 Alright Buffalo, welcome back and we're here with some more GM mode. We got the trade deadline lurking upon us and I took the time to just kind of do some things off video. I found a couple trades that I'm willing to do. I'm going to show you the big one that I've been planning up. So we plan on, the top five players that we plan on getting rid of, Craig Anderson, Gurgasen, Sheehan, Ockpozo, and Ilya Labushkin. So this is a trade that I cooked up that I was just looking at here. So it is to send Gurgasen and Ilya Labushkin off to the Rangers who at the time have a great record, they're looking to make the playoffs and they're looking to get rid of this defenseman prospect for 21 years of age, 77 overall already. He is a potential to be a top four defenseman, medium top four defenseman. At 37 games played, three goals, 15 assists, 10 penalty minutes, and a minus one, which isn't too bad. Now looking here is what I really like is the superstar abilities that he has, quick pick, yoink, tape to tape, and heat seeker. Now this could potentially go through. We are going to have to retain Ilya Labushkin, which is fine. I think we only have him locked up for a year. So we'll retain 50% of it, which I'm 100% okay with. And he has two years left, so we'd be retaining it for two years. It says we're going to be under the league cap. So maybe we won't retain, okay, hold on, give me a second here. It says we're going to be under the cap, Buffalo will be under the league minimum cap. So is there someone that we can take from the Rangers low trade value that has a lot of cap, maybe a Ryan Reeves and something like this could potentially go through. So this is a trade that we would be looking for at the trade deadline. Get rid of Gergeson, get rid of Labushkin. Now in terms of Craig Anderson, in terms of Sheehan and Okposo, these guys are going to get a strap picks for this year. That's all it's going to be. But this is a one big blockbuster, not really a blockbuster, but something that I'm willing to take a run at, 21 years old, 77 or over all already, be playing some good minutes. Now with that being said, we have some pretty good defensemen. Now where exactly would he line up, right? So we're getting rid of Elia Labushkin. We have Rasmus Dallin, Owen Power, Yoki Haru, Clegg, like he would fit in there not too bad. We got Bryson, we got Samuelson, some decent little players here. So this is a trade that I'm really liking. I had some other ones on the board here, another player that I was looking at over in Colorado. Same sort of deal here. Let me just try to look for him. Yeah, Bokej, right winger, 21 years old, 69 overall, has quick pick, has yoink, not a bad looking player, hasn't really played much this year, played five games with Colorado. Last year playing 40 games, 12 points in 40 games. I'm still liking Robertson over him. And then we were looking at another trade over in Washington, another rookie skater as well, Alexiev, 77 overall, 23 years old, another defenseman. Similar to Robertson, Robertson has the superstar abilities, which I'd rather go after. So it looks like that's the one and only deal we're looking to make at the trade deadline, obviously other ones being for draft picks and looking to ship off Craig Anderson, Sheehan, and Akposo, who is our captain right now. But I don't see us signing him after the year. And if we do, we can just look at him in free agency, or maybe we just hang on to him and see what we can sign him back for next year. All right, now with that being said, we are just going to simulate the last month. And we are heading up to the trade deadline. So what we're going to do is we're going to hit the trade deadline in this video, we're going to pretty much just simulate the whole season and sim up to the draft. And then next video will be when the draft comes back. Now, starting off this video, Henry Okiharu is going to be injured with a sore shoulder until February 12th. So that is not ideal, but it is OK. Like I said, we are trying to tank. So everyone's going to go up a line. And do we have a defenseman that's scratched? No, we do not. So let me go to roster moves. We're going to have to call up a defenseman. We probably should just keep up with defensemen since we have just so many injuries on the back end. We'll call up Pilute. Hopefully I'm saying these names right, man. I'm so bad with pronouncing some of these last names. So I apologize in advance. So again, Labushkin up one, Clegg up one. And then we will be bringing in Pew. And that looks good to me. All right, so that's that. Let's continue the sim here. Rasmus Dallin is available, so we'll just continue. Let a couple days pass. We will do continue there as well. Okiharu's back. So with that being said, we're bringing Rasmus Dallin back. I don't think we want to bring in Okiharu back just yet. So let me do this real quick. Now, Okiharu, we're going to bring in Dallin. Which means we will be taking out probably Bright. Like who do we take out? I think it's going to be maybe Samuelson for the time being. So let's do that. Samuelson, is he on a two way so we can send him back? He's on a one way. Is Bryson on a two way? He's on a one way as well. So we're going to have to scratch both of these guys or at least one of them. Dallin's back. We're going to wait on Henry Okiharu. The Flames have fired their coach. We're winning games again after bringing in Rasmus Dallin. Okiharu should be get to play. So let's throw him back into the lineup as well. So everyone's going to pretty much just move down a line. And Henry Okiharu is back into the lineup and we will continue the sim just like that. So our top pairing is back and healthy and ready to go days or weeks prior to the trade deadline. But we're not looking to ship off either or those guys. All right. So we get a trade coming in. And OK, interesting. Bukej was one of the guys that we were looking at and we were going to get rid of Gurgison and Labushkin. Now they won our third round pick of 2020-24, 2024. And we're going to get back their fourth. We're going to give up Riley Sheehan, who is a player that we are looking to get rid of. And in exchange, we're bringing in Bukej. Now, I did like this kid. 21 years old, right winger. He's a potential, a low potential being a top nine forward. So see someone we're willing to take a risk on. I'm not too sure. Some decent X factors. He could be a decent little fourth liner. Is he worth getting rid of a third round pick? I don't know if he's worth getting rid of a third round pick for next year, especially. That could be a pick that we can use next year in a potential trade. We would be getting a fourth rounder back, which isn't too bad. Riley Sheehan, could we get more than just a fourth round pick back for him? Probably not. Like the highest pick we could probably get for him is probably a third round pick of this year. I think I might pass on this. I know I was looking at this kid, but man, a low top nine forward, he does have those synergies, but I don't think it's someone we're willing to take a risk on. So you know what, we're going to exit out of that. We could probably get a third rounder, which is what I'm like, especially for this year, is something that I'm looking forward to. So the trade deadline is coming up. We'll sim to a day before and just kind of look where this team is at. We are 27, 26, and eight. We're still in seventh place in the Atlantic. In the whole NHL, you know, we are bottom 10, which is good. So another thing was I was looking at Jeff Skinner. Now is he a contract that, or is he a player that I want to unload at the deadline this time around? I don't think so. I know his contract's not the greatest, five years at 9.6. I say we give him one more year and if the team tanks next year as well, maybe he's someone we're willing to give up. But for the time being, I think Skinner's the guy we're going to keep. So the one trade that we are for sure making for a prospect is Gurg and Labushkin for Robertson and Reeves. So we are going to head into the trade deadline. We are going to be sellers. I think we're going to be conservative sellers because we're not looking to sell too much. So here we are. We are a conservative seller, enter trade deadline. Let's see who are the big players on the board. So it is Poulac, it is Spurgeon, it is Tyler Bertuzzi, John Klingberg, Ryan Ellis. All right, so some decent names out there. All right, so let's go make our trade right away and let's see if this goes through. So again, it is going to be Gurgensen, which will be right here. It's going to be Gurgensen and it is going to be Ilya Labushkin and we are going to be shipping them off to the Rangers. We have a trade alert, the Minnesota Wild are trading Ryan Harman and Golugosi to the Knights in exchange for a second, a third and Hemmerling. All right, so not a big blockbuster trade there but just depth trade. So the Rangers, we're looking for Robertson. We are looking for Ryan Reeves as well. He is right over here and we are going to retain Ilya Labushkin's salary and we got another trade alert coming here as the Arizona Coyotes are trading Troy Stetcher, a third rounder to the Canucks for a fifth rounder and a second rounder, right? So this is a trade we're looking to make Gurgensen, Labushkin for Ryan Reeves and Robertson. Let's see if it goes through and it is rejected. Okay, so they're not a fan of it, which I totally understand. Now, who are players that are matching the block that they potentially want here? Okay, so someone that we're willing to give up essentially with a little bit of trade value, Cowlock Poser could be one of those guys, Sheehan, we need someone with low cap as well. Maybe a Riley Sheehan, see if that potentially goes through. Sheehan, Labushkin and Gurgensen for Robertson and Reeves and the trade is accepted, all right? So maybe we overpaid a little bit. We could have maybe got a draft pick in there but the one trade that we wanted to make is done and over with. So a good prospect and Robertson coming back our way. Now, Craig Anderson, I do want to get rid of him. I do want to bring up UPL and just kind of have him have the net for the rest of the season. So Craig Anderson, who is interested in Craig Anderson? It is looking like, may just be, okay, Nashville's looking for them. They have a decent record. Someone with a worse record who wants Craig Anderson, looks like it's just gonna be Vancouver, okay? And the caps, all right. So it looks like Vancouver has one of the worst records out here out of those teams. We got a trade coming in. Ooh, two seconds for Josh Norris. Okay, interesting, all right. So we have two second round picks from 2023. Is that a glitch? Do we actually have two second overall picks? Okay, so Buffalo in Vegas is second round picks. For Josh Norris, who is having a decent year. Second line forward, no X factors. Eight years of seven, nine, almost eight. I don't know, we're trying to draft right now. We're trying to draft. Josh Norris is 23, which is the good news. Do we want to get rid of two second round picks? Now looking at our draft picks, we will still have a second round pick in Phillies. We don't have a third for this year, which we can try and go and acquire. We have a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, and a seventh. Are we willing to give up two seconds for Josh Norris? That's the question. He's 23, top six forward, medium. He would fit into this team on the forward line three and penalty kill line two. We are looking to bring in a new coach next year. I don't know, this is kind of a deal where it's like I'm kind of interested in it, but at the same time is given two second overall picks. Too much for Josh Norris, and it's an eight year contract at eight meal. Will this contract bite us in the butt? Man, we might have to decline this. We might have to decline this. I'm gonna keep our second round picks and hope that drafting really just works out in our favor, okay? So back to what we were doing, it was Craig Anderson going to Vancouver. I don't know what kind of draft pick we can get for him here. Maybe if we can try to snag a six overall pick, Vancouver would have more. Okay, so Vancouver is not gonna work. Maybe we will try Winnipeg. We can get a seventh rounder for him. We got another trade here. St. Louis is trading Nola Chari and a couple picks at Columbus for Bemstrom and a second rounder. So let's see if this goes through. All right, Craig Anderson is off two Winnipeg as we get a seventh round pick there. So that is Gergensen, that is Anderson, that is Labushkin gone, and Sheehan is gone as well. So really the only other player we're looking to get rid of is Cowlock Posso, and I'm kind of keen to just keep him and seeing what he wants come the off season, okay? Winnipeg making another trade. They're trading a second rounder, a fourth rounder, and Wagner to the Islanders in exchange for Scott Mayfield and a third rounder as long as, wow, and Zach Parise as well, okay? So it looks like the moves that we were looking to make are done, all right? We brought in that prospect, and Robertson, who we were really looking to bring in, he was a rookie that I was really just looking at and actually really just liking as well. So Robertson, 77 overall, he's gonna be playing with these guys, and UPL as well will be coming in and playing full-time. Detroit's trading the Delkovich to Chicago for a third and two thirds, okay, wow, interesting. So like I said, UPL is gonna get the net for the remainder of the season, play some NHL games. Has he played any NHL games? So he has. He went two, five, and three, nine, 16 save percentage, which isn't too bad. So he's gonna be playing some NHL times, time games. Without being said, trade deadline is pretty much done for us. I'm gonna sit here if there's any blockbuster trades I will bring them up quickly before we go. Edmonton's making a trade, sending a third and a fourth and Matias Yamark to the Dallas Stars in exchange for Stan Kovic and Erdal. All right, so if there's any blockbusters, we will come back, power of editing. All right, Colorado has made a trade. Arturi Lekhanen and a six-round pick to the Islanders in exchange for Semyon of Arlamov and Leneu. All right, that's an interesting little trade there. Colorado making another trade. They're trading Gorgia of Olasin as long with a fifth round pick to Detroit in exchange for Tyler Bertuzzi and Sunquist. Oh my God, that is a blockbuster trade. Let's go look at that one. I need to break that one down real quick. So Tyler Bertuzzi and Oscar Sunquist are Colorado Avalanche as Gorgia of Olasin and a fifth round pick is going back in return. I wanna say Colorado won that trade and my God, Joe Sack, he's pulling off some magic once again. Colorado is looking to go back to back this year. Incoming trade alert, okay. All right, another interesting trade. Our two seconds again. One from this year, one from next year and Bork for a third and Jonas Brodeen. Okay, so here's my thing. We don't really need defensemen. We need offense. This isn't a trade that I'm really interested in. Not to say that it's bad, but we have a pretty decent defensive core. We traded for a defensive prospect. We're looking for offensive players. I'm kind of thinking we should have accepted that trade when Josh Norris was on the board from Ottawa. The Maple Leafs are making a deal as they're sending Kokenin and a third round pick to Los Angeles in exchange for a third, Edler and a sixth round pick. So Toronto getting some veteran defense back there, which they