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Created by: GenW

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 9, 2021

Published: Jun. 9, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

Description

Not 100% sold on the Parise/Skinner trade. I think it works for both teams, but I could be biased being a buffalo fan lol. Not sure if the draft picks sway them to make the deal or not.
The Wild spend more for longer, but get younger and wont have an almost 40 year old winger with injury problems under contract. Buffalo shortens a bad contract situation, but takes on a an old player.

Kyle Okposo is a huge question mark for me...with all of his injuries, does he retire? does he go on LTIR? does he try to play? Not quite sure, so Salary is a bit all over the place in that scenario.

I put Cozens on the PP and PK to get him more ice time, because I felt 4th line ice time would not be enough to get him proper experience and growth but ultimately I feel that's where he slots in right now.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Peterka, John-Jason	3	$950,000
Johnson, Ryan	3	$850,000
Huglen, Aaron	3	$750,000
Portillo, Erik	3	$750,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Borgen, William	2	$1,300,000
Asplund, Rasmus	2	$900,000
Dahlin, Rasmus	5	$5,000,000
Jokiharju, Henri	5	$2,900,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	3	$2,000,000
Sharangovich, Yegor	4	$3,300,000
Fitzgerald, Casey	2	$875,000
Reinhart, Sam	5	$7,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
McCabe, Jake	2	$1,200,000
Sheahan, Riley	1	$950,000
Ullmark, Linus	4	$5,000,000
Benn, Jordie	2	$3,000,000
O'Brien, Liam	2	$825,000
Smith, Gemel	1	$825,000
Bunting, Michael	2	$925,000
Ho-Sang, Joshua	2	$925,000
McIlrath, Dylan	2	$750,000
Irwin, Matt	1	$750,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Power, Owen		3	$875,000

Trades

BUF

Hischier, Nico
Severson, Damon
Sharangovich, Yegor [RFA Rights]
Subban, P.K.
2021 1st round pick (NJD)
2021 2nd round pick (NYI)
2022 1st round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

Thought Process:
Hischier should be a consistent 50-60 point player for the rest of his current contract. Sharanghovich will likely be around 35-45 a season. In theory you're taking back about the same point totals as you're giving up with jack as long as everyone plays at around their current paces(sharanghovich is a bit of a wildcard here having not played much, but i think you can get him at a decent price for a handful of years)
PK comes to buffalo to even out the cash, NJ will have some work to do on their end after next season.

The ASKING price for jack was 4 firsts, I think its fair for both sides...this trade only happens if Samson gets re-signed

NJD

Eichel, Jack
Samuelsson, Mattias
2021 2nd round pick (BUF)

BUF

2021 2nd round pick (SJS)
2021 3rd round pick (OTT)

OTT

Ristolainen, Rasmus

Additional Details:

Sens have the cap and draft picks to spare.

BUF

SEA

2021 1st round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

THIS IS NOT A TRADE-

This is the selection of Owen Power in the draft

BUF

Nylander, William

Additional Details:

This frees up almost 3 Million for Toronto to get another deal made. Defense gets some help, and Buffalo gets a top player back.
Sending over the 4th overall in this draft and a second rounder along with it.

TLDR: Trade ends up being a top 5 pick, a player under contract, and cap relief for Nylander

TOR

Severson, Damon
2021 1st round pick (NJD)

BUF

2021 2nd round pick (DET)
2021 3rd round pick (VGK)

DET

Olofsson, Victor

Additional Details:

While Olofsson has pretty decent potential, I don't see him ever being a huge part of this team outside of the powerplay, which after trades he has been replaced anyway.

Additionally I believe Tage Thompson has a higher ceiling offensively, and comes in at a lower cap hit so he remains on the roster.

BUF

Parise, Zach

MIN

Skinner, Jeff
2021 2nd round pick (DET)
2022 1st round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

Does this get Jeff moved? Wild have wanted to move on from Parise for a few years now...he's pushing 40 and has injury issues. SKinner is younger and has the potential to still have a few good years in the right scenario; Buffalo is not that scenario without Eichel next to him.

BUF

SEA

Eakin, Cody
2021 3rd round pick (OTT)

Buyouts

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

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
21	$81,500,000	$71,765,449	$113,916	$1,682,500	$9,734,551

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ruotsalainen, Arttu $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 1	Reinhart, Sam $7,000,000$7,000,000 RW UFA - 3	Nylander, William $6,962,366$6,962,366 RW UFA - 3
Parise, Zach $750,000$750,000 ($750,000$750K) LW UFA - 1	Hischier, Nico $7,250,000$7,250,000 C UFA - 6	Sharangovich, Yegor $3,300,000$3,300,000 C, LW, RW UFA - 2
Asplund, Rasmus $900,000$900,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2
Peterka, John-Jason $950,000$950,000 LW, RW RFA - 4	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $5,000,000$5,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Jokiharju, Henri $2,900,000$2,900,000 RD RFA - 3	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 4
Benn, Jordie $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Subban, P.K. $9,000,000$9,000,000 RD UFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $778,333$778,333 ($82,500$82K) G RFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Borgen, William $1,300,000$1,300,000 RD UFA - 2
Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1

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

Taxi Squad
Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 ($4,875,000$5M$4,875,000$5M) RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 ($0$0$0$0) LD/RD RFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Cozens, D.		Reinhart, S.		Sharangovich, Y.
	Dahlin, R.		Borgen, W.

Power Play 2
Parise, Z.		Hischier, N.		Nylander, W.
	Subban, P.		Jokiharju, H.

Penalty Kill 1
	Cozens, D.	Bjork, A.
	McCabe, J.	Jokiharju, H.

Penalty Kill 2
	Hischier, N.
	Jokiharju, H.	Borgen, W.

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