Ideal off-season

Biggest problem for the Avs in trading Manson is they have a very soft D without him. Value is fine. Just not sure he's going to be the one the Avs move.

Manson is never going to agree to come to Buffalo, which is just as well because you can just keep Jokiharju instead. And you can also forget about Stamkos because why would he want to come to Buffalo? And since you need money to pay players with expiring deals next year, that’s fine too. I doubt Philly wants to give up on Cates, or that Buffalo doesn’t see him and Krebs as redundant (but Cates is clearly the better player right now).

No doubt this makes us a playoff caliber team, and perhaps even something more with the right coach, but how on earth are we gonna afford extensions for Peterka, Quinn, Byram next year?

Agreed that Stamkos is unlikely at best to come to buffalo, but in this scenario, 4 years is likely more than he'd get elsewhere, although I think that contract is probably a bad idea

Stamkos is from Toronto so Buffalo could be appealing.