Can someone explain me why every Sabres fans want Ristolainen out ? What about the Rasmusess pairing ???

Dahlin needs a defensive partner so he can more freedom to rush the puck up. I like Risto but every sabres coach plays him to much and he needs to play on team with more depth. If Risto can be power play specialist and play 18-20 mins against 2-3 lines. He will have a great career. He needs to be protected and sabres dont have the depth to do that.

You won't get Meier for Risto, he is untouchable for Sharks

Pair Dahlin with McCabe next season. Second pair can be Bogosian Montour and 3rd can be Pilut Risto. That way Risto plays less minutes and Dahlin gets his defensive partner

I'd do that Habs deal.

You just pairing Dman with the same shooting hands. ALso Pilut is a poor mans dahlin and wont work. We have to many offensive dman and need some shutdown dman.

No I'm pairing them in ways that are practical with what we currently have. Pilut will work great as a 3rd pair defender until he grows as the 2nd pair LHD. We have shutdown dmen for short-term in McCabe and Bogosian

As you can see from the past couple seasons those pairings obviously dont work. We need to completely change our defense and bring in talent on offense.

They will have cap problems and if Karsslon leaves they will have no one to replace him and no 1st round picks for next 2 years.

Well they will not have Karlsson quality player to replace him but he did not work for them, look at their goalie numbers, their defence is gone... They played best hockey when Karlsson was injured and Burns played with Simek so no need to add Risto