Quoting: Shibbal18
I don't think it's extremely tilted in Buffalos favor at all. If Ryan can perform in OTT, Okposo will be able to, Callahans contract comes off before Ryan, Smith is a cap dump. Cirelli is definitely a top 6 Center for Ottawa, they get a first they don't have, Verhaeghe could easily win a spot in Ottawa's middle 6, and they'll be taking on bad cap anyway in a Duchene trade, for multiple reasons (they add all that salary yet they are still under the cap floor).
First of all, Ryan and Okposo play a completely different role, so there's no guarantee that Okposo would produce. The devil you know is better than the devil you don't. With Bobby we at least know what we have.
Smith is over paid, but it's not a very big overpayment. He's like 1 mil over tops. He's also a very useful player, and we have no reason to want to move him unless we get an asset back, not just more bad money. If we sell hard this deadline, we'll still need to hit the floor, and I'd rather do that with Bobby and Smith than Okposo and Callahan. That said, if he'd waive to come to Ottawa, it would be in our best interest to take on that contract in exchange for assets, but that would probably be just picks.
As for Cirelli and Verhaege, they're both useful players, just not in Ottawa. They simply do not address the two biggest needs in Ottawa. We have no right shooting Dmen or natural right wingers in coming up the pipe.
Also could you break down where all the value coming back to Buffalo comes from? I truly can't see what Buffalo gives up that is worth that much. Swapping 1sts is a wash, Foote is in a completely different class than Guhle, Elie and O'reagan are AHL guys, and even most Buffalo fans don't put that high a price on Scandella.
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