He played centre in a bad team because Buffalo has no good options at centre outside of Eichel. Who else do you want to play 2C? Mittelstadt? Girgensons? Eakins? A rookie Cozens? ... there are no good centres after Eichel. That's why Reinhart played centre.

& a lot of guys are drafted as a centre because in junior they tend to play centre seeing as the top players dominate junior and make their teammates better in junior. It means very little when it comes to the NHL. JVR was drafted as a centre, so was Marner. Doesn't mean that they transition to the NHL at centre.

Take out calen Addison, & put dumba.

that makes the deal much worse for the Sabres

Well, wild can't make t hff e trade without putting dumba in

Bill Guerin traded for calen Addison for a reason. He won't be going anywhere

The idea being they can't trade dumba elsewhere? If Addison is the sticking point to acquiring Jack Eichel he should find a different job.

The idea being they can't trade dumba elsewhere? If Addison is the sticking point to acquiring Jack Eichel he should find a different job.

Yeah, wild aren't going to make their defense worse by trading two dman.

Sorry. Once dumba is traded, Calen Addison takes over for dumba

Wild aren't going to make their cap worse when they need to put a roster together & need to resign fiala, kaprizov, and Joel Eriksson Ek long term so that is why it has to be dumba

You're most likely right, but Clague is an expansion risk and this would give them a lot of flexibility to start adding talent over the next two years.

The fact you’re even defending this trade is laughable. Kings don’t need cap space. And all that for a 7th. Get real!