3 teams that should call the Sabres for Casey Mittelstadt by the trade deadline
One former Sabre worked well for Vegas; what’s one more?
The Vegas Golden Knights have some deadline cap space, and since they are nowhere near the dominant force they were last season, few organizations need to step up and make a trade more than the 2023 Stanley Cup Champions.
Vegas and Buffalo have a history working with one another, as about two-and-a-half years ago, the former traded away Alex Tuch, Peyton Krebs, and other assets for Jack Eichel. And in Eichel’s first full season with the Knights, he hoisted the Stanley Cup.
Since history shows us that former Sabres are pretty good at helping Vegas win championships, why not try to bring Mittelstadt to town? Eichel knows Mittelstadt well, and given the latter’s emergence over the past two seasons, someone like Vegas could bring him in, and he would immediately help the Knights scoring units.
Through 58 games this season, Mittelstadt leads the Sabres with 44 points, and he’s sixth in goals scored with 13. While Mittelstadt isn’t an elite scorer, his 103 points in his last 140 games and plus-4 rating show us he can step in and become a productive depth piece for a championship-caliber team.
Vegas also has quite a few assets they could send off to Kevyn Adams, and once again, it would be a trade with the potential to work well for both teams.
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(Statistics provided by Hockey-Reference as of February 25th)