Glad that the idea is that Buffalo wants a hockey trade, not a futures trade. Calgary should be keeping as much of their futures as possible.
I am very intrigued by Cozens. He is too young to have trade protection, so I expect his price will be north of Miller's. No idea what would go the other way, but it certainly seems like a third team may need to get in place here. A non-futures deal would look more like picking from this bunch:
Huberdeau, Kadri, Backlund, Zary, Frost, Farabee, Weegar, Andersson, Bahl, Pospisil, Coleman, Coronato, Vladar/Wolf, Sharangovich.. Klapka maybe?
Just a list of established (or close to) players on the team. That's certainly enough flexibility and value for a Cozens trade, even factoring-in players with NMCs. It just may hurt as the young players may be the ones that end up going in exchange (Zary, Pospisil, Coronato, etc) because they don't have trade protection.
I would love to know what has been offered or asked for from either side, if it went that far.
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