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October 5, 2020

Damn, hardie was our pick.

We'll grab Dmitri Ovchinnikov from Sibirskie Snaipery Novosibirsk

May 29, 2020

6 minutes ago, Master Mind said:

NHL Draft lottery

It is a bit different due to Buffalo being ahead of Winnipeg and St. Louis in the standings, but since Buffalo doesn't participate in the play-in round while the others do, it looks like our draft lottery will resemble this:

@Jaku --> 18.5%

@Nolan --> 13.5%

@canuckledraggin --> / 11.5%

@JimLahey --> 9.5%

@Azzy --> 8.5%

@Matthews --> 7.5%

@Sygvard / @Sestito'sHandMadeVodka --> 6.5%

Then the placeholders would follow the NHL's method (i.e. lowest team in standings eliminated from play-in would be highest seeded placeholder).

My original post here was dumb and I can't count, I deleted it.

May 28, 2020

oooo boy this draft is gonna get weird. Mainly because the bottom playoff teams IRL have almost identical points (71 and 72, chicago and montreal). So you can order the teams with "fewer than 71" points from both conferences, and have the lottery normally.

Not so in puck! We are the 23rd best team, typically good for 9th best lottery odds. BUT! of the 8 teams worse than us, 3 of them are in the qualifying round of the playoffs, and therefore not lottery teams. Does that mean that we get the 6th best lottery odds? And then, if the teams that are worse than us don't win the lottery, and don't advance past the playoffs, do they get a better draft pick than us? That feels wrong! They got playoff games (in a year where, literally anything could happen, anybody could win, and all our strategy was for naught) and we didn't. But also, do we get a better draft pick than a team that objectively did worse than us in the regular season? That also feels wrong!

There's no good answers, and I'm trying not to make a case, despite having a vested interest, but I feel like this situation, between art, burrows, matthews and me/sygvard is gonna get at least a little weird and it will be impossible to please everybody.

December 15, 2019

20 hours ago, Sygvard said:

My understanding is that he has not actually announced retirement. This is his first season without a contract. Wikipedia states him as a free agent. The closest articles I can find are that he MAY retire. Would love to have him removed, if the mods rule that he counts as retired.

Are there any others that jump out at you? It certainly isn't unthinkable that I have missed an anouncement somewhere. And I could always use the cap.

Plz let us get rid of him mods. Plz plz plz. He's been messing with our trading capabilities

December 12, 2019

On 12/10/2019 at 2:24 AM, thejazz97 said:

Definitely wouldn't have done this without the prospect in the deal. After all, this is a fantasy league.

I've got no doubt Jack will start putting up 5 fp/g+ in the coming seasons, but I couldn't risk having both Dahlin and Hughes stagnating.

Having Sandin made this palatable, as he'll be playing good minutes with the Leafs next season, and RNH provides a solid fantasy option at centre that both gets me more fantasy points per game and will likely make the playoffs...

but in terms of pedigree? yeah, @Sygvard wins this, hands down

Yeah, as a huge leafs fan, and huge fan of sandin, we were willing to give him up despite his huge upside because of how hard D-men are to predict in terms of fantasy scoring. He could be an incredible top-2 d-man, but unless he is either laying lots of hits and blocks, or getting big points on the PP, its always possible he's far better IRL than he ever is in fantasy.

Enjoy RNH!

October 18, 2019

We made some waiver claims a while back....those happening soon?

October 3, 2019

25 minutes ago, Canuck Surfer said:

And how 'bout that!

Dmytro Timashov with our first points of the year! Assist on Gauthier's goal.

Honestly never thought he'd make it, but he looks real good as a 4th liner.

September 26, 2019

On 9/25/2019 at 1:59 AM, Azzy said:

They're really not. Lacking leadership without Williams, Faulker was a hugely influential locker room guy, and they have literally zero toughness on the roster.

That's cool and all, but his contract was up this year, they weren't going to pay him, they got a blue chip guy back for him, he was actually kinda bad, and "leadership" is a meaningless narrative 90% of the time

September 23, 2019

It's that made space between retentions, raises, and hoping your players are great but also not so great that you can't afford them.

I have a feeling that we're going to be entering a new era of higher parity. I feel a team like Buffalo may take a step forward just because the really great teams can;t keep all their players without their retentions, and take a step backwards.

