Confirmed Trade: [COL/BUF] Casey Mittelstadt for Bowen Byram

[Dubi Doo]

Smart of Buffalo to sell high on Mittelstadt and buy low on Byram.

Wonder what this means for Samuelsson who just got that fat contract extension. Trade bait for a veteran forward?

Nah.

Probably looking at

Byram-Dahlin
Power-Samuelsson

Jokiharju is the one most likely to be traded.

 

[josra33]

Everyone who’s going to say “well now that he’s gone, Avs fans will shit on Bryan.”

I challenge you to look at any GDT on the Avs board from this year.

 

[dirtydanglez]

teams need to start calling buffalo asap on dahlin, power, byram and/or samuelsson

 

[TageGod]

60 point center sounds a lot more like a 2C. What 3C in the league is putting up that kind of production?

He is clearly not better than Thompson, and Cozens has much higher upside. 3C on the Sabres (He has not been playing as 3C most of the season due to various reasons).

 

[sxvnert]

My neutral fan perspective is that this is disastrous for Buffalo.

If you looked at the Sabres and thought "this team needs another fledgling LD who is learning how to think the defensive side of the game" then I could see how you'd disagree. But it looks to me like they just traded their top forward for a redundant part.

I like it for Colorado. They needed a 2C and they got a very good 2C. I'm not sure how good of a playoff piece he'll be.

They need to load up on defensive RD to partner them with otherwise this deal makes no sense.

 

[Go Wings]

Bad trade for the Avs imo

The Avs got Buffalos leading scorer to play as their 2nd line center.

They gave up an offensive defensmen who has a career high 24 points last season and has played 146 games in 4 years. Forget about how much he has to work on his defensive game.

Yah it's a bad trade....for Buffalo.

 

[Avsavsavsavsavs]

Great trade for the Avs, love Bo and I hope he thrives from the change of scenery. Injury history is just a little too worrisome to value him the same as he was during the cup run.

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

BuffaLOL

 

[tsujimoto74]

Good trade for both teams. I think Casey is a little better right now but Byram has a little more to show.

It's just really tough to gauge how good Byram can be. Honestly he's not THAT skilled at least by today's standards for skilled defencemen and his reads are often off in his own end. Fantastic skater though and plays with a chip on his shoulder. He needs some good coaching.

If there’s one thing Buffalo doesn’t have to offer, it’s that. I also think you’re underestimating how good Mitts is right now and how little the Sabres needed another LHD. We swapped our best forward this season for a kid who’s going to be stuck on our 3rd pairing with no PP time.

 

[Fatass]

Are the Sabres moving on from Power or Dahlin? Byram is another LSD who needs PP time.

 

[Mattilaus]

Big time. In what sense?



He is not a rental with two years of RFA control

In what sense? I shouldn't need to clarify this. We gave away the far better and far healthier player.

 

[Eegs]

He is clearly not better than Thompson, and Cozens has much higher upside. 3C on the Sabres (He has not been playing as 3C most of the season due to various reasons).

Sorry, I thought you meant he was a 2C on COL

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Bad trade for the Avs imo

Your knowledge of both players obviously stuck at 5 years ago

 

[cg98]

Holy shit this is a trade.

 

[SimpleJack]

Drouin-MacKinnon-Nichushkin

Lehkonen-Mittelstadt-Rantanen

Wood-Colton-LOC

Cogliano-Olofsson-Parise


Toews-Makar
Girard-Manson
JJ/Malinski-Walker

Georgiev

Something like this?

If Landeskog also comes back then you’re talking a roster with overall depth that would rival what they had when they won the Cup a couple years ago.

 

[Unspecified]

Buffalo need another top 10 pick in the draft that they can toss away...this team is a joke!

 

[start winnin]

Such a bad trade for Buffalo, their value is pretty similar but Mittelstadt is one of the few players on the team who is actually able to play effective hockey. What a terrible day.

Mittelstadt is going to be a star for Colorado.

 

[old kummelweck]

I know point watching Mitts is on top, but he is clearly their third center long term. All around solid 60 point player who wants 7m as 3C is a tough ask.

$7m? nah. He wouldn't have gone to COL then. Unless they are just going to see what happens in arbitration.

 

[I am Canadian]

Sabres are going to be stackkkked in they can find a RHD

 

[NjdevilfanJim]

Damn Avs going for it if they win the Cup every team will want to trade with Buffalo...Eichel Vegas a cup now this one...Think Sabres could have done better over summer wasn't he an rfa?

 

[hamzarocks]

Your knowledge of both players obviously stuck at 5 years ago

I just see Byram as a D-man with too high a ceiling to risk dealing for Mittlestadt

Byram has had absurd amount of injuries and has been held behind Makar + Toews but is still top 4D man and hes only 23 or so

I think Sabres will get the best out of Byram and he will be with them at a good deal if they offer him an extension before he can really break out

 

[S E P H]

Avs are like the only team in the league that still do hockey trades.

 

[Dirty Dog]

You can tell this is a bad trade for the Sabres because the avs fans' response is "well he has potential, it sucks to lose him but we need the 2c" and sabres fans' response is to call for Adams' head.

Sabres fans rage at damn nearly any trade, it is not an indication of anything. They melted down at acquiring greenway

 

[Avelanche]

Bowen got late bloomer written all over him. makes him way less valuable to the avs.

 

[Pandaman11]

The TSN Deadline Show on Friday is gonna be boring again. Everything happening earlier.