Buffalo Sabres and the NHL: 2025 - 2026. Changes are needed. Don't we say that every year?

[AlCowlingsTaxiService]

6 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

The taint on this franchise right now is so bad that there is no way to remove it with current ownership

Why not? I’m sure current ownership has enough money to hire the proper surgeon for taint removal 🤪

[BillsFan4]

8 hours ago, That's No Moon said:

While I'm at it, why on Earth is anyone even contemplating giving Alex Tuch 10 million dollars a year for any kind of term? That's the stupid kind of fanboy crap that put them in this sort of hole to start with. Trading him at the deadline? Why wait? Do it right now. If those are the options, 10M x 8 or trade him? He's got to go in that scenario.

 

No, what they'll do instead is wait for all the other moves to be made and they'll then move him for a 2nd round pick two years from now and whine about how there weren't that many buyers. Either that or Team USA will take him and he'll pick up an injury in Italy that makes him untradeable.

 

I'm very much looking forward to 12/3 when I can go lose my voice booing this turd factory. Fat lot of good it will do me but catharsis is all that's left to hope for.

Tuch is one of their 2 best forwards among a group already lacking talent with Tuch here. If he walks, this forward group looks even worse.

 

I’d rather pay him $10M/yr than watch him leave and have lots of success elsewhere while the Sabres don’t use the cap space they saved. Who cares about an extra $1-2M/yr on his deal when this team is never going to spend to the cap anyway (especially with the cap about to skyrocket the next 2 years…). 

 

They need to sign/keep their best players. I feel like we are in this never-ending cycle of watching our best players leave and never adequately replacing them.

 

 

what are they even going to get if they trade him as a pending UFA? A late 1st and a B prospect?

Edited 2 hours ago by BillsFan4

[Walking Tall]

55 minutes ago, BillsFan4 said:

Tuch is one of their 2 best forwards among a group already lacking talent with Tuch here. If he walks, this forward group looks even worse.

 

I’d rather pay him $10M/yr than watch him leave and have lots of success elsewhere while the Sabres don’t use the cap space they saved. Who cares about an extra $1-2M/yr on his deal when this team is never going to spend to the cap anyway (especially with the cap about to skyrocket the next 2 years…). 

 

They need to sign/keep their best players. I feel like we are in this never-ending cycle of watching our best players leave and never adequately replacing them.

 

 

what are they even going to get if they trade him as a pending UFA? A late 1st and a B prospect?

if he is only worth a late 1st and a B prospect, even as a rental, he sure isn’t worth 10 million a year.