Quoting: GMTD
I can understand your reluctance to make the trades.
IMO both Mantha and Dumba would get contracts around $7,000,000 and Dumba maybe as much as much Seth Jones.
Just consider:
Mantha balances RW with LW, three good LW with three good RW.
Dumba balances the LHD with RHD.
Both Dumba and Mantha are noted for their physical play, which the Sabres lack.
When Anderson or Luukkonen are between the pipes the Sabres record is 6-4-1 over 82 games 97 pts.
Adding Tuch, Dumba, Krebs, Quinn, Mittelstadt (only played 4 games this year) and Samuelsson IMO would improve that significantly.
Finally, I said a run at the cup, which is another way of saying making the playoffs.
Let me close, I love Cozens and Olofsson, but Buffalo needs RHD and RW, these trades do that.
I will admit we could balance LW/RW by moving Thompson, to RW, Mittelstadt to center and Olofsson to the top 6, that does not solve the Sabres' need for more grit.
So maybe I drop the trades and offer Letang $9,000,000 for 6 years.
I am not expecting you to change your mind, just some information to consider.
There’s a big difference between “making the playoffs” and being a team that can actually “compete for the cup”
You’re basing your goaltending choices off of an 11 game sample size…. Dude, no offense, but that’s just dumb. It’s WAY TOO SMALL of a sample size to project anything moving forward from that…. And 6-4-1 is ABSOLUTELY NOT “Cup contending” level goaltending
Come on now
Bc this team is not anywhere close to actually “competing for the Cup, we just aren’t ready for trades like you want
And frankly, the guys u are trading for aren’t even all that good
And Dumba AND Mantha both miss WAY TOO MUCH TIME bc they’re ALWAYS INJURED
Lacking physical play is an issue,
but that doesn’t mean we should make BAD TRADES for guys who are ALWAYS HURT
They aren’t gonna be providing much physical play when they’re on IR anyways
There’s other ways to get physical players in here
We have a TON of Cap space, so we could just overpay a couple guys on short term deals (for example)
Dude…. Dumba is just nowhere close to the level talent that u trade last year’s 1OA pick for- that’s insane
Idk what you’re even talking about with trading Cozens,
bc you’re sending them Power for Dumba +
You don’t have any trades with Cozens in them????
Sorry to be so harsh
But these trades just aren’t good, and i don’t think your logic is either
Just doesn’t make any sense to me