I assume it's because Hughes will force his way to New Jersey anyways. Obviously anyone would rather have Hughes but if the option is 2 years of Hughes vs 8+ years of Nemec, Silayev, and Mercer, I think you take the later.
Delete this - nobody needs to know that Byram is bad when he’s away from Dahlin
Andersson is a one yr rental and is too offense first
Buffalo can also trade Byram for a forward and Peterka for defense.
I believe the poster is trying to trade the Sabres Matthew Wood and a late 1st in a bad draft for Krebs, who…fine, and Bowen Byram, who is the Sabres single biggest trade chip for improving the NHL roster. I suppose it’s just a fact of life that once per page someone has to be reminded that the Sabres are not looking for futures. Our prospect pool is likely better than yours, so more picks and prospects are not of interest.
I think the a Kings would miss Mikey and what he brings to the team too much if they made this trade. He’s great teamed up with Doughty. While Doughty was out he was great teamed up with Gavrikov while on a team friendly deal with term.
If we move on from Peterka (I don't think we will, but the rumors are out there)...Laf might be a good replacement.
I know offense isn't everything and Lafreniere is a player with a completely different skillset, but I'd be extremely leery penciling him into a spot on our top line. That's a huge drop-off in production going from 68 points to 45 points and it's not like you're getting him on some type of value contract either @ 7.45 million a season. At that point aren't you just better off keeping and paying Peterka? I guess this would all hinge on what exactly we'd be getting back in a Peterka deal. I will say I think there will be a good market for Byram, but I dont see the Rangers being anywhere near the top of the list of teams pursuing him.
Yeah I don't know about that. That contract strikes me as an overpayment by the Rangers thinking/hoping there would be continued development in Lafreniere's game. This season was obviously not great at all on that front. That isnt to say Lafreniere can't still break out and make that a reasonable contract going forward, but right now he's being paid like a top line winger and he does not have anywhere near that type of production.
With Buium coming in, you can cross MN off the list. Faber did ok there, also... certainly as good as Byram.
I'd definitely take byram over faber (offensively), but fair enough with buium.
Minny is pretest on defense for next season. Brodin, Middleton, Buium down the left and Faber, Spurgeon, Jiricek down the right.
