Murray open to trading Sabres' later 2015 first round draft picks
/Sabres GM Tim Murray was on Buffalo’s WGR 550 on Thursday afternoon.
On what attitude he might have toward a trade involving his two later first round picks in 2015:
“I’m open to that. Completely open to that.
“You get that question a lot. There’s so many different scenarios. You just have to prepare for them. And that’s why you have meeting after meeting. But there’s a lot of 'what ifs' involved, like I said yesterday with somebody. The salary cap is a what if. The Canadian dollar is a what if. These are things that are certainly much beyond my intellect. But at the end of the day, we’re going to be told if the cap is indeed going up or not.
At the end of the day, we'll know that there are five teams or 10 teams or 15 teams – preferably for us 15 - that have some cap issues and need to trade away good players because they can't keep all their good players. And we’ve seen it in the past with Stanley Cup winners.
"So a lot of that is out of our hands, but we talk about it a lot. We'll be prepared for it. It's probably not going to be at the deadline. I would suspect that would be more of a draft thing. Draft day or around that area of time.
“So there are a lot of different scenarios that I can see using those two picks on players in the draft and also using them to get good young players that are further along."
Source: WGR 550/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey
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