Edited Feb. 24, 2023 at 4:26 p.m.
Quoting: Hedman77
But where's the fun in that?
I agree.
I often save my comments from posts to reflect regarding my POV was accurate.
About 50-50 so far.
Quoting: Boltsbeathabs
Whewww dodged a bullet from this
Yup Buffalo really dodges a Bullet on this trade.
Thompson is the best player among ALL of the pieces in that trade. Don't believe it, just ask Vasilevskiy, three goals on four shots.
Tuch is the second best player. Not only is he good, but he makes the players around him significantly better.
Both Thompson and Skinner are having career years with Alex as their RW.
Most important, while one may dispute the value of the five pieces in the trade, it is indisputable that Cirelli, Palat, and Sergachev cost nearly double of Tuch and Thompson, about $21,000,000 v about $12,000,000.
So yes Buffalo dodges a bullet as the returns from the Eichel trade are still imcomplete, because among Krebs, Ostlund and the second from this year,Buffalo is way ahead.
BTW, nothing to do with the trade, but I am really happy Buffalo does not have players as Nicholas Paul and Erik Cernak wearing Sabre uniforms.
When a player is relaxed and is hit from behind as Paul did to Dahlin and listening to the Bolts anouncers diminishing the severity of Cernak's elbow to Okposo's head and try to make us believe Paul did not commit a penalty as his "hands were together so it could not have been cross checking" was disgusting.
Obviously, Cooper approves of this sort of behavior because Tampa is the only team the Sabre's have played this year who have committed these sorts of penalties that could result in injuries.
So this is another fashion that Buffalo won this trade, not infecting that culture into the line up.
Well, well, well I completely forgot about how Tampa treats Dahlin:
https://nhl.nbcsports.com/athlete/erik-cernak/page/15/
I hope Cernak gets a nice long late season vacation, he deserves it.