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

[Erik Alfredsson]

Dude, I get it that you hate Edmonton but good grief.

"He plays like a junior player", that might be one of the worst arguments I've seen on here

Lol I don't hate Edmonton at all, I'm a Sens fan, I hate the Sabres more than I hate Edmonton. Hell I was defending McDavid on here a few weeks ago because of the Conn Smythe thing.

I just don't like Savioe's game. Don't know what else to tell you.

 

[LTIR]

Ok so he is not a NHL player ? Weird trade then

Meh, don't believe some of us Oilers fans..
McLeod is fine.. he is great at PK and is fast. He just can't score.

Best of luck to him in BUF.

 

[joestevens29]

Or Savoie hurts his shoulder again.

McLeod was a cap dump so I don’t care

 

[Hobnobs]

This trade is giving me Forsberg for Erat vibes

I'd rather do that trade than this one

 

[Sergei Shirokov]

I like McLeod as a player. Savoie is a steep price to pay but he's not a sure thing.

Seems like an overpay but we'll see how these guys do for their new teams

 

[BluesyShoes]

Pretty nice move for Edmonton, silly asset management by Buffalo. McLeod is a fine enough player, but trading a 9th overall essentially for a capdump is wild. What was Buffalo thinking picking Savoie if they didn't see him as a potential core piece?

Also, I don't really see this as a total fleecing; what is the likelihood of Savoie ending up better than say Conor Garland? Similar junior careers, and Conor Garland on a good contract maybe wouldn't get you McLeod in a trade, because good small forwards are like goaltenders on the trade market, they just don't have value.

Just shaking my head at using a 9th overall pick for someone who was so obviously never seen to be potential core piece.

 

[Pavels Dog]

Savoie is an overrated prospect, this is probably a good trade for Buffalo.

 

[GirardSpinorama]

Smart move for the Oilers, no way they can afford mcleod.

 

[K1900L]

I like this move for both teams, actually.

With Henrique signed, Oilers don't need McLeod as a #3C. Simultaneously, healthy Arvidsson, Skinner and Kane make him obsolete in the top 6. If one gets injured, you can move up Brown or/and Holloway.

Buffalo has a large variety of players who are similar to Savoie, he is of course a little undersized.
McLeod is a solid #3C who still has a lot of potential. He is tall and a very good two-way player.
He was sheltered behind McDrai offensively when not playing with Draisaitl, which won't happen in Buffalo (so there might be something coming here). He is very good on the PK and has the speed to potentially keep up with anyone in the Buffalo top 6 when needed.

Does this move seem like an overpay? Yes, but only in a vacuum, and these don't exist in the NHL. It's pretty obvious that young everyday-NHL-centers with speed and size are valued highly. Savoie on the other hand is a little undersized and has yet to play a larger amount of NHL-games, let alone playoffs. You could also argue that Edmonton is taking a risk here as well.

 

[Connor McConnor]

Jeff Jackson needs to be permanent gm

 

[cg98]

Holy shit. Wtf is Buffalo thinking here?

 

[Cup or Bust]

McLeod is a 4th liner level player. If he was good enough to play on the third line the Oilers would have kept him.

 

[ConnorMcPower]

Not sure what the Sabres are thinking.
Did Savoie ask for a trade?

Guess he’s injury prone scares them so they made the trade.

 

[TheNumber4]

He's skinny as hell gos flying when he does get hit --no wonder he doesn't play physical

He rarely gets hit.

 

[Hobnobs]

Savoie is an overrated prospect, this is probably a good trade for Buffalo.

Overrated still means he has more value than being traded for essentially a cap dump. So still bad asset management by Sabres.

 

[ChaoticOrange]

pretty damn funny to see fans from fanbases that have been talking nonstop shit about McLeod for three years suddenly pretending that they liked him all along

 

[LTIR]

Lol I don't hate Edmonton at all, I'm a Sens fan, I hate the Sabres more than I hate Edmonton. Hell I was defending McDavid on here a few weeks ago because of the Conn Smythe thing.

I just don't like Savioe's game. Don't know what else to tell you.

You didn't like his junior game but just about every pro scout did and had him going in #5-15 overall.

The scouts include NHL projection in their assessment so obviously you know more than all of them.

Oilers needed to free up cap and roster space and this deal did just that. Even without McLeod Oilers have Kane,Henrique, Perry, Holloway, Janmark ,Brown and Ryan in their bottom 6

 

[stewy04]

McLeod is a stud.

What better Cs are on the market.

I'd rather have Ryan Mcleod for the next 7 years than Chandler Stephenson tbh. And you'll probably save like 18 million dollars on the contract

Are you Mike Adam's?

 

[Kerberos]

Also Oilers window is closing.

If you keep saying it enough, eventually it may become true.

 

[542365]

Buffalo is hilarious.

 

[TheNumber4]

Savoie seems pretty small to a 2C in this League. Seems like he should be a Winger.

 

[Connor McConnor]

Savoie is an overrated prospect, this is probably a good trade for Buffalo.

Lmao talk about having zero clue what he’s talking about but that’s normal for you

 

[spfan]

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.

I mean Krebs was supposed to have that kind of potential. Obviously wasn't working out though.

if this was Rosen for McLeod, I wouldn't be mad if i were a Sabres fan. But Savoie was a high pick. Has high potential. That's just a downgrade in talent. And what's Helenius spot ever going to be then?
May as well have just traded that pick to upgrade the roster instead.

 

[McXLNC97]

Wrong. Very wrong.

There's nothing wrong about it. Mcleod sucks period. All he can do is skate. Doesn't hit, plays just die on his stick. There's a reason he was in the pressbox in the playoffs. Clearing his 2.1m cap hit for even like a 4th rd pick would have been a win, never mind the 9th overall from 2 years ago.

 

[TheNumber4]

Overrated still means he has more value than being traded for essentially a cap dump. So still bad asset management by Sabres.

Not a cap dump. Mcleod is worth his contract. More than worth his contract. The real issue is when his next contract comes.