Quoting: MoreHitzSeider
I'd rather sign Horvat as a UFA and keep the assets. Although I'm a bit worried about Niederbach's potential.
Niederbach is expendable. They have Hanas, Tyutaev, Kasper, and the recently emerging Lombardi, and as a long shot Red Savage. Niederbach isn't playing well, and isn't making the most of his minutes; is now in the 2nd league in Sweden, and...isn't doing all that great. Every center in the system, outside of Kasper and MAYBE Hanas figures to be a bottom 6.
Niederbach has potential, no doubt, but from the very limited sample size I saw this year on a few internet feeds, he isn't working very hard, or maybe he is not understanding the system, so he doesn't know how to work in the system. I haven't seen him since his loan to Modo. If it was just a lack of confidence playing against men, he should be tearing it up with Modo.
I'd be ok with including Niederbach in any trade that makes the team better, but Boeser is not that guy since the team has that logjam at good to very good wings. Boeser falls in the same category as Kubalik and Fabbri, being behind Raymond, Bertuzzi, and Vrana. Then you gotta figure out what to do with Berggren, who is playing 4th line minutes but should absolutely stay up. What does the team then do with Erne, suter, Rasmussen (who is 3C but looks great on Larkins wing in place of Bertuzzi), Soderblom, Sundqvist, and Veleno? Too many forwards, let alone dedicated wings.