What the fuck?? This is crazy. We have so many LHD.
Edit: glad to see us upgrade defense and not surprised he was moved. We’re just loaded up at LHD now. I meant crazy as in wild and not stupid.
Byram has been one of my favorite prospects in years, however Casey has been flourishing and we already have two studs on the blue line. Imo Byram’s ceiling is also a top two defender, hopefully we can lock him in long-term at a lower AAV.
Byram has been struggling since their cup run, no idea if colorado has the space to resign mitts
Actually don’t know how I feel about this. Gonna miss Mitts, but if Byram can get it together and Power takes a leap, then we’re gonna look pretty good on defense for the foreseeable future.
Can’t wait to see Mitts light it up in Colorado
I’m so upset. I really loved Mitts.
Kinda makes me feel Casey was asking for a massive contract and I appreciate the return, byram is sick!
This was a pointless trade unless Mitts was asking for 7M+
No idea how to feel. I just know I’m going to really, really miss Mittelstadt.
Man I love Casey, but at the same time I’ve been begging for a “hockey trade”. What the hell lol. I guess we had too many top 6 centers, but now we have too many left d.
Don’t like this one bit. Mitts finally takes a big step forward and we trade him for a kid whose development is stagnating and also who plays a position we already have 2 #1 overall picks locked in long-term at? Common Sabres L.
With all due respect and, with respect to my flair, I’m happy to see we got a quality return for Casey.
Casey was always an enigmatic player but had started to show a lot of talent this year; but if we look over his career here there have been an incredible number of moments where we have all called for his head.
So looking at the balance of his play this is a great job by Kevyn Adams.
He’s also may only be temporary for Colorado because I don’t think they can afford to sign him with the talent they currently have. We could resign him after this trade in the summer.
Also I guess no one wants Victor Olofson?
Edit I fixed some grammar cuz it was really bugging me.
Time for another traded Sabres center to win a cup
There’s so many mixed comments in here. Some hate it, some love it. Im not familiar with Byram, can someone fill me in?
WTF. We needed another defenseman but not THAT type of defenseman. Intriguing swap but my knee jerk reaction is that I don’t like it
Avs fan chiming in – Bo’s got great potential but being buried on the 3rd pairing isn’t doing him any favors. He can thrive but the injuries may be an issue. I hope for nothing but the best for him and I’m happy he’s back with EJ.
Edit: yeah, I forgot y’all already have Dahlin and Power on the left side. I’m sorry, I don’t know too much about your team these days…all I know is I wish y’all were going back to the playoffs this year.
I’m super excited about Mittlestadt! We’ll take care of him for you!
Id rather have Quinn/Peterka long term than Casey anyway
I don’t think I hate this? I feel like Krebs is basically a younger Mitts, and we have a ton of F prospects, might as well solidify the D.
Proof that no matter what the GM does, the fans will be upset about it. We got younger and we needed a top 4 defenseman, Casey is great no doubt. He’s going to be insane for the avs but realistically mitts would’ve been hard to resign imo. You have to switch things up, they’ve been playing better but this is a major wake up call to the room and I think it’s long overdue. As for the trade as a whole: I would’ve thought we would have to add more to get byram from COL. I think it’s a fair trade though for the most part, I could see it working out for both teams.
Woof
man fuck off
Feels like a trade you make when you feel the pressure to simply make a trade. Mittlestadt consistently created plays out of thin air, and I think his value to the sabres was worth more than we were going to get on the market. There’s no doubt this trade makes Colorado better today (doubt they sign him), but there is definitely doubt that it makes the Sabres better in the future. My gut reaction is this will end about as well as all of the recent Sabres trades…
Edit: I forgot to mention that Byram’s injury and concussion problems are concerning.
Edit 2: It’s also funny to me that we had Montour, who has essentially become the absolute ceiling for what Byram can be. Our roster management under KA is worth questioning.
It’s hard to judge this trade because if Mitts needed > $7m to stay, then it would have been hard to make that work on a long deal.
We also don’t know yet if there are any other smaller pieces moving around.
If Byram rebounds, he’s going to be in the $7m range after this deal expires at the end of next year. Our D will be super expensive.
If it means anything, it’s probably better for the Sabres to trade Mitts at his all time high than pay him at his all time high.
So we traded a solid player for a maybe someday guy? I don’t know Byram but the comments here are not giving me confidence
Ahh yes, a prospect and another left handed defenseman. Exactly what we needed!!! Thanks Kevyn Adams
As much as I enjoyed seeing mitts start to come into his own, I think I really like this gamble. Byram is still so young for a Dman in this league and with Kulich coming along with other prospects/offseason established forwards hopefully yet to come, Im excited to see how this pans out. Overall it sucks to see Mitts go, but Im good with the return.
The entire saga of Mittlestadt started me off confused and ended with me confused. I remember the draft where he couldnt do a pull up. Him having ups and downs and now hes been up and only getting better and now hes gone.
Cool so we get a guy who’s sick and prone to concussions and they can have mitts. This is fine!
Good thing the Sabres didn’t invest any time in Mittelstadt’s development, and then dump him as soon as RFA comes along for a LHD that they don’t need. Don’t know how id feel if that happened.
