New core and new direction

Created by: rktkt66

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 24, 2021

Published: Jul. 24, 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

MIN/BUF: Wild add 1C and LD with NHL experience; Sabres get top center prospect, NHL winger & goalie and 1st round pick. Fiala and Rask balance the cap hit for Minnesota in taking on Eichel (Rask gets demoted to AHL)
VGK/BUF: Knights get power play specialist to help the top weakness DeBoer said they need to address and save $1.7M of cap space entering his prime; Sabres get physical winger fitting their young core age group; teams swap 3rd round picks
WSH/BUF: Caps shed cap space for next 2 years; Sabres add veteran winger with winning experience from Pittsburgh & Washington to help 4th line and PK
NJ/BUF: Devils gain draft pick and prospect for defender fallen out of favor with Ruff; Sabres bolster the LHD on 1 year term to buy more development time for Samuelsson.
Free Agency: Ullmark and McCabe choose to sign elsewhere; Sabres sign Mrazek, who has working relationship with goalie coach Mike Bales, as insurance behind Kahkonen; Sabres sign Vatanen for PP and veteran depth on RHD
Coaching: Granato hires Kevin Dineen as Assoc. coach (forwards/PP), having worked with him in Chicago and who played with Adams in Columbus; Dan Girardi (defense/PK) and Mike Bales (goalies) retained as Assistant coaches; Matt Ellis shifted to Player Development & Special Skills coach

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Nyberg, Philip		3	$835,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Asplund, Rasmus	3	$1,225,000
Dahlin, Rasmus	8	$8,250,000
Jokiharju, Henri	4	$2,900,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	3	$1,975,000
Fitzgerald, Casey	2	$925,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Caggiula, Drake	2	$800,000
Sheahan, Riley	1	$750,000
Oesterle, Jordan	1	$1,650,000
Hinostroza, Vinnie	1	$1,050,000
Davidson, Brandon	1	$750,000
Malone, Sean	1	$750,000
Schuldt, Jimmy	1	$750,000
Pysyk, Mark	1	$900,000

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Cody Eakin: $583,334

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
20	$81,500,000	$61,672,250	$113,916	$850,000	$19,827,750

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Ruotsalainen, Arttu $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 1		Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2
Asplund, Rasmus $1,225,000$1,225,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $1,975,000$1,975,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Caggiula, Drake $800,000$800,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 5

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $8,250,000$8,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Jokiharju, Henri $2,900,000$2,900,000 RD RFA - 3
Hägg, Robert $1,600,000$1,600,000 LD UFA - 1	Pysyk, Mark $900,000$900,000 RD UFA - 1
	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Oesterle, Jordan $1,650,000$1,650,000 LD/RD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Jul. 24, 2021 at 8:49 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,934

Likes: 14,599

Pretty good except for the olofsson trade. Vegas won't do that

Jul. 24, 2021 at 8:52 p.m.

VGKNation702

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 5,101

Likes: 1,630

Lol why would vegas do that?

Jul. 24, 2021 at 8:52 p.m.

Scoob1978

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 1,127

Likes: 448

Devils accept. He has no role on this team.

Jul. 24, 2021 at 9:25 p.m.

Amakoue

Banned

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 509

Likes: 76

Buffalo already has a Goalie. Take out Kaapo kahkonen because he's too impressed to wild.

Yes wild drafted a Goalie, but he won't be ready for two years. Also, Buffalo GM wants too much so that dream of eichel to wild is dead for now

Jul. 25, 2021 at 6:53 a.m.

KrispyBBQ

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 241

Likes: 92

Quoting: Amakoue

Oh yeah, so impressed to the wild that they exposed him in the expansion draft and protected 33 year old talbot, lol. And the Kraken STILL didn't want him!

See All

DISPLAY SETTING

BETTING ODDS

LOCALE

ARCHIVE

CBA

CALCULATORS

FANTASY HOCKEY TOOLS

TOOLS

PLAYERS

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

INTERACTIVE FEATURES