As much as I would love to get rid of those bad contracts, there is no way that Holland would include Holloway.

Valiant effort, but Edmonton would rather buyout both players (And probably will) than trade Holloway any day of the week.

both bad trades and for the last two players buffalo should be trading

Those guys don't wanna play in Buffalo. May as well get something for them.

I'll admit Buffalo has a bit more control on Olofsson.

Good because that trade is horrible for buffalo.

Also Reinhart >>> Laine

The buyouts aren't cheap. 2Mx4 for Neil and 1.5Mx2 for Koskinen.

Olofsson is still under team control and is a solid player

Reinhart is walking for nothing after next season if he doesn't get moved. That costs him a lot of trade value.

No. That is a big mistake by them. Laine is going to get way more money than he should, and I dont want the sabres having it on their books. We'd be better off letting Reinhart walk, then having Laine at his price tag.

no one wants to play in buffalo

even the bison on the logo is trying to escape

And bringing in Laine makes no sense. Already have enough malcontents. Why bring in another then also overpay him? Sabres should have zero interest in Laine.

Holland has been vocal about his intentions to buyout at least one and probably two players, so I'm going with what's true and likely. If they don't re-sign RNH (Which they won't if he demands any more than he's being paid now I think), they'll be flush with cap space after those two buyouts and can fill out the roster without the buyout cost affecting it too much.

Probably best then to keep rienhart and we’ll keep laine.

Indeed. He is a slightly more skilled olofsson and will be making way too much.

Slightly may be an understatement.

In the sense that one had a career year while the other hand a career negative year, sure. With their respective regular performances, I suspect it's not quite that lopsided.

ehhh nah. PPG specialist, underlying numbers for Laine blow. If we look at the cost of the players, I wouldnt even trade Olofsson for Laine. Nowhere worth his 6 million plus contract he currently has, and he is wanting more.

I suspect if you came to that conclusion, you havent watched much of either player.

I should clarify - I'm talking about Reinhart-as-a-center rather than Reinhart in general, because frankly that's the only way in which he potentially has value to the Jackets.

Nah Laine is significantly better than Olofsson. If not only because of his shot