desperately need. Good trade. Carolina making a trade here with just over an hour left. They're trading Suzuki, Drui, too. The San Jose Sharks in exchange for Nudovara, a fourth and a fifth round pick. So a good prospect heading over. Incoming trade, two seconds for Iofalo and Walker. Not something I'm interested in. Gonna decline. I wanna keep those second round picks. We could have got Josh Norris for those two seconds. So I'm gonna decline that. And the trade deadline has come and gone. Some big deals. The one coming out of Colorado as they acquired Tyler Batuzzi and Sunquist in exchange for Gorgia and Olasin. That is the only big trade that really happened. Huge blockbuster there. So now we got some waiver players here. John Hainley, 31 years old, has some X-Factors. Not someone we're really interested in. So we're gonna decline that real quick. And now what I wanted to go do was make the moves where we bring up UPL. And maybe even play Robertson up here, all right? So Bjork is now a full-timer. Ryan Reeves is now on the team as well. Middle stats gonna play up there. Skinner I want up there. Defensively, okay. And now let me see is UPL up here? He is. UPL and Eric Comrie fighting for the crease. I guess we're not really fighting. I mean, this year's kind of shot. Defensively, let's look in the AHL. Is the defensive that we picked up playing? He is not. I do definitely want to put him in. Where is he? Interesting, hold on. Where is he? Let me go to the roster moves. Maybe he is scratched in the NHL. That's the only thing I could be thinking of right now. He is, all right. So if that's the case, I do definitely want to play him. So let's do that real quick. We're gonna take out Clegg and we are gonna throw in Robertson, give him some time in the NHL, see what he can do up here. And looks good to me. So we're gonna continue the rest of the season, hopefully lose a bunch of games and really secure what kind of pick we're getting here. So we're gonna go the rest of the month here and see what's going. So we'll do head coach replaces there. That's the AHL. We're winning games. Eric Harmery's been injured. So we're gonna have to call up a gold tender. And that means we are gonna see UPL play some games. So we're gonna call up Malcolm Subban. We're gonna edit our NHL lines here. And we are going to throw him in. UPL, has he played a game yet? He did and he got a shutout in this. Okay, two games he's played. He has a shutout, interesting. Okay, good for him. Malcolm Subban will be the backup for the time being. And UPL kind of just gets to do what he wants to do now. So that looks pretty good there. We'll do continue. We're gonna have to continue here and let's keep it going, all right? So let's continue to lose some games, but lose with dignity if that makes sense. So yeah, all right. So Eric Harmery's back, you know what? I kind of just want to sit him and let UPL just run with the crease. So no offense to Eric Harmery there, all right? So let's keep it going. It's been a piss poor month, which we are pretty happy with. I'm not gonna lie. So we're 31, 33, and 11. We are still in seventh. There's no way I can see the Canadians catching us. So I think like we're gonna have, I don't know if we're gonna be in the top five for picks. So that's gonna be interesting there, okay? So let's keep it going. Keep the losses coming. Vinnie Henestroza will be out for the rest of the season, not ideal. So we'll move up Ryan Reeves. Is anyone scratched up here? Just a fenceman. So we're gonna have to call up a forward. So let's go do that real quick. Who is going to finish the season with us? You know what? Let's call up Peyton Krebs. He's up to a 79, or was he always 79? He might've always been 79. We'll call up Peyton Krebs. We're gonna give him some playing time to end off the NHL season. And you know what? I am gonna throw him onto that third line as well. So let's throw Peyton Krebs in here. He could play left wing. So we'll throw him on that left wing there. And let's see what he can do playing with the big boys up in the NHL, all right? So let's continue simming here. Four-nothing loss, nine-two loss. We're losing some big boy games, which isn't ideal. Five-two loss, four-nothing win. Vinnie Henestroza is back. And you know, okay, so we're above. We can just send down one of the players that are scratched. Who's on a two-way pew? We'll send him down. Oh, we can't. Okay, so who can we send down? It can't be Bjork. We gotta send down someone. All right, hold on. Let's just auto-fix the roster to end off the season anyways. Not a big deal. Bjork's now injured. We'll just do best lines for the last game of the season. And that is it. So we end off the season 34, 37, and 11. We are in seventh place. The Canadians actually almost did catch up to us. So let's quickly just look at everyone's stats to end off the year here. Jeff Skinner ended up finishing the year with 78 points in 82 games, 39 goals, 39 assists. Olson, 66, and 82. Thompson, 61, and 76. Tuck, 51, and 82, and minus 22 did not have a great year there. Goleys, UPL, four, five, and three, nine-08 save percentage. That is A-OK with me. Comrie went 8-13-2, 9-07, and Subban 1-5, and