It’s rare to see two former top-10 picks traded before the age of 26, much less in a one-for-one swap, and with such major implications. In this move, the Sabres fought to find Rasmus Dahlin’s dynamic partner of the future, while the Avalanche hoped to solidify their top-six.
The salary cap isn’t the friend of the Colorado Avalanche right now. After knocking a number of draft picks out of the park in recent years, the other side of that double-edged sword is starting to cut into the Avs roster.
We’re just over 70 days from the one-for-one trade of Casey Mittelstadt for Bowen Byram between the Buffalo Sabres and Colorado Avalanche. One player, Mittelstadt, is still alive in the Stanley Cup Playoffs while the other, Byram, has failed to reach the NHL postseason.
When Casey Mittelstadt was traded to the Colorado Avalanche in March, it was met with a load of scrutiny and confusion. And why wouldn’t it be? Colorado
It’s time for playoff plus/minus! As with every game, you take the good with the bad, so time to take a look at the pluses and the minuses in Game Four against the Dallas Stars for the Colorado Avalanche.
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.
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.
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.
The Philadelphia Flyers have expressed their seriousness about making hockey trades that make sense for the organization, whether it be for now, the future, or both.
Saying he loves being in Buffalo and noting that he’s was surprised to see his name floating around in trade rumors, forward Casey Mittelstadt is hoping he isn’t dealt by the Buffalo Sabres.
Buffalo Sabres center Casey Mittelstadt appeared as a trade deadline option in ESPN’s “News of the Weekes” segment Friday afternoon. The segment ran down some potential trade candidates based on information that Kevin Weekes is hearing.
For much of the season, Buffalo Sabres’ center Casey Mittelstadt has been among their best players. His play has struggled of late, resulting in his dropping down to a third-line center role, but for the first 30 or so games, he played like the dominant player we saw at the end of last season.
Casey Mittelstadt is a perfect case study for why you shouldn’t give up on a prospect too early. When the Buffalo Sabres drafted him in 2017, the expectation was that he could become an effective top-two center.
The Buffalo Sabres fell to 8-14-3 on the season via Tuesday's 2-0 loss to the Anaheim Ducks and experienced an all-too-familiar setback during that defeat.
In Buffalo, Mittelstadt has experienced the same struggles that almost everyone else on the roster has, posting just 61 points in 155 games.
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