Some of our forward prospects should be happy, as should Krebs
I don’t really understand how this makes us a better team.
This feels like a trade for the sake of making a trade.
Byram hit a high level of play in the NHL in his DY+2 but he was then derailed by injuries. So this trade makes sense if you think the past two seasons were an aberration as his DY+2 implies his ceiling is high and that Granato, a coach whose proven he can develop young, talented players, can help him reach his potential. The counter argument is that he’s been healthy this season while playing in a good environment in Colorado and yet he has still struggled mightily. Then there’s the fact that the Sabres have traded their best center (and maybe best player) over the past two seasons for a player who is essentially a reclamation project and it feels like the Sabres didn’t get paid near enough. One way this trade makes sense is if Casey was demanding to be paid too much on his next contract, but according to Lance Adams met with Casey and told him any contract talks would be put on [hold until after the deadline](https://old.reddit.com/r/sabres/comments/1b6kvad/buffalo_news_sabres_gm_kevyn_adams_plans_to/ktcidfk/?context=3)
> The Sabres’ general manager met with center Casey Mittelstadt recently to explain, while the club plans to begin contract talks with the pending restricted free agent’s agent, Neil Sheehy, following the deadline, it also must listen to and consider any trade offers that occur before 3 p.m. Friday…
So if they weren’t going to discuss a new deal until then, then it’s possible he wasn’t asking too much, which would imply the Sabres are really high on Byram.
This also means Cozens and Tage will be exposed more without Casey as he was their best two way center and that Krebs should be a regular in the top nine more (maybe the Sabres front office really believes in Krebs’ improved play and that made Casey expendable?). I kinda hate this trade and hope the front office’s bet proves to be right.
For a team that ranked 3rd overall in GF last year, and has now dropped down to 23rd this year…trading your highest point getter, who is also one of two guys to play every game, and an ever improving “franchise-grown” player, for yet another LHD (who others are saying will likely end up being a pricey contract)… well it feels like a head scratcher to say the least.
My jersey just aged like egg salad in the mid-june sun.
Love Casey but we have so many good forward prospects that if Byram shores up the 2nd pairing long term while the prospects come in and hopefully flourish then I’m all for it.
Good trade. We need to improve D and make room for upcoming offensive prospects.
So the sabres spent 3 top 10 picks on centers, to trade them all away. Make it make fucking sense. This trade literally makes me want to stop following the team all together at this point. How many times do we have to trade away a young talented foward to see them bloosom elsewhere?
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What the fuck?? This is crazy. We have so many LHD.
Edit: glad to see us upgrade defense and not surprised he was moved. We’re just loaded up at LHD now. I meant crazy as in wild and not stupid.
Byram has been one of my favorite prospects in years, however Casey has been flourishing and we already have two studs on the blue line. Imo Byram’s ceiling is also a top two defender, hopefully we can lock him in long-term at a lower AAV.
Byram has been struggling since their cup run, no idea if colorado has the space to resign mitts
Actually don’t know how I feel about this. Gonna miss Mitts, but if Byram can get it together and Power takes a leap, then we’re gonna look pretty good on defense for the foreseeable future.
Can’t wait to see Mitts light it up in Colorado
I’m so upset. I really loved Mitts.
Kinda makes me feel Casey was asking for a massive contract and I appreciate the return, byram is sick!
This was a pointless trade unless Mitts was asking for 7M+
No idea how to feel. I just know I’m going to really, really miss Mittelstadt.
Man I love Casey, but at the same time I’ve been begging for a “hockey trade”. What the hell lol. I guess we had too many top 6 centers, but now we have too many left d.
Don’t like this one bit. Mitts finally takes a big step forward and we trade him for a kid whose development is stagnating and also who plays a position we already have 2 #1 overall picks locked in long-term at? Common Sabres L.
With all due respect and, with respect to my flair, I’m happy to see we got a quality return for Casey.
Casey was always an enigmatic player but had started to show a lot of talent this year; but if we look over his career here there have been an incredible number of moments where we have all called for his head.
So looking at the balance of his play this is a great job by Kevyn Adams.
He’s also may only be temporary for Colorado because I don’t think they can afford to sign him with the talent they currently have. We could resign him after this trade in the summer.
Also I guess no one wants Victor Olofson?
Edit I fixed some grammar cuz it was really bugging me.
Time for another traded Sabres center to win a cup
There’s so many mixed comments in here. Some hate it, some love it. Im not familiar with Byram, can someone fill me in?
WTF. We needed another defenseman but not THAT type of defenseman. Intriguing swap but my knee jerk reaction is that I don’t like it
Avs fan chiming in – Bo’s got great potential but being buried on the 3rd pairing isn’t doing him any favors. He can thrive but the injuries may be an issue. I hope for nothing but the best for him and I’m happy he’s back with EJ.
Edit: yeah, I forgot y’all already have Dahlin and Power on the left side. I’m sorry, I don’t know too much about your team these days…all I know is I wish y’all were going back to the playoffs this year.
