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Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

May 25 @ 8:27 AM ET
mock done yesterday

9 Gauthier
16 Kasper
28 Luneau

I can live with that
http://www.mynhldraft.com/NHL-Mock-Draft/

- homiedclown

Very much so
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

May 25 @ 8:28 AM ET
mock done yesterday

9 Gauthier
16 Kasper
28 Luneau

I can live with that
http://www.mynhldraft.com/NHL-Mock-Draft/

- homiedclown

Not the biggest Kasper fan, but I could definitely live with this.
RichardRoma
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 01.18.2017

May 25 @ 8:42 AM ET
Does Steve Kerr need to just shut up and coach?
Pegullaville
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Toronto
Joined: 03.16.2011

May 25 @ 8:54 AM ET
mock done yesterday

9 Gauthier
16 Kasper
28 Luneau

I can live with that
http://www.mynhldraft.com/NHL-Mock-Draft/

- homiedclown


I’m not so sure Kasper lasts till 16 but I could be wrong.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

May 25 @ 9:01 AM ET
I’m not so sure Kasper lasts till 16 but I could be wrong.
- Pegullaville

He's seems to be on the radar for teams. Big boy who uses his size. His offensive upside bothers me.
Slump Buster
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I root for draft picks but not the team, apparently, NY
Joined: 10.24.2006

May 25 @ 9:04 AM ET
Does Steve Kerr need to just shut up and coach?
- RichardRoma


No
Powerslave
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Arriving Somewhere But Not Here
Joined: 02.10.2011

May 25 @ 9:04 AM ET
Does Steve Kerr need to just shut up and coach?
- RichardRoma



Nope.

Good for him.

Who SHOULD speak their minds on this? The politicians? 🤣
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

May 25 @ 9:11 AM ET
https://youtu.be/9YxK-swFREo
Morning All!!
Pegullaville
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Toronto
Joined: 03.16.2011

May 25 @ 9:44 AM ET
He's seems to be on the radar for teams. Big boy who uses his size. His offensive upside bothers me.
- Buff36


Sounds like what a lot of people said about Lundell prior to his draft.

Not saying that he has the same offensive upside as Lundell, but you don’t get meaningful minutes on the best team in the SHL by accident.
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

May 25 @ 9:52 AM ET
A valuable read for Fiala fans.

https://theathletic.com/3...iala-trade-value-suitors/
Anderdog
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 03.17.2021

May 25 @ 9:52 AM ET
Copp's predicted deal is 4 years at $5.8M per.

Hardly unaffordable.

Ilya Mikheyev interest anyone as a UFA target? 4 years at $4M per?

- kingcong39



Solid player
Asked to be moved because of playing time
Don't see him getting that in buffalo

I brought him up last week
Be a good add for some team
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

May 25 @ 9:55 AM ET
mock done yesterday

9 Gauthier
16 Kasper
28 Luneau

I can live with that
http://www.mynhldraft.com/NHL-Mock-Draft/

- homiedclown


Can't complain. Some others I like at 16 are Rutger and Filip Mesar(Kid is fast and has some nice mitts)
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

May 25 @ 9:59 AM ET
"Reinhart is probably the closest comparable to Fiala for what a realistic package looks like. Reinhart scored at a 38-goal pace on a dreadful Sabres team in 2020-21 and was a bona fide top-line-caliber talent like Fiala. Reinhart was in the same boat as an RFA one year away from UFA status.

Florida surrendered a 2022 first-round pick (top-10 protected) and prospect goaltender Devon Levi for Reinhart. Levi was a seventh-round pick in 2020, but he had an outstanding World Juniors performance later that year, posting three shutouts and a 0.67 goals-against average in seven games to guide Canada to a gold-medal win. Levi was only one year removed from being a seventh-round pick at the time of the trade, but he’s turned into a legitimate blue-chip prospect since joining the Sabres organization. Levi was the best netminder in college hockey last season and looks like he could be the Sabres’ goalie of the future.

Would a first-round pick and a quality prospect be a reasonable package for Fiala based on the Reinhart return?"

