03 Apr 2026 01:26:02
To Tor
2nd and 4th 2026
To SJS
Rielly ($1m ret)

To Tor
2nd 2027 (Ana)
Moore
To Ana
Stolarz

To Tor
2nd 2026 (BUF)
To LAK
Maccelli

To Tor
3rd 2026 (NYI)
To NYR
Robertson

To Tor
2nd 2026 (Tor)
To Chi
Joshua

UFA targets.

Tuch, Andersson, Marchment, Ferraro.
Dickinson, Raddysh (if not an overpay). Retool.
Stock your picks and fill your prospect pool with them. You can also use them to make trades. IMO Nylander or Matthews are going nowhere. Rielly is the piece of the core that will go.

1.) 03 Apr 2026
03 Apr 2026 18:22:44
I’m okay with most of this.
Similar to what I proposed a few weeks back.
The trades focus on ‘26 and ‘27 while I focused more on D+1 or 2 to shorten the retool.
The UFAs are essentially the same except I also cited Mantha and not Dickinson.
I think Robertson also deserves a 2nd.

2.) 03 Apr 2026
03 Apr 2026 19:40:58
My thought for a Robertson trade is to add to a deal to turn a 2nd into a 1st.

3.) 03 Apr 2026
03 Apr 2026 20:11:35
I would try
Rielly ($1M retained)
For
Bystedt ELC

Bystedt can be a solid 3C, with good size (6'3") and 210lbs.

4.) 03 Apr 2026
03 Apr 2026 22:23:38
I can't see Tuch not resigning with Buffalo. He's from that area. I'm sure he's gonna take a discount especially after this year.

5.) 04 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026 07:31:35
Conceptually I would agree Hrnklin but I’d like to see that deal first.

I’m sure the Sabres would like to and intend on resigning Tuch but they will have a challenge in that regard.

They are at $88m with 6 UFAs and 3 RFAs so money could be tight.

Has next year’s cap been announced? $100m?

6.) 04 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026 10:33:54
$104m cap next season. The way I see it, with Tuch, if he can’t sign in Buffalo cause he prices himself out, what’s the next closest thing, a border crossing to stay close lol. But I don’t want to overpay for him either.

7.) 04 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026 10:36:57
I was going to add Carlo to the mix in a deal, but he’s an RD. I think at his cap hit, u keep him and see where you are at at next year's deadline b4 making a decision. If he has a bounce back year and u r in the playoffs u keep him; if not, cup team will take him for their own run.

8.) 04 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026 12:33:56
Hey RandySears, I hope your European vacation was a good one. I agree with you in regards to Buffalo being in a Salary Cap bind. Tuch wants 10.5 apparently and they are offering a couple million shy of that. Just think if they still didn’t have just over $2 mil on the books for Jeff Skinner, that would solve that. The problem then lays in filling the rest of those RFA and UFA spots. Some you let walk, but others, like Logan Stanley, you want to keep.

The names that keep coming up to trade for gaining cap room is Josh Norris (tough contract to trade with his 10 team list and his propensity in his career for injuries).

The other 2 names are one of either Owen Power or Bowen Byram only because neither have no trade clauses and both are desirable pieces. Question is which one would you want to keep, and could you get a good cheaper ELC player in return to fill a spot and ope Cap money. If Tuch does sign elsewhere, somehow they still need to replace his production.

9.) 04 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026 16:17:29
Carlo is a bakdaid tho! Trade him this summer while he has any value. Which he should have being a big RHD that’s come off a couple down years but at an excellent cap point and is still considered top pair player? I worry he gets another concussion he’s done.

10.) 04 Apr 2026
04 Apr 2026 17:04:01
With the amount of concussions Carlo has had, I worry for him first and foremost as a person later in life more than as a trade value player in the present.