August 29, 2019

6 minutes ago, Master Mind said:

The main selling point in divisions is to create playoff rivalries, at least it is in the NHL. We see in RL how this often results in two high end teams playing each other early.

This is why I prefer to just have top 8 make it in the west, top 8 in the east.

Would solve any issues now and going forward.

But no one else seems to like that idea.

I do!

August 19, 2019

16 hours ago, thejazz97 said:

Curtis Lazar - 2 years, $750k

That guy, just bouncing around with a pocketful of hope

August 15, 2019

3 hours ago, Salter said:

What's the deal with @JE14? He never posts and all his draft picks were done through the mods. Does he only deal in private messages?

August 14, 2019

21 hours ago, thejazz97 said:

I was hoping he'd continue on his hot streak he ended the year with lol, I think he had 3.89 fp/g on the season?

I did something similar with @Master Mind back in 2015, where I traded Klingberg+ for Girardi+, only difference is that part of the Girardi+ was Brayden Point (who I also traded away... )

When we almost took Ottawa, I was pumped for Spooner. Thought he had real upside. Turns out being the worst defensive forward in the league has some career inhibiting effects

August 12, 2019

5 minutes ago, thejazz97 said:

On the complimentary buyout - if you take a look at a team like Carolina as an example, who's ~18m over cap, one buyout doesn't do much for them. Best case scenario is they buyout Subban, which brings them down to ~9m over cap, but are still forced to trade away their players, presumably to other teams who have bought out their own Mike Richards or Alex Petrovics. For relative peanuts.

Just saying, 4.6 million of Corey Perry (8.6 minus 3 million retain minus 1 million minors) got a 5th. 3 million of steve mason plus a contract spot dump ALSO got a 5th. These were/are (jury's out on perry) useless players.

Giving the league salary cap space will not cause those prices to go up. They will go down, further than where they are. If you want to see capped out top teams dump their assets for peanuts, keep things exactly the way they are now. Those prices are higher than if the league generates ~155 million (5 million x 31 teans) in cap space almost overnight.

August 12, 2019

Not to distract from this, but can buffalo dump radovan bondra? https://www.eliteprospects.com/player/157407/radovan-bondra

He's playing in Czech Republic now. Also, Pickard is listed as being on no team, not Detroit (probably fabntrax's fauly) And Brady Tkachuck's Entry level contract says he's unsigned, not an RFA at the end of it.

August 12, 2019

It also, FWIW, overly rewards teams who have overspent in the arms race that caused this problem in the first place. I don't think bailing those teams out is the right way to go about fixing it. And its not like real life, where the CBA changed, hence the compliance buyouts to fix contracts that used to make sense, but didn't with the new CBA- these problems are entirely of our own making.

August 12, 2019

1 hour ago, Salter said:

We are finalizing a change to the salary cap overage rule to start the season that will be harsher, in order to stop teams from intentionally starting a season over the cap just to wait for a player to go on IR. This will be announced shortly.

Can we....know what this is?

7 minutes ago, Salter said:

The teams who will gain from a potential buyout would be teams who are currently under the cap who have bad overvalued contracts and will free up wasted cap space. This will allow them to relieve the teams who are over for a nice cap dump price, benefiting the teams who currently have cap space and would gain more with a buyout.

Also, I gotta kinda agree with Azzy on this one. We have been a team that has taken on contracts to help clear space for others. We have managed it well, finally getting us into a little trouble this year, and probably getting worse over the next year, but anyways....

The value of cap space in this league has gone down over the last 3 years. Used to be you could get a 2nd or a 3rd for 3 million dollar cap savings. Nowadays, people are refusing to pay more than a 4th or a 5th. We took 3 million of steve mason for a 5th (bad deal in hindsight), because we honestly didn't think there was a better use of the cap, casue people weren't paying. Look at the past couple cap dump trades. People are not giving big assets, and doing this will free up more contract space, which will depress the market even further. It does help the teams in cap hell, because of how much cheaper (asset wise) it will be for them to unload salary. Spinning this as if it helps the teams with space more than the teams who can first, dump a bad contract, and then 2nd, dump more salary as a soft market gets even softer is incredibly disingenuous.

August 12, 2019

Congratulations to newly signed Buffaslug Ilya Mikheyev, for taking the most important step in any young Russian's career:

Taking a post-breakfast selfie with Mike Babcock at the Egglicious all day breakfast cafe just north of the mastercard centre.

