Sabres are kind of sad to give up on Shawn Horcoff who we feel is a decent NHL and CPHL player and will probably hold his value for 3 years. he was our first line centre last year, but his ratings for this year have him looking more like a 2/3 guy and sadly we already have money tied up in Federov to be similar and decided in the end to extend our other 2 UFAs Elias (who will be our top ranked forward) and Lydman (our top DF dman).
probably could have got more for Horcoff had he been shopped earlier but we've gone back and forth internally about best next direction for us and in the end the deals on the table for Horcoff were all about the same.
Sabres will be under cap but not quite enough money to ice our best roster come fall still some work to be done for sure
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