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Sabre fans are going tar and feather me for suggesting this.
With the trades to MTL and PHI you giving away Liljegren and Tavares.
Add them to the Buffalo trade.
Add Erik Johnson to Cozens, to balance the NHL rosters.
Buffalo adds top 4 NHL RHD plus a decent RHD prospect (Niemela is better than any of their current defense men in the pipeline).
Minten is a good prospect but Buffalo has 7 in the pipeline better than him.
Tavares just may be the catalyst to drag the Sabres to the playoffs.
Buffalo probably still says no but it is closer in value than the trade above, as it helps Buffalo the next two years (Tavares and Liljegren) and in the future (first, Minten and Niemelä).