Sharpen Up: April 13, 2021 | With Trade Deadline past, Sabres face Boston

The Buffalo Sabres' road trip continues tonight when they face the Boston Bruins at TD Garden.
Both Taylor Hall and Curtis Lazar, whom Buffalo traded to Boston on Monday for forward Anders Bjork and a 2021 second-round draft pick, could be in the Bruins' lineup tonight.
Sabres interim coach Don Granato confirmed on WGR 550 this morning that Bjork will face his former club and make his Sabres debut.
Faceoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. on MSG and WGR 550. Catch the pregame show on MSG starting at 6:30.
Here's what you need to know.

Deadline Day recap

The trade with the Bruins was made official early Monday morning and that marked the only move Buffalo made that day before the Trade Deadline hit at 3 p.m.
Buffalo previously traded goaltender Jonas Johansson to Colorado for a sixth-round pick, forward Eric Staal to Montreal for third- and fifth-round picks and defenseman Brandon Montour to Florida for a third-round pick.
The Sabres now have 10 picks in the 2021 NHL Draft, which is set for July 23-24. However, that doesn't mean general manager Kevyn Adams is going to actually make all of those selections. For him, it was about accumulating assets that can be spent in different ways.

"That was definitely the plan," Adams said. "One takeaway that I had last year in a short time preparing for the draft was it is hard to go into the draft short-handed. Draft picks are currency, and besides building your pipeline, which I think has been lacking, you can also use that currency in other ways.
"You can package picks together to potentially acquire players. You can package picks together to move up in the draft. Maybe we need some pick for expansion reasons to help yourself. So, it definitely was a strategy going in once our team got to the point where we were not where we needed to be in the standings."
Read more about what Adams had to say about the nuts and bolts of the trade with Boston, potentially re-signing goaltender Linus Ullmark and Jack Eichel's injury here.
We have more on Bjork here.

Tonight's matchup

Let's dive into @SabresPR's Game Notes, shall we?
*Stats courtesy of NaturalStatTrick.com
- Forward Kyle Okposo has 10 points (2+8) in his last 11 games dating back to March 16. - Okposo has scored in both games against the Bruins this season.