Casey Mittelstadt traded for Bowen Byram

[SwampD]

Sampson and Casey were both the leading scorers on the team when traded. WTF is wrong with this organ-eye-zation!!!??!?!? Long rebuilds mean job security. It’s crap.

[shrader]

You can spend all day on the Florida roster if you’re looking for former Sabres. 
 

Im just now finding out that even Asplund is a part of that team. 

[Taro T]

On 4/29/2024 at 2:20 PM, dudacek said:

I think the basic disconnect here is that while everyone here thought the Sabres needed to add a top 4 defenceman, a large number of Sabrespacers don’t think that player is Byram.

Nobody says the Knights have too many of the same type of defencemen with Pietrangelo, Theodore and Hanifan. Good is good.

To me, it’s not the theory that’s the big question here, it’s whether or not Byram and Power can be as effective as Theodore and Hanifin.

These are guys expected to round into two-way players like Dahlin has. They aren’t Phil Housleys.

Haven't been here the past 2 months, but IMHO the disconnect is that while Byram MAY be that guy that can be a top 4 (or maybe even top 2) D-man he's too young right now to do effectively on a bad team that isn't particularly well coached.

Byram was available from the Avs because they needed a 2C TODAY and while Bryam can become a top 4 or even top pairing guy, he isn't that on the Avs team that REALLY NEEDED a 2C TODAY because they are in the heart of their window.

Byram's window is on the same timeline as a large portion of the rest of this team.  Which, while IF the team is good enough to get into the playoffs this coming season would be a great thing because the team SHOULD continue to get better simply flipping the calendar over for the next 2-3 years.  But if they miss again, how many of the guys that actually are in their prime are going to "lose their love of the game."

Didn't like the trade for 2 reasons: 1.  Really like Mittelstadt and his finally reaching a level that he teased he could reach for at least a couple of seasons so that now that we've watched him go through the growing pains but he's now actually a good hockey player he's gone; and

2. rather than bringing in a D-man that's in his prime, which is what we should've hoped would come back for him we got a D-man that's 4 years shy of his prime.  He flashes some very good play, but he's still only 22.   

It's not the fast, puck-moving D-men that the Sabres have too much of; it's the barely in their 20's D-men that the Sabres have too much of.  Clifton is the elder statesman and Jokiharju is the only other regular older than the still very young Rasmus Dahlin.

Edited May 17 by Taro T
added word "other" in final sentence. Had thought it was already there. Oops.

[Doohickie]

7 hours ago, shrader said:

You can spend all day on the Florida roster if you’re looking for former Sabres. 
 

Im just now finding out that even Asplund is a part of that team. 

28% of their skaters in the playoffs are former Sabres.

[Doohickie]

2 hours ago, Taro T said:

Didn't like the trade for 2 reasons: 1.  Really like Mittelstadt and his finally reaching a level that he teased he could reach for at least a couple of seasons so that now that we've watched him go through the growing pains but he's now actually a good hockey player he's gone; and

2. rather than bringing in a D-man that's in his prime, which is what we should've hoped would come back for him we got a D-man that's 4 years shy of his prime.  He flashes some very good play, but he's still only 22.   

Repeated for emphasis.  Preach, brother.