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Otsegolectric
Buffalo Sabres
Location: rochester, NY
Joined: 01.26.2012

Jun 17 @ 10:35 PM ET
Stafford has in the past. I'm pretty sure Murray is gonna hold onto both him and Stafford until the deadline, or at least he should.
- OneKaneOneCup


Not a popular opinion, but i really liked staffs game since the new year. Plus his whole demeanor seemed to have changed. Turned into a real leader and voice in locker room.

Gasp, i'd resign him 5/15.
OneKaneOneCup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Buffalo, NY
Joined: 06.21.2013

Jun 17 @ 10:38 PM ET
Not a popular opinion, but i really liked staffs game since the new year. Plus his whole demeanor seemed to have changed. Turned into a real leader and voice in locker room.

Gasp, i'd resign him 5/15.

- Otsegolectric

If he has a good year I think he signs elsewhere.

If he has an ok year and nets say 15 goals and 35-40 points id resign him for 2-3 years
grand-magus
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "...i'd say you were high on mushrooms", GMTM, NY
Joined: 06.06.2014

Jun 17 @ 10:55 PM ET
Not a popular opinion, but i really liked staffs game since the new year. Plus his whole demeanor seemed to have changed. Turned into a real leader and voice in locker room.

Gasp, i'd resign him 5/15.

- Otsegolectric


Good lord, I really want to, and tried to, like him.

He's like Kotalik and Grosek before him. If Stafford gets involved, uses his body, finishes checks, etc., that's when he's playing his best hockey.

Much like those other two - and they had less than stellar Sabre careers - he takes far too many games off. Then, BAM, he'll have a two-goal game and everybody loves him again.

It's really up to him, but for Christ's sake, he's 28 years old. Why has it taken 8 seasons to finally get it?
Otsegolectric
Buffalo Sabres
Location: rochester, NY
Joined: 01.26.2012

Jun 17 @ 11:01 PM ET
Good lord, I really want to, and tried to, like him.

He's like Kotalik and Grosek before him. If Stafford gets involved, uses his body, finishes checks, etc., that's when he's playing his best hockey.

Much like those other two - and they had less than stellar Sabre careers - he takes far too many games off. Then, BAM, he'll have a two-goal game and everybody loves him again.

It's really up to him, but for Christ's sake, he's 28 years old. Why has it taken 8 seasons to finally get it?

- grand-magus


Given up figuring that out. Maybe its the fact the old core is all gone now. He's able to step up.

Or he is what he is and has been
buffalofan19
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Wonderful things can happen when you sow seeds of distrust in a garden full of (bum)holes
Joined: 07.01.2007

Jun 17 @ 11:16 PM ET
Not a popular opinion, but i really liked staffs game since the new year. Plus his whole demeanor seemed to have changed. Turned into a real leader and voice in locker room.

Gasp, i'd resign him 5/15.

- Otsegolectric



Even at his best, which comes a long less frequently than a blue moon, he's about a penny a dozen. The Sabres need to move on from him simply to purge themselves from the old regime as much as possible.
SABRES 89
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Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 02.17.2007

Jun 17 @ 11:18 PM ET
Staff played better under Nolan...................... did I really say that?
rover16
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 08.09.2012

Jun 17 @ 11:23 PM ET
Good lord, I really want to, and tried to, like him.

He's like Kotalik and Grosek before him. If Stafford gets involved, uses his body, finishes checks, etc., that's when he's playing his best hockey.

Much like those other two - and they had less than stellar Sabre careers - he takes far too many games off. Then, BAM, he'll have a two-goal game and everybody loves him again.

It's really up to him, but for Christ's sake, he's 28 years old. Why has it taken 8 seasons to finally get it?

- grand-magus


Great comparisons. I was looking the other day, stafford is actually bigger than evander kane- same height, stafford is heavier. I think kotalik and stafford both had very good shots, but both are pretty much one trick ponies. Both are wingers that had the size to be power forwards but rarely showed the drive. Grosek was different. I remember him running all over and hitting people, I dont think he had the scoring ability of the other 2. All 3 left you thinking "theres gotta be more" until you realized there just wasnt.
rover16
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 08.09.2012

Jun 17 @ 11:26 PM ET
I think grosek got us dumont and gilmour. Guess we werent the only ones who thought there might be more there
SABRES 89
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Jun 17 @ 11:27 PM ET


The Winnipeg Jets are reportedly considering trading forward Evander Kane and the Edmonton Oilers could be one of the teams most interested in acquiring his services.
It's been speculated in the Edmonton media that the club could be trying to work out a deal for the maligned power forward, however the piece in question suggests the Oilers could offer Nail Yakupov for Kane, which sounds like a terrible deal for Winnipeg.


