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Skinner tanked in his last 13 games. 1 assist. Great effort from a $9M player.

Would be perfect for NJ if NJ buys out Palat

Don’t fuck with Krebs send him to LA and see what happens. Can’t believe the slack from everyone and you blame Krebs. Holy shit send him to LA

I like Skinny but a 1000 games no playoffs? Man what are you bringing at this point? Definitely not leadership. Last year with Skinny but Sabres making the playoffs next year with or without Skinny

nonononono! Trade him and retain 4mil of contract for 3 yrs at 12 mil. Cheaper n shorter than buyout. They have taken on dead contratcts 3 yrs running to get above min cap. Pegula has a internal cap despite what they say. He has cost overruns on stadium selling 25% of Bills and low sabres sales. This is a no brainer. They will not use anywhere near cap money again.

I hope we draft Sennecke

Buyout is too much. Obviously he’s not a $9 mill player. Maybe a little more than half. I’d trade him. Chicago was my plan to or Utah. But if there are no takers keep him. Personally I think Toronto would be a good pitch. Give them Skinner ($3 mill held), 11th overall, Samuelson, Rosen/Ostlund in exchange for a signed Marner. Resign Jokiharju and have Ryan Johnson up full time next season.

i barely saw tuch tage skinner line all season. their chemistry is why he had such a great year. i saw skinner on the 3rd line most of the time, and wondered why. tage was also playing while recovering for most of the time after his return from IR, and they weren't pairing him with skinner - i wish they would've given that line more of a chance after tage came back

You should be a politician

UPL and Levi will be a tremendous one- two punch. Sign him 4 years 4 million without a no trade clause. If he wants more years maybe go down with money... give him 5 years at 3.5 or 3.75 million. UPL is an important part of the solution to the Sabres longtime goalkeeper problem. He's not THE solution.

Play Skinner.

They should buy him out in favor of a team player and not a me player. If they buy him out it would be at a reduced price allowing cap space.

There is absolutely no way this guy gets anything over a four year. He hasn't proved himself consistent yet.

Skinner is a product of who he's with. That's not uncommon. Personally, I'd rather see them trade him.. but a Buyout probably might not hurt.. still, with Ruff coming back.. I might give him another year.

Necas…. 🤮

I would love too see Eriksson Ek as the third line center, he has played with greenway before and he has that grit

Buy him out or trade him at 50% ($4.5M) held back.

I think Greenway is fine for bottom 6

I pray for Fla vs Edm for finals

Skinner is averaging 0.67 a game scoring. Not bad but, for 9 mil ? For that $ he should be 40 + goals a season. He does need to be more physical with the back checking also.

Give him a year under Ruff and then make a decision

Wow……buying him out is totally not worth it. $2.4m for each of the last 3 years??? Nope, let him score 1.4m, 4.4m, 6.4m, 2.4m, 2.4m, 2.4m Nope, no thanks

Lindy Ruff should be perfect for us. Now I’m starting to believe we will make the playoffs next season.

Giving up a 2nd rounder for Greenway was stupid. Players like him could easily be signed in free agency, no need to sacrifice a 2nd rounder for him.

They need to treat Greenway as if he is a more physical, but less skilled version of Dave Andreychuk. He’s a little more mobile than Dave was and can start hitting with a better coach, but they need to plant Greenway in front of the opponents crease and let teach him to Screen, Tip and get “garbage” goals they way Andreychuk did. He’s big and strong enough to cause problems in front of the net and fight for rebounds.

I wouldn’t buy him out. Not yet anyways. He is still a highly skilled player and it’s not like the team is up against the Salary Cap yet. I believe that he can still contribute until a couple younger players are ready to make the jump and when the larger contracts kick in. Then he’ll be closer to the end of his contract and the buyout will be shorter and cheaper. Pulling the trigger too soon will put urgency Sabres in a bad spot both on the ice and financially.

Either way, Sabres would be better off without a Minus 130 career player.

Can they waive Skinner. Hope someone takes him. Or bury him and his $9 mil in Rochester. Then I'm sure he'd be willing to wave his no move.

I wouldn't trade Skinny. Give him a year under Ruff & see if he can jump start not just Skinny, but Thompson, Tuch, & Cozens.

