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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 15, 2022 at 1:27 p.m.
Thread: Sabre add toughness and another old GK
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Bostonbruins</b></div><div>Thank you for your valuable input.
Let's look at the trade differently.
The Olofsson retention keeps the caps essential equal for this year and next.
Buffalo is getting a first and a second for "a multiple time 20-goal scorer" and a third line center.

Getting "a guy who hits more, a reclamation project, and a goalie" a year younger than Anderson is filling in pieces to the line up until the next wave of prospects are ready to take the ice.
The Sabres need to cut down on the goals against, this trade moves the two worse +/- forwards and replaces them with a defensive minded Puljujarvi and a hard hitting third line forward.
Maybe having a third and fourth line that can keep the puck out the net will not help the won loss record, but the two picks should help in the future.
Smith is probably "ten minutes from retiring" because the Oiler's did not want him to pass the physical. He actually played very well last year posting a 2.81 GAA 16 wins 9 losses 2 OTL and a 0.915 SV%. Better than Anderson last year.
Having two 40 yo GK only hurts when the team plays 3 games in 4 nights, then a GK only gets two days of rest, playing every other night they would get 3 days to recover.

Well that is my take, Olofsson and Mittelstadt <strong>WILL BE </strong>replaced by prospects next year or the year after.
Getting a first and a second in a deep draft would be good asset management.
While Casey's and Victor's replacements do not have the same offensive skills. they may be more helpful to the Sabres winning more games.

Regardless this is all for fun and none of this will ever happen</div></div>

Buffalo isn't getting a 1st and a 2nd for olofsson, what are you talking about. You included no picks
Forum: Armchair-GMNov. 2, 2022 at 12:10 p.m.
Thread: rebuild
Quick point - you can only retain on 3 contracts at a time, so one of these trades happens at full cost.

-I think Buffalo passes. Meier is young enough to be a building block, sure, but Quinn lines up with a lot of the Sabres' young core age-wise. I think they hang on to him and don't try and skip a step in the rebuild.

-Don't know if there's enough here for Philly? Couture &amp; JVR probably offer similar levels of production at this point, with the big difference being Couture's insane amount of term left. Reimer is probably worth Sandstrom/Frost, but I can't see any reason for Cam York or the pick swap happening here to be included - and I don't see any good out of San Jose retaining $2.5M over the next 5 seasons. Couture's 29-team NTC probably blocks this one anyways.

-JVR fully retained gets this if he can play at his usual 25-goal pace.

-No need for the Islanders, really - Labanc is a middle-6 guy at best, and they have a glut of middle-6 wingers with heavy AAVs(Beauvillier, Palmieri, Bailey, Lee) so there's no room to add him. I'd think about this if a bad contract gets sent back with the picks but I just don't see a fit at all.