goaltender/ufa/
So who on that list moves the needle?

- Buff36


Boss love guys that used to play in Buffalo
So he probably wants Ullmark back
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 1:02 PM ET
https://www.spotrac.com/n...ee-agents/goaltender/rfa/
Anyone?
PrinceChill
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.06.2014

Jun 10 @ 1:04 PM ET
https://www.spotrac.com/nhl/free-agents/goaltender/ufa/
So who on that list moves the needle?

- Buff36

Not a really impressive list. MAF fits the KA culture quotient, but I think despite some down years, Holtby might have something left.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 10 @ 1:05 PM ET
Not a really impressive list. MAF fits the KA culture quotient, but I think despite some down years, Holtby might have something left.
- PrinceChill

I really don't like Holtby
PrinceChill
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.06.2014

Jun 10 @ 1:09 PM ET
I really don't like Holtby
- Buff36

I didn't like the list, but tried to find someone that could help efficiently, economically, and sorta quasi kinda effectively. He's certainly not someone to get excited over.

As for the RFA list...its hard to picture the Stars letting Otter go.
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