well at least you're going to the Central next year!

I don't think the Sabres need to add the second if Arizona is not retaining any salary. They are freeing up 7 million in cap for Arizona that they desperately need.

ARI is sending the 2nd because Buffalo is absorbing a lot of salary and trading 2 quality dmen for expiring ? marks.

Got it I looked at it and viewed the pick going the other way. I think the Sabres accept if it is a 2020 2nd.

Nah we take this deal and ARI can't trade a 2020 2nd

Why can't they?

Conditions on resigning hall. 2020 second heads to jersey

That's for the 2021 2nd and third

Ohh I’m mistaken then

Anaheim won't be trading Henrique for a 2021 first, and the only 2020 first you have is for Alexis LaFreniere, so . . .

It's because they traded 2 firsts those years

?

I'm not a BUF fan, I'm not an ARZ fan, but this trade doesn't make sense to me for either side.

Help.

So, no.

Sabres trade a RHD that they have an abundance of and a dman who is good but doesn't want to be in Buffalo anymore to Arizona to help shore up their defense and the Yotes save some cap space here by clearing $6.875M in the deal for 2 aging ? marks and a pick as well for the troubles. Sabres do it because they get a goalie who can play hockey with Ullmark unlike Hutton and Stepan improves their C depth and shelters Cozens if he is the NHL next year.

Shame. ARI would be quite nice.

That is a good team you've constructed there.

Maybe I could be persuaded to take the 2021 second instead if you added Victor Soderstrom and I added our 2020 third.

Why would AZ trade their saviour on defense?

'cause they want Henrique. Your assumption is that Coyotes management wants to "win now." I'm going along. I didn't say it was what you or I would do.

Anaheim is under no pressure to move Henrique. Ergo, the Ducks expect an immediate benefit: either a high draft pick in 2020, or an asset likely to make an impact this season or in 2021-2022 at the latest. Soderstrom is the only guy I can see us interested in.

Of course, the vestiges of that Hall deal hang over everything: the 2021 second goes away if Hall re-signs, and it even becomes a first if Hall re-signs AND Arizona wins the first two post-season ties this summer.