Article: The Buffalo Sabres Won't Be the Wild's Savior At Center

[mnfaninnc]

On 5/26/2025 at 3:43 PM, Tony Abbott said:

Rossi has to be willing to sign a bridge deal, and that's probably not happening. He can't count on the team playing him enough to raise his profile for a big payday.

Rossi's agent appears willing to sign one, but probably way higher than the Wild want. I don't doubt the $7m x 7 hope for the agent, but he has so little leverage he's going to have to go the offersheet route, I think...unless the Wild can get a decent deal for him on the market. 

For the record, I'm against trading him to trade him, but if we can trade him and get something that we need that we can't fill in the organization, then this might be a good move. I'm not banging the drum for Dach, but I am saying that this may be what Guerin likes, and his size is uncoachable.

Looking at his draft comments, I have to wonder if he was just too big to handle in juniors, but now that he's playing against men, he doesn't have that advantage. He also got injured in jrs. so durability is not one of his abilities. 

To me, Dach fills a role that we don't have: huge rhs center. He has little value after his year last year which wasn't good. Could he play well in Hynes' structure? I think so and he'd be a good fit. But a deal for Rossi would need to be paired with a '26 1st to make this work. Otherwise, let's see if he's offersheeted. Compensation from an offersheet is not lottery protected, and might be better, though, I think we're in win now mode. 

If we see Guerin go after Brock Nelson and pick up Dach, suddenly our center position looks very large, and that could make Rossi expendable. Dach would be entering the final year of his contract, and probably hasn't earned much of a raise. He is also eligible for an extension on July 1st, and if a deal were coming, I'd think extension talks would be necessary. We could probably get value from Dach at 3 x $3.5m. 

Foerster also provided value in other areas of our deficiencies. 

[mnfaninnc]

On 5/28/2025 at 12:24 AM, Wanderinginmn said:

HA!  You may want to re-visit that.  I get that you are in NC, but, bitch, please.

I live in South Minneapolis.  When houses go up in my neighborhood, they go in less than a week for over 50k over asking.  Most to families with young kids.  Schools are great, neighborhoods are great, and people want to live near the greatest park systems of any city in the midwest.

I know the trolls the outstate peeps on this site play will hammer over their MAGA shit (and omg, people have different skin tones!?), we do pay taxes in MN.   There is a result and reason for those taxes.  We care about schools, we care about parks, we care about each other.  And yes, downtown's have suffered from Covid and such, as has every downtown in the US.  Nightlife has shifted from Uptown to North Loop in MPLS, and hell look up some of those restaurants. 

*snort* real mess, that is silly and ignorant.

  FFS.

I stand by what I said, when I read about Minneapolis in national news, conservative or liberal media, it highlights problems with the area. Since I do live in NC, I'm not sure if those reports are cherry picked or actual since I don't live in the area.

When I lived there, I thought it was a great place to live and grow up. What I said was being out of the area for so long, I don't know if that is still true. Someone who is local in South Minneapolis likely has a much better handle on the local stuff than I do, and that was the point.

I wasn't trashing anything, nor trying to insert East Coast bias. I simply really didn't know the local culture. There was absolutely no "MAGA shit" in the statement, nor trying to do so. 

Yes, you do pay taxes there, and the taxes are very elevated for people on an NHL salary. Valid as they may be, if you pay 9.85% in MN and you pay 0% in FL, you get a lot more money in your pocket. This is a significant disadvantage for the team when trying to convince an NHL player and their agent to sign in MN. Even Carolina is 1/2 that. Will a player get 9.85% of his salary in value from the state? Likely not. 

But, if everything that is being spent on is wonderful, is this a great place to raise a family? It was when I lived there, and based upon your statement, it appears that it still is. However, MN also has to compete with below 0 temps in the season compared to sunny and 80s in FL. So, as a player, which is more attractive to you? Remember, some players are single, and some are married with kids so they may have different priorities.

Also, I did mention Dayton/Walz. My opinion of them has been taken by other comments on this site and the prior Hockey Wilderness on Vox. Most of those comments were negative.