Location: We are in 30th place. It's 2017 , NY Joined: 02.12.2012
Feb 2 @ 3:06 PM ET
Every single one of those players/contracts except kulikov can be replaced in Free Agency with 0 stress. You stay healthy and land a #2-3 d man (which is not easy to get and what we should debate about) you see a new team from the start - yen6d1
I get that we had a ton of picks, but the 50 contract limit has rarely if ever been an issue for any team.
They have a few years to decide to keep any pick.
Plus, they could have just chose to not keep the 5th-7th round guys, and use the 2nd round picks they had.
26 Matt Moulson - 90 Ryan O'Reilly - 21 Kyle Okposo
82 Marcus Foligno - 15 Jack Eichel - 23 Sam Reinhart
9 Evander Kane - 28 Zemgus Girgensons - 12 Brian Gionta
48 William Carrier - 44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 63 Tyler Ennis
26 Matt Moulson - 90 Ryan O'Reilly - 21 Kyle Okposo
82 Marcus Foligno - 15 Jack Eichel - 23 Sam Reinhart
9 Evander Kane - 28 Zemgus Girgensons - 12 Brian Gionta
48 William Carrier - 44 Nicolas Deslauriers - 63 Tyler Ennis
Sabres had scouts at a lot of Kings games and LA has some cap space to work with ($5m deadline space which could be $11m with ltir.). I don't see them able to protect all their dmen come the expansion draft, so it seems they may be a good team to look at for a trade. Don't know if they would be willing to trade Muzzin or Martinez or what it would take. They have 5 lefties and only 2 righties with Gilbert being sent down.
Also, wouldn't be surprised to see Vanek traded to the Hawks.