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kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Jun 4 @ 10:37 PM ET
Mike Smith is awful.
- kaleta36


Just saved the game, for now.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 6:39 AM ET
Chris Johnston on TSN thinks Campbell is gonna walk and is looking for something in the 3yr range at 5m or so a Year. I just happen to know a team a hop skip an jump away that could meet those needs and probably exceed them if need be.
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Jun 5 @ 8:08 AM ET
Chris Johnston on TSN thinks Campbell is gonna walk and is looking for something in the 3yr range at 5m or so a Year. I just happen to know a team a hop skip an jump away that could meet those needs and probably exceed them if need be.
- Buff36


3 years at $6M per would likely get him to Buffalo, but it doesn't sound like people want him.
Gr8daygo
Joined: 04.23.2014

Jun 5 @ 8:18 AM ET
3 years at $6M per would likely get him to Buffalo, but it doesn't sound like people want him.
- kingcong39


I will take him! Zero reason no to. Played well for Toronto. It’s only 3 years. We have the cash to spend. We have no goalies under contract.

He HAS to be a better option than toker or Anderson. I like those guys but they but Anderson is old and won’t hold up to the work load. Toker is a backup at best. UPL is oft injured and hasn’t proven he can hold up. Suban is a backup at best but needs to start in the AHL.

Campbell
UPL

SUban
Tokarski

EBUG and development coach Anderson.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 8:26 AM ET
3 years at $6M per would likely get him to Buffalo, but it doesn't sound like people want him.
- kingcong39

Well if that's all it took after seeing some of the numbers people are throwing around for DK- MAF-Husso I would jump all over that. It's the perfect contract and he's decent.
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Jun 5 @ 8:31 AM ET
Chris Johnston on TSN thinks Campbell is gonna walk and is looking for something in the 3yr range at 5m or so a Year. I just happen to know a team a hop skip an jump away that could meet those needs and probably exceed them if need be.
- Buff36


Been on this train for 2-1/2 weeks now.
Reports for the past several weeks indicate the Leafs won't offer $5m and that is what he is looking for.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 8:33 AM ET
Been on this train for 2-1/2 weeks now.
Reports for the past several weeks indicate the Leafs won't offer $5m and that is what he is looking for.

- IonSabres

Been a passenger
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 8:48 AM ET
See they got Kadri out, just someone cheap shot him instead.
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Jun 5 @ 8:49 AM ET
See they got Kadri out, just someone cheap shot him instead.
- Buff36


You'll never guess who...
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 8:56 AM ET
You'll never guess who...
- kingcong39

Oh I saw it, someone who if he could have kept his pecker in his pants would be a good fit right now.
Gr8daygo
Joined: 04.23.2014

Jun 5 @ 8:57 AM ET
You'll never guess who...
- kingcong39


Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 8:59 AM ET

- Gr8daygo

That's good!! 😅😅😅
BeadyEyedDouche
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Rustmine Ramsum most exciting Sabres klugdragger since Taro Tsujimoto
Joined: 07.01.2016

Jun 5 @ 9:20 AM ET
Oh I saw it, someone who if he could have kept his pecker in his pants would be a good fit right now.
- Buff36

From what I heard it was the Pegula girl who couldn't keep her hands off him and Daddy Frack-bucks didn't like what he saw.
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 9:22 AM ET
From what I heard it was the Pegula girl who couldn't keep her hands off him and Daddy Frack-bucks didn't like what he saw.
- BeadyEyedDouche

Heard that, but she wasn't the only trouble
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Jun 5 @ 10:00 AM ET
Well if that's all it took after seeing some of the numbers people are throwing around for DK- MAF-Husso I would jump all over that. It's the perfect contract and he's decent.
- Buff36


Decent = is that really what we want in our next goalie?

