Ledge_And_Dairy from Buffalo POV Plus one to reach the cap floor

Created by: gretzkyghosts

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 14, 2021

Published: Aug. 14, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

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Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

The players buy into Granato up-tempo style.
Mittelstadt plays on the top line with Skinner and each score 30 goals with Thompson chipping in 20.
The lines finishes the season with nearly 85 goals.

Cozens breaks out and has a great sophomore season with 25 goals.
Chytil shows everyone why he was a first round pick while surpassing his career highs of 14 goals and 14 assists set in '19-'20 and '20-'21 respectively potting 17 goals and 24 assists.
Hinostroza's performance mirrors his time with the Hawks last year (17 games with 4 goals and 12 pts) and he exceeds his career high he set with Arizona in '17-'18 with 17 goals and 45 pts
The line ends up with just under 60 goals.

Bjork - Engvall - Okposo provide decent third line production with a total of 40 goals.

Girgensons - Asplund - Byron prove to be the checking line Buffalo needs.
They finish among the top 10 PK team while shutting down the opponents top line.

Dahlin and Miller feast off of each other.
Dahlin is able to set up Miller with picture perfect passes and the tandem record 25 goals.

Butcher, Hagg, Jokiharju and Pysyk all thrive under Granato's system.

Pysyk turn out to be a great swing man capable of playing RHD and RW as needed.
Dermott escapes the Toronto microscope and with the reduced ice time in Buffalo fills in admirably.

The team surprises the league with 78 points and finishes 5th from last.
The Hockey gods smile on Buffalo and they win the draft lottery and draft Shane Wright.

Miller, Butcher, Hagg, Hinostroza and Koskinen all prove to be hot commodities at the TDL and each player returns a second round pick giving Buffalo eight and a total of 13 in the first two rounds this year.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	2	$5,500,000
Jokiharju, Henri	1	$1,500,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	1	$1,500,000

Trades

BUF

Chytil, Filip
Georgiev, Alexandar
Lundkvist, Nils
Robertson, Matthew
2022 1st round pick (NYR)
2022 2nd round pick (NYR)
2023 1st round pick (NYR)

Additional Details:

The second is conditional upon Jack playing 55 in the 2021-'22 season

NYR

Eichel, Jack

BUF

Koskinen, Mikko
2022 1st round pick (EDM)

EDM

Georgiev, Alexandar

BUF

Abramov, Mikhail
Mikheyev, Ilya
2022 2nd round pick (TOR)
2023 5th round pick (TOR)

Additional Details:

Buffalo gets two picks, a decent center prospect and a PK LW

TOR

Olofsson, Victor

Additional Details:

TML get a sniper to replace Hyman

BUF

Brook, Josh
Byron, Paul
2022 2nd round pick (MTL)
2022 4th round pick (TBL)

Additional Details:

Buffalo takes on a cap dump, a decent RHD prospect and 2 picks.

MTL

Miller, Colin

Additional Details:

Montreal gets a top 4 RHD

BUF

Johansen, Ryan
2022 1st round pick (NSH)
2022 2nd round pick (NSH)
2022 3rd round pick (NSH)

Additional Details:

Nashville gets cap space

NSH

Buffalo adds to their impressive draft picks and reaches the cap floor.

Buyouts

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

Buried

Ryan Johansen: $2,875,000 ($4,000,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$56,917,514	$113,916	$850,000	$24,582,486

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Mittelstadt, Casey $1,500,000$1,500,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2
Chytil, Filip $2,300,000$2,300,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Mikheyev, Ilya $1,645,000$1,645,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 3		Koskinen, Mikko $4,500,000$4,500,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Butcher, Will $2,822,764$2,822,764 LD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD RFA - 3	Anderson, Craig $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Hägg, Robert $1,600,000$1,600,000 LD UFA - 1	Pysyk, Mark $900,000$900,000 RD UFA - 1
	Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Eakin, Cody $2,250,000$2,250,000 C UFA - 1
Caggiula, Drake $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 14, 2021 at 12:33 p.m.

gretzkyghosts

Joined: Apr. 2018

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@LEDGE_AND_DAIRY
Adding the Edmonton trade, retaining on Jack, the Sabres make the cap floor.
I really like your trade concept.

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Aug. 14, 2021 at 12:37 p.m.

CD282

Joined: Mar. 2017

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Edmonton rejects. That's a terrible deal for them. Olofsson has negative value and you're expecting them to downgrade at wing and in net AND give up picks? That's insane

Aug. 14, 2021 at 12:41 p.m.

CD282

Joined: Mar. 2017

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Quoting: CD282

Edmonton rejects. That's a terrible deal for them. Olofsson has negative value and you're expecting them to downgrade at wing and in net AND give up picks? That's insane

http://naturalstattrick.com/playercompare.php?fromseason=20192020&thruseason=20202021&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&stdoi=std&rate=y&p1=8475178&p2=8478109&loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=&td=&tgp=410&lines=single

Aug. 14, 2021 at 12:48 p.m.

villenash

Joined: May 2019

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Edited Aug. 14, 2021 at 3:01 p.m.

Quoting: CD282

http://naturalstattrick.com/playercompare.php?fromseason=20192020&thruseason=20202021&stype=2&sit=5v5&score=all&stdoi=std&rate=y&p1=8475178&p2=8478109&loc=B&gpfilt=none&fd=&td=&tgp=410&lines=single

I mean, both Kassian and Olofsson benefitted from playing with an elite C in 2019-20, so both of their stats were inflated. This past season, neither really played with an elite C -- so I think this past season is a better showing of who they really are on the ice. Olofsson's stats look better than Kassian's in that scenario, but they're still pretty close.

Edit: wrong year, changed

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Aug. 14, 2021 at 12:50 p.m.

CD282

Joined: Mar. 2017

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Quoting: villenash

I mean, both Kassian and Olofsson benefitted from playing with an elite C in 2020-21, so both of their stats were inflated. This past season, neither really played with an elite C -- so I think this past season is a better showing of who they really are on the ice. Olofsson's stats look better than Kassian's in that scenario, but they're still pretty close.

Except Olofsson's stats aren't inflated, they're among the worst in the league at 5v5. He's a PP specialist and Edmonton has no room on their PP, he is a cap dump to them.

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