No offense, but I don't even see why this is worthy of discussion.

There's no way to know that the Sabres would have taken those specific players. There's too many variables involved to say that Edmonton would have performed the same way with Vanek and had the exact same draft slots that would have come to Buffalo, let alone just assume that Buffalo would have drafted the same players with those picks.

Things played out the way they did. Why waste energy trying to create fantasy history and speculate what might have happened?

I am sick of these - if we would signed briere and drury- threads. fuckin spam , where's a mod to close/delete this shit.

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

all conjecture. who's to say they wouldn't have done what they did here continually?

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

I don't think anyone's speculated to that extent before. Typically it's just been commentary on how Darcy Regier sucks.

If you follow Nick Mendola (which you probably don't), he was talking about this very topic on Friday's show so, making the point that the Sabres would be worse off with B/D still around so the point is relevant and current.

I'm assuming that if we had Svensson, we probably wouldn't have drafted Myers. since that creates a logjam on defense.

Not another thread bemoaning their loss, just kind of speculating about the impact. Thinking out loud I guess.

I'm wondering if we would have been better in the long run had we signed those two guys. They have a combined $13.5M cap hit and have been underwhelming since leaving.

We would likely have let Vanek walk to Edmonton then, and probably wouldn't have kept Pominville either, but we would have gotten those four number one picks from Edmonton which were Gagner, Eberle, Svensson, and Hall.

So our lineup would include Briere, Drury, Hecht, Gagner, Eberle, Hall, Stafford, Gaustad, Kaleta, Ennis, Grier, Niedermayer, McCormick, Gerbe, Myers, Sekera, Svensson, Butler, Rivet, Leopold, Montador, Weber, Morrisonn.

So basically we'd have a cotillion of 20 goal scorers and a bolstered defense.

No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.

As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.

Regier should have resigned either Briere or Drury....Briere was the better choice IMO. Not resigning either....should have been an immediate firing offense. But given out "business man" owner...

Darcy had Drury signed. It was LQ/BTG that wouldn't sign off on the deal.