First of all thank you for your comments.
Below you will see the reasons I like this trade. IMO it fills four holes, RW, LHD, PK Center, prospect pool.
I was surprised I did not hear from any Vancouver AGM's.
Quoting: Shnooks
I wouldn't trade Pekar alone for that garbage trade...why the hell would we want Beagle and Benn?
Virtanen, Lind, 3rd, 4th are not garbage while Beagle and Benn fill holes in the Buffalo line up as well.
I love Girgensons and Larsson but they could not KP, Beagle could, he would help the team.
Benn while being the bottom pairing defenseman for Vancouver still played over 16/gm, and his contract runs out next year.
Quoting: Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan
We can absorb his deal and we are getting back to great young pieces that round out our offense
I agree that this would be a better trade - Loui Eriksson, Adam Gaudette and Jake Virtanen for Miller and Pilut.
IMO you are correct that we could absorb his contract through a buyout and bridge deals with either Dahlin or Johikarju.
The first year we take almost his entire salary $5,666,667, the second it drops to $3,666,667 then two more years of $666,667.
It is unfortunate that his salary is structured in a manner that only $1,333,333 is saved over the four years.
I would much rather have Gaudette over Lind, but I do not think Vancouver would want to give him.
Quoting: Lenny54
No Thx
Just do Montour for Virtanen
First, IMO Montour is more valuable than Miller and Virtanen.
Second:
Beagle, is a not a pure cap dump, he is Vancouver top PK forward, he would certainly help Buffalo there, remember one PK over any of many games and the Sabres are in the preliminaries.
Benn certainly had a very rough year, but he would be better than our current third LHD and if he could discover his 2018-'19 MOJO, he would be a good fit.
Lind a prospect about equal to Mittelstadt, IMO a good pick up.
Virtanen obviously the key to the trade, he would be a good top 6 RW for Buffalo. IMO Miller for Virtanen is a fair trade.
So Buffalo has the cap space to take on all the players, they all fill holes that Buffalo has, and Buffalo gets a prospect and 2 more picks.
Quoting: thewookie1
We really can’t; we need that money for a 2C and Dahlin next year
See my comment to Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan