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Originally Posted by VilleN
Monahan has a 10(?) team NMC -I wouldn't be surprised at all if Buffalo is on it. And I think it is very unlikely Vegas would prefer Monahan to Tuch. Tuch is better at this moment, he is signed to a much better contract for the next 5 years.
I think the only way Calgary was going to beat Vegas offer would be to include someone like Hanifin, Andersson, or Lindholm - young players with reasonable cap hits and decent term.
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Yep. From what we can gather, this is how the deal went down:
In the summer, the Sabres were asking for the equivalent of four 1st round picks. Nobody was willing to give up that much for a player with a $10 mil cap hit who needs spinal surgery.
Once the season starts, only a handful of teams remain interested. Revised offers are made to the Sabres. The Ducks won’t include Zegras, Drysdale, or MacTavish. Vegas won’t include Krebs. Fair to assume all of the Flames’ prospects are available. Adams decides to wait for better offers.
Due to the decent start by the Sabres, or the realization that no team can or will take on the full $10 mil of Eichel’s cap hit without sending something back, Adams moves off his ‘all futures’ stance and entertains offers for a standard* star player return:
Middle-six forward or second-pairing dman
Good but not elite prospect
1st round pick
Later pick or equivalent prospect
* When this proposal was put forward on this site it was scorned with comments saying “if that’s all it would take the deal would be done already.” And yet it’s exactly what the Sabres got.
We know Vegas put forward a deal that was entertained by the Sabres, but it did not yet include Krebs. So probably:
Tuch
Different prospect
Protected 1st
2nd
We know the Flames made a pitch around this time. We also know the Flames were never the front-runner. So Adams preferred the Vegas offer even before Krebs was in the package. Which suggests that whatever the Flames had in the [middle-six forward or second pairing d] slot wasn’t as attractive to the Sabres as Tuch. I’m guessing Treliving offered some combination of Monahan/Dube/Valimaki, and Adams preferred Tuch.
tldr: It wasn’t just about the Sabres liking Krebs. They liked Tuch better than any roster player the Flames were willing to move as well.