Buffalo Sabres acquire Jordan Greenway from Minnesota Wild for picks
The Buffalo Sabres have acquired winger Jordan Greenway from the Minnesota Wild in exchange for a second and fifth round pick.
Sabres sending 2023 2nd and 2024 5th to Wild for Greenway https://t.co/PyQaRggb18
— David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) March 3, 2023The Wild had been looking to move on from Greenway, and more specifically his contract, which has a $3 million cap hit for this season and two more after that. They didn’t necessarily want to sell low on him, but it was a necessary deal to move on from, especially when the cap crunch slowly creeps up on them with the buyout penalties of Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.
In return, the Wild get a second round pick in 2023 and a fifth round pick in 2024, with no salary retained in the deal for Buffalo.
Greenway has been struggling this season, with just two goals, five assists, and seven points in 45 games, a far cry from his usual production. Otherwise, he’s been a solid producer in the bottom six, regularly getting between 25 and 30 points in a season.
Greenway was a second round pick for the Wild in 2015, and has spent the entirety of his career thus far in Minnesota.
Greenway joins a Sabres team in the playoff hunt in the first time in what feels like forever, looking to end an NHL record 11 year playoff drought. He adds some experience and physicality to the team, and if he can rediscover his game in Buffalo, he’ll add an excellent scoring touch beyond the top six.
The Sabres are currently four points out of a playoff spot with a 31-25-4 record, and have lost back-to-back games.
The Wild free up cap space for both this season and the future, and for this season it gives them the option to make another deadline move if they choose to do so in the final minutes. The Wild sit second in the Central with a 35-21-6 record, and have won seven of their last eight games, with points in all eight.
