Modifié 27 août 2022 à 19 h 29
@Archarte
Here are some predictions to ponder.
Better than last year: Bjork, Olofsson, Mittelstadt, Cozens, Tuch, Asplund (many more Selke votes) and Dahlin (possible Norris finalist).
More or less the same: Krebs, Skinner, Samuelsson, Jokiharju, Bryson, Fitzgerald, and Anderson.
Full season additions making significant impact: Power (possible Calder finalist), Lyubushkin, Quinn and Comrie.
Noticeable drop off Hinostroza, Thompson and Okposo.
Full season additions not making significant impact Peterka and Pilut.
Tradable commodities Olofsson, Bryson, Bjork looking to add a RHD marginally better than Jokiharju or Lyubushkin.
Noticeable losses from last year Miller
Quoting: Skyraider112
Mitts and Olofsson will not be traded this season. Olofsson is our best pure goal scorer as of now. Hino would be trade bait as would Craig Anderson
I really like Olofsson.
He may top 30 goals this year.
Hard to tell who to keep and who to trade.
At the start of the start of the 2017-18 season who could see O'Reilly being traded.
After signing Hall to start the 2020-2021 season who would have predicted Eichel, Reinhart and Ristolainen would be gone.
If Tampa offer two first round picks for Olofsson, would you have been surprised if Karmanos said yes.
Olofsson and Bryson are tradable not because they are bad, but because they are valuable in a trade for a possible RHD better than both Jokiharju and Lyubushkin.
Buffalo has several LW and LHD prospects with Peterka, Rosen, Kisakov, Poltapov, etc. and Johnson, Pilut and Lindgren waiting in the wings.
Trading Olofsson and Bryson for a RHD improves the team and clears spots for the younger players.
But let's agree to disagree as neither of us are privy to the conversations that take place in the war room.