Nashville Predators: Should They Sell High On Roman Josi?

Buffalo Sabres

Only a few teams immediately come to mind, the Boston Bruins, the Toronto Maple Leafs, and the Buffalo Sabres. The Nashville Predators obviously need offense while all the teams I’ve mentioned desperately need defense.

The Buffalo Sabres are in need of a player like Roman Josi, and they have offense to spare.

The Sabres boast an extremely pedestrian defense. I love Rasmus Ristolainen and Jake McCabe, but they’re too young to play on the top pairing. Josi would allow one of them to take reduced minutes in more favorable situations. While the other defender would get playing time with Josi. But what would the Predators get out of it? The most fair trade I can think of is Sam Reinhart plus a second round pick. Reinhart is a cerebral play maker who would compliment the scoring touch of Filip Forsberg and Viktor Arvidsson extremely well. He’d be a fixture on the 2nd line and first unit power play and possibly put up fifty plus points for years to come.