He's an upgrade, but we need better than decent to make the playoffs
Da_Cashman
Buffalo Sabres
Location: London, ON
Joined: 04.18.2011

Jun 5 @ 10:07 AM ET
From what I heard it was the Pegula girl who couldn't keep her hands off him and Daddy Frack-bucks didn't like what he saw.
- BeadyEyedDouche



Gerbe said he was checking her keester out when she bent down to tie her shoe. Momma Pegula saw it and wanted him gone.
Anderdog
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 03.17.2021

Jun 5 @ 10:36 AM ET
https://www.spectorshocke...l-rumor-mill-june-5-2022/
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Jun 5 @ 10:37 AM ET
Decent = is that really what we want in our next goalie?

He's an upgrade, but we need better than decent to make the playoffs

- Boss34

Thought we were trying to get someone to split games with UPL and give enough time for hopefully Levi. And with the right moves this could be a playoff team with Campbell.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 5 @ 10:42 AM ET
https://www.spectorshockey.net/2022/06/sunday-nhl-rumor-mill-june-5-2022/
- Anderdog

DeBrincat 41 goals -13 9 mil per year good
Skinner 33 goales -14 9 mil a year bad
Hank Balling
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 05.18.2021

Jun 5 @ 10:52 AM ET
I will take him! Zero reason no to. Played well for Toronto. It’s only 3 years. We have the cash to spend. We have no goalies under contract.

He HAS to be a better option than toker or Anderson. I like those guys but they but Anderson is old and won’t hold up to the work load. Toker is a backup at best. UPL is oft injured and hasn’t proven he can hold up. Suban is a backup at best but needs to start in the AHL.

Campbell
UPL

SUban
Tokarski

EBUG and development coach Anderson.

- Gr8daygo


That's a brilliant idea, especially if theyre dead set on UPL as a roster lock next year. Hire Anderson as a coach and when UPL inevitably gets hurt, Anderson can sign a contract.
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Jun 5 @ 11:03 AM ET
Thought we were trying to get someone to split games with UPL and give enough time for hopefully Levi. And with the right moves this could be a playoff team with Campbell.
- Buff36


Good points, some times we are trying to add kuemper or MAF for the #1 spot, sometimes we are trying to get someone to split games with upl.

Thought Anderson would be the unquestioned starter at 5 or 6 million per?
Boss34
Buffalo Sabres
Location: BUFFALO , NY
Joined: 12.03.2015

Jun 5 @ 11:07 AM ET
That's a brilliant idea, especially if theyre dead set on UPL as a roster lock next year. Hire Anderson as a coach and when UPL inevitably gets hurt, Anderson can sign a contract.
- Hank Balling


You think theres any other nhl teams interested in craig Anderson?

More so a familiar city like Ottawa or a place that feels like home?

Buffalo has that family, retire and live feel. But maybe didn't make the 1 year impression , with his family already not committed to moving here last season I understand.
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Jun 5 @ 11:07 AM ET
Again, you're not a Sabres fan. You get mad when the Sabres win games. That's the opposite of a Sabres fan.

Is it ok for the Sabres to win games next year, or does that mess up the loser chances for a new 17 year old boy for you to drool over?

When, exactly, is it ok for the team you talk about (not "are a fan of" but "talk about") to win games? And, why then?

BTW, did Toronto make a mistake having these good regular seasons when they obviously haven't tanked enough to play 2 weeks past the Sabres in any given season the last 12 years? They could have been gunning for that 1st pick. What morons trying to win a cup. What they hell are they thinking?

It just sucks we don't have Sam Darnold at QB in Buffalo. Now that was a guy worth tanking for. Josh Allen is such a poor man's 1st round pick.

- lacaprup


Glad you "know" me so well, lol. Ignorant.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 5 @ 11:18 AM ET
You think theres any other nhl teams interested in craig Anderson?

More so a familiar city like Ottawa or a place that feels like home?

Buffalo has that family, retire and live feel. But maybe didn't make the 1 year impression , with his family already not committed to moving here last season I understand.

- Boss34

anderson did not sign to play with the sabres for the money

it was either for the love of the game or a chance to get win number 300

he has not retired yet, so there is that
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 5 @ 11:20 AM ET
Glad you "know" me so well, lol. Ignorant.
- IonSabres

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