I think the ROR scenario being presented is a little off. He was a pretty good center in Buffalo and put up 60, 55, and 61 points his three seasons there on some pretty bad teams. He wasn't some scrub that St. Louis picked up who turned into a beast during their cup season. He might not have been elite but he was already pretty darn good. The other part, and this is a key that I often forget and have to look up, is the return Buffalo got that everyone laughs at. Buffalo was due to cut him a $7.5m check at the end of the day he was traded. That's not chump change for most teams and Buffalo's GM at the time said the return would have been better if Buffalo would have paid the bonus and waited for a better deal.
As for Jarmo, I think there might be some small deals between now and the deadline but I wouldn't expect anything big going out or coming in until the off-season, if at all. I took a quick glance at CapFriendly and only saw a dozen teams with enough deadline cap space to acquire Foligno or Savard at the deadline and most of those teams are the likes of Ottawa/Detroit/LA who won't be buyers. Boston, Florida, and Carolina are the only teams I see that might be buyers and actually have enough cap space to add players in a picks/prospects deal that Jarmo probably wants. Everyone else would need to send equivalent cap hits back to Jarmo to acquire Savard or Foligno or free up cap space elsewhere which might be hard this year.
