Two former Buffalo Sabres from this past season are still alive in the playoffs, with Casey Mittelstadt’s Colorado Avalanche and Kyle Okposo’s Florida Panthers coming off big first-round wins as we dig into the Sabres Grades for the trade casualties.
The Winnipeg Jets were facing elimination for the first time in the series against the Colorado Avalanche. It was time that they had to step up and Colorado did not step back at all themselves.
YB's Griffin Carroll went 2-0 again yesterday on his NHL picks, a clean 6-0 over the past three days. Let's just continue to win hockey props, eh?
It sure will be nice to not have to talk about who is going to be the second line center for the Colorado Avalanche next season and beyond. Chris MacFarland’s aggressive deadline solved that problem two months ago.
When you acquire a big piece at the trade deadline with 0 games of NHL playoff experience, you never really know what you’re going to get when the most important time of year rolls around.
I don’t know if “sleepy” is the right word to use for skate, but it did seem to be a relatively quiet morning for the Colorado Avalanche. Maybe a lot of that has to do with their opponent.
The Colorado Avalanche have been searching for a second-line center for a long time. They tried to fill the gap with a bunch of deals before the season, but it was a shrewd move at the trade deadline that might have solved the problem.
When the Buffalo Sabres shipped off Erik Johnson, Casey Mittelstadt and Kyle Okposo at the NHL's trade deadline, it appeared they were raising a white surrender flag on their season.
As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in the game against the Vancouver Canucks for the Colorado Avalanche.
An early trade deadline winner is far and away the Buffalo Sabres. They traded away Kyle Okposo to go chase a Stanley Cup in Flordia, and flipped defenceman Erik Johnson to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Yes, everyone knows Bowen Byram is off to a roaring start with his new team out in Buffalo, but the guy the Colorado Avalanche got in return for him is a pretty good player himself.
The Colorado Avalanche were rather active at the 2024 NHL Trade Deadline. Colorado made a few moves to add depth to their lineup prior to March 8. However, they made two significant moves to boost their playoff odds.
It cannot be easy to play a hockey game with that many new faces in the lineup, but through it all, the Colorado Avalanche walked away with a big 2-1 overtime victory against the Minnesota Wild.
The Colorado Avalanche were busy buyers at the trade deadline, and one of the most important decisions they made was to take another swing at a spot in the lineup that has been a headache for the past two seasons.
This year’s “Trade Deadline Week” has already lived up to the hype. Wednesday alone has been nothing short of seismic. As of this writing, we’ve already received word of a half-dozen different deals, with various other rumblings about players like Jake Guentzel and Jason Zucker.
Just minutes after sending Ryan Johansen and a first-round pick to the Philadelphia Flyers in a trade for defenseman Sean Walker, the Colorado Avalanche continued checking boxes off their wish list by acquiring Buffalo Sabres center Casey Mittelstadt in exchange for 22-year-old blueliner Bowen Byram.
The Avalanche are making their second high-impact deal of Wednesday.
Casey Mittelstadt had the only successful shootout attempt to give the Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 victory against the visiting Carolina Hurricanes on Sunday night.
Would the Buffalo Sabres trade Casey Mittelstadt? He is a pending restricted free agent this offseason, but he has previously stated he intends to re-sign with the Sabres.
The Buffalo Sabres were one of the big surprises in 2022-23, coming within two points of advancing to the Stanley Cup Playoffs and looking poised to finally get over the hump this time around.
The Buffalo Sabres are looking to trade center Casey Mittelstadt, and according to reports, the Sabres are very determined to get a deal done by the NHL trade deadline.