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Report: Buffalo Sabres' GM in trade talks to add to roster 

 

Shane Seney 

Thursday, October 31, 2024 

Buffalo Sabres

 

According to Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet, the Buffalo Sabres are involved in trade talks, as GM Kevyn Adams is looking to add to his roster. Friedman mentioned Adams' aspirations in his recent 32 Thoughts article:

 

“One of the more active early-season general managers is Buffalo’s Kevyn Adams, but he’s made it clear he does not wish to subtract. He’s trying to add.”

 

The Sabres have started the season 4-5-1 through 10 games and are desperately trying to get back into the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Adams job might depend on it. The Sabres executive has been under a ton of pressure the past year or so, as questionable decision after questionable decision is starting to raise eye brows with the fan base, and could eventually cost Adams his job. 
 

Adams took a lot of heat over an offseason trade with the Edmonton Oilers to acquire Ryan McLeod. So far through 10 games, McLeod has scored four times and added one assist. The Sabres have been getting less than ideal goaltending so far from both Devon Levi and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, however it's not expected the team would be interested in moving either netminder. 

 

Ideally, the Sabres are likely adding up front and someone with experience who can be versatile enough to play within the middle six. Adams has $7.1 million in cap space to work with, and all of his draft picks the next three years, as well as an additional fourth-round pick in 2025, so there's lots at his disposal to complete a trade.

Keep an eye on the Sabres, it does sound like trade talks league wide have picked up in a major way, with Buffalo's GM actively involved. 
 

https://www.nhltraderumors.me/2024/10/report-buffalo-sabres-gm-in-trade-talks.html

 

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3 minutes ago, HKSR said:

To BUF

Elias Pettersson

 

To VAN

Dylan Cozens

Mattias Samuelsson

 

1 minute ago, BTueyCanucksFan said:

I love EP40 when he is playing well, but i would do this trade 7 days a week and twice on Sundays. It is too bad that Buffalo likely won't though

Not me. Don’t trust Samuelsson’s injury history and unsure if Cozens is going to provide full value on that contract yet, though I love him as a player. 
 

if anything, I’d swing higher and pursue Owen Power + for EP + a 1st and prospect + or something along those lines. Depletes our C position in the interim but solidifies our D for the next decade. 

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7 minutes ago, BTueyCanucksFan said:

I love EP40 when he is playing well, but i would do this trade 7 days a week and twice on Sundays. It is too bad that Buffalo likely won't though

I'd even add a bit to make it work (Suter?).

 

Our future D core moving forward once Willander joins the big club...

 

Hughes-Willander

Samuelsson-Hronek

Soucy-Myers

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15 minutes ago, BTueyCanucksFan said:

I love EP40 when he is playing well, but i would do this trade 7 days a week and twice on Sundays. It is too bad that Buffalo likely won't though

 

Buffalo would. So would Columbus.

 

Those are really the only two teams imo that can, would and should.

 

I don't think we should, but who knows what is actually going on behind the scenes.

 

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12 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:

 

Has Samuelsson played more than 55 games in one season?  He is very injury prone.  Cozens is a 68 point player, Petey even in a bad year had 89 points...

He can be our reverse Tanev!  Tanev was always injured with us, but then he left and has become much more durable.

 

Cozens potting 68 pts for $7.1M is better value than 89 pts for $11.6M. 

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6 minutes ago, HKSR said:

I'd add on our end if it was a Cozens+Byram package!


The cap almost works perfectly too. I think there’s like a 600k difference.

 

Not saying the Canucks should be shopping him but if a team like Buffalo comes calling with an offer like that you definitely listen.

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2 hours ago, HKSR said:

He can be our reverse Tanev!  Tanev was always injured with us, but then he left and has become much more durable.

 

Cozens potting 68 pts for $7.1M is better value than 89 pts for $11.6M. 


Do you think it’s smart to trade Elias Pettersson for a maybe defenceman and a 68 point centre? 
 

Also, I hate to break the news to everyone, but Allvin isn’t trading away our Swedish franchise centre. Tocchet will be leaving way before Petey ever leaves. I can also guarantee that Aquilini isn’t trading Petey either. 

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5 hours ago, Coconuts said:

Versatile enough to play in the middle six eh? Sounds like Suter. 

 

I wonder what their ask for Jokiharju would be. 

