Bizarre trades.

That first deal really favours Buffalo

Pettersson >> Tage
Willander ~= Benson
Savoie ~= Lekkerimaki
Hoglander > Greenway
Aman < Krebs

No reason for us to give up our top 2 prospects, especially a RHD that we drafted over Benson to be Hughes future partner, on top of Pettersson unless we’re getting a better player than him

Sure, Buff may need to add. Same train of thought as you.

Willander is still a long way away. Canucks drafting for positional need is questionable. Benson is already showing top 6 promise out of his draft year.

Who knows if he'd end up as Hughes partner or a 2nd pair, or worse... Also, the Hughes/Hronek pairing has turned out great.

It doesn't really favor buffalo.

I don't agree with your prospect assessments and elias doesn't have a contract and Tage is making like 5 million less than he will

Lol
Sabres are NOT doing that
Pettersson is better than Tage, BUT he’s also gonna cost twice as much
And with no guarantee he’d even sign here

There’s no way
If we are interested in Pettersson, we’ll wait
As good as he is, i doubt we are interested though

Lol.

No. No it doesn't

Petey's eyeing Niagara property per EF

Yes. Yes it does

Pettersson is a lot better than Thompson

Willander just went ahead of Benson in the draft. If you wanna give Benson a slight edge that’s fine

Savoie got drafted a bit ahead of Lekkerimaki so if you wanna give him a slight edge that’s fair. But it’s close and Lekkerimaki is a very good prospect

Hoglander is definitely more valuable than Greenway

Krebs doesn’t add much but he’s definitely better than Aman

So the Canucks downgrade significantly from Pettersson to Thompson and downgrade from Hoglander to Greenway just to improve their 4th line and make 2 lateral moves or at best slight upgrades of prospects? And you think it doesn’t favour Buffalo?

Pettersson doesn't have a contract man.

And when he signs one it's gonna be for like 12 million a year

Dude, Benson is miles ahead of Wallander. He's playing top 9 minutes and on the PK as an 18 year old

That could be entirely true
But that doesn’t mean the Sabres are gonna trade for him
Wouldn’t make sense for us

If we trade Mitts- IF…..
then maybe we’d look at him as a UFA
But i don’t see us giving up the farm for him
Doesn’t make sense to give up all those assets when we are still in our rebuild & it’s no guarantee he signs

AND
in need of a contract that’ll have him making almost DOUBLE the Cap hit of Tage
If u don’t think that matters, see: The Leafs

Peteys 13-14 million more than all 5 Buffalo players so I vote no to trade. AND if Petey not traded your cap limbo will be legendary

Just because he’s an RFA doesn’t mean he’s not super valuable. He’s worth a lot more than Thompson because he’s a much better player

And it’s way too early to say Benson is miles ahead of Willander considering it’s less than a year after the draft and Willander was taken higher than Benson. Benson is also 10th among Buffalo forwards in PK TOI. If you wanna give him an edge that’s fine but it’s not a huge difference

Apologies to Buffalo fans. Its very bad.

I'm just joking. Other pieces coming back but understand the Sabres side

I just can’t see us doing it
It would also be surprising to me if u guys don’t sign him
Do u really think you’ll lose him??

No but I don't love the idea of how big his contract will be.

That’s fair
Just makes him a hard sell too though

IMO you nailed it @mv21227
If Buffalo was trading only for Pettersson Buffalo would need to give up Thompson, Savoie and 2024 first, with the understanding that he would sign here.
As a UFA, look to the Lindholm trade, a first and a good prospect.
While Benson is playing very well (his stats do not reveal how well he has played) and we will never know, but if both Willander and Benson were available last draft, Buffalo probably would have drafted the RHD.
There is absolutely no comparison, Buffalo wins this trade by a wide margine and they should give Elias what ever he wants.

BTW, you may not know this but the cost of living in Buffalo is significantly less than Vancouver.
https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/compare_cities.jsp?country1=Canada&city1=Vancouver&country2=United+States&city2=Buffalo%2C+NY#:~:text=Cost%20of%20Living%20Comparison%20Between%20Vancouver%20and%20Buffalo%2C%20NY,you%20rent%20in%20both%20cities).
Indices Difference Info
Consumer Prices in Buffalo, NY are 2.8% lower than in Vancouver (without rent)
Consumer Prices Including Rent in Buffalo, NY are 12.0% lower than in Vancouver
Rent Prices in Buffalo, NY are 26.1% lower than in Vancouver (my comment: this also included cost of housing)
Restaurant Prices in Buffalo, NY are 9.8% lower than in Vancouver
Groceries Prices in Buffalo, NY are 6.3% lower than in Vancouver
Local Purchasing Power in Buffalo, NY is 27.8% higher than in Vancouver

As we were told when we were in Vancouver "BC" means BRING CASH.
$13,000,000 in Vancouver may be only $10,000,000 in Buffalo.