Confirmed with Link: Eric Staal (1/2 retained) traded to Montreal for '21 3rd & 5th round picks

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Ralph was positive lol

Covid positive

 

[Chainshot]

Spent. Hope his season improves in Montreal, has to be hard being away from his kids and the illness running through the team.

 

[littletonhockeycoach]

Spent. Hope his season improves in Montreal, has to be hard being away from his kids and the illness running through the team.

True but let's remember he's getting well paid for his troubles. (Compared to the rest of us...)

 

[truthbluth]

Wait a minute. You’re telling me Eric Staal was a Sabre? Why don’t I remember that?

 

[Chainshot]

True but let's remember he's getting well paid for his troubles. (Compared to the rest of us...)

Yep. But I can say no amount of money would make it easy for me to be separated from my family for months on end.

 

[Dex]

So true about family vs salary. It's hard for most of us on the board who are not at the same earning level to understand that the dollars they make don't change the fact that they are human beings whose families - wife and children, parents and siblings - matter very much to them. In that respect, they are no different than any of us.

IMO, the extra money does not compensate for the lost time and experiences you have with your family. I understand that one's job impacts family life in various ways for sure. I don't think you could pay me enough money to make me feel that it doesn't matter.

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[K8fool]

Eric.. Did you teach our youth apathy and coasting to save yrself for a trade and playoff run? You only looked this engaged once on a slot shot and maybe a Dahlin set up.. Bummer.. Man..

 

[HaNotsri]

We should have stoned him with stale chicken wings instead of trading him.

 

[2 others]

Ups the trade value of Hall and all the others immediately. That is, if he keeps going like that.
Was he actually going like that, or was it just that OT thing?

 

[jc17]

Ups the trade value of Hall and all the others immediately. That is, if he keeps going like that.
Was he actually going like that, or was it just that OT thing?

That's a good point. The more teams can convince themselves guys weren't producing just because its buffalo, the more they might want our guys

With that said, while I want him to succeed for that reason I know some people making ROR comparisons which is ridiculous

 

[vHAB]

Ups the trade value of Hall and all the others immediately. That is, if he keeps going like that.
Was he actually going like that, or was it just that OT thing?

He was really quiet the whole game before that and took a lazy hooking penalty like 20 seconds into a power play, people were even trashing him in our GDT at one point during the game lol. To be fair to the guy he had been sitting in a hotel room for a week before this game but yeah had he not scored that goal in OT the talk would be that he showed nothing in his first game

 

[Jim Bob]

 

[Jim Bob]

So the takeaway is that he’s toast.

 

[Old Navy Goat]

So Adams won that trade just by ditching him before the final wheel fell off

 

[Butt Ox]

So Adams won that trade just by ditching him before the final wheel fell off

Just a little dust on the bottle. The Balvenie within is pure magic.

 

[UnleashRasmus]

Good, we were done with you a week ago.

 

[slip]

So the takeaway is that he’s toast.

The bigger takeaway is Krueger was a complete moron for consistently penciling him in as the #2 center even as Mitts and Cozens were rapidly developing their game.

 

[Royal Thunder]

The bigger takeaway is Krueger was a complete moron for consistently penciling him in as the #2 center even as Mitts and Cozens were rapidly developing their game.

I mean he was pretty decent still for Minnesota last year. Mitts didn’t even look like a for sure NHLer when we made the trade and you don’t wanna pencil a rookie in as 2C... I am still fine with the move for Staal but even happier we were able to move him for assets

 

[slip]

I mean he was pretty decent still for Minnesota last year. Mitts didn’t even look like a for sure NHLer when we made the trade and you don’t wanna pencil a rookie in as 2C... I am still fine with the move for Staal but even happier we were able to move him for assets

As the season progressed it became obvious Staal was a spent commodity, and that Mitts and Cozens were dramatically starting to outperform (while getting inexplicably benched for games at a time). Yet night after night Kreuger kept throwing him out there as the 2C when he clearly needed to be demoted to the 4th line or even the press box. Kreuger stubbornly clung to his veteran favorites even as we sunk deeper and deeper into a hole of suck. Moving Staal to Montreal made this team instantly much better by freeing up time and space for Mitts. Good career for Staal, but a giant nothing burger during his stint in Buffalo. Definitely a swing and a miss by Adams on this acquisition.

 

[Royal Thunder]

As the season progressed it became obvious Staal was a spent commodity, and that Mitts and Cozens were dramatically starting to outperform (while getting inexplicably benched for games at a time). Yet night after night Kreuger kept throwing him out there as the 2C when he clearly needed to be demoted to the 4th line or even the press box. Kreuger stubbornly clung to his veteran favorites even as we sunk deeper and deeper into a hole of suck. Moving Staal to Montreal made this team instantly much better by freeing up time and space for Mitts. Good career for Staal, but a giant nothing burger during his stint in Buffalo. Definitely a swing and a miss by Adams on this acquisition.

Sorry I misread your post and thought you were talking about before the season. I completely agree with your assessment

 

[joshjull]

 

[Roywall]

Would Buffalo accept an additional 3rd and 5th to take him back... Please

 

[Team Cozens]

Wasn’t it the first game of the season when Staal passed/lost the puck right in front of our net to the other team for the GWG. That’s all we needed to see.