00:00getting a goal for the buffalo sabers in last season that is they have signed him to an eight
00:06year contract with an av of 6.6 million dollars signing him up for a long time very early he
00:15has
00:15only got 68 games of nhl experience under his belt with 27 points i should add three playoff
00:22games as well two points in those coming in in relief in the playoffs in the sabers playoff run
00:29they have uh they're betting big on osland where do you put him in the we talk about the kids
00:36you
00:36know talks not here anymore but it's okay because they've got kids where is he in the hierarchy of
00:41the kids that will be relied upon i mean i i see where the sabers put him right but but
00:46where
00:47where do you put him and why i think that of the three if we're talking about the three in
00:52consta
00:52helen use no osland and yuri kulik i would i would put osland in a unique category of he is
01:00the safest
01:00but with the lowest ceiling to me i think that both consta and kulik have a a really high point
01:10production ceiling i think kulik i think many of us have forgotten showed really well as a first line
01:17center playing with tage thompson and that should excite people and he has got goal scoring prowess
01:23he's got a great shot there is a little more question about a 200 foot game there i think
01:30consta is the highest ceiling of any of them we saw offensively of just brilliance he's a guy i could
01:38see becoming an 80 90 even point player i don't think osland is ever going to reach that precipice of
01:44offensive production but what he already is is a pro dependable very trustworthy 200 foot nhl
01:54centerman and he is only 22 years old and he's just been signed to an eight-year deal and i
02:02think
02:02that he is invaluable in terms of that's a guy that i think you could put anywhere in your lineup
02:08and feel comfortable asking him to do anything i think he could fill in as a centerman on tage
02:14thompson's line be trusted to cover in the defensive zone if he needs to and create good offensive
02:21plays he's a great playmaker i don't think he's a great finisher necessarily as of yet so i think
02:27that sort of limits his ceiling to me as a as a an nhl forward point producer sort of witch
02:33doctor that
02:34i think kulik and helenius both have the ability to be but he's already right now a good centerman in
02:41the nhl and i think if you're signing a good centerman in the nhl for six and a half million
02:45dollars you're getting a bargain sure and so i would put him i'd probably rank him in terms of
02:52where he could be third on that list but i've got him right now is the most trusted where he
02:58is the
02:58safest of any of those guys and the contract is not prohibitive not at all not at all i mean
03:04leo
03:04carlson is making 18 million dollars 18 million dollars this is a little more than half of that
03:11contract and noah oslin is a lot more than half of that player and i i that's why i i
03:17tweeted out i
03:18said it right when we got the news i think this is already a bargain if he never improves from
03:24this
03:24point where he is now then i think the deal is acceptable and if he does then it's a it's
03:30a steal
03:31it's it's the tage contract again you know this is a it's a pattern that the sabers have really
03:37developed here of identifying a guy that they believe can be important going we're going to
03:44trust this trust our evaluation sign him up and we'll be better for it later and it has worked out
03:50way more than it hasn't samuelson power tage those are all guys that were given big long-term deals
03:57earlier than many would have done and it has paid off i think massively in all three cases
04:03power this year has turned into what i think he needs to be is a top four defenseman that is
04:08absolutely trustworthy to play 25 plus minutes a game that guy's worth eight million dollars
04:13and samuelson i don't even have to say anything about him right and tage has been a bargain
04:18really since he blew up yeah so i think this is a great move for the sabers i think it's
04:23really savvy
04:24yarmo just listen i don't want to lose this kid we're keeping him and if this tells me anything
04:30i'm keeping an eye on consta next off season the second he's eligible eligible on july 1st all right
04:35um so when you look at the the roster and how you expect it to be constructed obviously
04:43oslin is going to be on the team you don't sign him to that contract and then try to find
04:47you know
04:48work his way out um helenus is uh obviously more established because of the fact that he was
04:58playing late he was playing in the playoffs um kulik is we heard he's clear does clear mean clear or
05:05does clear mean start working back like does he make this roster is yes 100 that's just happening
05:11i i have said there there was a time in the summer in the off season where there was some
