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The Buffalo Sabres have traded forward Marcus Johansson to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for forward Eric Staal.
This is coming after the Wild got eliminated from the 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs; the same Playoffs which the Buffalo Sabres failed to qualify for.
The 2020 Stanley Cup Playoffs are involving sixteen teams, which are the Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Washington Capitals, Philadelphia Flyers, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes, New York Islanders, and Columbus Blue Jackets in the East, and the Colorado Avalanche, St. Louis Blues, Vegas Golden Knights, Vancouver Canucks, Calgary Flames, Chicago Blackhawks, Arizona Coyotes, and Dallas Stars in the West.
The matchups are currently the Golden Knights VS Stars in the Western Conference Finals, and Lightning VS Islanders in the Eastern Conference Finals.
The Vegas Golden Knights got eliminated by the Dallas Stars in the Western Conference Finals in Game 5.
Of the Conference Semi-Final matchups, the Boston Bruins, Colorado Avalanche, Vancouver Canucks, and Philadelphia Flyers have been eliminated
The eliminated teams of the 2020 NHL Playoffs from the qualifying play-in series are the Edmonton Oilers, Winnipeg Jets, Nashville Predators, Minnesota Wild, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Rangers, Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Florida Panthers.
Teams eliminated from the first round of the 2020 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs are the St. Louis Blues, Calgary Flames, Arizona Coyotes, Chicago Blackhawks, Columbus Blue Jackets, Montreal Canadiens, Carolina Hurricanes, and the Washington Capitals.
Along with this move, the Sabres will have lots to look forward to at the 2020 NHL Entry Draft.
The current NHL rankings for the 2020 NHL Draft go as follows:
1st) New York Rangers
2nd) Los Angeles Kings
3rd) Ottawa Senators (from San Jose Sharks)
4th) Detroit Red Wings
5th) Ottawa Senators
6th) Anaheim Ducks
7th) New Jersey Devils
8th) Buffalo Sabres
9th) Minnesota Wild
10th) Winnipeg Jets
11th) Nashville Predators
12th) Florida Panthers
13th) Carolina Hurricanes (from Toronto Maple Leafs)
14th) Edmonton Oilers
15th) Toronto Maple Leafs (Pittsburgh Penguins)
16th) Montreal Canadiens
17th) Chicago Blackhawks
18th) New Jersey Devils (from Arizona Coyotes)
19th) Calgary Flames
20th) Vancouver Canucks
21st) Columbus Blue Jackets
22nd) New York Rangers (Carolina Hurricanes)
23rd) Philadelphia Flyers
24th) Washington Capitals
25th) Colorado Avalanche
26th) St. Louis Blues
27th) Boston Bruins
The draft is stacked with guys like Alexis Lafrenière at the top, with Quinton Byfield, Tim Stützle, Lucas Raymond, Alexander Holtz, Jamie Drysdale, Marco Rossi, Cole Perfetti, Jake Sanderson, and Yaroslav Askarov rounding out the top 10. The rest of the draft has a ton of great talent as well, like Anton Lundell, Kaiden Guhle, Dawson Mercer, Braden Schneider, Dylan Holloway, Hendrix Lapierre, Connor Zary, Justin Barron, Jack Quinn, John-Jason Peterka, William Wallinder, Rodion Amirov, Jacob Perreault, Seth Jarvis, Ty Smilanic, Jeremie Poirer, Noel Gunler, Mavrik Bourque, Lukas Reichel, Tyler Kleven, Ridly Greig, Justin Sourdif, Shakir Mukhamadullin, Jake Neighbours, Luke Tuch, Helge Grans, Jan Mysak, Michael Benning, and Antonio Stranges.
The former NHL Draft Lottery odds, went in order as the Detroit Red Wings, Ottawa Senators, San Jose Sharks (Senators), Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim Ducks, New Jersey Devils, Buffalo Sabres, Montreal Canadiens, Chicago Blackhawks, Arizona Coyotes (Devils), Minnesota Wild, Winnipeg Jets, New York Rangers, Florida Panthers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Calgary Flames, Vancouver Canucks (Devils), Nashville Predators, Toronto Maple Leafs (Hurricanes), Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders (Senators), Dallas Stars, Carolina Hurricanes (Rangers), Pittsburgh Penguins (Wild), Philadelphia Flyers, Tampa Bay Lightning (Sharks), Colorado Avalanche, Vegas Golden Knights, Washington Capitals, St. Louis Blues, and Boston Bruins (Ducks).
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27 Comments
lmao wow
Good move for BUF!!
A mentor for Eichel no doubt.
Staal is a bargain for his stats. Well done Buffalo. He’ll be an excellent assistant captain to Eichel too!
Good deal for both teams because Minnesota gets a younger player in Johanssen who is not as good as staal, but buffalo gets Staal as they need to make a push for the playoffs this year.
so Buffalo actually get Staal for free
Like it for Buffalo
Interesting for sure
..at 29 Johansson will a youngster on the Wild who need to get younger..
That goalie goes down to soon.
Sabres won imo
the worst trade for minnesota
These shot trader are the reason they will not be good in many many many years to come
I think this is a huge deal for Eichel and for Buffalo, Eichel has a chance at the playoffs, staal is someone who might resign if they contest next year
Hehe.. well.. its a good trade for Buf.
Love Eric Stall when a Hurricane and Skinner fed off of him when they played together.. so chemistry is involved.
Still no fan of Skinner but he played well with Eric who at the time was an elite center and can still may be.
Skinner!!
Honestly, this is great for both Mittelstadt’s and Cozens’ development. Cozens is probably seen as the teams future 2C and with Staal there, they can afford to start developing Mittelstadt as a winger that can play centre when needed. I think Mittelstadt will be more suited in the NHL as a winger than a centre and this trade allows them to focus on making him a winger rather than pressure him to be a centre while not pressuring Cozens to be the guy right away. Overall big W for the Sabres and great first trade for Adams
wtf you talking about long term potential of Marcus J he's dog and he's not getting any better, bunk trade by the wild Guerin needs a vibe check
I think Wild may trade for Domi or Strome or I don't think they are so confident to get the deal done. Good trade for Buffalo, nice mentor for Mittlestadt and can help Mittlestadt to be the 2C. Wild now have their top 6 winger spots set, I would be curious to see how Wild can find a way to replace Staal
Cozens will be 3rd line center middlestadt 4th center if he's lucky.
Good trade
Man I feel bad for Staal.
I think this is the right move to fill 2c until Cozens or MittleStadt are ready for buffalo
What if staal just retires so minnesota wins in a landslide
Good trade. Stall is going to infuse some experience and make a decent 2nd line center. It’s going to take more than that for the Sabres to make the cut however.
These trades don’t make sense
Johansson might be 6 years younger, but it doesnt guarantee that he will sign with the Wild next year when we will become UFA.
One for one, 1 year contract each, I think it is a steal for the Sabres. Not only Staal is much better but has a cheaper contract. I am still surprised it was a one for one.
Guerin has a plan……. Like Dutch in rdr 2.