Sabres Trade- opinions welcome

Created by: sabertooth12

Team: 2020-21 Vegas Golden Knights

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 11, 2020

Published: Jun. 11, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

I'm not a Vegas fan so I'm not sure about the lines, and you could resign Reaves over Nosek or Cousins if you want, doesn't make a huge difference. Can't see anyone taking Fleury at that cap hit. Let me know your opinion on the trade

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Cousins, Nick	1	$2,000,000
Kolesar, Keegan	1	$700,000
Stephenson, Chandler	2	$2,000,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Lehner, Robin		5	$6,500,000
Nosek, Tomas		1	$1,250,000

Trades

VGK

Ristolainen, Rasmus
2021 1st round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

Top 10 protected

BUF

Additional Details:

Glass replaces Stastny as 2nd line C, Elvenes replaces Tuch at 3rd line RW, Vegas now has enough cap space for Lehner and has a solid second pairing RD who would thrive next to Martinez or McNabb's defensive-style game

Retained Salary Transactions

Tomas Tatar: $500,000 (9.43%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$81,500,000	$77,700,772	$285,772	$960,000	$3,799,228

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Marchessault, Jonathan $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4	Karlsson, William $5,900,000$5,900,000 C M-NTC UFA - 7	Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Pacioretty, Max $7,000,000$7,000,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Glass, Cody $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) C, RW RFA - 2	Stone, Mark $9,500,000$9,500,000 RW NMC UFA - 7
Stephenson, Chandler $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, LW UFA - 4	Roy, Nicolas $750,000$750,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Elvenes, Lucas $776,667$776,667 ($110,000$110K) RW UFA - 2
Carrier, William $1,400,000$1,400,000 LW UFA - 4	Nosek, Tomas $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Cousins, Nick $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Theodore, Shea $5,200,000$5,200,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Schmidt, Nate $5,950,000$5,950,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 5	Lehner, Robin $6,500,000$6,500,000 G UFA - 5
Martinez, Alec $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Ristolainen, Rasmus $5,400,000$5,400,000 RD UFA - 2	Fleury, Marc-André $3,500,000$3,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 2
McNabb, Brayden $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 2	Holden, Nick $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Whitecloud, Zach $725,000$725,000 RD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jun. 11, 2020 at 4:40 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,925

Likes: 14,597

no thank you on giving up our first for a pending UFA and a guy who just had a terrible season. its like a 5.5 million cap increase too over ristolainen.

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Jun. 11, 2020 at 4:44 p.m.

sabertooth12

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 332

Likes: 83

I mean even a 2nd+prospect and Risto I would do. Not sure why, but Vegas fans seem hell bent on not needing a top 4 RD, but on paper it just doesn't make sense having 5 left handed defensemen. The Sabres second line would be playoff caliber after this trade

Jun. 11, 2020 at 5:00 p.m.

Stones6160

Brad Boyes please Wq

Joined: Aug. 2019

Posts: 2,496

Likes: 714

I’m Agaisnt Tuch For Risto, but giving a first and giving Stastny, Why not

Jun. 11, 2020 at 5:07 p.m.

gretzkyghosts

Joined: Apr. 2018

Posts: 5,352

Likes: 4,799

Quoting: sabertooth12

I agree Stastny would be a great #2 Center for one year to allow Cozen, Mittelstadt or 2020 7th OA develop.
How much cap are the Knights saving by moving Stastny?
Why is a RW who scores at about the same rate as Ristolainen so much more valuable than Rasmus?
Here is another trade that Knight's AGM think is the value of Stastny:
https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/1750468
WPG
Stastny, Paul
2021 4th round pick (WPG)
VGK
2021 3rd round pick (WPG)

I know people will disagree with me but I would not trade Ristolainen for Tuch one for one.
I would want something added for a hard hitting, minutes eating, consistent 0.5pt/game right handed defenseman.
Yes he had a terrible +/- last year, but he plays against the other teams top lines and this year his +/- was very respectable.

Those are my reasons for not liking the trade, I am sure others will disagree, which is fine.
We all have our opinions.

Jun. 11, 2020 at 5:10 p.m.

RoyalBlueSabres

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 1,878

Likes: 974

Gotta think the first is off the table. I would add our 2nd in 2020 with maybe a 3rd or 4th also coming back

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