Congrats Ilya. That's a cool shirt.

July 25, 2019

19 hours ago, Master Mind said:

To DET: Nazem Kadri ($3m retained)

To ANA: Oskar Back, Fabian Zetterlund, Conditional 2020 WSH 3rd

*Pick becomes a 2020 2nd if Kadri reaches 300 f/points

An actual real, good condition! It's a miracle!

July 25, 2019

8 hours ago, Art Vandelay said:

There were atleast 3 teams run into the ground just before I joined the league, Ottawa(me), Washington, Colorado, and I think buffalo? It really tips the balance of the league where basically all we had was cap space to accrue assets. So I think the lack of limits on retention is useful.

When you take over a team with its best prospect being Linus Arnesson; a top line of Duclair, Lehtera, and Abdelkader; and you are without your teams 1st round pick, which was 1st OA btw... you do what ya gotta do.

Buffalo wasn't as bad as Ottawa or Colorado - We had 4 good players, Wheeler, Rinne, Backes and Marchessault. That was...literally it though.

July 12, 2019

2 hours ago, thejazz97 said:

I would say so. Minnesota is the over-the-hill gang, while Arizona is young and nearly made the playoffs last season while half their team was injured.

2 hours ago, Salter said:

Did Arizona win the cup?

I like to think the over the hill gang/did they win a cup is a reference to the 1967 leafs, a group of old timers often called "the over the hill gang"

July 10, 2019

3 hours ago, Sygvard said:

Our one true moment of glory. The throw-in on that deal became Poehling for us too.

Unfortunatly we used up all of our brains early though. Now our hobbies include overpaying for D then playing them on the 3rd pairing.

We also traded borgman plus a late 2nd to him for a late 1st, which ended up well for us. Dude Opened up with terrible deals for us -he offered us three tweeners, one of whom produced NEGATIVE Fantasy points for a retained risto- I think @Sygvard called it "a flaming pile of league minimum garbage". Once we got through that unpleasantness he was actually pretty reasonable to deal with.

July 8, 2019

Well, I may have spoken too soon.

Updated Roster:

Brady Tkachuck - Mikko Rantanen - Nikolaj Ehlers
Travis Konency - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Brendan Gallagher
Ilya Mikeyev - Adam Lowry - Brock McGinn
Jason Dickinson - Ryan Poehling - Brendan Perlini

Extras/Callups - Pyatt, Hawryluck, Dahlen, Zegras, Robertson,

Tory Krug - Rasmus Ristolainen
Jaccob Slavin - Nikita Zadorov
Mirco Mueller - Shayne Ghost-bear

Extras/Callups - Roy, Rykov, Bouchard, Merkley, Sandin, Addison.

Lots of those players fit your criteria @Salter, and we're always willing to deal.

July 8, 2019

@Sygvard and I may have stumbled bass-ackwards into being a good team. Well, better than finishing 19th I guess. Without further ado, your 2019-2020 Buffalo Sabres (with a couple moves to bolster the defence possibly pending).

Jonathan Marchessault - Mikko Rantanen - Nikolaj Ehlers
Brady Tkachuck - Ryan Nugent-Hopkins - Brendan Gallagher
Ilya Mikeyev - Adam Lowry - Travis Konecny
Brock McGiinn - Jason Dickinson - Brendan Perlini

Extras/Callups - Pyatt, Hawryluck, Dahlen, Poehling, Zegras, Robertson,

Jaccob Slavin - Rasmus Ristolainen
Mirco Mueller - Nikita Zadorov
Matt Roy - Dan Hamhuis

Extras/Callups - Rykov, Bouchard, Merkley, Sandin, Addison

Pickard
Montoya

Mason
Kahkonen

Woll

Korenar

We may need a goalie, but we don't consider the issue pressing as we do have some good prospects in the pipeline. And still 7 picks in the first three rounds of 2020 (including 2 in the first!)

June 27, 2019

37 minutes ago, D-Money said:

I got some a few NHL-ers back (Stastny, Bailey, Korpisalo), some solid prospects (Texier, Volkov, Brickley), and a number of picks. I also traded my 2020 1st plus to get #19 to draft Seider (totally worth it).

Saw a thing about how Yzerman just loves to swing in the 1st round. Sometimes it works (vasilevsky) and sometimes it doesn't (Brett Connolly 6th overall, Tony DeAngelo) but he's got guts

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