Some change is required in Buffalo, and JJ Peterka has worth and leverage
Daily Faceoff: Frank Seravalli and Tyler Yaremchuk speaking about a number of the names on his NHL Commerce Targets record, together with Buffalo Sabres pending RFA ahead JJ Peterka.
** NHLRumors.com transcription
Yaremchuk: “At the moment, we’re speaking in regards to the commerce targets board. And the identify at primary is a extremely expert participant who could be very younger and comes with group management. So I ask, why are the Buffalo Sabres trying to commerce JJ Peterka?
Seravalli: “They could not have a alternative. I feel it’s gone sideways in Buffalo for Peterka and a handful of different Sabres gamers. I feel they’re sad with the dearth of progress, and it’s onerous to essentially squint and see mild on the finish of the tunnel, as they’ve hit 14 consecutive seasons with out the playoffs.
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They’ve made one commerce of consequence in your complete season. They retained their whole teaching employees and administration group, which is sort of weird. And so they’re arriving at this second in time the place Peterka has some not simply vital worth, however leverage. He’s a pending RFA. He doesn’t need to signal a brand new cope with you. He’s topic to a proposal sheet on July 1, if he makes it that far.
So I feel he is likely to be, with all due respect, you realize, Mitch Marner is the perfect free agent accessible this summer time, however JJ Peterka is the perfect participant on the commerce market that’s accessible. And if you add in his age, you’re speaking about vital, vital worth coming again to the Buffalo Sabres.
So not a cushty place to be in. I feel it’s going to take a number of work to see JJ Peterka in a Sabres uniform within the fall. It’s actual onerous for me at this time limit to see it. And it’s going to be fascinating to look at it develop, as a result of I feel there’s a variety of groups that had expressed some vital curiosity when it got here to the commerce deadline in March. I don’t assume Buffalo is able to take into account it then, I don’t know that they’re going to have a alternative.”
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