New Era Sabres without Eichel

Created by: adamorimoli61

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: May 31, 2021

Published: Jun. 1, 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

Hitting the reset button on the Sabres. Bring in a new management group and a lot more scouts.

In this scenario, pretend the Sabres have the current 3rd overall pick in the 2021 NHL Entry Draft where they select a defencemen who should NOT be rushed into the NHL. It could be any of the top end defencemen like Power, Hughes or Clarke. Hughes is the best but Clarke is right-handed so I would take either one of those 2 no matter what pick they get IMO.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	2	$4,250,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	2	$2,250,000
Asplund, Rasmus	2	$900,000
Borgen, William	1	$800,000
Jokiharju, Henri	2	$1,500,000
Lind, Kole	1	$925,000
Chytil, Filip	2	$3,000,000
Gauthier, Julien	2	$1,500,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Sheahan, Riley	1	$750,000
Fogarty, Steven	1	$750,000
Davidson, Brandon	1	$750,000
McCabe, Jake	1	$1,500,000
Wennberg, Alexander	3	$5,000,000
Lehtonen, Mikko	2	$950,000
Tatar, Tomas	2	$5,750,000
Boyd, Travis	1	$1,250,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Hughes, Luke		3	$925,000

Trades

BUF

Archibald, Josh
Bear, Ethan
Marody, Cooper [RFA Rights]
2022 2nd round pick (EDM)
2023 4th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Reinhart, Sam [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Reinhart comes with a multi-year extension in Edmonton.

BUF

Lind, Kole [RFA Rights]
2022 4th round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Kole Lind has proven nothing in the NHL so far but in his limited minutes has been solid. Potential high reward situations on both sides but I would say more so for Buffalo.

VAN

Ristolainen, Rasmus ($2,400,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Benning is an idiot, Ristolainen has much more value then he should because he has been bad in Buffalo. He has some skill, maybe Vancouver could get it out of him.

BUF

Chytil, Filip [RFA Rights]
Gauthier, Julien [RFA Rights]
Georgiev, Alexandar
Kakko, Kaapo
Vierling, Evan [Reserve List]
2022 1st round pick (NYR)
2023 1st round pick (NYR)

Additional Details:

This a VERY good return for the Sabres if they plan on bringing in a new management group (in this case, myself) to hit the reset button. Plenty of young assets who can play in the NHL now or in a few years as well as 2 first round picks (which will probably be late).

NYR

Eichel, Jack

Additional Details:

Not much else to say but this INSTANTLY makes the Rangers a cup contender for many years to come. Although they lost some prospects and picks including Kaapo Kakko, the Rangers still are able to hold onto Alexis Lafreniere, Vitali Kravtsov, K'Andre Miller, Nils Lundkvist and many more soon to be really good NHL players. The Rangers become a little bit more cap-strapped but nothing they can't manage.

BUF

2022 7th round pick (PHI)

PHI

Eakin, Cody ($1,000,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Flyers PK was garbage. this is only place Eakin brings any sort of positive value

BUF

2022 6th round pick (CBJ)

Additional Details:

Buffalo yet again gets more draft capital (now all they need is some scouts)

CBJ

Sheahan, Riley

Additional Details:

CBJ could use literally anyone right now, Sheahan is cheap and can play hockey.

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Kyle Okposo: $5,000,000

Retained Salary Transactions

Rasmus Ristolainen: $2,400,000 (44.44%)
Cody Eakin: $1,000,000 (44.44%)

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
23	$81,500,000	$65,378,083	$113,916	$3,582,500	$16,121,917

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Wennberg, Alexander $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 3	Kakko, Kaapo $925,000$925,000 ($2,650,000$3M) RW RFA - 1
Chytil, Filip $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Archibald, Josh $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Tatar, Tomas $5,750,000$5,750,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Lind, Kole $925,000$925,000 RW UFA - 1
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2	Gauthier, Julien $1,500,000$1,500,000 RW UFA - 1
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Boyd, Travis $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $4,250,000$4,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 3		Georgiev, Alexandar $2,425,000$2,425,000 G UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $778,333$778,333 ($82,500$82K) G RFA - 1
Lehtonen, Mikko $950,000$950,000 LD UFA - 1	Bear, Ethan $2,000,000$2,000,000 RD UFA - 1
Davidson, Brandon $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD RFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jun. 1, 2021 at 2:05 p.m.

Timmah007

Joined: Jun. 2020

Posts: 8,634

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Personally I wouldn’t want anyone from Buffalo. It took a long long long time to turn around the loosing culture out of Edmonton no offence I think it’s very important for Edmonton to be targeting players that have had more recent team success. Honestly don’t mean that as a knock against Buffalo organization I very much understand the pain going threw.

Jun. 1, 2021 at 2:10 p.m.

rpain

Joined: Aug. 2019

Posts: 1,549

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I too would be a little iffy on Reinhart coming out of that culture into a high pressure market. That said if Nuge walks, Reinhart would be a good addition depending on his extension. That said, I think Buffalo would want more quality/less quantity with the offer. They're giving up bona fide top 6 forward in his prime, none of those pieces fit into the top half of the roster in the return. Either need a first or an A-level prospect and another piece.

Jun. 1, 2021 at 2:40 p.m.

campi95

Joined: Jun. 2017

Posts: 177

Likes: 34

In regard to the Ranger trade I think that is pretty fair. I would prefer to send Strome instead of Chytil. I think that helps a bit more with the Cap situation. Maybe one of the 1sts or prospects is removed depending on Eichel's status with whether he is going to be available if he does indeed get the neck surgery. Overall though I think that is in the ballpark.

Jun. 1, 2021 at 4:56 p.m.

Viqsi

mostly harmless

Joined: Feb. 2016

Posts: 7,140

Likes: 3,582

"CBJ could use literally anyone right now,"
You could not possibly be more wrong.

Jun. 1, 2021 at 7:35 p.m.

Radu47

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Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 7,888

Likes: 3,256

This era had to be restarted because they angered a superstar so why anger another budding superstar with such a low RFA offer to Dahlin there ^

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