A nut for a nut
buffalofan19
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Jun 17 @ 11:35 PM ET
Staff played better under Nolan...................... did I really say that?
- SABRES 89


When you have nowhere to go but up, that tends to happen.
SABRES 89
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Jun 17 @ 11:36 PM ET
When you have nowhere to go but up, that tends to happen.
- buffalofan19

Gee....lucky us
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

Jun 17 @ 11:48 PM ET
Not a popular opinion, but i really liked staffs game since the new year. Plus his whole demeanor seemed to have changed. Turned into a real leader and voice in locker room.

Gasp, i'd resign him 5/15.

- Otsegolectric



The dude get's us every year plays good .. then poop the next... plays good then etc

I do not want to resign him
SABRES 89
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Jun 17 @ 11:50 PM ET
The dude get's us every year plays good .. then poop the next... plays good then etc

I do not want to resign him

- GERBE!!!75PTS

That crackpot will be the new Captain you watch on the bright side, we seem to do very well trading Captains
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
Location: Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser." - Jack Eichel-, CA
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Jun 17 @ 11:51 PM ET
That crackpot will be the new Captain you watch on the bright side, we seem to do very well trading Captains
- SABRES 89



that's true ... ok i'm down with him as captain
Dudestar
Location: NY
Joined: 09.09.2011

Jun 17 @ 11:52 PM ET
TOR: Leafs have OFFERED Phaneuf+ for the 1st overall pick. PlanB: Phaneuf+ for 2nd overall pick + Myers. Both teams are still deciding (2/2) found this on tweeter
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

Jun 17 @ 11:54 PM ET
TOR: Leafs have OFFERED Phaneuf+ for the 1st overall pick. PlanB: Phaneuf+ for 2nd overall pick + Myers. Both teams are still deciding (2/2) found this on tweeter
- Dudestar


I'm starting to hate twitter..

thank god tim murray is not dumb
grand-magus
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 06.06.2014

Jun 18 @ 12:00 AM ET
I'm starting to hate twitter..

thank god tim murray is not dumb

- GERBE!!!75PTS



Has Rico resurfaced?
GERBE!!!75PTS
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Jun 18 @ 12:03 AM ET
Has Rico resurfaced?
- grand-magus



all the Fake Rumor guys will be back ..


GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
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Jun 18 @ 12:05 AM ET
but hey If the Leafs want the 2nd overall pick ..

they better be ready to give up that 2015 , 2014 first to start
jochfr
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Nashville , TN
Joined: 07.11.2009

Jun 18 @ 12:13 AM ET
all the Fake Rumor guys will be back ..

- GERBE!!!75PTS

One is already here....
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
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Jun 18 @ 12:16 AM ET
One is already here....
- jochfr



who knows could be me ..

rover16
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 08.09.2012

Jun 18 @ 12:30 AM ET
TOR: Leafs have OFFERED Phaneuf+ for the 1st overall pick. PlanB: Phaneuf+ for 2nd overall pick + Myers. Both teams are still deciding (2/2) found this on tweeter
- Dudestar


Hope theres a plan C too
Buffalo-Sabres
Buffalo Sabres
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Joined: 07.05.2007

Jun 18 @ 12:45 AM ET
TOR: Leafs have OFFERED Phaneuf+ for the 1st overall pick. PlanB: Phaneuf+ for 2nd overall pick + Myers. Both teams are still deciding (2/2) found this on tweeter
- Dudestar



I never want to know what its like to be so low as to make fake sports rumors that have no basis in reality.
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
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Jun 18 @ 12:46 AM ET
Hope theres a plan C too
- rover16



"IF" we trade with the leafs we have to make them overpay Kessel, (2014,2015 first)
+

only way
GERBE!!!75PTS
San Jose Sharks
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Jun 18 @ 12:49 AM ET
I never want to know what its like to be so low as to make fake sports rumors that have no basis in reality.
- Buffalo-Sabres


all losers .. trying to make up for not having any friends
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