Wtf is he supposed to do? Trade Stafford and Connolly for Jesus and big bird? People expect Darcy to make a trade every fucking day. Give it a rest!

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NHL transactions ARE NOT NHL11.

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Umm yeah it is. Rivet makes 3.5 right now, so you let him walk replace him with Montador and promote a league entry guy like Weber to fill Rivet's current role and WHAMMY! The cap needed to keep Myers is there now with room to spare.

The Sabres do have other cap concerns like Pomminville.

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Reading comprehension gentlemen, try to keep up.

1 year deal for 4 million.
2-3 year deal at 3.5 million each.
4-5 year deal at 3 million each.
6 year deal at 2.5 million each.

Give or take .5.

The longer the deal, the less the annual cap hit is.

I get that there is always going to be a pocket of fans who believe that they are entitled to watching a Stanley Cup champion every season and without paying much for it. The only thing stopping you guys from your dream is a little thing called unrestricted free agency. The GMs bid for the services of players, it's not just the Sabres and Montador's agent at the table. The Islanders would pay 3.5/year for Montador, so would about 7 other teams I can think of. Then you got a couple Stanley Cup contenders looking for a stop gap for one season. That's where the one year 4 million offer comes into play. Montador would not get the guaranteed long term security he deserves, but he could get some deep round playoff exposure that might up his value even more, for another summer of UFA bidding.

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I don't think it's a fail until I'm actually proven wrong, should that happen. Over their careers, yes, Tallinder and Leopold are both better than Montador. Both Tallinder and Leopold have played first or second pairing minutes their entire careers on good teams. Montador has been a third pair journeyman until he came to Buffalo and was matched up with Toni Lydman, and then Jordan Leopold, both of which are better players than Montador. Wait...you can't even spell the guy's name right, why the fuck are you even talking anyways?

Second, if you're going to call someone a failure, you might as well get your facts right. Scuderi's cap hit is $3.4M and his contract began in 2009-2010. The first year of Scuderi's contract was last season, when the cap was $56.8M compared to the $59.4M of this season. I don't know that you can call a $2.6M (5%) increase ($130,000 per player) "a lot."

Scuderi, Tallinder, and Leopold also had the benefit of being younger when they received their most recent contracts than Montador will be when he receives his next contract which will play a factor. Scuderi, Tallinder, and Leopold have also all proven they can log big minutes in the playoffs to a much greater extent than Mondator.

A Tallinder type contract isn't out of the question, but I think it's a long shot. And $4M is just retarded.

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Max I pay for Montador is 3 mill. That's a little too much, still. The guy was signed originally at 1 mill. For fucks sake! The guy got older at we're talking a 2 mill raise! Hell, you want to give him a 3 mill raise.

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Seriously, he'll be turning 32, with two seasons as a 3-6 guy and a relatively unimpressive playoff slate.

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The thing about UFA is that nobody seriously cares about what you did or didn't do throughout your career. This is why so many players coast in non-contract years. All the GMs care about is what you did this past year. Of course there are always going to be exceptions, but for the most UFA is all about how high the player built their value during the past season, and how many teams will bid for their services.

Scuderi went from 700k to 3.5 annual salary all because of some playoff exposure. I was stunned. Montadar going from 1.5 to 3.5 with a stand out regular season, is less than stunning, especially considering the fact that the ceiling is higher today.

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No, that's PART of his job. Darcy makes trades to the best he can. Raffi Torres and Dominic Moore were solid trades that really didn't work out, and nobody would have expected it not to. Face it. We can't make good trades with the squad we have and we can only sign solid yet no name players. NOT DARCY'S FAULT.

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LOL @ WillyWonka

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I clearly stated Darcy cannot make trades with the current squad. Raffi Torres had the most goals on the Sabres when we got him. Not a bad idea. Moore was a leader on this team with 40 points when we got him and he was a solid 2 way player. He did the best he could with our overpriced squad. Expecting him to do more is being a complete jackass with no realization of how to be a GM. Who the fuck will take Connolly and Stafford? To get rid of those guys via trade we would be getting back nothing.

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