Confirmed Trade: [STL/BUF] Ryan O'Reilly for 2019 1st, 2021 2nd, Patrik Berglund, Vladimir Sobotka, and Tage Thompson

[generalshepherd141]

Yeah, the players going back to Buffalo are altogether a little underwhelming, but the Blues do have to pay O'Reilly's signing bonus. That is probably why the return is a little less than expected.

 

[Claypool]

Can someone explain to me why ROR was traded? Was it just because of the signing bonus? I thought Pegula was going to spend to win at any cost?

 

[Le Barron de HF]

BUF gets some depth here along with futures but yeah not close to the value fans were asking for.

 

[BobbyClarkeFan16]

Berglund will get flipped elsewhere. Book on it.

 

[Kudo Shinichi]

ROR worth the 3rd overall pick? whut

 

[BB88]

So in the end Buffalo is tanking, who knew.

 

[SprDaVE]

Tage Thompson is pretty good and the pick is obviously great but...

I feel like people expected some blue chipper here.

 

[Fazkovsky]

Jeez Bergevin wake up

 

[HOPE]

Now watch armstrong counter his good trade with a bad one in trading thomas for pacioretty because he thinks his center depth is good enough

 

[JT Kreider]

Hard to say who won this but that is a great haul for O'Reilly.

You got a give it to the Blues they are going for it.

It's a haul, but not a great haul. Other than the first the Sabres didn't even get anything close to the Blues top assets

 

[Gandalf The Habs Fan]

Pacioretty and 2 seconds would have been better! lol

 

[PeterSidorkiewicz]

Why did Buffalo want to trade ROR anyway?

 

[trevorftw]

Well. I guess blues fans have a better idea of player values than the majority of sabres fans. Love dumping both Berglund and sobotka, even though both can turn out to be nice additions to BUF.

 

[Zenon Konopka Jr]

The Isles couldn't beat this offer? Lol what a day this is

 

[Pierce Hawthorne]

This should silence Sabres fans going forward for thinking they have any idea whatsoever about players value. They were massively wrong about ROR twice now both acquiring him and then trading him away.

 

[780il]

WTF BUFFALO. I would have easily moved a 1st + 2nd + Lucic + Strome + Benson. Similiar package.

 

[CantLoseWithMatthews]

also I can't imagine that Dahlin (or Eichel for that matter) is very happy with them making a garbage team even worse right on time for him to show up

 

[Captain97]

Good deal for the blues

 

[Marner]

Why did Buffalo want to trade ROR anyway?

yea wut are they doing

 

[The Nuge]

I actually really like all the assets Buffalo got, but this sure seems like a 3 quarters for a loonie type trade

 

[TheGoldenGod]

Dougy Armstrong!!

 

[Pi]

Sick trade for the Blues. ROR, Schenn And Bozak down the middle is some really good depth. No superstar but that’s a top 5-10 centre depth.

 

[Gabrielor]

I said either Blues fans would be pissed, or we would.

Congratz. Our GM is an idiot.

 

[TomasHertlsRooster]

Well you missed on both Tavares and ROR, who is the real loser here?

The team who hasn’t won a playoff series since the lockout.

 

[Magic Man]

St. Louis has caught fire.