Quoting: sabres1108
imagine Buffao fanbase reaction if Sabres post on Twitter that we are trading with St. Louis for a Center hahahahaha
I guess I did not consider that. LOL
Quoting: mikeyscav
This... would be hilarious!
Yes it would.
But look at the trades that other Blues CFACGM have posted. I would do nearly any one of them except for the DET. But I would jump at the Hutton, the two Johansson and of course the second last one with MTL.
As for O'Reilly, he never did anything here for Buffalo then bashed the team on locker clean out.
I know I am in the minority, but in addition to O'Reilly, STL added Peron, Bozak and of course Binnington who won 24 games after the first of the year. Since they finished only one point out of a playoff the previous year, I would imagine adding 2 centers, LW and an All Star GK contributed to their success.
Buffalo has been really unlucky.
Their draft spot got worse in 5 of the last 6 lotteries.
Tampa really wants Ristolainen, then at the end of the season they receive a huge gift for nothing Shattenkirk and trade Miller for a first. If NYR do not buy out Shattenkirk, and the Bolts got beat up by CBJ, I think they would have given up even more to get Ristolainen. But this just part of the unlucky streak.
If Dallas could have beaten STL in the double OT game we move up 10 spot and get 2 good picks that year?
Johansson, Skinner, Rodrigues, Sheary and Hutton all had simply terrible years.
Tage Thompson looks like the real deal in Rochester and in the Prospect Challenge then gets hurt in his first game and misses the balance of the season.
Ullmark gets hurt and the Sabres lose 6 straight after the TDL.
I hope next year will be better.
Skinner just could not have produces less.
Thompson IMO will be a solid performer.
Ullmark will our #1 GK
Kahun hopefully will be as good as his press clippings say he will be.
Dahlin will be a year older.
One of the RHD may get traded for a #2 Center. I am not interested in consummating any trade that moves a 40 pt/yr RHD for a 40pt/yr center. i am tired of looking at those trades.
Just for fun look at Chara the two years before he was trade to OTT. He was the same age as Ristolainen last year. Can you imagine how bad management would look if Ristolainen was traded for Copp, then started to become an all star! If all we can get it Copp, I am keeping Ristolainen.
I expect better the last two years and was deeply disappointed, Hopefully they will surprise me this year.
Well that is my rant of the month, sorry to carry on.