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RichardRoma
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 01.18.2017

Apr 24 @ 9:41 PM ET
pick 27 to the cardinals for hopkins and pick 34

yes or no?

- homiedclown

Do you throw Gabe Davis in as well?
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Apr 24 @ 9:43 PM ET
Do you throw Gabe Davis in as well?
- RichardRoma

no, but I would throw you in
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

Apr 24 @ 9:51 PM ET
pick 27 to the cardinals for hopkins and pick 34

yes or no?

- homiedclown


(frank) it. Yes.
sbroads24
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY
Joined: 02.12.2012

Apr 24 @ 10:01 PM ET
The Jeannot trade might be an all time bad one
Hatboro_Swords
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Next year is gonna be 05/06 all over again, PA
Joined: 07.30.2010

Apr 24 @ 10:07 PM ET



let them fork out their future draft picks on that over the hill qb

- homiedclown

They had 3 first round picks last year. The defensive and top 2 offensive rookie of the years no questions asked. They’re team is set up for plug and play Rodgers will be great and you’ll forgot what you said. That team is nasty and scary.
Hatboro_Swords
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Next year is gonna be 05/06 all over again, PA
Joined: 07.30.2010

Apr 24 @ 10:13 PM ET
(frank) it. Yes.
- buffalofan19

I don’t see this happening until the Bills are on the clock. Zona needs to know who’s there to make them feel like they must move up. Not sure who that is. Wouldn’t think they want to draft a qb to get the 5th yr option.
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

Apr 24 @ 10:14 PM ET
I don’t see this happening until the Bills are on the clock. Zona needs to know who’s there to make them feel like they must move up. Not sure who that is. Wouldn’t think they want to draft a qb to get the 5th yr option.
- Hatboro_Swords


I don't think it happens. I'm just saying I would do it.
Hatboro_Swords
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Next year is gonna be 05/06 all over again, PA
Joined: 07.30.2010

Apr 24 @ 10:18 PM ET
I don't think it happens. I'm just saying I would do it.
- buffalofan19

As long as the Bills can keep their first 3 picks, they have to trade for Hopkins. Swapping first for Zona’s second is fine, but Hopkins is the only way they can get ahead in this draft if you ask me. They need 3 day one starters. They’re certainly acting like they’re all set with Bernard, but I didn’t see it last year.
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

Apr 24 @ 10:22 PM ET
As long as the Bills can keep their first 3 picks, they have to trade for Hopkins. Swapping first for Zona’s second is fine, but Hopkins is the only way they can get ahead in this draft if you ask me. They need 3 day one starters. They’re certainly acting like they’re all set with Bernard, but I didn’t see it last year.
- Hatboro_Swords


I'm not saying I'm sold on Bernard, but they asked Edmunds to do way too much over the past two years, which I think made him less effective than he really could have been. They're crazy if they think Bernard has the same skillset, which I think makes them give him a more manageable workload, which in turn makes him look like a more serviceable player.
Hatboro_Swords
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Next year is gonna be 05/06 all over again, PA
Joined: 07.30.2010

Apr 24 @ 10:27 PM ET
I'm not saying I'm sold on Bernard, but they asked Edmunds to do way too much over the past two years, which I think made him less effective than he really could have been. They're crazy if they think Bernard has the same skillset, which I think makes them give him a more manageable workload, which in turn makes him look like a more serviceable player.
- buffalofan19

I don’t think they asked too much for Edmunds. No more than Milano. They play with 5 DBs so I guess he had more pressure on him to stop the run, which he wasn’t very good at. Maybe had to ask too much from LB level as a whole when Hyde went down.
TheHank
Location: Yawn.
Joined: 01.11.2017

Apr 24 @ 10:36 PM ET
Borgen. Glad they exposed him. Karlsson, Rosen and a yet to be drafted 2nd rd pick were a lot of fun to watch miss the dance by one win this year.
Freddie krug
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Dryden, ON
Joined: 11.17.2020

Apr 24 @ 10:48 PM ET
Dubas put his job on the line to bring in some depth and he definitely added talent, grit and above all leadership. Doesn't matter how much one could hate the leafs. The man has balls.
KA it's your time this summer. Make some moves and make this team yours. Yes it's Time
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Apr 25 @ 2:38 AM ET
DeBrincat likely on the move at the draft again.

https://bleacherreport.co...ors-winger-alex-debrincat
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Apr 25 @ 5:22 AM ET
DeBrincat likely on the move at the draft again.

https://bleacherreport.co...ors-winger-alex-debrincat

- kingcong39

Be intriguing to see what they get for him, doubt it's close to what they gave up.
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Apr 25 @ 7:14 AM ET
Be intriguing to see what they get for him, doubt it's close to what they gave up.
- Buff36