This is what I was saying the other day. If the market is similar, Fiala can be had for less than Wild fans (and us prior to the Reinhart trade) think. 28, Johnson (minor +) can probably get it done.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

May 25 @ 10:01 AM ET
"Reinhart is probably the closest comparable to Fiala for what a realistic package looks like. Reinhart scored at a 38-goal pace on a dreadful Sabres team in 2020-21 and was a bona fide top-line-caliber talent like Fiala. Reinhart was in the same boat as an RFA one year away from UFA status.

Florida surrendered a 2022 first-round pick (top-10 protected) and prospect goaltender Devon Levi for Reinhart. Levi was a seventh-round pick in 2020, but he had an outstanding World Juniors performance later that year, posting three shutouts and a 0.67 goals-against average in seven games to guide Canada to a gold-medal win. Levi was only one year removed from being a seventh-round pick at the time of the trade, but he’s turned into a legitimate blue-chip prospect since joining the Sabres organization. Levi was the best netminder in college hockey last season and looks like he could be the Sabres’ goalie of the future.

Would a first-round pick and a quality prospect be a reasonable package for Fiala based on the Reinhart return?"

This is what I was saying the other day. If the market is similar, Fiala can be had for less than Wild fans (and us prior to the Reinhart trade) think. 28, Johnson (minor +) can probably get it done.

- TheSabresTaco


I would 1000% do that
TheSabresTaco
Buffalo Sabres
Location: For me. jack Eichel is bobby ryan….that's it. - Octavarium, NY
Joined: 05.05.2011

May 25 @ 10:06 AM ET
I would 1000% do that
- ImThatGuy


in a vacuum i love the trade. However, my only concern is, what assets do we need to acquire the goalie and the defenseman.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

May 25 @ 10:07 AM ET
in a vacuum i love the trade. However, my only concern is, what assets do we need to acquire the goalie and the defenseman.
- TheSabresTaco


Myers should be cheap
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

May 25 @ 10:11 AM ET
Does Steve Kerr need to just shut up and coach?
- RichardRoma



Depends, and I'm asking not telling, is he the same coach who used to spend every other press conference telling us Donald Trump was a Russian plant, or was that the idiot from San Antonio or was it both? I have no respect for anyone who pushed that lie for three years and cheered on two impeachments of a POTUS for funsies. None whatsoever. Those people are tantamount to traitors who did their best to cause a civil war in this country, and most assuredly added to the psychosis of our nation that leads to these shootings.

Either way, ain't nothing changing in America. Since Columbine we've spent an entire generation perfecting mass murder video games to the point they're so real you can't tell the difference between a video game and a youtube clip of a real massshooting. Why would any society do that? No sane one would. Meanwhile, there's more guns than people in America, and our law enforcement institutions from the FBI to your local PD have nowhere near the respect and admiration of the public they had a generation ago, nor do they deserve it.

If you're single without kids my advice is to hire a lawyer and emigrate the hell out of this sick place.
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

May 25 @ 10:16 AM ET


Either way, ain't nothing changing in America. Since Columbine we've spent an entire generation perfecting mass murder video games to the point they're so real you can't tell the difference between a video game and a youtube clip of a real massshooting.

- lacaprup


You're comparing speaking about politics to speaking about saving children's lives.

We have the same video games north of the border and we don't have this mass shooting problem.

Lack of gun control is the only reason for what happens in the states.

will be my only post on subject
lacaprup
Buffalo Sabres
Location: NY
Joined: 07.23.2006

May 25 @ 10:19 AM ET
Your comparing speaking about politics to speaking about saving children's lives.

We have the same video games north of the border and we don't have this mass shooting problem.

Gun control is the only reason for what happens in the states.

will be my only post on subject

- DirtyDan



You missed the other part of my post where I said we have more guns than people in America. That wasn't an exaggeration. If you've got a magic wand that can take them all away go ahead and wave it.

