Quoting: Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan
Arizona trading for Hall was the mistake.
Quoting: Jdfitz77
Teams trade for “rentals” at the deadline EVERY year
Plus, it would p!ss off the Oilers 😂
Let's get rid of all of these negative thoughts my friends.
Buffalo will be buyers at the TDL.
They now have 6 solid top six players:
Skinner, Hall, Olofsson, Eichel, Staal, Reinhart and Cozens.
OMW that is actually 7, can you imagine SEVEN on the SABRES.
Mittelstadt, Thompson, and Ruotsalainen will fill out the third line.
Lazar, Girgensons and Okposo and who ever else you want to add to that will make a good fourth line if someone could coach them to kill penalties.
Let me remind everyone, only 9 teams gave up fewer 5 on 5 goals than this much maligned defense.
With a better offense, there will be fewer goals against.
The defense is really young with Miller being the oldest at ONLY 28.
Contrast that with Tampa's defense, only Cernak and Sergachev will be UNDER 30 when the season starts.
Dahlin, Jokiharju, Montour, and yes even Ristolainen will be BETTER next year.
Only 7 GK had a better 5 on 5 SV% than Ullmark and no one had a better SV% on shots beyond 30 feet.
While it is good to have contingency plans, I think we should be spending more time planning for success.