Confirmed with Link: [BUF/CHI] F Anders Bjork to CHI for Future Considerations

[Chainshot]

I know Rochester needs centers but this must be a money saving move as well right? Bjork might have been to expensive to keep for the team...

Eh, they did him a solid by giving him a chance to get into NHL games again and maybe catch someone's eye for another contract by moving him close to home.

 

[BUCKSHOT]

Different positions. I forget the exact breakdown, but they had to protect a certain number of forwards and a certain number of D-men. They didn't really have that many forwards worth keeping though, hence Bjork. But if they didn't protect Bjork, they would have needed to protect a different forward, not Borgen.

They chose Ristolainen for one of the three D-men spots over Borgen. Which proved a good thing, given the trade return for Risto was insane and way more than what Borgen is worth.

Eh, they did him a solid by giving him a chance to get into NHL games again and maybe catch someone's eye for another contract by moving him close to home.

there are axes that still need grinding

 

[Chainshot]

there are axes that still need grinding

What's not to like about what they did for him on a personal level? This is actually close to what I was expecting for Hinostroza as well but Tuch's injury has him up and needed on the big club. If not, it would've put Hino back in his home town and support from family for his wife and their two little ones. I'm sure Hino won't mind if he plays in Buffalo down the stretch, even if he's a black ace, so he can be close to the wife and kids instead of trekking up to Rochester and going on those weekend-long bus trips for away games.

 

[BUCKSHOT]

What's not to like about what they did for him on a personal level? This is actually close to what I was expecting for Hinostroza as well but Tuch's injury has him up and needed on the big club. If not, it would've put Hino back in his home town and support from family for his wife and their two little ones. I'm sure Hino won't mind if he plays in Buffalo down the stretch, even if he's a black ace, so he can be close to the wife and kids instead of trekking up to Rochester and going on those weekend-long bus trips for away games.

Sorry, I should've quoted the post both of you were responding to

 

[Chainshot]

Sorry, I should've quoted the post both of you were responding to

Oh, I wasn't digging at your post, just trying to build on it.

 

[dotcommunism]

Maybe Clendening? He's from Niagara Falls, not under contract and a vet D man.

Rockford traded Clendening to Hartford the other day, for what it's worth.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Thanks for the meme-ries, even thought they weren’t so great.

-Fallout Bjork.

 

[WhereAreTheCookies]

Rockford traded Clendening to Hartford the other day, for what it's worth.

Yea I just noticed that when I went to check out the guy the Amerks got lol

 

[Zip15]

Eh, they did him a solid by giving him a chance to get into NHL games again and maybe catch someone's eye for another contract by moving him close to home.

Come on, Chain. They're saving Terry a few bucks. With less than 24 hours from the deadline, the GM has found a way to trim payroll from a playoff-contending team with swaps involving two wholly unremarkable players. Terry is very proud.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Come on, Chain. They're saving Terry a few bucks. With less than 24 hours from the deadline, the GM has found a way to trim payroll from a playoff-contending team with swaps involving two wholly unremarkable players. Terry is very proud.

Would you rather they kept Bjork just because?

 

[Zip15]

Would you rather they kept Bjork just because?

Of course not. But let's not pretend the move was made to "give him an opportunity to play elsewhere," or some other sanitized and laudable objective. The move was made to give Terry an opportunity for someone else to pay his salary. And that's fine because Bjork is no good. But let's call a spade a spade.

 

[Jacob582]

Of course not. But let's not pretend the move was made to "give him an opportunity to play elsewhere," or some other sanitized and laudable objective. The move was made to give Terry an opportunity for someone else to pay his salary. And that's fine because Bjork is no good. But let's call a spade a spade.

They could have bought him out last summer and saved $1.2M.

 

[Zip15]

They could have bought him out last summer and saved $1.2M.

I'm sure they wish they did, in hindsight. But they were probably hopeful he could bounce back and be a decent spare. But he sucked from the hop in camp.

 

[Jacob582]

I'm sure they wish they did, in hindsight. But they were probably hopeful he could bounce back and be a decent spare. But he sucked from the hop in camp.

I usually need hindsight to make the correct observation. This wasn't one of them.

 

[Dingo44]

Of course not. But let's not pretend the move was made to "give him an opportunity to play elsewhere," or some other sanitized and laudable objective. The move was made to give Terry an opportunity for someone else to pay his salary. And that's fine because Bjork is no good. But let's call a spade a spade.

Please give us a reason to believe any of this.

 

[Chainshot]

Of course not. But let's not pretend the move was made to "give him an opportunity to play elsewhere," or some other sanitized and laudable objective. The move was made to give Terry an opportunity for someone else to pay his salary. And that's fine because Bjork is no good. But let's call a spade a spade.

Why can't it be both? Why can't it also get a relatively non-productive vet off the AHL roster too? It's a lot of things. Thinking it's just a penny pinching move is way more jaded about it than I choose to be.

 

[Paxon]

The optimist sees the Sabres doing right by a player. The pessimist sees penny-pinching. The realist thanks God that Bjork is gone.

 

[Bobby Bottle Service]

As long as the "future considerations" doesn't include sending Bjork back, it's safe to say GMKA won this trade.

 

[MarkusKetterer]

As long as the "future considerations" doesn't include sending Bjork back, it's safe to say GMKA won this trade.

You don’t want him to be John Tucker 2.0?

 

[Zip15]

Please give us a reason to believe any of this.

Because teams get expensive, crappy players out of their organization because they don’t want to pay them to be expensive and crappy players. Not to advance the expensive and crappy player’s career. It’s fine. I’m not mad about. But there really isn’t anything else to “believe.”

Ten posts on a Sunday “debating” whether trading Bjork was anything more than a cost-cutting move. I think I’ll return to my self-imposed exile from this site.

 

[Chainshot]

As long as the "future considerations" doesn't include sending Bjork back, it's safe to say GMKA won this trade.

Seems like the FC's were for Carson Gicewicz on an AHL deal for the Amerks. Thankfully, Bjork's deal is up and he'll be free to go be Bjork for someone else next year.

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[HaNotsri]

2 points so far tonight

 

[Grouch]

2 points so far tonight

Make it 3 apples

 

[TheMistyStranger]

Make it 3 apples

Hit them conditions!

 

[Chainshot]

If someone had said Bjork would help the Sabres late in the season by derailing a team they are fighting with in the standings, I'd have thought the speaker crazy. But here we are.