Ristolainen is awful. So bad that the analytics guys talked Burke out of trading for him.
Literally this generations Jack Johnson.
A massive part of why Buffalo has been awful for years.
If Buffalo had given up the 13th to lose him, this would still be a massive win for them.
Give Kevyn Adams the GM of the Year award for this. Ristolainen is a replacement level defenseman and they just netted a mid-first and a likely mid-second for him. Hagg is pretty mediocre but he has a fifth of the cap hit for the same quality.
Chuck Fletcher looks like an absolute clown on this one, especially giving up so much to get rid of Gotisbehere.