Speculation: Sabres may look to acquire goalie via trade or waivers

[MarkusKetterer]

Holtby for Reinhart.

No. Hutton for Holtby

 

[rt]

Antti Raanta (50% retained) for Tage Thompson?

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Antti Raanta (50% retained) for Tage Thompson?

Done!

 

[TheImpatientPanther]

WTF are the Sabres doing out there?
Their playoff bid just went scoreless this past weekend.
Let the fire sale begin

 

[Zman5778]

Antti Raanta (50% retained) for Tage Thompson?

Absolutely, positively done.

 

[rt]

Absolutely, positively done.

Done!

Let’s add Demers and Montour.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Let’s add Demers and Montour.

Are you sure you want to curse your team with Montour?

But sure. I want everyone on the Sabres gone outside of Cozens, Dahlin, and prospects who haven’t played yet.

 

[Zman5778]

Let’s add Demers and Montour.

That's just shuffling deck chairs. We need a natural LHD.

 

[tsujimoto74]

Antti Raanta (50% retained) for Tage Thompson?

Sold.

 

[tsujimoto74]

WTF are the Sabres doing out there?
Their playoff bid just went scoreless this past weekend.
Let the fire sale begin

Trying to play without their entire top pairing, franchise center, and starting goalie. It's not going very well.

 

[rt]

Are you sure you want to curse your team with Montour?

But sure. I want everyone on the Sabres gone outside of Cozens, Dahlin, and prospects who haven’t played yet.

You add your 2nd and we add our 4th?

 

[rt]

That's just shuffling deck chairs.

Exactly.

 

[rt]

So goofing around aside, do Sabres fans think their ownership and/or management is desperate enough to trade their 2nd for Antti Raanta if the Coyotes retain the maximum on Raanta and agree to accept a small cap dump?

 

[Team Cozens]

So goofing around aside, do Sabres fans think their ownership and/or management is desperate enough to trade their 2nd for Antti Raanta if the Coyotes retain the maximum on Raanta and agree to accept a small cap dump?

I see it being Montour for Raanta.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

You add your 2nd and we add our 4th?

Haha no. We’re not giving you pick 34 (I assume Seattle is getting the 1st pick of every round outside of the 1st round)

 

[rt]

I see it being Montour for Raanta.

I just don’t really see the point of adding Montour. Why would Arizona want him? I could see why Buffalo might want Raanta. But I don’t really know why Arizona would want Montour. Jason Demers has been a regular healthy scratch and I don’t really see Montour as much of an upgrade on Demers.

It’s nice that the cap hits work out for Raanta and Montour. And Raanta seems like an okay option for Buffalo. But I’m not seeing a good fit for Montour in Arizona. Maybe the Yotes add their 4th and the Sabres add their 2nd?

 

[Team Cozens]

I just don’t really see the point of adding Montour. Why would Arizona want him? I could see why Buffalo might want Raanta. But I don’t really know why Arizona would want Montour. Jason Demers has been a regular healthy scratch and I don’t really see Montour as much of an upgrade on Demers.

It’s nice that the cap hits work out for Raanta and Montour. And Raanta seems like an okay option for Buffalo. But I’m not seeing a good fit for Montour in Arizona. Maybe the Yotes add their 4th and the Sabres add their 2nd?

Not sure where it came from but I saw somewhere that the Yotes were interested in Montour.
I'll look it up.

 

[rt]

Not sure where it came from but I saw somewhere that the Yotes were interested in Montour.
I'll look it up.

In the recent 31 Thoughts, Elliotte Friedman stated that Montour is available. He then stated later that Arizona could be looking to add some players in an effort to make a playoff push and overcome some negativity surrounding the team. He mentioned they were in the market for a center, that they had checked in on Pearson, and that they might look into Montour as he's available (but the Montour part was wholly speculative, and just a call back to an earlier thought were it was mentioned he was available).

 

[krt88nc]

(as a base) Spit-balling here...

Mantha @50% to MTL + BUF 2nd
Eichel to DET
DET's '21 1st (1OA protected) + Rasmussen + MTL 1st + Caufield + Price @50% to BUF +

No no no no no

 

[tsujimoto74]

I just don’t really see the point of adding Montour. Why would Arizona want him? I could see why Buffalo might want Raanta. But I don’t really know why Arizona would want Montour. Jason Demers has been a regular healthy scratch and I don’t really see Montour as much of an upgrade on Demers.

It’s nice that the cap hits work out for Raanta and Montour. And Raanta seems like an okay option for Buffalo. But I’m not seeing a good fit for Montour in Arizona. Maybe the Yotes add their 4th and the Sabres add their 2nd?

I don't know what kind of system Arizona plays, but Montour could be a really solid middle pairing guy on a team that lets its D rush the puck. Krueger is stubbornly hellbent on not letting his D skate the puck end-to-end, and it completely neuters the best part of D like Montour and Dahlin.

 

[Fjordy]

Montour
Thompson

Raanta
Fischer

 

[Ledge And Dairy]

Stalock seems like like a pretty good option to claim off waivers

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

"good luck"

- Oilers fans

 

[rt]

Montour
Thompson

Raanta
Fischer

I don’t have any use for Montour and I like Fischer better than Thompson. So no thanks.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

Stalock seems like like a pretty good option to claim off waivers

Well thankfully, we're not sensible enough to claim him.