Montreal Canadiens: Hypothetical Habs Trade With Every Atlantic Division Team

Buffalo Sabres

The Buffalo Sabres are a complete tire fire. They only have four forwards signed for next season and they are all overpaid. Jack Eichel is the biggest bargain on the team and he costs $10 million per year.

The one thing the Sabres do have is a plethora of defencemen. Like, they had way too many defencemen last season and not enough forwards who were NHL quality. They had to give Marco Scandella up for a fourth round pick because they couldn’t fit all their defenders on the roster. Scandella was traded a couple of weeks later for a second and a fourth round pick.

Anyway, the Sabres still have too many defenders. If the Canadiens are going to add a blue liner I would either want a top pairing left defenceman which would then lead to Brett Kulak and Victor Mete being traded. Or, a top four right defenceman which would then lead to Jeff Petry being traded.

This trade would be the latter. The Sabres acquired Brandon Montour from the Anaheim Ducks two years ago for a late first round pick and a decent prospect in Brendan Guhle. With Rasmus Ristolainen, Henri Jokiharju, Colin Miller and Montour on the right side, someone will likely have to go.

Would the Sabres move Montour within the division for a better prospect than they gave up for him and a slightly worse draft pick?