canucklax Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Be willing to bet we take a forward. Have a lot of D prospects and really need forward ones. Sign Sekera/Ehrhoff/Martin and play one of Bigras or Zadorov in the other top 4 lefty spot and we're right in the mix for a wild card spot. Rantanen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ManUtd Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 Rantanen? Probably Zacha, hoping Crouse drops to 10. There's been rumours for a while that we really like Zacha but Roy would dance up to the podium if Crouse was still on the board. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brownky Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 So tanking works as long as there's a direct purpose to doing it and a plan for the immediate aftermath. Because look out for Buffalo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FireGillis Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 So tanking works as long as there's a direct purpose to doing it and a plan for the immediate aftermath. Because look out for Buffalo. Yup. This is why I was in favour of tanking last year and want to tank next year. What good did making the playoffs and getting embarrassed by Calgary do for us? Would much rather be one of these teams getting a lottery pick right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UFCanuck Posted June 26, 2015 Share Posted June 26, 2015 A perfect 3rd line centre who will have a not so perfect cap hit. He's a 1st/2nd line player at the least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Taking all the young-ish castaways. Interesting to see if they can make it work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeburn Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Hah, can't believe I forgot Eichel. They also have Ennis who is a pretty solid center. Ennis is not a center. Hodgson is. Both were tasked with making the transition to wing last year, Ennis did, Hodgson didn't. Sabres center depth is presently Eichel Reinhart OReily Girgensens Larsson McCormik Legwand Obviously something has to give. More trades and/or centers moving to wing as Eichel and Reinhart are worked into the roster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SabreFan1 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Look at the trade this way... Zadorov - Good kid but kind of flaky. Got suspended by the team twice last year. Still going to miss him though. He's going to be a pretty good D-man in the NHL. Grigorenko - Everybody here knows his story. Flight risk. Disappointing. Very redundant with all of the centre talent that the Sabres have. Compher - His play regressed this past season in the NCAA. No. 31 pick - Will fetch a decent prospect tomorrow, but not a young NHL-ready one. ------------------ ROR - Good player. Will be expensive to re-sign, but the Sabres have loads of cap space to work with. McGinn - Decent young player, but he has chronic back problems. ------------------- This trade comes down to 2 players. ROR and Zadorov. Which one will be the best in the long run? I don't know, but the one good thing is that the Sabres didn't give up anything that they couldn't easily afford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CBH1926 Posted June 27, 2015 Share Posted June 27, 2015 Look at the trade this way... Zadorov - Good kid but kind of flaky. Got suspended by the team twice last year. Still going to miss him though. He's going to be a pretty good D-man in the NHL. Grigorenko - Everybody here knows his story. Flight risk. Disappointing. Very redundant with all of the centre talent that the Sabres have. Compher - His play regressed this past season in the NCAA. No. 31 pick - Will fetch a decent prospect tomorrow, but not a young NHL-ready one. ------------------ ROR - Good player. Will be expensive to re-sign, but the Sabres have loads of cap space to work with. McGinn - Decent young player, but he has chronic back problems. ------------------- This trade comes down to 2 players. ROR and Zadorov. Which one will be the best in the long run? I don't know, but the one good thing is that the Sabres didn't give up anything that they couldn't easily afford. Sabres look like they are moving in the right direction. Eichel, ROR and Reinhart will be interesting to watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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