How to make Marner Work

Created by: Severed

Team: 2019-20 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: May 29, 2019

Published: May 29, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Right Handed

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Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

In 2020-2021 (considering BUF makes Playoffs):
Sign:
Reinhart - 6 years $7 million
Mittelstadt - 3 years $3 million (bridge)
Nylander - 3 year $3 million (bridge)
Oloffson - 2 years $1.5 million (bridge)
Moutour - 5 years $6 million
Dahlin - 4 years $7 million (bridge Extention at end of year)
Ullmark -5 years $4 million
or
Hutton -3 years $3.5 million
Decide on either Ullmark or Hutton, keep one and Bring up Luukkonen. Trade the other.

That creates a core costing approx: $30 million over the next two seasons.
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Subtract:
Sheary -3 million
Hunwick -2.25 million
Wilson -1.1million
Sobotka -3.5 million
Total -9.85
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So to pay for that $30 million:
-9.85 million in freed contracts
8.4 million in current cap space (ignoring Callahan's contract b/c its just 1yr)
Approx : 7 million raise in cap ceiling (this is conservative considering the cap just went up 3.5 million in 1 year and Seattle coming into the league should create a larger jump in the cap. I could go up 9 million in the next 2-3 years
Total: $25 million
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Leaves Approx: $5 million cap space needed via trades and alternate signings which is very doable

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Cornel, Eric	3	$800,000
Dougherty, Jack	3	$800,000
Elie, Remi	3	$750,000
Girgensons, Zemgus	1	$1,600,000
Larsson, Johan	1	$1,600,000
Malone, Sean	3	$800,000
Martin, Brycen	3	$800,000
McCabe, Jake	4	$2,400,000
Rodrigues, Evan	3	$1,250,000
Smith, C.J.	1	$1,100,000
Ullmark, Linus	2	$1,250,000
Marner, Mitchell	7	$12,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Criscuolo, Kyle	2	$700,000
Leier, Taylor	2	$750,000
O'Regan, Danny	3	$895,000
Skinner, Jeff	8	$8,500,000
Duchene, Matt	7	$9,000,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Byram, Bowen		3	$950,000

Offer Sheets

Offer sheet annual average (AAV) is calculated by dividing the contract value by the lower of: 1. The contract length, or 2. Five years

PLAYER	AAV	COMPENSATION
Marner, Mitchell	$16,800,000	2020 1st round pick 2021 1st round pick 2022 1st round pick 2023 1st round pick

Trades

BUF

2019 4th round pick (CGY)
2019 4th round pick (LAK)

Additional Details:

Any Team

LAK

BUF

2020 3rd round pick (OTT)

Additional Details:

To Help meet Cap Floor

OTT

Okposo, Kyle ($1,500,000 retained)
Scandella, Marco
2019 4th round pick (LAK)
2019 6th round pick (TOR)

BUF

2019 1st round pick (CHI)

Additional Details:

Pick Bowen Byram 3rd Overall

CHI

Ristolainen, Rasmus
Thompson, Tage
2019 1st round pick (BUF)
2019 1st round pick (STL)
2021 2nd round pick (STL)

BUF

Callahan, Ryan
2020 1st round pick (TBL)

Additional Details:

Keep him for one year as a mentor to the younger players..

TBL

2019 6th round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

Cap relief

Buyouts

Retained Salary Transactions

Kyle Okposo: $1,500,000 (25%)

Buried

C.J. Smith: $25,000 ($1,100,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2019
2020
2021

ROSTER

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$83,000,000	$79,290,357	$0	$5,107,500	$3,709,643

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $8,500,000$8,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 8	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 7	Marner, Mitchell $12,000,000$12,000,000 RW UFA - 6
Nylander, Alexander $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2	Duchene, Matt $9,000,000$9,000,000 RW, C UFA - 7	Reinhart, Sam $3,650,000$3,650,000 RW UFA - 1
Ruotsalainen, Arttu $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 3	Mittelstadt, Casey $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LW, C RFA - 1	Olofsson, Victor $767,500$767,500 ($132,500$132K) RW, LW UFA - 1
Sheary, Conor $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Rodrigues, Evan $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, C UFA - 1
		Callahan, Ryan $5,800,000$5,800,000 RW M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LD/RD UFA - 2	Montour, Brandon $3,387,500$3,387,500 RD UFA - 1	Hutton, Carter $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 2
Byram, Bowen $950,000$950,000	Pilut, Lawrence $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) LD UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,400,000$2,400,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Nelson, Casey $812,500$812,500 RD UFA - 1	Ullmark, Linus $1,250,000$1,250,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Hunwick, Matt $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD UFA - 1
Sobotka, Vladimír $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1

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May 29, 2019 at 2:27 a.m.

Petrock83

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Hawks don’t want Ristolainen.

May 29, 2019 at 2:55 a.m.

ZiggyPalffy

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4 first round picks and 12M for Marner is ridiculous.

Any team who pays that much for him should just cease operations.

May 29, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

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LaLaLaLaLa-fontaine

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a 90 point 22 year old winger.. made it 12 million to prove that its doable.. its well worth it

May 29, 2019 at 3:12 a.m.

Weezley

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That wouldnt be too bad for the Leafs. This Sabres team is very young, especially the defense, and the goaltending is iffy. Maybe the Leafs would get a couple of top 10s while everyone matures.

May 29, 2019 at 5:09 a.m.

pharrow

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Marner isn't worth 12 million.

I know there can be a legit debate about what his worth is. But he's a 20 goal scorer. That's the real sticking point on him. If he was netting 40, or even close to 40, I would say ok, there is a legit conversation to be had for 12 million. But he's not even close to that.

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