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This isn't really all that hard to understand. We aren't talking about Buffalo getting DeAngelo for free. If that were the case I would obviously take him over any RHD we have on the team outside of Joker. The two trade offers I can recall that have included DeAngelo coming to Buffalo have involved Eichel (lol) and Cozens who is the best prospect in our system by a country mile and is a center, which is obviously an area of massive need.
You’re right and you wouldn’t trade Ristolainen for let’s say, Braden Schneider, right?
As for DeAngelo I'm not spreading misinformation. You just agreed with me in the first sentence of your post. Quote: "You'd rather have Ristolainen who's just as bad defensively". Both players suck in their own end. This isn't some revelation to Rangers fans or Sabres fans. So I'm not sure what you're even trying to argue here.
Speaking of not hard to understand while simultaneously quoting another person, you literally said that DeAngelo can’t play in his own end, which is false. I said they’re both not good defensively. Two completely different things that aren’t mutually exclusive any such sort of way. “Needing work” and “can’t play in his own end” are two vastly different scopes.
I've never seen you in a Sabres game day thread so you aren't allowed to have an opinion on any Sabres player. Sound reasonable? Of course not.
The difference between us is that I’m not acting like I know more about your team’s players and telling you that Ristolainen can’t play defense, which is false information. Ristolainen, just like DeAngelo, needs to work on his defensive game.
So let's just say we agree to disagree and leave it at that instead of trotting out the: "you obviously don't watch this player argument".
If you don’t like being called out, don’t make baseless and ill-informed comments then. It’s ok to not know everything about a player from a team that you don’t watch on a nightly basis and I’m not even just singling you out by saying this, this mentality something that’s gone on as long as these boards have existed.
Honestly I've tired of whatever this exchange is supposed to be anyhow. The Rangers don't make the trade in the OP and quite frankly the Sabres don't either, Cozens holds more value to us than he would to nearly any other team in the league given what we have at Center behind Eichel.
We agree on all of that.