Quoting: BUFF36
I agree, just saying that first offer is solid. I don't want to trade him, but you have to listen. I will add though, if that future is sometime next year, then yes I would think about it.
Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld
We simply cannot trade him for futures. It has to be a hockey trade
Quoting: wojme
It ain't. Sabres don't need futures or prospects that we basically hope turn into what mitts already is. It's either a similar value shutdown rhd or long term extension.
I would have taken this.
Andrei Kuzmenko · $5,500,000
Joni Jurmo · $0 (AHL/JR) (Signing Rights)
Hunter Brzustewicz · $0 (AHL/JR) (Signing Rights)
2024 1st round pick (VAN)
2024 4th round pick (VAN) [Conditional
With a different coach (a players coach aka Granoto) Kuzmenko should return to the scoring machine he was last year.
We replace Casey with Andrie this year (I know a wing for center is not the same), use the first and other assets to pry a RHD from a team looking for futures.
Helps now and in the future.
Colorado traded Newhook for 31st and 37th OA then traded the 37th to get Colton.
Buffalo could have done something similar.
Casey should have had more value than Lindholm.