Trade confirmed: Buffalo Sabres - New York Islanders

Détails de la transaction
Les Sabres de Buffalo font l’acquisition de: Johnny Boychuk · 6 000 000 $6 000 000 $4 000 000 $ Somme: 6 000 000 $6 000 000 $4 000 000 $ Variation: +6 000 000 $ Variation: +6 000 000 $ Variation: +4 000 000 $	Les Islanders de New York font l’acquisition de: Considérations futures Somme: 0 $0 $0 $ Variation: -6 000 000 $ Variation: -6 000 000 $ Variation: -4 000 000 $

Now they have a good bit of cap space to sign a LD for next year (and re-sign Dobson to a deal)

Why not just take on a real cap dump and get assets? Kevyn Adams is confusing.

Sabres gets to trade out players at the deadline and still be cap compliant after that big trade with Vegas.

Islanders save money by getting a contract of a player that will never play again off the books.



Other than that, it's nothingness for nothingness.

Fair deal.

The Sabres actually needed to make this trade, not the Islanders. They needed a contract in order to not fall below the cap floor if it turns out that they're deadline sellers.

Wow Sabres are making a run at the cup

Sabres could've just gotten a real cap dump from somewhere and gotten assets for it.


Or they could have done the NHL 22 move and give a random free agent a 1year $18M contract (or something like 7) and they could avoid helping the Islanders

Who is willing to pay right now for the sabres to take a player?

Probably needed to get back over the cap floor immediately and someone on LITR was the fastest way to do that.

two trades in a day 😱

Pretty sure he was still above the cap floor following the trade. Couldn't be hard to find a team to take a little salary dump.

ANA: Henrique (potentially)
BOS: Wagner or Moore
CAR: Gardiner
CHI: Connolly, De Haan, Shaw (LTIR)
CGY: Lucic
COL: Johnson
DAL: Khudobin
FLA: Hornqvist (potentially)
LAK: Maatta
MIN: Rask
MTL: Byron
NJ: Johnsson
NYI: Komarov, Panik, Hickey
NYR: Nemeth
OTT: Zaitsev
PIT: Matheson
SJ: Kane
STL: Scandella
TOR: Holl
VGK: Dadonov
WSH: Hagelin

Chicago wouldn't pay is to take someone, neither would SJS, MTL, LAK, DAL, CGY, NJ (Johnsson's been decent I thought). WSH, VGK, TOR, OTT, NYR, NYI (maybe at the deadline), MIN, STL, PIT.

Boston, Carolina, Florida, and Colorado might all do it but closer to the deadline

That's a lot of options!

No, that 1 option the NYI. the sabres had to do that trade ASAP to bring back Jokiharju. They can do any of those trades still as well at the trade deadline.

Some of those guys are former sabers would be funny to see them come back. Buffalo will take back Kane for another 1st from sj, we didn't like how late the last one was especially with Ott getting top 5 the next year.

I agree. I'll take Kane back then flip Bjork for Strome + Shaw.

Didn’t they need the extra money from him being on LTIR?

Good deal, Buffalo reaches the floor, NYI doesn’t need to use LTIR anymore

Poor guy

We need Zaitsev to hit the floor next year.

He'll either be bought out or buried in the minors at a reduced cap hit if he can't stay on the roster.

No reason to spend assets on dumping him.

Understandable

Exactly. They are the winner of this trade as a result.

Uh, Boychuks contract was up this year..

What? They just protected him in the expansion draft, not a chance they pay to dump Holl. I think he'd cost at least a 3rd round pick for a team to get him.