05:17buzz about
05:18whether any of those three would start in rochester and i would be stunned if that happens training camp
05:24opens on thursday one does it's him though right i would assume so if nothing else just to get him
05:29some games because he took a year off yeah right and so kulik i i think he's absolutely on the
05:35team
05:35it's possible he gets an assignment down there to just get yourself comfortable playing hockey games
05:40again in the same way that we heard about malik neighbors yesterday needing to get hit yeah i
05:45think kulik needs the same thing and so i wouldn't be stunned to see that but it cannot be a
05:51long-term
05:52answer to their problem of rehab assignment style of exactly they've got too many forwards but that's
05:57not a problem that you solve by taking one of those three guys and taking them off okay because they're
06:01too good and too young this is this is the future of your team this is what you've all offseason
06:07claimed
06:07to be your reasoning for not needing a big trade to replace alex tuck and bo byrum is that you've
06:13got guys like this that are capable of doing more taking on more and they're not doing that for you
06:19in rochester they're doing it for you in buffalo i like it uh phone line is open for you at
06:24803-0550
06:26you got any thoughts on the uh the sabers news feel free to work it in there's four hours there's
06:31room
06:32for the sabers even the day after the bills open the season with a win at houston there's a lot
06:37to
06:37talk about there too so jump on in if you are so inclined tim graham is typically a part of
06:42this show
06:42from 10 to noon he is traveling back from houston he will join us at some point during the one
06:47o'clock
06:47hour but for now you just got owen parker and brad writer and we can have fun too we can
06:51have fun
06:51without tim it's fine let me add one more thing quickly about the sabers sorry brad oh you're good
06:56i'm already making you mad it's our first oh yeah i'm so mad look how mad i am i just
07:00look at this
07:00look at i'm mad ready okay good all right uh the say i just want to point out how many
07:08sabers this
07:08or how many forwards the sabers have signed up long term at good numbers they just like zach benson's
07:14at seven and a half yeah they signed him 2030 josh doan is at 6.9 until 2030 oslin just
07:22signed for 6.6
07:23until 2031 i believe this is going to be and yes ufa in 2035 is his is a year and
07:31that is an
07:33organization that is set up to be good not only now because these players are good now but in the
07:39future because these are developing players that are going to only be worth more than these contracts
07:45are right now and they're already bargains and if you hit on most if not all you're still successful
07:51because you're not overspending on any of yes 100 because if oslin if oslin goes out if they had
07:57waited to do this deal until this offseason oslin goes out and he scores 50 points this year which
08:03i think is very much in the realm of possibility and he spends time as the second slash third line
08:08center maybe play some wing he's going to be penalty killing he's going to be winning games late
08:13protecting leads that guy's making 10 million dollars next year you just signed him for six and a half
08:20it's an i think it's a great bet i think they've done very well here with all three of doan
08:26benson and
08:27now oslin are these guys going to be mad in three years when they feel like they got tricked furious
08:31yeah furious i mean are they going to demand trades because they're mad no they can't i mean what do
08:36you get there's no you can't get different money structuring but there's no restructuring but you
08:40could be mad at the people that tricked you into signing that's a dumb way to go about it i
08:43agree
08:45sure if you're mad though about your team giving you a deal at this point like if in three years
08:52zach benson's like you guys screwed me i'm mad like well take it out on the opponent so what
08:58take it out on the opponent and play to the end of your contract and leave exactly like there's all
09:02right i don't have any concern about that um and and i just i don't think that they ever would
09:08be
09:08because these are 21 22 year old kids yeah signing 50 million dollar contracts and no matter how you
09:16feel when you're 23 about that contract or 24 about that contract the reality is you got paid 50 million
09:22dollars when you were 22 yeah and you probably shouldn't complain and despite maybe you're
09:27underpaid now but you got that was the deal they took a chance on you and these are guaranteed
09:31this is not the nfl where if you get hurt that money might evaporate these are the
09:36osland will make 50 million dollars from the sabers period
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