Luke Fox of Sportsnet: The Buffalo Sabres were offered at least one trade package that involved a first-round pick according to Brian Lawton on Nick Kypreos‘ podcast.
“I know for a fact a team that offered a first-round pick. And there’s more than one. It cost the Buffalo Sabres millions of dollars.”
Lawton adds that Sabres GM Kevyn Adams should have insisted before the season that Hall give him a list of five teams he’d accept a trade to.
“I doubt that happened.