Back when the season ended in April, the Buffalo Sabres general manager spoke about big changes that could be coming for his hockey club. “When you finish where we are you have to look at everything, that means looking at even changing up our core players,” said Jason Botterill at his postseason press conference.
Up to this point, it looked as though Botterill had made a lot of changes already by trading Ryan O’Reilly and bringing a good amount of new faces.
Today, he continued to change things up by acquiring winger Jeff Skinner from the Carolina Hurricanes in exchange for prospect Cliff Pu, a second-round pick in 2019, a third-round pick in 2020 and a sixth-round pick in 2020.