Proposal: BUF - SEA crazy idea

[TGWL]

So Buffalo gets rid of 3 1st round picks. Eichel leaves and Buffalo watches their top picks go to Seattle year after year? Sounds like a nightmare scenario.

 

[Zman5778]

Sounds like a nightmare scenario.

Welcome to Buffalo?

 

[David Bruce Banner]

Eriksson, Roussel and Myers for Skinner... whaddaya say?

 

[Mike Jones]

So Buffalo gets rid of 3 1st round picks. Eichel leaves and Buffalo watches their top picks go to Seattle year after year? Sounds like a nightmare scenario.

The present moment isn't a nightmare scenario? Sometimes the cure, as they say, is worse than the disease.

 

[Mike Jones]

So Buffalo gets rid of 3 1st round picks. Eichel leaves and Buffalo watches their top picks go to Seattle year after year? Sounds like a nightmare scenario.

Or a rough equivalent of 3 first round choices. That could be a mix of seconds, prospects, players, pucks, whatever.

 

[Ainsy01]

Boterill should be shot for signing Skinner to that deal. Nothin he has ever done has put him in the 9 million dollar realm. One 40 goal season does not earn you 9x8 million.

 

[TGWL]

Or a rough equivalent of 3 first round choices. That could be a mix of seconds, prospects, players, pucks, whatever.

That's not how the OP offer went. It was 3 first round picks.

 

[TFHockey]

Well, at least the thread title checks out.

 

[82Ninety42011]

Seattle would take that deal in heartbeat should tell you there it's silly for Sabres. Sabres need to just accept Skinner is there to stay or a buyout when it's convenient for them.

 

[Mike Jones]

That's not how the OP offer went. It was 3 first round picks.

I know but I think the OP was based on something I posted earlier.

 

[Hasekperreault23]

What about Seattle takes Rasmus Dahlin and Jeff Skinner. Buffalo saves huge money and loses one quality defender on a decline. Seattle bets on Dahlin and Skinner rebounding.

This is a joke right?

 

[GuerinUp]

Based on something that I saw on HFBoards.

Let's say that Seattle assumes that Vegas 2.0 is impossible due to teams not willing to give high quality "win now" pieces after what happened 5 years ago so Seattle wants to build patiently.

Here come the Sabres and offer this to end Skinner fiasco:

BUF 1st 2021 + BUF 1st 2022 + BUF 1st 2023 + Jeff Skinner

for

future considerations/whatever

Originally, I thought about adding Cozens here but prime Cozens fits Eichel's prime better than those picks.

Who says no in this scenario?

Skinner immediately scores 40 goals his first season in seattle

 

[devils29]

Devils want in an it will only cost you 2 firsts and a 2nd!

 

[Kublakhan]

the only thing worse than this idea is the Buffalo Sabres compete level..

 

[Billdo]

Based on something that I saw on HFBoards.

Let's say that Seattle assumes that Vegas 2.0 is impossible due to teams not willing to give high quality "win now" pieces after what happened 5 years ago so Seattle wants to build patiently.

Here come the Sabres and offer this to end Skinner fiasco:

BUF 1st 2021 + BUF 1st 2022 + BUF 1st 2023 + Jeff Skinner

for

future considerations/whatever

Originally, I thought about adding Cozens here but prime Cozens fits Eichel's prime better than those picks.

Who says no in this scenario?

Buffalo says no. Easily.

 

[mouser]

Checked the buyout calculator and you're probably right:

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So based on that, the value is more along the two 1sts, not three.

Obviously Buffalo has no interest in this proposal, but a Skinner buyout for $21m in real dollars is worth more then two first round picks based on dump trades the part few years.

 

[kingpest19]

The Marleau trade is a great comparison. If Buffalo ownership wants to throw $54 million down the drain then they can have at it. If they want to get rid of their problem they have to pay up and in today's NHL that is not going to be cheap.

How is it a great comparison? Toronto had to trade Marleau to open up enough cap space to sign Marner, Carolina basically had them over a barrel

 

[member 329811]

Sounds like a good deal if you ask Terry Pegula.

 

[Mattavarner]

You just know Skinner would score 40 in his first season with Seattle

 

[Mike Jones]

You just know Skinner would score 40 in his first season with Seattle

He'd probably score forty for any decent coach.