Joined: Nov. 2015
Posts: 1,086
Likes: 324
In my opinion, Sakic has too much patience and foresight to make this trade. He was able to trade Barrie comfortable because he had Makar AND Byram coming. He knows that his club will need guys on ELCs to contribute if they’re going to contend, and the next 3 years of Byram could be crucial to their future success. Plus, I don’t see Sakic making a trade for a pending UFA without some sort of protection - likely a conditional first round pick in addition to a couple other decent pieces (Bowers, Kaut, Jost, maybe Timmins).