I would definitely do a one-for-one of that's on the table and then call up Raty. Maybe we can throw in Forbort to even out the cap hit.

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2 hours ago, HKSR said:

He can be our reverse Tanev!  Tanev was always injured with us, but then he left and has become much more durable.

 

Cozens potting 68 pts for $7.1M is better value than 89 pts for $11.6M. 

That's not true guys capable of producing more than a PPG are very scarce guys in the 60-70 points range while good players don't get you deep in the playoffs.

 

Just look at the sedin era when they were leading the team at 70-80 points we were an ok team when they elevated and surpassed 90points we nearly won a cup.

 

If you acquire guys that can be 90-110 point guys don't fritter them away because you could be a long ways away from finding the next one.

 

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16 minutes ago, Diamonds said:

I would definitely do a one-for-one of that's on the table and then call up Raty. Maybe we can throw in Forbort to even out the cap hit.

 

He's a pending UFA in his age 25-26 season. He's played D on Buffalo squad that has struggled his entire tenure, but he's still averaged 18+ minutes a game for all but one season thus far. He's got average NHL size. He doesn't provide much in the way of offense, but perhaps plays a two-way game steadily enough to free up a partner? I don't know a ton about the player, full disclosure, but if he can skate well and play steady D maybe he's an upgrade on what we've got?

 

I'm not saying he's a spectacular option, but maybe he's someone who could slot into our top 4? Because overall, yeah, ours is worse than Buffalo's, where he's probably on the outside looking in going forward.

 

Buffalo has Dahlin, Power, Byram, and Samuelsson going forward. All but Byram are locked in, but with Byram being a pending RFA and Buffalo's having paid to acquire him, that's probably only a matter of time. If we're targeting D who could potentially be upgrades on what we've got, and who could be available, he might be a target. He's also an RD.

 

If Buffalo wants a forward who would they probably want? Given they've got just over 6.5M in space they could ask for a number of players.

 

https://www.quanthockey.com/hockey-stats-nhl/en/profile.php?player=38272

 

https://capwages.com/teams/buffalo_sabres

 

The bits I've read indicate he probably doesn't have cement blocks for feet, but @Sabrefan1 would know better.

 

https://www.tsn.ca/nhl/player/henri-jokiharju/270949

 

https://sportsforecaster.com/nhl/p/26524/Henri_Jokiharju

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2 minutes ago, flat land fish said:

That's not true guys capable of producing more than a PPG are very scarce guys in the 60-70 points range while good players don't get you deep in the playoffs.

 

Just look at the sedin era when they were leading the team at 70-80 points we were an ok team when they elevated and surpassed 90points we nearly won a cup.

 

If you acquire guys that can be 90-110 point guys don't fritter them away because you could be a long ways away from finding the next one.

 

That's only helpful if they produce at those levels.  Ask Toronto with Tavares or Marner.  Ask Calgary with Huberdeau. 

 

$11.6M is a LOT of money and cap.  If that ONE player doesn't produce at a level that is representative of the $11.6M cap hit, this team is going nowhere.  That's reality.

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4 hours ago, BTueyCanucksFan said:

I love EP40 when he is playing well, but i would do this trade 7 days a week and twice on Sundays. It is too bad that Buffalo likely won't though

Pretty sure they would. They are tired of tanking at this point and Petey has proven history. Even last year he was cheeks for 33% of the season and still dropped a point per game. Honestly, this is trading Petey for 75 cents on the dollar. Petey is worth more than Cozens and Samuelsson. Who at this point is younger Myers. Not quite top 4, but paid too much to be on the 3rd pair.

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20 minutes ago, Elias Pettersson said:


Do you think it’s smart to trade Elias Pettersson for a maybe defenceman and a 68 point centre? 
 

Also, I hate to break the news to everyone, but Allvin isn’t trading away our Swedish franchise centre. Tocchet will be leaving way before Petey ever leaves. I can also guarantee that Aquilini isn’t trading Petey either. 

For nearly 60 games going back to last year's all star break, Petey has been more of a 60 to 70 point player.  That's a serious problem.  He needs to elevate his game by about 40 points to be worth $11.6M.  That's a 60%+ increase in production that we need from him. 

 

Reality is he wouldn't be traded, but one could certainly argue that the way his production has been for a long period now, we would probably be a better team RIGHT NOW if we had 2 very good players for that same $11.6M cap hit.

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