Lol you can turn your phone off and enjoy Ireland. Kevyn Adams won't do anything now, at the draft, or in Free Agency.

With shit coaching & strategy he still produced 25 goals. He is probably pumped for Ruff behind the bench. No trade , no buy out . Joe you stated you wanted to break up the top line this year. For Benson 😅😅😅 look how that turned out for everybody. Chemistry was ruined in the pre-season. TUCH , TAGE , SKINS needs to stay together under Ruff. JJ , COZENS , QUINN as our 2nd line.

Id wait a year or 2 before a buyout. See if Lindy can get him to produce. It's not like he wasn't contributing at all last season. Only after he was dropped to play with krebs

UPL's leverage is still limited.. he's an RFA.. they can afford to see how things work.. because an offersheet could be good for A. they did the talking B. Even if it's more than buffalo wants.. they'll get comp'd and Levi is really close. Being an RFA means buffalo holds all the cards.. Hell, he might be shipped while his stock his high..

I hope so but i dont think they will as it will be a 6 million cap hit in the next 2 years i believe. Cheaper to buy him out next summer or Adams just needs to sit him down and say Jeff you will be a 3rd line player here in Buffalo or a 1st line player in Chicago San Jose or Anahiem . Skinner will then most likely remove his NMC . Only problem then is convincing one of those teams or any team to take on Skinners contract . I would assume Adams would retain part of Skinners contract. Other option as you said bring in a veteran third line centre( John Tavares?) and put Skinner on his line. IMO Greenway will be on the 4th line with Krebs and a UFA veteran winger like Ryan Lomberg FLA . Thanks for the video , have a good vacation!

Buy him out. Replace him with someone who can play a 200 foot game.

I can only hope so.

Hope we go after Elias Lindholm. He’s exactly what we need. If not him then another center with similar defensive ability. He’d be an upgrade to Mittelstadt imo. And he’d be our best faceoff taker.

UPL, Bryson and Joker could all go to arbitration.

Prove your worth consistently then get paid accordingly

UPL has 1 good season under his belt. He wasn't great in the AHL or the NHL up until this past season. Yes, he's had injuries which may be the cause of it, but honestly, if we overpay on UPL to keep him, thats poor management. Give him a bridge deal for 2-3 years.

Call me crazy but if UPL is gonna play hardball just trade him now and get someone else to pair with Levi, UPL had one good half year this year has never been consistent a full year needs to prove it still no time for games

Sabres have already invested a lot of time and patience with UPL. Playing hardball with him now, when he's on the verge of stardom, is playing with fire. Sign him quickly. Forget about Levi, he's still a season or two away from starting imo...

The contract should only be a year. Perserve the RFA status to see what he truly is.

Buffalo should sign that Jagr guy……..for the 3rd line. I bet he’d sign

UPL going to Arbitration is going to be an EPIC mistake! For starters, UPL made this jump in his career because he gained a lot of confidence in his game because of the vote of confidence the Sabres gave him by making him the official #1. Up until that point, you could tell that his game was shaky and you could see the doubt in his game up until that point. Which is why going to arbitration is a MISTAKE! It’s well known that whenever the two (Player and Management) meet with the Arbiter, that the team goes in hard and goes right for the players throat. If they go in there, the team is going to have to bring up that up until January, that they had very little confidence in his game, and that they aren’t sure if the end of this past season was a “fluke”. I could see that setting UPL’s game back a good amount if it were to go down that way. There’s no way the team will go in there and say “Yeah. He’s amazing and deserves everything he asks for”. So to avoid taking a chance of setting UPL’s game back a year or two, I believe they need to work this out without any outside influences.

Our organization needs to resign UPL. Prob 3-4 yrs near 3.5-4 mill

If UPL gets a 2 yr arbitration deal, what's his status when that deal is done?

7 or 8 years...... Fuck that. I'd rather trade his rights. I'm sorry. One year. He had one good year. He'd been struggling for years before that. Go to hell with 7 or 8 years.

I certainly don’t wanna give UPL a 7 or 8 year deal. 4 or 5 would be okay

UPL and swayman are both 25. Ruff will straighten out the D to make UPL better