05 Sep 2016 18:11:29
Buffalo Sabres Rasmus ristolainen is a RFA and is "doubtful regarding a contract extension." CBSsports

He's 22yoa and stands at 6'4", 220lbs
In 3 yeas he's improved from 4pts to 22pts and last year had 41pts if that's not a potential stud I really don't know what is.

My last post was :

Toronto: ristolainen

Buffalo: 2nd + 3rd + D prospect or gardiner(if necessary) + lupul + kapanen

Sign ristolainen to a 5 year 30mill

Now I know it's an over payment but you don't get a stay at home dman that is that big and improving by such a large margin. Furthermore not only do we give them a prospect in kapanen that won't be on the team in 3 years so they eat lupuls salary but we grew up almost 9mill in cap. (If they need gardiner to complete the trade.

1.) 05 Sep 2016
05 Sep 2016 18:35:29
Now just take into consideration that NJ traded Larson to EDM for Hall. ristolainen is younger and better, we will have to overpay by a mile to get a dman for Riley or let him suffer trying to keep Anderson from getting butt f***** by teams like Washington and Montreal. Which would just ruin another Toronto goaltender.

If this is better how about
Toronto ristolainen + 2nd (1st if they make the conference finals)

Buffalo JVR + d prospect (probably anyone but Reilly for obvious reasons) + 2nd

2.) 05 Sep 2016
05 Sep 2016 20:31:39
we got a good stay at home prospect that can move the puck in Vailev.
He played 10 games for the Leafs with no goals against when he was on the ice 120 mins of NHL hockey
and zero goals against through the Marlies playoff

3.) 06 Sep 2016
06 Sep 2016 01:20:19
Chiarelli got hosed. Nobody else in the league, except maybe Benning in VAN, is going to pay that price for a Dman.

No chance Lou would make the offer you laid out, and if BUF proposed that, Lou would politely suggest they go fornicate with a cactus.

Just stop using Hall-Larson as the bar for trade values. That was a one off robbery. If you insist on using that as your valuation, then only do trade proposals with EDM, like McDavid for Gardiner, Nugent-Hopkins for Hyman, or Eberle for a gallon of Aloe Vera so Chiarelli can recover from the last time he got burned.

4.) 06 Sep 2016
06 Sep 2016 02:13:47
agreed but would you flip nylander for him?

5.) 06 Sep 2016
06 Sep 2016 17:35:05
No, I wouldn't move Nylander. Not now anyways. Nylander has been overshadowed somewhat by Matthews and Marner, but he's still one of our best prospects, and a cornerstone of our future. He is not expendable if we have any hope of climbing the depths of mediocrity and becoming a perrinial cup contender.