Columbus, Ottawa, also in the same boat.
Depends on what the assets are. Missing at 20 could as easily be a problem as trading 20 for a player and wrongly accelerate the rebuild.
I think I'd rather trade for Farabee, given he's got 4 years left on his current deal. Traded Reichel, Kaiser, and 2024 1st round pick (Tampa) to Philadelphia for Farabee. Signed Stephenson, Noesen, Stolarz, and Carrier/Chatfield in FA.
For right price, but his contract is free of any restrictions on trade, why wouldn't other teams be interested? It's a similar discussion with Batheron, with Farabee a bit younger, signed a year longer and on the flipside, being a bit less proven.
If you whiff twice and Bedard is 22 and you still suck, you probably don't have a job.
I second this. Known commodities like Farabee would be a great asset to a team that has very few. Drafting a bunch of players and hoping they turn out is a risk in itself. Look at Buffalo and Arizona. They rarely traded their picks and that resulted in eras of terribleness. They could’ve benefited by gaining other assets outside of prospects and picks.
| July 1, 2014 | To Montreal Canadiens MIN's 2nd-round pick in 2016 | To Buffalo Sabres Josh Gorges | [13] |
| July 9, 2014 | To Winnipeg Jets Conditional 7th-round pick in 2015 | To Buffalo Sabres Jordan Samuels-Thomas | [14] |
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| February 11, 2015 | To Winnipeg Jets Tyler Myers Drew Stafford Brendan Lemieux Joel Armia 1st-round pick in 2015 | To Buffalo Sabres Evander Kane Zach Bogosian Jason Kasdorf |
| June 26, 2015 | To Ottawa Senators NYI's 1st-round pick in 2015 | To Buffalo Sabres Robin Lehner David Legwand | [17] |
| June 26, 2015 | To Colorado Avalanche Nikita Zadorov Mikhail Grigorenko J. T. Compher 2nd-round pick in 2015 | To Buffalo Sabres Ryan O'Reilly Jamie McGinn |
| June 20, 2016 | To Nashville Predators MIN's 3rd-round pick in 2016 | To Buffalo Sabres Jimmy Vesey (rights) |
| June 25, 2016 | To Florida Panthers Mark Pysyk 2nd-round pick in 2016 STL's 3rd-round pick in 2016 | To Buffalo Sabres Dmitry Kulikov VAN's 2nd-round pick in 2016 | [11] |
| July 2, 2016 | To St. Louis Blues 5th-round pick in 2017 | To Buffalo Sabres Anders Nilsson |
| June 17, 2017 | To Montreal Canadiens 3rd-round pick in 2017 | To Buffalo Sabres Nathan Beaulieu | [12] |
| June 21, 2017 | To Vegas Golden Knights 6th-round pick in 2017 | To Buffalo Sabres Expansion draft considerations[a] | [13] |
| June 30, 2017 | To Minnesota Wild Tyler Ennis Marcus Foligno 3rd-round pick in 2018 | To Buffalo Sabres season Jason Pominville Marco Scandella 4th-round pick in 2018 | [14] |
| October 4, 2017 | To Montreal Canadiens Nicolas Deslauriers | To Buffalo Sabres Zach Redmond | [15] |
| December 4, 2017 | To Detroit Red Wings 5th-round pick in 2019 | To Buffalo Sabres Scott Wilson |
| June 27, 2018 | To Pittsburgh Penguins Conditional 4th-round pick in 2019 | To Buffalo Sabres Conor Sheary Matt Hunwick |
| August 2, 2018 | To Carolina Hurricanes Cliff Pu 2nd-round pick in 2019 3rd-round pick in 2020 6th-round pick in 2020 | To Buffalo Sabres Jeff Skinner |
| February 24, 2019 | To Anaheim Ducks Brendan Guhle Conditional 1st-round pick in 2019 | To Buffalo Sabres Brandon Montour |
| June 28, 2019 | To Vegas Golden Knights STL's 2nd-round pick in 2021 5th-round pick in 2022 | To Buffalo Sabres Colin Miller | [93] |
| July 1, 2019 | To New York Rangers 3rd-round pick in 2021 | To Buffalo Sabres Jimmy Vesey |
| January 2, 2020 | To Calgary Flames 4th-round pick in 2020 | To Buffalo Sabres Michael Frolik |
| February 24, 2020 | To New Jersey Devils Conditional 5th round pick in 2021 | To Buffalo Sabres Wayne Simmonds |
The guys you get in free agency are going to be older and won't fit the timeline. You're also not getting them locked up for 5M per.
What timeline? lol By the time they are ready to compete, Farabee is a 30 year old UFA. Rather get a 30 year old UFA now, keep the assets, and get the 25 year old in 5 years with assets.
AZ is one of the worst run franchise in all of sports using them as a way to look how to grow into a good team is not very smart. When you look at the Buff trades they were almost all bad. that why they have not had a 4-5 year rebuild they have had a 15 year rebuild. we are in year 2. Farabee is going to have no effect on us winning another stanley cup. Nazar, moore, rinzel, greene, Kantersov, who ever we take with our top 3 picks this year. you want to put serviceable players around them but you also want to add 2-3 young players to the mix.
AZ traded a bunch of picks for like Stepan, Raantaa, Hall, Illegal Draft Combine, etc
The past 14 drafts, they have used and had atleast 1 pick in the top 15 of the draft. A lot of those trades you mentioned were for really poor assets or they were later picks. They drafted plenty of good long-term NHLers, but had to trade them away for more picks because they failed to build around them. Farabee could be a long-term asset
He could also be in that same type of chart, with other teams saying ,wtf did the Hawks, in the middle of a rebuild, trade top assets for Farabee? What a waste!
That's not what anyone is saying at all, I'm saying be patient, players become available later and you don't have to jump right in before you're ready. Foregoing the draft process because the player you pick may not be too good is lazy, you need to draft with quantity to form a nucleus. From there, you can fill in the holes based on where your prospect pool is lacking. Filling in holes prematurely doesn't make sense, you're not ready to compete yet and you don't know which prospects are going to come through.
