Around the League Thread | November Rain

[F A N]

I don't see a clear path to a Pettersson trade with CBJ. Their pieces are nice on paper but they don't help us much within our specific window of Hughes' contract. I think there are other potential partners/assets that are more appealing:

OTT - B. Tkachuk
CAR - Necas, Svechnikov
BUF - Cozens, Power, Byram

CBJ absolutely has pieces that help us. Like hypothetically but absolutely won't happen - Werenski (50% retained and waives his trade protection) and Fantili for Petey would absolutely help.

These trades are inherently difficult to make.

 

[MarkusNaslund19]

Hilarious reading the boards where everyone wants to deal Petey.

See people suggesting for Byram and Cozens.

Go to Sabres board, they are pissed off with Byram and Cozens and have mixed (at best) faith in them.

The grass is always greener.

Relax, take a breath. It feels bigger than it is. He will figure it out.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Hilarious reading the boards where everyone wants to deal Petey.

See people suggesting for Byram and Cozens.

Go to Sabres board, they are pissed off with Byram and Cozens and have mixed (at best) faith in them.

The grass is always greener.

Relax, take a breath. It feels bigger than it is. He will figure it out.

I would agree with you if this was just a slow start to this season.

But it isn't.

This dates back to March and is now swiftly approaching 60 games of poor performance. There is every reason to worry.

 

[Bourne Endeavor]

I would agree with you if this was just a slow start to this season.

But it isn't.

This dates back to March and is now swiftly approaching 60 games of poor performance. There is every reason to worry.

I'm willing to give it November to see if things get better but trading Petey has to be a discussion at some point soon. We only have this season to essentially take the best offer available before he can dictate everything.

 

[Hodgy]

Eichel appeared to have a career-threatening injury at the time and never had the level of performance that 22-23 Pettersson brought.

He was also holding out to force a trade so Buffalo had less leverage than we would right now.

Ya, I know. The situations aren’t analogous. There are different reasons why Eichel’s value was lower than normal, and frankly, the medical reason was the only reason he became available at all, but none of the reasons were production reasons though. And that’s a big difference.