Sabres made their cap move, dont have any reason to help Van, and Malone is useful to Rochester which is why they resigned him to a 2way

It marginally helps Van since Ferland is LTIR. 6th round pick is pretty fair to take on a LTIR contract imo. Doesn’t have to be Buffalo taking it. Arizona, Anaheim, Detroit etc could all take it too.

Could also see the Canucks just keeping ferland and operating in LTIR all year

"Doesn’t have to be Buffalo taking it. Arizona, Anaheim, Detroit etc could all take it too."
But you chose Buffalo and Buffalo has no reason to do it, so therefore i said what i said. A 6th might be fair but its still useless

Had to choose someone… again it really doesn’t matter to quibble of such an incredibly minor move

It does because people continue to think Buffalo is a dumping ground when they arent

Bruh Buffalo literally just did a LTIR trade as you mentioned. They are exactly the type of team that would accept a LTIR dump

Yeah they did one, so theyre good