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Yes Gourde can win faceoffs, so maybe he could play center.
That is not enough for any team to take on that much salary. Look what it cost the Leafs to move Patrick Marleau and he had a better year than Gourde with ONLY one year left.
TBL gets Pilut, Lawrence and BUF gets Gourde, Yanni; Foote, Cal; Barré-Boulet, Alex TB 2020 second and TB 2021 first
And would still say no.
I like Gourde the first time I saw him Buffalo. He was absolutely explosive.
But he produces at about the same rate as Okposo and is signed for 2 additional years.
I am an eternal optimist but Buffalo was much closer this year than their record.
Skinner, Sheary, Rodrigues and Vesey all had career worse years.
Hunwick had a 12 game stretch of 0-8-4
The PP and PK was terrible the second half of the year.
If Hunwick does not go blind, or the PK stops one PP in any of a dozens games, or if Skinner could have had 25 goals, they are in the preliminaries.
if all of the above are just average, they are chasing the Leafs.
Kahun appears to be at least a good mid six forward and occasional top three.
We could easily see Cozens, Thompson and Mittelstadt play significant rolls next year. So I do not see any reason to add Gourde.
What I am saying Buffalo is the wrong target. If DATM could have made a similar trade as I proposed instead of signing Moulson, Gionta, Meszaros. Well we all know how that turned out.
Look to a team that is more than a #2 center and needs improved GK to dump salaries, Buffalo is not that team this year.