Quoting: Vermathex
buffalo not accepting since thats a top 5 pick
Quoting: Old_Snowman
Top 4 actually lol. Buffalo will finish last.
Quoting: Mwasylko34
Very intriguing as a Buf fan. It would suck to lose a top pick but to get rid of that contract AND obtain 2 solid roster players and 2 2nds is not bad in return. I think Buf would consider this hard. It immediately helps our top 6
Quoting: DDossett
For sure buffalo should take this, anthony mantha check so many boxes for the sabres. He's worth the pick alone even it ends up being 1st oa.
And we get two picks, a left dman prodpect, and out of okposo's contract!
Quoting: aedoran
I really thought Buffalo was going to be really good this season. I don't get it at all, Buffalo's winning % right now .276 the Wings finished last season with winning percentage of .275.
Mantha would be a great fit for Buffalo.
Cholowski development is taking a long time but he is a LHD taken 20th in 2016.
IMO the first round pick is nearly equal to unloading Okposo's $6,000,000 salary for the next two years.
The 2021 draft quality is predicted to look like the 2017 and 2019 drafts. The first two picks were Hischier and Patrick, and Hughes and Kakko respectively.
I would take Mantha over any of those four players.
Let me add, Buffalo does not have any scouts, so it is highly likely that they will mess up the pick (Reinhart over Draisaitl, Nylander over Sergachev, Dahlin over Svechnikov, need I say more).
Imagine this Sabre line up with the trade next year.
Skinner Eichel Mantha
Olofsson Cozens Reinhart
Mittelstadt Ruotsalainen Lazar
IDK who will be on the fourth line.