oh, with an 8-67, not great from him. Now, looking at the entire league here, how did everyone do? So who led in points and all that good stuff here, all right? So looking at points, no one had a 100-point season. Crosby finishing with 98. Kutra with 93. McDavid with 93. Most goals, 52 with Malcolm. Matthews, 50 with Kutra, 49 with Miko Ranton. And now, let's see where we finished off in the entire NHL here. I'm actually very interested to see. So entire league points we finished in 25th. So not great, not great. We could potentially get a decent little pick, but 25th is where we ended up finishing off the year, right? So that's pretty much everything we wanna see. We'll simulate through all the playoffs and just kinda see what happens there, right? So the NHL season is complete. We got some pretty decent playoff matches happening across the league. So we're gonna sim to the draft and just kinda see who wins the cup, who wins some sort of trophies, and then we will see next episode what's gonna happen come the draft. So we're hoping for a decent little pick. Hopefully we can get a decent pick. We just, you just don't know. So simming the entire playoffs, let's see who is going to be the Stanley Cup champions for the 2022, oh my God, it's the Chicago Blackhawks? The Chicago Blackhawks have won the Stanley Cup. Interesting, so where are we ranked? Buffalo, Buffalo, Buffalo. We have the eighth overall pick. All right, so not ideal. We dropped the rank, we were supposed to get the seventh and we dropped down to the eighth. New Jersey's getting a first round pick once again. Then it leads Anaheim, Montreal, Calgary, Los Angeles, Minnesota, San Jose, Arizona, and then Buffalo. So do we try trading up? Do we have anyone that we can trade up? I don't know. So let's look who retired first off. Anyone from the Buffalo Sabres, no one. Joe Thornton retired, Shea Weber, Kessler, Andrew Ladd, Tyler Bozak, Brent Seabrook, some very notable names there. So looking good here, we are going to continue simming, or let's review the draft class. Conor Bedard, obviously unknown for some reason. So we had some horrible drafting. Oh wow, that is crazy. Let's look at these gems here, all right? So this guy's supposed to go fourth overall. This guy's supposed to go 48th. This guy's supposed to go eighth overall. Zachary Benson, it looks like who we're gonna line up with. He is 18 years of age, 5'10", 158, he's a center. No strengths that they can really show there, okay? So we have Conor Bedard. We've got Valesi, we've got Punavivs. Jaeger, Benson, who's supposed to go eighth. If this guy drops Jaeger, what are we looking here? 21 goals, 46 assists, another centerman. How did Benson do? 20 goals, 31 assists, you know what? He doesn't look like a bad player. Someone that could be interesting to draft as well. We could use a center, but man, New Jersey getting Conor Bedard's gonna be great for them, so congrats to them. We have Valesi here, man, some of these names are crazy. But anyways, it looks like we're taking Benson, at least that's what it's looking like. He's projected to go eighth overall. And then, yeah, that's pretty much it there, so not too bad. Next episode, we're gonna hit the NHL draft, but we're gonna do this quickly. So let's look at the awards. Stanley Cup going to the Chicago Blackhawks. President's trophy going to the Stars. Clarence going to the Blackhawks. Prince of Wales going to Tampa. All right, those are all the team awards, individual awards, Aras going to Crosby. The Hart going to Stamcoast. The Norris going to Headman. The Ladybing going to ADB. Calder going to McTavish. Consmite to Patty Kane. Vezna to Jake Audinger. William M. Jennings going to Valamov. Seganthaler gets the Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy. The Jack Adams going to Pasquale. The Selkie going to Patrice Bergeron. Ted Lindsay going to Stamcoast. Maurice Rashard going to Melkin. Art Ross, and that's everything, all right? So I kind of want to just see the playoff tree here. What does Chicago do to win, all right? They won in seven against Colorado. They swept the natural predators. They won in five against the Jets and they won in five against the Lightning in the finals. That is absolutely crazy. Anyways, guys, that is going to be it for this episode. Next episode, we hit the NHL entry draft. We hit free agency. And guys, let me know what we should do. Obviously, the eighth overall pick we're probably picking that Bryson Kidd or whatever his last name was there. But come at free agency. Do we try to pick up players to, you know, try to ice a playoff winning team? What do we do? Do we, you know, continue with the rebuild, have another bad year, maybe have one more bad year and see where we go after that. I'm not 100% sure. So let me know what we should do in the comment section below. And honestly, I think maybe we give it one more year. We go out in free agency, get some depth players, just, you know, players to ice onto the team and go from there and let the rookies just play out and see how that happens. So let me know what we should do in the comment section down below that is it for today's video. Next episode, we hit the NHL entry draft.