Trade Time!!!

I’m all for 1, 2, & 3, but those salaries and UFA status (stati, statum – stoopid latin based words) could make moving them and getting back any real value in return difficult.

I think you keep Miller for one more year. I see this as a bad year. Everybody has them (well almost everybody), and hopefully he will rebound to prior form. It’s a risk only in that if he does not recover, then any value he has now will be completely lost. I’d be disappointed, but not angry if they made a move with him.

Bye, bye Sekara. ’nuf said.

I don’t see Lindy going anywhere this year. If this type of uninspired play/locker room continues into November next season, then I definitely see ownership pulling the trigger (although there is nothing to base this on but my gut).

is not the problem. He has quietly developed into a great 2-way defenseman. He rarely takes penalties, he is by and large our best break-out defender, he kills penalties, he can play on the PP (although Lindy has not utilized him as much as he should IMO), and he shows up almost every night. You need to let go of your first impressions of him from 3 seasons ago when he was young and struggling to find consistency. Last season and this season he has been one of our top 3-4 defensemen without question, and 2.75M/year for Sekera is very reasonable.

Roy is having a terrible slump, but he carried this team last year before his injury, and he also has a very reasonable salary, and this team is extremely shallow at center, so I can’t see a reason to trade him. I’d probably just play Pominville as the top line center (his playmaking and faceoff skills are plenty ample for it) and move a winger (Stafford? Leino? Ennis? Gerbe?) to play with him and Vanek. This frees up Roy to play on the second line with a new winger pairing, maybe sparkng some chemistry. No unrealistic or absurd trade proposals needed for that improvement.

I agree Boyes has not panned out for us, so I would be OK with trading him for picks or prospects. But he would be a rental player, so I wouldn’t expect much in return given his recent lack of production.

Miller needs more time to be evaluated. When will he turn it around? Once he does, I’d entertain trading him or possibly even keeping him. But before that happens, his value is way too low to expect any improvements to the team by trading him.

If the season continues to tank, I’d be OK with renting Hecht for a prospect/pick to a contending team. However, if Hecht wants to stick around in Buffalo and play another season or two, I hope he could be re-signed for a discount. I think he makes a good 3rd line player and leader for this team.

As for Ruff, the jury is still out on him. I think how the season pans out after the team is healthy will help management to determine his current value and compare it to prospective replacements (of which there are none worth noting, at the moment). Replacing him before the offseason would be a huge mistake IMO, and highly unnecessary.

could probably fetch you something nice from a team like the Islanders, or the Sharks,or Blue Jackets maybe? Heck maybe even the Flyers.