If they get a first for him, does the rest (2nd and a 3rd) matter much?
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Apr 25 @ 7:15 AM ET
This is hilarious 😅😆😂

https://twitter.com/spitt..._k62rrJpnGPFzbGx5brw&s=19
Buff36
Buffalo Sabres
Joined: 10.13.2019

Apr 25 @ 7:20 AM ET
If they get a first for him, does the rest (2nd and a 3rd) matter much?
- kingcong39

Well if the 1st is at the backend of the 1st round, and if the 2nd was this year could be huge with the talent in the draft. Yeah think so
washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Apr 25 @ 7:45 AM ET
Be intriguing to see what they get for him, doubt it's close to what they gave up.
- Buff36


New management in Pittsburgh could get aggressive and pony up, Islander/Canes need scoring like the Sabres need muscle, could become a bidding war.


ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Apr 25 @ 7:55 AM ET
They had 3 first round picks last year. The defensive and top 2 offensive rookie of the years no questions asked. They’re team is set up for plug and play Rodgers will be great and you’ll forgot what you said. That team is nasty and scary.
- Hatboro_Swords

https://www.statmuse.com/...ter-age-40-regular-season

Tom Brady is an outlier, not a norm. Even he fell off a cliff.

Rodgers is an immobile 40 YO QB,who is declining. He couldn’t take a packers team with a really good defense and a star RB to a .500 record. Sound familiar?

He couldn’t give a poop about anything other than himself and his fame.

NY media will have a field day with him.
washedup20
Location: the little apple
Joined: 08.19.2014

Apr 25 @ 7:55 AM ET
Found the one paragraph of due diligence Adams has done since becoming a GM:

In my own analysis of the NHL draft since 2010 I’ve found that players that outperform their draft capital or make the NHL outside of round 1 often fall into one of five categories:

1.) They’re undersized (<5’11 in height)

2.) They’re European

3.) They’re a winger

4.) They’re a D+1 playing defense in a men’s league (SHL/KHL/Liiga/etc)

5.) Everything checks out but they’ve been labeled as having a skating issue/poor pace

https://www.expectedbuffa...away-my-2023-draft-picks/

Dumb reed, poor anal-ISIS - all around really bad.
IndianaSabresFan
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Matt FRICKIN ELLIS, IN
Joined: 01.17.2007

Apr 25 @ 8:15 AM ET
Have you already conceded the AFC East to the Jets?
- RichardRoma

You gotta beat the 2nd best to be the best. If you are afraid of the jets we have a bigger issue
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Apr 25 @ 8:16 AM ET
Found the one paragraph of due diligence Adams has done since becoming a GM:

In my own analysis of the NHL draft since 2010 I’ve found that players that outperform their draft capital or make the NHL outside of round 1 often fall into one of five categories:

1.) They’re undersized (<5’11 in height)

2.) They’re European

3.) They’re a winger

4.) They’re a D+1 playing defense in a men’s league (SHL/KHL/Liiga/etc)

5.) Everything checks out but they’ve been labeled as having a skating issue/poor pace

https://www.expectedbuffa...away-my-2023-draft-picks/

Dumb reed, poor anal-ISIS - all around really bad.

- washedup20


This is the one I look for as the primary reason a player has dropped out of the 1st round:

Everything checks out but they’ve been labeled as having a skating issue

It's how players like Brayden Point and Jason Robertson end up being drafted outside the 1st round.

I'd rather have to work on a players skating ability when they have all the other skills and a history of production then have to help them improve their skills or wonder why they don't produce.
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Apr 25 @ 8:16 AM ET
If they get a first for him, does the rest (2nd and a 3rd) matter much?
- kingcong39


Will be interesting to see what they can get for him.

Trading the 7th pick (resulted in a good prospect drafted by Chicago in Korchinski) for 1 year is pretty alarming, never mind the other picks.

Yes, those other picks matter. Could you imagine this board if this was the Sabres? KA would be already tarred and feathered by the nay-sayers.

Will the Sens get value back...for a Arb Elligible RFA with a QA of $9.5m who can skate right into FA? Who is jumping up and down to get into that scenario?
Good player but he is holding all the cards.

Interesting to see what happens for sure.
IonSabres
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I said that months ago, keep up!, FL
Joined: 03.10.2013

Apr 25 @ 8:18 AM ET
New management in Pittsburgh could get aggressive and pony up, Islander/Canes need scoring like the Sabres need muscle, could become a bidding war.
- washedup20


Did somebody say Olofsson as the consolation prize?
kingcong39
Buffalo Sabres
Location: albany, NY
Joined: 02.21.2007

Apr 25 @ 8:21 AM ET
Did somebody say Olofsson as the consolation prize?
- IonSabres


Do you picture Olofsson as a player that either of the Hurricanes or Islanders would have any interest in?

He doesn't seem to fit those teams style of play at all.
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