What I would do if I was GM

Created by: CapFriendlysFinest

Team: 2020-21 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 16, 2020

Published: Jul. 16, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Reinhart, Sam	6	$6,250,000
Olofsson, Victor	2	$3,250,000
Kahun, Dominik	1	$2,500,000
Montour, Brandon	4	$4,250,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	2	$925,000
Thompson, Tage	2	$925,000
Ullmark, Linus	2	$2,750,000
Hinostroza, Vinnie	2	$2,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Simmonds, Wayne	2	$3,000,000
Vatanen, Sami	4	$5,250,000
Heed, Tim	1	$925,000
McKegg, Greg	1	$700,000

Trades

BUF

Johnson, Tyler
2021 3rd round pick (TBL)
2021 5th round pick (TBL)

Additional Details:

Buffalo receives a second line centre to play for them while Cozens spends a year at 3C. Small draft picks as well in return

TBL

Mittelstadt, Casey

Additional Details:

Tampa picks up a talent who has had trouble in buffalo while also shedding cap. Mittelstadt could explode here or fault.

BUF

2021 5th round pick (EDM)

Additional Details:

Dump of cap

OTT

Hutton, Carter

Additional Details:

Ottawa picks up goalie to play with Nelson.

BUF

Hinostroza, Vinnie [RFA Rights]
Raanta, Antti
2021 2nd round pick (ARI)

Additional Details:

Buffalo gets a bottom six defence man but more importantly a starting goalie who has a proven track record of winning. Swap in picks

ARI

Ristolainen, Rasmus
2021 4th round pick (BUF)
2021 5th round pick (TBL)

Additional Details:

Arizona gets an offensive talent on the back end to play top 4 mins. Swap in pic

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$82,298,334	$1,487,500	$4,337,500	-$798,334

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Olofsson, Victor $3,250,000$3,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 6	Reinhart, Sam $6,250,000$6,250,000 RW UFA - 1
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 7	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW NTC UFA - 4	Johansson, Marcus $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Kahun, Dominik $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, RW, C UFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 3	Hinostroza, Vinnie $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Simmonds, Wayne $3,000,000$3,000,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
	Thompson, Tage $925,000$925,000 C UFA - 3	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LD/RD UFA - 1	Montour, Brandon $4,250,000$4,250,000 RD UFA - 1	Raanta, Antti $4,250,000$4,250,000 G UFA - 1
Vatanen, Sami $5,250,000$5,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $925,000$925,000 ($637,500$638K) RD RFA - 1	Ullmark, Linus $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,850,000$2,850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Heed, Tim $925,000$925,000 RD UFA
McKegg, Greg $700,000$700,000 C, LW UFA - 1

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Jul. 16, 2020 at 5:56 p.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 38,288

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Arizona doesnt have the cap space or the need for a 1 dimensional defense in Risto. He will be a very bad fit to their system.
Vatanen is a RD that played the left side this year. He is also an OFD and Buffalo needs a shutdown LD.

Jul. 16, 2020 at 5:58 p.m.

CapFriendlysFinest

Joined: Jul. 2018

Posts: 1,625

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Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy

Arizona can easily flip Demers somewhere. I look at Arizona as a team that needs that back end talent, as OEL takes a bulk of mins trying to play shutdown. And I know they need shutdown but they need someone who can try and play top four mins, I feel like Vat could do it though it wouldn't be the best option

Jul. 16, 2020 at 6:11 p.m.

Cdn_bacon

Joined: May 2015

Posts: 3,554

Likes: 611

Both sides win from the Tampa deal

Nicely done!

Jul. 16, 2020 at 6:25 p.m.

TCMonkey

Hockey 1st Sens 2nd

Joined: Aug. 2016

Posts: 3,562

Likes: 1,592

Hogberg was much better than Hutton last season and I'm pretty sure OTT will roll with Nilsson and Hogberg. If Nilsson retires they'll probably just sign Anderson for another year and lean on Hogberg.

Jul. 16, 2020 at 6:50 p.m.

Lenny54

Joined: Jul. 2017

Posts: 1,228

Likes: 657

Quoting: AH96

Both sides win from the Tampa deal

Nicely done!

Is Johnson going to waive his NTC to come to this dumpster fire of an organization?

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