Confirmed with Link: [EDM/BUF] McLeod + Tullio for Matt Savoie

[McJesusSaves97]

JJ you beautiful bastard! Why does Buffalo even consider doing this? Steal lol

 

[alphahelix]

JJ you beautiful bastard! Why does Buffalo even consider doing this? Steal lol

some people saying savoie has shoulder issues and is a tiny midget who gets crunched to death... mcleod does make them a better team this year and fwiw i think Tullio is a bonafide prospect for a checking line some day. I like his game.

 

[3IR]

So we traded from a position of strength to shore up an area of weakness (ELC winger with top 6 potential). It’s been so long since it felt like we made a trade from a position of strength.

Also, I can’t think of a better time to be a right handed point producing Oilers prospect. Savoie couldn’t have picked a better team to be traded to imo as that RW spot is wide open, especially going into next year.

Holloway Mcdavid Hyman
Ardvidsson Drai Skinner
Nuge Henrique Lavoie/Savoie
_____ Janmark Brown
Ryan/Perry

I can’t wait to see what this forward group can do.

 

[elmeroil]

McLeod is going to skate sooooooo fast in Buffalo, around the outside around the outside

 

[Oilhawks]

No salt here. We all good. As I said in the Sabres board, this move hurts my heart, but I understand it. Probably easier that it's edmonton getting savoie for me. Despite being a Sabres fan, I live in YK. Your city's hospitality during the evacuation last summer made me root for edmonton as well.

Thank you. I liked McLeod and will miss him, I even have a signed puck (if you want it, I can mail it to you..jk). Thanks for rooting for Edmonton. I have an old friend from Buffalo who is a big Sabres fan, and he's a genuinely good dude about hockey in general. I've always had a soft spot for the Sabres and would really like them to break this streak and make the playoffs this season.

While it hurts, I do think that McLeod will help balance the roster to help the Sabres make the playoffs. And if he gets a wakeup call to play with some more grit and less perimeter, he will be a very good player. We saw it in spurts but just not consistently enough and it cost them in the playoffs. Either way, he will help the Sabres get there.

 

[McAsuno]

https://x.com/i/web/status/1809351820135002468

Let JJ f***ing cook, holy shit!!!

 

[TopShelfGloveSide]

some people saying savoie has shoulder issues and is a tiny midget who gets crunched to death... mcleod does make them a better team this year and fwiw i think Tullio is a bonafide prospect for a checking line some day. I like his game.

Who are these people? “Some people” also say Bouchard is a bad hockey player.

His shoulder injury looked like a freak accident.

 

[alphahelix]

I think at the end of the day, regardless of how good McLeod and Tullio are, this trade comes down to Matthew Savoie. If he pans out its a big deal. So... how good, really, is Savoie? I dont know exactly. Camp could be eye opening.

 

[Cloned]

So you can debate whether or not Holland would’ve signed certain players on July 1, but it is a certainty that he would not have made this trade.

 

[WaitingForUser]

Who are these people? “Some people” also say Bouchard is a bad hockey player.

His shoulder injury looked like a freak accident.

Besides you can’t be an Oiler without shoulder surgery

 

[oobga]

Some teams start spiralling a bit when rebuilds don't go as planned and then it just snowballs. After 3/4/5 years fans get antsy, ownership gets antsy, everyone is sick of losing and then attempts to fix everything start happening, but it just ends up worsening the problem. Honestly, if we didn't land McDavid we might still be in that cycle with them.

This smells a lot like a "we need depth now, not another scoring prospect!" type deal, which isn't necessarily a bad idea. They just didn't trade the correct prospect for the correct player.

That's true. McDavid is probably THE reason we turned the corner after years of terrible management, that we also kept doing for more years with McDavid lol.

Buffalo also got insane bad luck getting #1 OA twice in years where a LHD was the top prospect. Their tanks were a little more shameless than ours though, especially in McDavid's year where they were firing off goalies into the sun who dared to make saves. Maybe little karma there

Hope we pulled off a little robbery here with them desperately trying to create a playoff capable team ASAP.

 

[Joey Moss]

Best offseason ever

 

[VaporTrail]

great trade

McLeod didn't have a future here IMO...too soft

Savoie is a great prospect, even if he's tiny

McLeod plays soft ??

 

[Barrsy]

So you can debate whether or not Holland would’ve signed certain players on July 1, but it is a certainty that he would not have made this trade.

Yes A certainty.
This board is funny.

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

Buffalo had like 16M of cap space and could have just signed a better 3C FA for free a few days ago...

Thanks for fixing our cap situation and giving us a former 9th overall top prospect for free I guess.

 

[VaporTrail]

Isn't Savoie a highly touted prospect?? How the hell did he manage this one? Well damn man. The kid is from here too I think.

Yes he's just about developed and ready to go...He was maybe my favorite prospect as a Sabres fan...He had a great training camp/pre season last year till he got hurt...I was thinking he make the team this year out of camp and do well....I still don't understand this from our side...Our GM is completely desperate at this point.

 

[Barrsy]

McLeod plays soft ??

Very. The guys certainly doesn’t play with a lot of balls.
But the reality of the trade is this. Oilers traded an actual solid nhl,r who is young and decent at what he does for a bit of a lottery ticket who really hasn’t being going in the right direction.
I really like the trade. But it’s hardly a gimme.

 

[FanOfSadTeam]

This looks like a steal but who knows with these prospects

 

[Cloned]

Very. The guys certainly doesn’t play with a lot of balls.
But the reality of the trade is this. Oilers traded an actual solid nhl,r who is young and decent at what he does for a bit of a lottery ticket.
I really like the trade. But it’s hardly a gimme.

It’s as much of a gimme as you can get.

JJ somehow turned a cap crunch casualty into a top prospect and cap space. Even if the Oilers have no plans for Savoie they can use him as trade bait at the deadline.

 

[Joey Moss]

Savoie has a good shot to make the team, too. As deep as we are, there’s a spot on 3RW for him if we push Brown to 4th line. I’d try

Skinner - McDavid - Hyman
Holloway - Draisaitl - Arvidsson
RNH/Rico - Rico/RNH - Savoie
Janmark - Ryan - Brown

I don’t know how you fit Kane

 

[Vagabond]

WoW! We also got back Matt Savoie!? Holy hell, what an awesome trade. He not only was a cap dump, we got a really good prospect back. Jackson is the man!

 

[Davo Ikinzom]

Very. The guys certainly doesn’t play with a lot of balls.
But the reality of the trade is this. Oilers traded an actual solid nhl,r who is young and decent at what he does for a bit of a lottery ticket who really hasn’t being going in the right direction.
I really like the trade. But it’s hardly a gimme.

We were literally being forced to trade one of McLeod, Ceci or maybe Kane to become cap compliant and we squeezed a team's top 3? prospect out for him.

This fanbase would have been happy with a 3rd coming back.

 

[McBooya42]

2 PPG in the WHL in his D+1 as the #1C on the WHL champion. Far and away our #1 prospect. Cost controlled elite young talent that will be much needed with big incoming extensions. I can't even believe it

Cheap for what 2 more years? Holy smokes...

 

[brentashton]

Waiting for official confirmation on the deets.

Incredible trade if true.

JJ is a magnificent bastard and should just hire himself as GM.

Jeff Jackson for Mayor, Premier, heck PM !!

 

[McBooya42]

This is JJ “taking a few days off”.

He must be calling in old favors or something because we’ve been told for years that trades are hard.

I liked Clouder, but this just makes sense for both clubs business wise. JJ really hit another homer here.