Prospect Rankings

Created by: Skyraider112

Team: 2020-21 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 21, 2021

Published: Apr. 21, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

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

Description

Ranking prospects for the Sabres, not including anyone who has played 10+ NHL games

Tier 1 = LW -- Elite/Top level prospect
Tier 2 = C -- High Top 6/Top 4 potential
Tier 3 = RW -- Bottom 6 (Ranging from Pretty Good 3rd liner to consistent ice time 4th liner) or 5-7th NHL D-man
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Tier 4 = LD -- Needs to do more to prove they can carve out some NHL time. Not likely
Tier 5 = RD -- Won't see NHL time in my opinion.
Tier 6 = G -- Goalie rankings

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Cederqvist, Filip	3	$925,000
Costantini, Matteo	3	$925,000
Davidsson, Marcus	3	$925,000
Huglen, Aaron	3	$925,000
Johnson, Ryan	3	$925,000
Konecny, Jakub	3	$925,000
Kryukov, Artyom	3	$925,000
Kukkonen, Miska	3	$925,000
Lindstrand Cronholm, Linus	3	$925,000
Lyckåsen, Albert	3	$925,000
Peterka, John-Jason	3	$925,000
Portillo, Erik	3	$925,000
Worge Kreü, William	3	$925,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Rousek, Lukas		1	$925,000

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Jack Eichel: $8,750,000
Jeff Skinner: $8,738,095
Kyle Okposo: $4,000,000
Rasmus Ristolainen: $1,816,667
Sam Reinhart: $866,667
Colin Miller: $1,291,667
Victor Olofsson: $708,333
Jake McCabe: $983,334
Carter Hutton: $916,667
Linus Ullmark: $866,667
Cody Eakin: $1,000,000
Zemgus Girgensons: $933,333
Anders Bjork: $466,667
Tage Thompson: $433,333
Rasmus Dahlin: $231,250
Henri Jokiharju: $231,250
Dylan Cozens: $200,417
Jacob Bryson: $195,416
Casey Mittelstadt: $145,688
Rasmus Asplund: $151,250
Dustin Tokarski: $266,667
Tobias Rieder: $233,334
Matt Irwin: $233,334
Drake Caggiula: $116,667
Riley Sheahan: $233,334

Retained Salary Transactions

Eric Staal: $1,625,000 (50%)
Taylor Hall: $4,000,000 (50%)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
26	$81,500,000	$64,957,953	$1,487,500	$447,500	$16,542,047

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kryukov, Artyom $925,000$925,000 C RFA	Ruotsalainen, Arttu $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 2	Peterka, John-Jason $925,000$925,000 LW, RW RFA
Quinn, Jack $925,000$925,000 RW, LW RFA - 5	Laaksonen, Oskari $853,333$853,333 ($132,500$132K) RD UFA - 3	Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA
		Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 3
		Rousek, Lukas $925,000$925,000
		Borgen, William $864,166$864,166 RD UFA - 1
		Pekar, Matej $764,167$764,167 ($182,500$182K) C, RW UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Murray, Brett $775,000$775,000 LW UFA - 2	Kukkonen, Miska $925,000$925,000 RD RFA	Portillo, Erik $925,000$925,000 G RFA
Huglen, Aaron $925,000$925,000 C RFA	Worge Kreü, William $925,000$925,000 LD RFA	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $778,333$778,333 ($132,500$132K) G RFA - 2
Costantini, Matteo $925,000$925,000 C RFA	Lyckåsen, Albert $925,000$925,000 RD RFA
Cederqvist, Filip $925,000$925,000 LW, RW RFA	Davidsson, Marcus $925,000$925,000 C RFA
Biro, Brandon $925,000$925,000 LW UFA - 2	Lindstrand Cronholm, Linus $925,000$925,000 LD RFA
Konecny, Jakub $925,000$925,000 C RFA	DiPietro, Dawson $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 1
Oglevie, Andrew $750,000$750,000 C UFA - 2
Fitzgerald, Casey $858,750$858,750 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 21, 2021 at 12:53 p.m.

csick

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Joined: Jul. 2018

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Based on the rankings you just gave me, you guys need to draft a D

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Apr. 21, 2021 at 12:57 p.m.

NoWah49

Joined: Feb. 2018

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i was pretty confused about Kryukov, but then I realized he's the random 2000 1st round pick in the reserve list. Good job haha

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Apr. 21, 2021 at 2:10 p.m.

Skyraider112

Sabres are elite

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 7,995

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Quoting: csick

Based on the rankings you just gave me, you guys need to draft a D

Not at all. Left-side going forward is Dahlin, McCabe (will likely resign), Johnson, Samuelsson. Right-side going forward is Jokiharju, Laaksonen, Borgen. If you think that needs improvement, there are plenty of UFA options or a trade that could be made. Look at how thin our center prospect pool is and you will see that's what we need to draft. Ruots is the only true center we have in the pipeline with any chance of being a top 9 player. JJ is listed at center but I think he will play wing

Apr. 21, 2021 at 2:14 p.m.

csick

KFTW

Joined: Jul. 2018

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Quoting: Skyraider112

So Cozens won’t play centre?

Apr. 21, 2021 at 7:38 p.m.

Skyraider112

Sabres are elite

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 7,995

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Quoting: csick

So Cozens won’t play centre?

Yes of course he will and he is right now... Cozens shouldn't be considered a prospect seeing as he is an established NHL player now. Asides Eichel and Cozens, our center depth is weak. Mitts has been much better but our actual pool of prospects has nil in terms of NHL calibre centerman (again except for Ruots)

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