SoupNazi
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Unless something happens we will never know what is going on. But there’s obviously been discussions that we are scouting each other this much.
24/25 Waivers/Rumors/TDL Thread.
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Unless something happens we will never know what is going on. But there’s obviously been discussions that we are scouting each other this much.
Holden Caufield
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Buffalo might want to move on from Cozens are the rumors ? he has not looked good this year or for large portions of last season.
I wouldn’t mind buying low on him… you’ve gotta break some eggs to make an omelette.
I wouldn’t mind buying low on him… you’ve gotta break some eggs to make an omelette.
There is obviously a lot of smoke here but I’m with ya, it really seems like a bad fit haha
Gniwder
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Trading garbage for garbage, lol. Might be just a ploy to motivate players though I'd imagine Buffalo is on everyone's no trade list.
The Zermanator
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There's no buying low on a struggling $7M player. Even if you get him for cheap, if he doesn't improve those $7M will be an anchor. He got that contract because of one season. Since then it's been a season and a half of mediocrity. Would rather steer clear of that.
Holden Caufield
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Considering about 50% of our caphit is spent on players that are entirely dead cap space… it wouldnt be hard to throw them an anchor that is equal in size.
You wouldn’t dump Compher, Rasmussen (8.3M combined) and some picks/prospects for the upside of a Cozens ?
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The Zermanator
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Those contracts will be mostly gone in the next 1-2 years, Cozens' lasts a lot longer than that. During the years where using the cap ceiling as efficiently as possible will (hopefully) matter to us.
Holden Caufield
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Compher and Rasmussen still have 3 years left.
Cozens has 5, but he is only 23.
For the extra 2 year gamble you get a whole lot more upside. And if the cap keeps going up… by that time a 7 mill contract will be equivalent of 5.5 mill today.
I’d take my chances, he has pedigree.
There's some common ground for a modest Sabres-Wings trade that doesn't include Cozens or Byram or anyone with an NTC who might nix a trade to either team. Rasmussen, Lyon, Berggren, Veleno are all possibles for the Sabres. Samuelsson, Peterka and perhaps Quinn would be of interest to Wings. A Wings D prospect (Wallinder/Buium) or AlJo for a Sabres F prospect (Rosen/Ostlund) is also not far off a decent match.
The Zermanator
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Rasmussen contributes enough for what his role on the team and cap hit are. Not sure why he's being mentioned here.
And Compher's not been that far off from a $5M player in Detroit, barring a slow first half of this season (though he is still 0.5ppg despite that). I anticipate an overall improvement in the team with McLellan so Compher should be better going forward too.
Both of those guys play at or near their respective cap hits, Cozens has not played like a $7M player in a while. Granted he's also been on a bad team but either way there's no indication yet that he'll return to what he showed in his 68pt season. It'd be one thing to take out a flyer on a struggling high cap hit player with only a couple years left under contract, I just think there's too much risk in taking on such a player who still has term on their contract. Don't want to be holding that bag when Edvinsson, ASP, Cossa, etc need to get paid.
The real dead weight contracts are Copp, Tarasenko, Kane, Holl, Petry, Gustafsson, and Husso (26.87M combined). Chiarot, while not quite dead weight, is slightly overpaid at 4.75M but not by much. And then there's still Abdelkader's 1M buyout cost. All of these things expire within the next 2 years. So as more and more youth on ELC contracts are incorporated into the team over the next couple years, we'll also be freeing up 32M+ in cap space. That's a great position to be in. Better to reserve that money to pay Edvinsson and Co. and have some set aside to go after bigger free agents rather than taking on a big risk with an expensive reclamation project.
