Confirmed Trade: [BUF/EDM] Ryan McLeod and Tyler Tullio for Matt Savoie

[Jee]

dafuq is buffalo doing

 

[Marc the Habs Fan]

That's the best trade this team has pulled off in 30 f***ing years. My god.

haha, that has to be the first Pronger trade just on pure value.

 

[SR]

Well hell, I don’t know why I read it as Bouchard and not McLeod. What grab for Edmonton.

 

[Skinnyjimmy08]

You would think Edmonton would have to attach alot to get this deal done... Get a high end prospect and also more Cap room... Shoulda been Mcleod+++ for savoie.

OR McLeod ++ for future considerations

 

[GeauxPreds1]

Damn that’s crazy. Edmonton well give you askarov for savioe

 

[KCC]

Savoie fell down Sabres prospect pool IMO

Personally had Ostlund, Kulich, Konsta ahead of him.

This immediately makes the Sabres better. 3C WAS A HUGE NEED. LFG!!!

In the playoffs he avoided contact and was terrible to the point where he got benched. He only had 4 points in 24 games and did next to nothing. And this was his fourth time to the playoffs as well. Been awful every single playoff year. Very fast. Soft as charmin.

 

[McFlyingV]

This is a joke right?

My condolences. I too know what its like to have a GM that makes Chiarelli-level trades.

 

[GKJ]

I suspect EDM is adding a piece or 2. There's just no way McLeod+Tullio brought back Matt Savoie.

This almost never happens unless the insiders talk about ‘other pieces’

Not terribly sure why the Sabres did this deal unless they think McLeod is a 2C. But the fact they got another player, I don’t know. They must be giving up on Savoie.

 

[joestevens29]

So they can trade him for the biggest need on their team….

I don’t get how people are so shocked at this. The sabres are absolutely loaded with talent in their pipeline. This is exactly how we need to use it. Fill the remaining needs on our team. A big 3C that very good defensively is EXACTLY what we’ve been waiting for.

Savoie has had some lagging injury stuff since we drafted him too which was slightly concerning. He’s overkill For us at this point.

Lol but that isn’t McLeod he avoids contact and going to tough areas much of the time

 

[larek]

Nothing trade, Savoie had "bust" written all over him from the draft. Definition of a guy who plays a junior game with very little transferable skills to the NHL.

That being said, Edmonton might be one of the few places he could actually work, just stick him on a line with McDavid or Draisaitl and he'll have enough skill to finish on the magic they create.

But it's a long shot. Never liked Savioe's game one bit. One of those flashy junior players that fans always overrated the hell of.

Only 20 definately has some skill and produces --. Could be interesting - better offensive characteristics than McLeod who has paralyzed hands and brain gos numb some

 

[ChaoticOrange]

haha, that has to be the first Pronger trade just on pure value.

didn't count it because we then proceeded to trade him for beans after he knocked up a reporter requested a trade

 

[ManofSteel55]

Many, many Sabres fans have called for Adams to do something along these lines.

Savoie, Benson, Rosen, Neuchev, Ostlund and even to an extent Kulich and even Helenius are all cut from the same broad cloth: smallish skill-heavy forwards. We were getting a MAJOR clog in Rochester.

We also had a GLARING hole at 3C. Right now, our 3C was scheduled to be Peyton Krebs. McLeod is a major upgrade there.

Did Adams overpay? Yep. Did he overpay for a NEED? Yep. Did he use our surplus of similar-ish prospects to do so? Yep.

Don't mind this one bit.

You may still have a hole at 3C. McLeod worked as our 4C, or as a middle six winger. His time as 3C was so great we needed to upgrade at the deadline.

 

[Canes]

Contract the Sabers

 

[Skolman]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1809325357545451654

 

[joestevens29]

Fair trade.

I’d love to say we fleeced Buffalo. But Mcleod’s value, should be a 1st atleast.

You only think this is a fleece if you under rate Mcleod. Obviously Mcleod had value to get a prospect like Savoie.

Lol McLeod fan eh? He isn’t good

 

[Archijerej]

We also had a GLARING hole at 3C. Right now, our 3C was scheduled to be Peyton Krebs. McLeod is a major upgrade there.

I think the worst part of this absolutely atrocious trade is that he most likely isn't.

 

[McFlyingV]

Damn that’s crazy. Edmonton well give you askarov for savioe

Deal. But you're going to have to include Josi because Jeff Jackson's the one negotiating.

 

[JediOrderPizza]

I don't understand this one.

 

[Bond]

Should have kept Middlestadt lol

 

[MessierII]

They seriously gave us Matt Savoie?

 

[Skolman]

Well I take no great pleasure in admitting this seems very good for the Oilers. Whoever their interim GM is, they should consider removing the interim tag.

Jackson doesn't want the the GM job.

 

[Oilslick941611]

I think that size is what scares Buffalo about Savoie, especially in regards to his potential at actually being a center. If you think that teams like Florida are the future and you see Savoie as a chip to give you a large, cost-controlled piece down the middle (McLeod is 6'3"/188), I get this trade. I just think that it could be really short-sighted on Buffalo's end.

But McLeod? Dude shys away from physicality. Great speed,but he peels from contact, just watch his playoff game. He may have size, but he doesn’t use it, or play with it.

 

[Satan]

Wow

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Well your alternatives at center were:

Monahan at 5.5 mill (worse than McLeod), Stephenson at 6.25 mill, or Elias Lindholm at 7.75 mill, or Wennberg at 5 mill.

McLeod at 2 mill is an absolute bargain

Hahah. Yikes!

One of these things is not like the other. All the players listed >> McLeod.

 

[Umingmak]

What on earth is Buffalo doing here? A third liner for their second highest-rated prospect?