How can you sit here and say we don't need a couple, LEGITIMATE role players on this team to mesh with all this lifeless high end talent?

Give me a Clutterbuck.
- Powerslave

We watched Cozens get in a fight yesterday.

The fanbase was fired up sure.

The Sabres got 2 shots after the fight. "But played some of their best and inspired hockey" according to the
coach
SO sure go get Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck.

They are not changing anything with this team when the coach and upper management are so flawed.

every sabre should be available for the right price


if a team wants to overpay for jack, you listen
- homiedclown

Yup

exactly...who in their right mind trades a bona fide no. 1, top-10 (or higher) center in the league at the age of 24
- Michael Pachla

there is about 25 centers right now with more points


hell jack can't outscore reinhart or olofsson this year

Or a wood!
- Gr8daygo

Him, too.

Boston did twice.
- MGK

i'll take the hit on jumbo joe

Or a wood!
- Gr8daygo

Hughes, wood for jack eichel

We watched Cozens get in a fight yesterday.

The fanbase was fired up sure.

The Sabres got 2 shots after the fight. "But played some of their best and inspired hockey" according to the
coach
SO sure go get Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck.

They are not changing anything with this team when the coach and upper management are so flawed.
- ImThatGuy

You can't say that

every sabre should be available for the right price


if a team wants to overpay for jack, you listen
- homiedclown

Not with Kim Adams and Ralph in charge. What they think will be “over payment” will be Tage 2.0. ... “we clearly got the taller players in the trade.”

i'll take the hit on jumbo joe
- Michael Pachla

He was 26 or 27 though

Boston and Dallas agreed to a seven-player trade Thursday, with the Bruins sending forward Tyler Seguin, forward Rich Peverley and defenseman Ryan Button to the Stars for forward Loui Eriksson and three prospects (Joseph Morrow, Reilly Smith and Matt Fraser).
- ImThatGuy

Four years later, the Bruins officially have nothing left from the Seguin trade

https://www.si.com/hockey...eft-from-the-seguin-trade

Do some of you people understand jack has broken ribs its hard to play.

You can't say that
- Buff36

What about this situation would lead you to believe the Sabres could successfully manage the most important trade maybe in franchise history?

He was 26 or 27 though
- Buff36

still a bona fide no. 1 center in his prime

You can't say that
- Buff36

No I literally can.

Eichel gets in fight like everyone wanted.
Sabres go on to win 3 of their next 10 games.

Cozens drops them yesterday. the Sabres get two shots against an awful NYR team.

they are fundamentally flawed. That doesn't change until the top changes

Four years later, the Bruins officially have nothing left from the Seguin trade

https://www.si.com/hockey...eft-from-the-seguin-trade
- Michael Pachla

For years Red Wings fans said that "we haven't won anything with Yzerman". But their management was smart enough not to move him. You are pretty much guaranteed to make a mistake by trading a young star.

Four years later, the Bruins officially have nothing left from the Seguin trade

https://www.si.com/hockey...eft-from-the-seguin-trade
- Michael Pachla

Oh I am aware.

For the trade Jack Eichel crowd. That is what you should expect.

What about this situation would lead you to believe the Sabres could successfully manage the most important trade maybe in franchise history?
- jcragcrumple

I wasn't talking about Eichel

We watched Cozens get in a fight yesterday.

The fanbase was fired up sure.

The Sabres got 2 shots after the fight. "But played some of their best and inspired hockey" according to the
coach
SO sure go get Matt Martin and Cal Clutterbuck.

They are not changing anything with this team when the coach and upper management are so flawed.
- ImThatGuy

I'm not disputing your points on the coach.

I still do think we need some LIFE on this team, and when a guy like Clutterbuck goes over the boards, he's not only breathing life into your team and maybe popping in a goal here and there, but he's also giving skill players more space and courage to do their thing.

But again, I'd like to see a real coach get a chance w this skilled group before we blow it up.

still a bona fide no. 1 center in his prime
- Michael Pachla

Agree, just going of the 24 or younger thing

Not to mention the Rags also got a third, which turned into Buchnevich. Woof
- SDSabre

solid point producer in a top-nine role...not quite a 'woof' worthy response but solid

I wasn't talking about Eichel
- Buff36

But you were previously. I just want to know why anyone would want to give this group the opportunity to do that. There is nothing in their track record to assume this will be anything other than a disaster

Do some of you people understand jack has broken ribs its hard to play.


- Elite Josh Allen

doesn't make him any more mature then a few years ago though

No I literally can.

Eichel gets in fight like everyone wanted.
Sabres go on to win 3 of their next 10 games.

Cozens drops them yesterday. the Sabres get two shots against an awful NYR team.

they are fundamentally flawed. That doesn't change until the top changes
- ImThatGuy

That's not the point, it's not even about fighting, it's about being tougher to play against. Giving other players confidence and playing out of character.

For years Red Wings fans said that "we haven't won anything with Yzerman". But their management was smart enough not to move him. You are pretty much guaranteed to make a mistake by trading a young star.
- Slump Buster

Yzerman would go through a wall to win.

You see that from Jack? He pouts.

(not saying I want him gone, per se. Just don't compare one of the greatest NHL captains ever to Eichel)

That's not the point, it's not even about fighting, it's about being tougher to play against. Giving other players confidence and playing out of character.
- Buff36

This