Any reason for the animosity towards Risto...? I'd love him in a Wild sweater. That said, we definitely aren't moving our first this year since it just turned into a lottery pick with Chicago beating Detroit. Can't really see us moving our 2nd either.

I have no animosity to him its just I think trading him would allow to add more depth to the roster and more of a two way defenseman like Spurgeon and A reliable veteran center in Staal would worth giving him up

I think you're trying to do too much with the picks. We are now in rebuild mode and will want to keep as many as we can.

How about this?


Staal
Spurgeon


Ristolainen
1st round pick (condition: the lowest 1st round pick the Sabres own, which will likely be the SJS pick)

I think that would work well

I would Love Risto on the Wild play him with Either Suter or Brodin(Probably would get traded sooner or later) and he brings a lot to the Table for use big boded can use his Size and he can lay the body out also he wears #55 which is Dumba’s Former Number