I’m super excited about Mittlestadt! We’ll take care of him for you!
Id rather have Quinn/Peterka long term than Casey anyway
I don’t think I hate this? I feel like Krebs is basically a younger Mitts, and we have a ton of F prospects, might as well solidify the D.
Proof that no matter what the GM does, the fans will be upset about it. We got younger and we needed a top 4 defenseman, Casey is great no doubt. He’s going to be insane for the avs but realistically mitts would’ve been hard to resign imo. You have to switch things up, they’ve been playing better but this is a major wake up call to the room and I think it’s long overdue.
As for the trade as a whole: I would’ve thought we would have to add more to get byram from COL. I think it’s a fair trade though for the most part, I could see it working out for both teams.
Woof
man fuck off
Feels like a trade you make when you feel the pressure to simply make a trade. Mittlestadt consistently created plays out of thin air, and I think his value to the sabres was worth more than we were going to get on the market. There’s no doubt this trade makes Colorado better today (doubt they sign him), but there is definitely doubt that it makes the Sabres better in the future. My gut reaction is this will end about as well as all of the recent Sabres trades…
Edit: I forgot to mention that Byram’s injury and concussion problems are concerning.
Edit 2: It’s also funny to me that we had Montour, who has essentially become the absolute ceiling for what Byram can be. Our roster management under KA is worth questioning.
It’s hard to judge this trade because if Mitts needed > $7m to stay, then it would have been hard to make that work on a long deal.
We also don’t know yet if there are any other smaller pieces moving around.
If Byram rebounds, he’s going to be in the $7m range after this deal expires at the end of next year. Our D will be super expensive.
If it means anything, it’s probably better for the Sabres to trade Mitts at his all time high than pay him at his all time high.
So we traded a solid player for a maybe someday guy? I don’t know Byram but the comments here are not giving me confidence
Ahh yes, a prospect and another left handed defenseman. Exactly what we needed!!! Thanks Kevyn Adams
As much as I enjoyed seeing mitts start to come into his own, I think I really like this gamble. Byram is still so young for a Dman in this league and with Kulich coming along with other prospects/offseason established forwards hopefully yet to come, Im excited to see how this pans out. Overall it sucks to see Mitts go, but Im good with the return.
The entire saga of Mittlestadt started me off confused and ended with me confused. I remember the draft where he couldnt do a pull up. Him having ups and downs and now hes been up and only getting better and now hes gone.
Cool so we get a guy who’s sick and prone to concussions and they can have mitts. This is fine!
Good thing the Sabres didn’t invest any time in Mittelstadt’s development, and then dump him as soon as RFA comes along for a LHD that they don’t need. Don’t know how id feel if that happened.
Some of our forward prospects should be happy, as should Krebs
I don’t really understand how this makes us a better team.
This feels like a trade for the sake of making a trade.
Byram hit a high level of play in the NHL in his DY+2 but he was then derailed by injuries. So this trade makes sense if you think the past two seasons were an aberration as his DY+2 implies his ceiling is high and that Granato, a coach whose proven he can develop young, talented players, can help him reach his potential. The counter argument is that he’s been healthy this season while playing in a good environment in Colorado and yet he has still struggled mightily. Then there’s the fact that the Sabres have traded their best center (and maybe best player) over the past two seasons for a player who is essentially a reclamation project and it feels like the Sabres didn’t get paid near enough. One way this trade makes sense is if Casey was demanding to be paid too much on his next contract, but according to Lance Adams met with Casey and told him any contract talks would be put on [hold until after the deadline](https://old.reddit.com/r/sabres/comments/1b6kvad/buffalo_news_sabres_gm_kevyn_adams_plans_to/ktcidfk/?context=3)
> The Sabres’ general manager met with center Casey Mittelstadt recently to explain, while the club plans to begin contract talks with the pending restricted free agent’s agent, Neil Sheehy, following the deadline, it also must listen to and consider any trade offers that occur before 3 p.m. Friday…
So if they weren’t going to discuss a new deal until then, then it’s possible he wasn’t asking too much, which would imply the Sabres are really high on Byram.
This also means Cozens and Tage will be exposed more without Casey as he was their best two way center and that Krebs should be a regular in the top nine more (maybe the Sabres front office really believes in Krebs’ improved play and that made Casey expendable?). I kinda hate this trade and hope the front office’s bet proves to be right.
For a team that ranked 3rd overall in GF last year, and has now dropped down to 23rd this year…trading your highest point getter, who is also one of two guys to play every game, and an ever improving “franchise-grown” player, for yet another LHD (who others are saying will likely end up being a pricey contract)… well it feels like a head scratcher to say the least.
My jersey just aged like egg salad in the mid-june sun.
Love Casey but we have so many good forward prospects that if Byram shores up the 2nd pairing long term while the prospects come in and hopefully flourish then I’m all for it.
Good trade. We need to improve D and make room for upcoming offensive prospects.
So the sabres spent 3 top 10 picks on centers, to trade them all away. Make it make fucking sense. This trade literally makes me want to stop following the team all together at this point. How many times do we have to trade away a young talented foward to see them bloosom elsewhere?