Quoting: BUFF36
Interesting offer, but don't think Pinto moves the needle enough for me to use JJ here. He's 2yrs younger than Pinto and he's probably at there same point of development better already. Sabres have plenty of other Pieces that probably value wise work better.
Not 2 years, 1 year and 2 months younger. Problem for Pinto is that he missed a full season due to injury and now half a season for a suspension. That's why he's not as "known" as he should already.
That said, I can understand if you'd rather have Peterka. Same for me with Greig, you could propose a lot of guys that you'd think are more valuable and I'd turn down pretty much all the offers.
Ottawa doesn't have a lot of needs, it's pretty much the whole coaching staff that needs to be replaced before we really know what we have.
Quoting: sabres89
I think if this trade got announced today, sabres fans would be shrieking "but we've got Thompson, cozens, and mittelstadt, with ostlund, savoie, kulich, and Wahlberg as higher end centers in waiting". I would be fine with trading mittelstadt to open a spot, but again, the return would have to make sense for the build. I'm guessing that there's going to be lots of lowball offers for some of our better prospects, just because "well you can't play ALL of them". Adams would have to actually admit that the build is wrong, and I don't think we are there yet.
This ACGM was made based on your comment in the other thread :
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there is a chance that some of our talented young forwards could be made available for- a two way center, any actual hockey players that play physical, a top 4 right shot d, or an above average veteran goalie"
Shane Pinto is exactly that, he's a David Backes/Phillip Danault hybrid, he will be a very valuable coach's pet