Quoting: BurgerBoss
I figured BUF fans wouldn't like it. Though it would make your roster better as of now. Lately Sabres has been the worst f***ing team in the league. (Note: I'm not counting EDM and OTT as teams as of now, they're more of jokes than teams). Some changes could help you. Risto has been pretty much completely useless for your team but maybe he could work in a offense-first team like TOR.
Yea, but we're not making trades to make trades. This trade doesn't help our team or cap. I expect and want Risto gone, but I'm sure there are 29 other teams who would take him in the price is right. Plus I do not expect us to trade with the team pegged as our biggest rival.
We do need a 2C, but not at the cost of the guy we expect to be our 2C in a year or 2. Nylander would be an upgrade at W but not at the cost of our 1G(for now). IMO any trade for Zaitsev is more of a plus for TOR than the team trading for him, he's that bad and the size of his cap hit.
We don't need more picks, we need players who can help our team.
Also, Casey's value is still extremely high. Just because in year 1 he did have a ROY campaign, doesn't mean he's worth less. Multiple times Casey was absolutely shredding another team but would put it off the post.
We're bad because we Tanked for 2 years to get all this draft capital and our franchise player, then the GM took all those assets and overpayed for overhyped guys and couldn't draft for ****. Then our next GM had to spend his first 2 years fixing that GMs mess. I expect a much better team next year.