Buffalo has his rights till UFA market in 2023 opens ..July 1 or a later date. He has to pay to break his contract to come back before the 2 yrs are done.
Most agree with the list that poster put on here assuming no transactions.
If they traded say Renhart and Mittlestadt in a big trade where a Dman comes back then they could go 8 skaters.
likely candidate taken in the draft is Borgrn at RD whose ELC ends in 2021.
Second likrly is a F exposed in Thompson/Asplund/Girgensons
I hats why I’d like buffalo to get a similar age RD back in a trade then buffalo has an A/B option for bottom RD.
I don’t see buffalo offering up something to take Okposo unless some major trade happens and they need cap space to resign an RFA.
I dont see Seattle taking Pilut. Pilut could opt not to come and just wait till he’s a UFA.
Is there new information? This article says his KHL contract has an NHL outclause.
Pilut could opt not to come and wait until UFA, but there's not really any upside to him doing that. Seattle would have to offer him a roster spot and possibly burn the rest of his RFA contract so he'd be 1-year away from being a UFA, but he definitely has the highest upside of the rest of the players. Not to mention that Seattle will still only have so many roster spots, so it may work in their favor they have an extra year to wait for Pilut to come over.