While intriguing there is not enough value to take 3 years of Skinner. According to puckpedia, to take the contract would be a value of 45.975. The trade has a value differential of 13.239, so more would have to be added.

Result: Chicago declines.

To rid the of the Skinner contract only to immediately acquire two guys with similarly bad contracts is a choice

Who?

CHI taking Skinners $9m x 3 year contract should be worth every bit of BUF's 2024 1st round pick. There isn't enough value in a pick swap of the 20th and 11th overall picks. Especially in this years draft, where there is only a slight decline from around 9th overall through the early 2nd round.

Taking on Skinners average of 60 points a year balances it out

I don't know that it really does, and it's more like 55ppy, but close enough. Otherwise, why would BUF fans even want to move him, then? If he were 2-4 years younger I might be more willing to call this down season a fluke. He will be 32 in a few days and has shown some serious signs of decline, and you are asking CHI to take on, not only a $9m cap hit for 3 years with a full NMC, but $22 MILLION dollars in actual salary owed. The final year of his contract is a point at which cap space is going to become VERY important VERY quickly for a rebuilding CHI team. The possible reward does not outweigh the risk or the cost, and all of the benefit goes to BUF in creating $9M in cap space.

Most importantly, I don't think Skinner is going to waive for any team but a contender. He has been more patient than BUF's front office probably deserves. At 32 years old and never having seen a single NHL playoff game, why would he leave a team coming out of a rebuild for a team in the middle of one?

To a contender, that 60 points per year would be more useful. To the Hawks? Eh... Hawks won't be a contender for years, yet. While Skinner is more of a cap casualty to BUF, he's a cap dump to the Hawks.

BUF's problem in contemplating trying to off-load Skinner is that while a contender could use his 60 points, most or all of them don't have the cap space. And, in fact, very few teams (if any) other than the Hawks are currently postured with the ability to do that. We don't want Skinner as much for his 60 points, as he'll be gone by the time the Hawks are contenders again, as for the assets that come with him.

Outstanding post, Garak; thank you.

What can I say? I'm a champion of the people.

COL is a no on that. Colton for Krebs and a 2nd sure but why would COL want to swap Wood for Rosen because Rosen doesn’t have any value to COL at all they have a Rosen in Olausson.

i dont really see why colorado would do this. seems like lowest offer they could get for cap relief?

Skinner isn’t going anywhere
Not this offseason anyways

On the same page here, i think colton will be burned and a cheap replacement in krebs and a 2nd would be fine return in a cap crunch.

Wild comparison when Olausson isnt a top 100 prospect and Rosen is top 50. Rosen is miles ahead of Olausson

Probably not i just hate not making one spot for a prospect

On what planet is a guy drafted in 2021 not in the NHL a top 50 prospect that’s hilarious. But great take.

There’s other ways to do that without the unlikely removal of Skinner
Krebs could go, Greenway maybe, maybe we don’t bring in as many new faces as you did, etc etc


I do like the idea of bringing in Colton though
Makes sense for both teams

Not my list, sorry thats just the way it is. Rosen >> Olausson

I don’t care if that’s what you think every team has guys drafted in the first round that don’t make the league. Rosen has zero value to the Avs. And the Avs cap problem if they really had one just went away with Nichushkin.

Rosen has a lot of value to the Avs, hes an NHL ready middle 6 forward on an elc that will produce and not be a liability right now. Thats why hes a top 50 prospect

He’s guy drafted 3 years ago that can’t make the Sabres. He has zero value to the Avs.

Just say you have no idea what youre talking about. Its ok

Ah yes the internet expert pushing a narrative increasing his favorite teams what third best prospect, who is so good he can’t get playing time on a team that is perpetually bad. Instead of maybe overvaluing everything about a craptastic team and pushing false narratives use some objective thinking my guy because every team in the league has an Isak Rosen type of guy. A guy drafted years ago that has made zero impact on the NHL, and you somehow think that guy has value? To a cup contender? That’s funny, but please tell me more.

Ah yes downplaying a prospects value solely based on his draft year, and not multiple nhl scouts and websites saying the kid is ready and blindly comparing him to a nothing prospect because you wont take 2 seconds to actually study what youre talking about and doubling down instead of admitting you looked at his capfriendly page and made a sole judgement on that alone. Youre blatently wrong and easily disproven. The sabres have the best prospect pool in the league, they cant cram everyone onto the NHL roster