Confirmed with Link: Buch traded to STL for Blais + 2nd (2022)

[JohnC]

Only way to redeem this trade in my eyes is to sign Blais to a 6 year $3.5M extension.

 

[Gardner McKay]

You guys really don't understand how good and cheap Blais is. Don't mind the trade. Just don't understand why we acquired a LW. Maybe Kreider is waiving his NMC.

He has a whopping 35 points in 115 games. You really don't know what you are talking about, do you? He is a slightly better Brendan Lemieux.

 

[and 99 others]

Just gonna link this old trade thread for the angry voices in here:

Confirmed with Link: - Mika Zibanejad & a 2018 2nd rd pick OTT for Derick Brassard & a 2018 7th rd pick

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

The main board version of this trade is basically 1 page of fans of other teams going "WTF?" and 5 pages of Buffalo fans spiking the football. Pretty sure I hate that fanbase more than the Pens/Devils/Isles at this point. I don't know how fans of a team THAT bad can be so f***ing arrogant.

Anyone laughing at us for this is right. We were just laughing at the Flyers here for the same thing. It's only hockey

 

[SA16]

That's an awful return. That couldn't have been the best offer for Buchnevich, I mean, really? Did Drury let St. Louis talk extension with Buchnevich?

You don’t think if there was a better offer that Drury would have taken the better offer?

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

Not happy with Drury what’s so ever. JD and Gorton was such a bright spot man. Drury running the show feels like a dark cloud.

 

[stan the caddy]

Not a fan.

 

[Gardner McKay]

Only way to redeem this trade in my eyes is to sign Blais to a 6 year $3.5M extension.

*$3.642

 

[Loff]

Not like this.

 

[LokiDog]

… this isn’t a great trade. At all. I love Blais for the bottom six and have even mentioned him before. He has a bit of upside. But… a 2nd?

 

[Killem Dafoe]

End of an era. You will be missed.

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Yup, Drury starting off like ass. Great.

 

[Oscar Lindberg]

has kind of taken an isolationist approach thus far

Can you expand on what you mean by this?

 

[JohnC]

*$3.642

I refuse to make a big deal over a few hundred thousand dollars

 

[CLW]

Bro JG must be drinking a hell of a lot rn.

Not as much as Drury.

 

[LeetchisGod]

Awful return.

 

[smoneil]

You guys are so emo…. There was NO WAY Buch had a sustainable spot in the top 6 with the youngsters we have and there would been paying him 5-6M for bottom 6 ice time. A 1st would have been nice, but he overperformed and it seems like a relatively fair return. Blais is an impactful role player and still young.

There may be a day when Kakko and Kravtsov are good enough to push Buch out of the top six, but that day is years off. As of today, we have no right wingers who have scored more than 24 points.

 

[LORDE]

I am legit stunned and f***ing angry

 

[Bacon Artemi Bravo]

You don’t think if there was a better offer that Drury would have taken the better offer?

Just dont understand the rush. If that's all that was out there, why not wait?

 

[DanielBrassard]

Thanks to Tom Wilson and the f***ing Islanders we are going to turn this team into sewage

 

[RGY]

I dont understand this. Buch scored 48 points last season. The best you could get was a 2nd in 2022 and a 3rd/4th liner???

I mean sure a 2nd in 2022 could be like a late 1st in this year’s draft, but it just doesnt add up.

No Thomas, Sanford, or Kyrou???

 

[LaffyTaffyNYR]

we could’ve just signed Nosek as a FA for more grit and held Buchnevich until the TDL

 

[Trxjw]

Short of the Rangers thinking Blais has a shot of being that Fast-type on the 2nd line.. I really don't see how this makes any sense.

Then again if the market wasn't there, then not much Drury can do. Without a contract extension in place Buch's value is basically as a 1 year player.

 

[Machinehead]

Blais is...a guy.

 

[Kravtsov420]

EXTREMELY concerned about what's going to happen tonight doesn't even cut it.