Per WGR 550 and TSN.ca, Marty Biron was traded to the Philadelphia Flyers for a second or first round draft pick (conflicting information), and then grabbed Ty Conklin from the Columbus Blue Jackets for a draft pick.
What does this mean? Money. The move is obviously all about cap space; Sabres lose $2.1 million+ from Biron and gain only $525,000 from Conklin. And it means that there's more to come; you have to believe Darcy Regier would make this move only if had something else cooking to take up that freed cap space.
One aside -- it seems quite humorous to me how times change. Before the big argument always was that you could never just "give" Biron away for peanuts. He was too valuable. And now, after Buffalo was forced to push all the way to cap due to arbitration and the market this summer, that's exactly what the Sabres did. Just funny when you think about the bankruptcy year...
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