Failed trade for Tage Thompson has team in deep remorse!

Tage Thompson was named second star of the week ending December 18 in the NHL after putting up eight points (4-4) in just three games. This was the second straight week that Thompson was named second star. We all know how good he is.

The Sabres are finally coming out on top of the trade that sent Ryan O’Reilly to the St. Louis Blues in 2018. Then, the return was forwards Patrik Berglund, Vladimir Sobotka and Tage Thompson at the time as well as a 1st round pick in 2019 (Ryan Johnson) and a second-rounder in 2021 (Ben Roger). By the time O’Reilly hoisted the Stanley Cup with St. Louis in 2019, Berglund had already left Buffalo, Sobotka was just a depth forward and Thompson was slow to develop.

However, the latter is now elite in the NHL with his impressive stature up front, has has reached his full potential. After a 68-point season in 2021-22, Thompson is currently on his way to a 128-point season this year!

Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman has now dropped a bomb when he revealed in the latest 32 Thoughts podcast that Sabres’ management came very close to making one of the worst mistakes in franchise history two years ago.

According to his sources, Friedman reveals that when Thompson ended 2020-21 with just 14 points in 38 games two years ago, was offered on a few teams on the trade market for very little in return. Friedman could not identify the team in his reports, but maintains that this specific club refused to acquire Thompson in return for a fifth-round pick!

“Someone said to me they wouldn’t say who the team was, there is a team they could’ve had Tage Thompson a couple of years ago for a 5th rounder and didn’t do it”

“All he said was it’s a really good team, he used it as an example of this is such an inexact science sometimes and how wrong a lot of people were on Tage Thompson”.

Can you imagine how this team feels now that Thompson has emerged a as leading forward in the NHL?

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