(Formerly) Sad Sabres Fan

Lifelong Buffalo Sabres fan, through good times and now...

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@Sabremetrix Phew 😅. Potential crisis averted 😂

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@SabresBuzz Our Sabres dressing room doesn’t need or want that cancer Scheifele brings. I’d stand pat

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@JeremyWGR Bonkers, just bonkers.

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@BensonForHart Yeah, who cares really. They also gave up Cliff Pu years ago and that amounted to nothing. Likely the same here.

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@Schopptalk Pickford blew it on that goal. England should have had at least 2 goals in that half. 2nd half should be interesting

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@jpolly22 My bet is the latter. Sabres were smart to get rid of him now and get the value.

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@716tax Maybe a bit worse, but you never know. One extra year of experience for the young core (Ostland, Helenius, Power, others) can mean a lot, and possibly negate the losses of Tuch/Byrum. And, no way it makes sense to pay that kind of dough. Our future is bright

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@BizNasty2point0 When?? 2040?

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@JFreshHockey I liked Byrum as a Sabre. Very good second pair D-man with offensive upside. But, a D liability and we were lucky that his historical injury-prone status was avoided. I do not believe he has earned #1 D-man money and this could look very bad, very soon. Time will tell.

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@Sabremetrix Yeah, I wasn’t convinced at the time about the “Draft Russians”

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@JoeYerdon I dunno. Looked like Auston was reading for a hostage tape 😵‍💫

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@NickSabatoGNN @JeremyWGR Ralph Wilson’s ghost picked Sammy Wadkins at #4 in 2014 🎉🎉

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@ByMHarrington Wow, so interesting to see “a cancer in the room” being moved after one year. No surprise to me

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@William76058571 @YouTube After what was seen as a “clean hit at the time”, it’s interesting to see Wensink genuinely concerned about Playfair…uncommon at the time

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@thescorechicago @frank_seravalli As a Sabres fan(atic), I liked Byrum. He was a very good 3rd or 4th D-man on our team. Is he worthy of a #1 spot (including the likely $12M price after next year), I don’t believe so. Wish him the best, but I’m very happy with the return we got.

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@AfterLeWhistle The only right answer is “it depends”.

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@FriedgeHNIC Love Tuch and tough to see him go, but no thanks on having to pay him 8x$10.5M. Good luck

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@HockeyWays Kess is becoming an RFA and the Sabres were not going to re-sign him given their current situation wanting to sign Benson to a Doan-like contract and with other possibilities for signings (e.g., Krebs). They would have lost him, so getting something is “something”. I’m good

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@Sabremetrix He’d definitely get lots of pass interference calls based on his penchant and expertise at diving 😉

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@BMaz1 @Sabresbunny Just shows that NHL awards these days are garbage and not reflective of reality.