Turbo44

Kuemper is worth a ton more than Montour - look at his last couple years - top 10 goalie. My #1 trade target. Sabres get Kuemper, Sabres make the playoffs ++. Arizona is up against the cap too Reinhart, mittlestadt, Hutton, Miller, 2022 1st for kuemper, hanifan, schmaltz, kessel would have to unload another contract to make cap work for us

Ek is a joke but the Sabres thread has a lot of knowledgeable people on it and sometimes insiders. Sunday they were speculating on Hall signing with Buffalo hours before anybody else

1. Try to avoid arbitration, by signing the three, given the depressed market 2. Trade a RHD, probably Miller given Ralph's lack of using him last year 3. Trade for Kuemper will money saved by #2 4. Season with playoffs and surprise deep playoff run 5. Resign Hall at Staal

Mittelstadt for Kuemper bring Pilut back to be #2 LHD ( he has an out clause on his KHL contract Trade Miller for a 3rd and Hutton for a 7th goalie situation solved, d solved, cap fine, playoff team

good for buffalo but makes no sense for LV as cap implications are the same

Vancouver is now in cal hell and will have to sell off. At 79.5m with 3 prominent RFAs

Yep but we'd have to dispose of hutton somehow? Miller, Mitts and Hutton for Kuemper and Kessel or Schmaltz Arizona has a mandate to trim $15m and this trade would trim 3.5 if kessel is included and 2.5 if schmaltz is

No room for Toffoli unless you move reinhart for a LHD or a goalie

I like it though I think they intend on giving Tage an everyday role

Rumor is he turned down a multi year contract with Montreal averaging around $8m per

Really? Eakin had a down year but has a 40 point season recently. Larsson never gets 20 points. You can argue Larsson is the better defensive forward, I would argue he was one of the main penalty killers on a historically bad PK unit

We been talking about this possibility all day on another site (think Ek). We’ve been tracking pegulas jet from hall’s home town in Canada to buffalo, etc. he loved playing for Ralph and that’s got to be a big part of it along with playing with Captain Jack