There's no reason that Buffalo has to make that trade. Why would they give up their most reliable centre AND a top 4 pick for a bunch of question marks?
And JT gets more than 10.5 if he is a UFA

buffalo gives up the best player and the two best picks. yes that would solve calgary's problem but bury the sabres.

you think JT gets more? You think he’s worth more than 2 mill than Stamkos?

They’d only give up 1 pick ( this years)

There are teams willing to pay him, I'd be surprised if he gets anything less than 11

Thats true, I think he wants to stay In Canada though and Im not sure what his options are if he wants to join a growing contender. Vancouver’s to getting better anytime soon, I don’t think T.O can pay him 11 with their upcoming contracts, same with edmonton and I don’t see why he’d want to sign in ottawa with their mess they got going on lol Maybe montreal?

Bad trade for Buffalo. In this trade their are possibly destroying their future (not that they have one) by trading a top 4 pick and a reliable forward who can play all the forward positions. In return they gain a bunch a question marks and 2 first while giving up a first rounder. So really all they get for O'Reilly and THIER first round pick in 2019 is a 2020 1st round pick from and a playoff contender in the Calgary flames.

check your trade. it's 2018 and 2019 two firsts
why are you comparing tavares money to stamkos? if i'm stamkos i'm comparing to toews, eichel, koptitar. tavares isn't moving west for 10.5m, even it is the best offer.

Calgary has no chance of getting Brady Tkauhuk and that's it, No team is surrendering him to the Flames period.

I'll take Monahan and tkachuk for that package thank you very much.

Stamkos' deal lasts eight years. Tavares can only sign for seven unless it's with the Isles. So you have to add an eighth extra to the AAV. Then you adjust for salary cap inflation, by adding about 10% to that. Then you recognize that elite, top ten centers' supply is almost nil, and demand fluctuates wildly based on which team owners want to pay the resulting $80M to hopefully win a Cup, so comparables are irrelevant. So you throw the numbers out the window.

Also, Stamkos re-signed in Tampa, to stay a fan favorite. His contract in no way reflects the market economics of free agency. Irrelevant.

If you want to figure out how much Tavares can sign for, find the team with the most cap space that is Tavares away from winning the Cup next year. Take the amount of cap space they have. Multiply it by one. Express your answer in terms of dollars.

Actually, then add four million to that number, to account for some crazy team trading away its current #1 center and starting goalie for peanuts to create cap space to sign the best free agent the league has seen since... I don't know? It's been a while. I know Daniel Briere and Brad Richards created similar sensations but neither was remotely as good. They had each had one or two good seasons, combined with mostly above average careers. Maybe since Brendan Shanahan or Scott Stevens. Tavares signing with a pretty good team makes them instantly a great team.

Maybe take the bottom three teams in each conference out of contention if you think Tavares prefers to win right away?

No the trade says additional notes : 1st rd pick is in 2018. Because its the 2018-2019 season I couldn’t choose the 2018 draft. Why does it matter if he moves west? lol

Yeah I can see him getting somewhere between 10-11 mill

I don't think this happens, but if they ditch their RFAs, and the cap rises as much as the league said it might, Ottawa has 22M of cap space to add one forward and two defensemen.

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/633164

Now, Vegas are in a similar situation, and are in the playoffs, so I'm not sure Ottawa gets those guys for those prices, but I'm just saying, if the salary cap is 82M, there's no real sense in predicting what the best players will go for. It will be a lot, though. Hopefully teams are doing their homework figuring out what each of the top thirty UFAs is worth to their particular club. Otherwise, Vancouver will just get five of them for free again.

Why does it matter? I guess you don't anything about Tavares LOL. Start knowing the person, instead of just jotting down figures and hopes it fits into your cap. Thousands, maybe millions of people across North American turn down jobs because of the location and family concerns. Why would Tavares be any different? It's been well documented why "the west" is unlikely why Tavares wouldn't be leaving "the east"

Why would it be the same? LOL. Explain to me what these well documented concerns are for rich hockey players signing jobs in “the west” are. I mean after all you must “know the person” quite well to understand why he would turn down 70-77 million USD??

Sorry if you if don't understand hockey or people. By the way, what makes you think JT doesn't turn down 70m? Yea he might turn it down from Calgary but will get just as much from another team. FYI there is more than team in the NHL.

No i fully understand, i just don't understand your dumbass logic that you cant seem to explain.

You're not making much sense. Never did I say CGY was the only team in the NHL and I agree with you there will be a long list of teams wanting to sign him. Still unsure what that has to do with your logic,opinion,fact, im not sure what you call it, that he would refuse to sign with a team simply because they are in the west despite if it even offers the most $$.

I don't know where you live cbailey, but tavares is has a "off ice situation" which makes him probably not be super concerned about getting the "best dollar" if it didn't fit his home situation. So keep on making roster and yea, a player fits into your teams cap you can think he signs good for you. I've said the same about Washington's Carlson win Edmonton fans think he will sign with them. For some reasons similar to Tavares, Carlson isn't moving to Western Canada. Hockey players and even folks with regular jobs, turn down more money all the time.
Could I explain to you why Tavares is tied to the East Coast? I could I since you're just so smart ass intellegent you wouldn't wouldn't understand my dumbass logic. As I said the reasons for Tavares to stay East have been made public. If the Flames want to obtain any ex Islanders they should just trade three picks for an 12 point player.

There's 30 seconds of my life ill never get back...

thirty seconds, that's not much time, considering have much time you wasted just making the original roster in the first place.