Sabres are gonna want quality over quantity so no.

This is brutal.

Gotta give up quality if you want quality back.

Delete your account

Ive never seen retention on LTIR players. That's very new hhaha

LMAO Risto is bad...

Lmao stop being a sheep.

lol says the biased sabres fan that thinks Risto is good.

Jesus man, it forsure isnt the best, but if you look at what Risto actually is versus what you see him as or what he was miscast as...

Dude is not a 25min d-man. Advanced analytics are absolutely garbage compared to players with the same TOI.
Minus player his entire career even in Junior and Minors.
Combined -143 in 6 seasons on a team much much deeper than the Oilers lol.

He is a forsure top4 dman, 3-4 on a good team.
Let's not pretend just cause the Oiler's defense is garbage and he would be on the 1st pair that his pricetag moves accordingly.

Now that we know what the low point is, and what the pricing is for a 2nd pair D-man (look at what legit league top 10 dman Subban went for), the offer can be amended to:

Risto for Pulju, Bear, Safin, Gagner less 500k, 3rd and 3rd. More than enough to land Risto.

You can't compare what subban went for since it was a pure cap move. That's not the package you have up for risto. Everyone is trying to trade for risto because they know he is actually a decent dman in an incorrect role and they are calling him trash so they can try to give up nothing for him. I'm fine with keeping risto because I don't want to get trash in return for him and him ending up being a quality player.

Wasn't quite the cap move you'd think that would warrant such a steep dropoff in price.
They could have still iced a team with Subban on it, they just wouldnt have been able to sign Duchene to an 8M AAV deal.

Pure cap moves are what Toronto did with the Zaitsev+, Marleau+ deals: up against the cap with less than a full roster on the books / impending RFA's that would have been stranded.

Wants vs Needs basically.

Risto is a good 3-4 dman. Price him as such.
Getting 1 NHL player, a former 4th overall pick, 2 prospects, and 2 3rd round picks is in the ballpark.

Except that's not what the sabres would be looking for. Once again quality over quantity.

Alright, good luck with that. Edm would be foolish to give up anything more.
After all, Chiarelli isnt HNIC anymore lmao

You're not getting the quality vs quantity aspect. That would be a decent package if the sabres were looking for multiple pieces but they really shouldn't be. Sabres would probably looking for one quality piece in return.

It is Feds91stammer's life mission to find every Ristolainen trade on Capfriendly.com and comment that Risto isn't good. You know, in case we haven't seen any of his other 100 comments about "RistLOLainen".

We can just keep him and further develop Jokiharju if you don't get the offer you want. Easy problem to solve.

nah. people just trade him 1000 times a day on here for unrealistic returns...

Lmao just teasing. I agree it's painful as a somewhat level headed sabres fan.