Chad D: expect a Byram trade at or around the draft

[LGR4GM]

4 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Not better, if all you're looking at is offense. We got better defensively.

We traded scoring for defense/grit

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, LGR4GM said:

We traded scoring for defense/grit

 

Yes.  And seemingly either a swap of 1st rounders or an additional 2nd rounder for $5.5MM in cap space. 

Been fooled at least twice and counting trade deadline time about 5 times about them planning on using that cap space to improve the team.  When that cap space actually gets used, will believe they are going to use that cap space to improve the team and not 1 second before then.

[Turbo44]

16 minutes ago, Taro T said:

 

Yes.  And seemingly either a swap of 1st rounders or an additional 2nd rounder for $5.5MM in cap space. 

Been fooled at least twice and counting trade deadline time about 5 times about them planning on using that cap space to improve the team.  When that cap space actually gets used, will believe they are going to use that cap space to improve the team and not 1 second before then.

Draft choices? Confused 

[Taro T]

Just now, Turbo44 said:

Draft choices? Confused 

The trade seemed to have Buffalo receiving less value than Utah received.  

The difference in value of what was going out vs what was coming back in would seem to be ~a 2nd rounder or a swap of top 10 picks.  Something of that level.  Though the Sabres didn't get that, they did end up with about $5.5MM in more salary cap space this season than Utah ended up with.  So, that would seem to be where the Sabres saw the value equalling.

And if Adams uses that extra cap space to help bring in players that can help now or extend say Byram and Tuch or use that and the other $6-10MM other cap space they'll have barring any other significant moves, well awesome.  They should've been using their full cap space every year because cap space is like a fish you caught or a newspaper.  Once it expires, it is expired and worth even less than the expired fish or newspaper is as it is now officially in the ether and doesn't exist in this reality any longer.  You can't even use it for fertilizer or wrapping the next day's catch.

 

But for years now, they've let cap space simply expire.  And until they use this newly found cap space, have no reason to believe they won't just let it expire too.

[PerreaultForever]

2 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Not better, if all you're looking at is offense. We got better defensively.

I'd be over the moon if we'd traded say Rosen and Östlund plus some picks or some other Rochester guy for Kesselring and Doan but for Peterka it's not enough and we create another hole. So maybe if he moves Byram for a true top 6 forward it'll end up an improvement, but that hasn't happened yet.