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Here's my long Kuemper trade Buffalo trades a conditional 1st, Mitts, and Hutton to Arizona for Kuemper The Conditions are as follows: - If the Sabres make the playoffs in 2021 Arizona receives the 2021 1st Round Pick -If there is no season or Buffalo misses the playoffs in 2021 the pick is pushed off a year - If the Sabres make the 2022 Playoffs then Arizona receives the 2022 1st Round Pick - If Buffalo misses the 2022 Playoffs and Kuemper appears in fewer than 41 games for the Sabres in 2022, Arizona receives a 2022 2nd Round Pick - If Buffalo misses the 2022 Playoffs and Kuemper appears in 41 or more games then the 2022 1st Round Pick is Lottery Protected for the Top 10. ---- In this final scenario the 1st is moved to 2023 which would be unprotected if opted by the Sabres to keep a Top 10 pick.

I wouldn't say he's a Top pair guy

Could we trade Risto 🙂

Schmidt remember was also 5x5.95 mil and is 29 at this moment.

Anyone have any idea what cap savings happen on a retained salary if they are buried? Mainly because Hutton at 50% retained would be at 1.375 mil and with the 1.1mil regained through burying him they'd only get a 275k cap hit

Surprisingly not many have much in actual cap space; many are similar to us in RFA cap hell.

You get rid of 2 of Risto, Montour, and Miller. Use 1 for an LHD and the other for draft picks/prospects Montour can have salary retained easily and either Miller or Risto can be used to acquire a similar capped LHD. Lets go with Ullmark at 2or3x2.8mil Olofsson at 2x3.7mil Reinhart at either 1x6mil or 5x6.25mil At this point we have 22 skaters 12 Fs, 8 D, 2 G with 1.145mil cap space. Trade Hutton at half retained and our 2nd for Raanta. Saves Arizona 2.875 mil in cap space. Trade Miller to NJ for a 3rd and a 5th in 2021 And you sneak under the cap at 162k capspace The primary negative is Borgen would be playing his offside or we have Davidson as a 5/6 Dman

My best guess is they play, let's say 56 games, and set up 4 schedules. Schedule #1 is the best case scenario and is just a regular shortened season with no cross conference play. Schedule #2 would have a hypothetical 1st month of a Canadian region separate from the rest. Toronto for instance would play Montreal and Ottawa 4 times each and up to 2 games against the other 4 Canadian teams. 16 games can be done rather easily without wrecking the full schedule. Arizona would be swapped with Winnipeg divisionally to help. American teams would play in their division mostly and a few cross conference games. After the 1st month they would go on to a more or less typical season with 40 games entirely in their conferences. Schedule #3 The same as Schedule #2 however after the 1st month the Pacific Division with Winnipeg as well as the Atlantic Division would play their Canadian divisional opponents in groups to make for fewer trips between countries. Sabres would play Toronto, then Montreal and lastly Ottawa for instance. The schedule would be broken down in a way to allow each team the ability to go to the other's home for 1/2 games. Any extra games would be played against their in-Conference counterparts. Schedule #4 Would start the same as Schedule #2 but after the 1st month would be broken into smaller 2 week bubbles. Preferably they would bubble in locations where limited fans can attend. If they never can break out of these mini-bubbles; depending on the groupings, you would go 1-8 in the conferences straight up. And effectively erase the divisions for this season. The playoffs would be either a regular set up or you could play a regular 4 round best of 7 playoff using the 2-3-2 style so that travel is limited to a max of twice per round. Instead of the 2-2-1-1-1 format we are used to.

Hmm I wonder if we could get Dunn from StL. We do need an LHD

E - Eichel for us Elias for League

I wouldn’t trade Mitts for a middle to not 6 guy. Especially since Mitts could take off for them and forever haunt us

Ok, the trade was after some another trade Detroit made acquiring Komorov and Hickey. Also multifaceted was supposed to be multi-team

A guy on Capfriendly purposed an interesting multi-team trade that ended up with To BUF Hickey ($1,000,000 retained) 2x1.5mil Komarov ($1,500,000 retained) 2x1.5mil Helm ($1,850,000 retained) 1x2mil To DET Okposo Pilut I like Okposo, the person, but I'd say yes to this seeing as it frees up cap space

Don’t make me hate you Jumbo Joe

What he actually got was awful but this isn't exactly good either. Danault would lessened the blow of losing ROR but otherwise it would been a complete waste as all we'd be doing is getting a downgrade at 2C, a mediocre winger prospect and a 2nd. Plus handing a divisional rival a 1C.

For starters this would be absurd levels of overpayments, then I'm confused as to how Hanifin ended up in Arizona. Secondarily the team is now worse overall. Kuemper is an upgrade for sure but Reinhart is still the best player involved seeing as Kessel is rather old at this point.

I might even have him hop Byfield to be honest but only just barely. Mainly based on Byfield's rawness

I grow so weary of the hockey establishment; I’d love for the Sabres to burn it down by going on an “Us against the world!” Tour

I hate any plan that give Toronto an easy path to the playoffs. Especially beyond the 1st round.

Well they would likely need to also pay them to take 1. Nevermind, he signed for under 3mil per year.

Solid goalie but they will have 16mil in goalies which can't possibly good for their roster as their ELCs finish.

Being seen as bad or underachieving is certainly fair but the bias against the Sabres is rather absurd. Toronto at this time are the media darlings regardless of their signings and Montreal could trade Suzuki for Colin Miller and they would make it sound like it was a one sided trade in favor of Montreal

If we miss the playoffs by 1 pt or something I doubt Eichel will throw up his arms in defeat and demand out. So I’d like to think we have, at least, a good chance of being good enough for Eichel to be happy.

Well Leino's curse should have lifted finally so maybe it is finally over.

Hey, I've got far better at evaluating players and value over time 🙂 That being said targeting Arizona makes quite a bit of sense. You might even be able to kill two birds with one stone and acquire Goligoski with Kuemper Yes, they aren't long term contracts Raanta (1 year and 31 years old) and Kuemper (2 years and 30 years old) Goalies don't fall off a cliff at 30 like most skaters, in part because their careers start so much later on average. Ristolainen and Hutton for Goligoski and Kuemper We take on 1.1mil cap, and we'd likely need to send a lesser pick, but we would get a vet Dman who still plays pretty well and a better goalie.