Edit: The most successful gun control policy in American history, called stop and frisk, was thrown out and called racist because that's all democrats know how to do. Furthermore, they all made the man who implemented this successful policy apologize and cuck himself on the stage of the Democrat primary nomination because he had the guts to take guns out of criminal's hands. So yeah cry gun control all you want.


RichardRoma
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 01.18.2017

May 25 @ 10:24 AM ET
You're comparing speaking about politics to speaking about saving children's lives.

We have the same video games north of the border and we don't have this mass shooting problem.

Lack of gun control is the only reason for what happens in the states.

will be my only post on subject

- DirtyDan

How do you protect yourselves from a tyrannical government?
DirtyDan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Why aren't more people interrigent? Rike Me? , ON
Joined: 02.03.2021

May 25 @ 10:26 AM ET
How do you protect yourselves from a tyrannical government?
- RichardRoma


lol
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

May 25 @ 10:30 AM ET
Depends, and I'm asking not telling, is he the same coach who used to spend every other press conference telling us Donald Trump was a Russian plant, or was that the idiot from San Antonio or was it both? I have no respect for anyone who pushed that lie for three years and cheered on two impeachments of a POTUS for funsies. None whatsoever. Those people are tantamount to traitors who did their best to cause a civil war in this country, and most assuredly added to the psychosis of our nation that leads to these shootings.

Either way, ain't nothing changing in America. Since Columbine we've spent an entire generation perfecting mass murder video games to the point they're so real you can't tell the difference between a video game and a youtube clip of a real massshooting. Why would any society do that? No sane one would. Meanwhile, there's more guns than people in America, and our law enforcement institutions from the FBI to your local PD have nowhere near the respect and admiration of the public they had a generation ago, nor do they deserve it.

If you're single without kids my advice is to hire a lawyer and emigrate the hell out of this sick place.

- lacaprup



Go (frank) yourself
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

May 25 @ 10:31 AM ET
"Reinhart is probably the closest comparable to Fiala for what a realistic package looks like. Reinhart scored at a 38-goal pace on a dreadful Sabres team in 2020-21 and was a bona fide top-line-caliber talent like Fiala. Reinhart was in the same boat as an RFA one year away from UFA status.

Florida surrendered a 2022 first-round pick (top-10 protected) and prospect goaltender Devon Levi for Reinhart. Levi was a seventh-round pick in 2020, but he had an outstanding World Juniors performance later that year, posting three shutouts and a 0.67 goals-against average in seven games to guide Canada to a gold-medal win. Levi was only one year removed from being a seventh-round pick at the time of the trade, but he’s turned into a legitimate blue-chip prospect since joining the Sabres organization. Levi was the best netminder in college hockey last season and looks like he could be the Sabres’ goalie of the future.

Would a first-round pick and a quality prospect be a reasonable package for Fiala based on the Reinhart return?"

This is what I was saying the other day. If the market is similar, Fiala can be had for less than Wild fans (and us prior to the Reinhart trade) think. 28, Johnson (minor +) can probably get it done.

- TheSabresTaco


I'd be shocked if 28 +Johnson gets it done. 16 + Asplund might be more reasonable IMO, based on likely interest from NJ and Ott driving the price up. Also, Fiala is a loser since he doesn't hit enough and hasdn't singularly carried his team in the PO's.

I like the thought from yesterday of Talbot + Dumba...just not sure what would cost in terms of assets, and would need an extension for Dumba or very solid assurances.
That would allow them to resign Fiala & MAF.
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

May 25 @ 10:32 AM ET
You're comparing speaking about politics to speaking about saving children's lives.

We have the same video games north of the border and we don't have this mass shooting problem.

Lack of gun control is the only reason for what happens in the states.

will be my only post on subject

- DirtyDan



Lacrapruns celebrated January 6th, as if it was a holiday.

(frank) him
SabresFaninIndiana
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Bananaville, IN
Joined: 12.16.2009

May 25 @ 10:35 AM ET
Nope.

Good for him.

Who SHOULD speak their minds on this? The politicians? 🤣

- Powerslave

i do get annoyed how everyone pounds the gavel on gun control but very few talk about mental health awareness, teaching and over medicating instead of treating
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