Lets just please go 500 next year

Created by: AudioCats

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 11, 2022

Published: Mar. 12, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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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

If BUF should throw trade capital at anyone, it should be in the vein of Marino. Sadly, there's not many players who fit that same bill. Confident minute-eater with good defense so Dahlin can do his thing.

Otherwise, it's not worth it giving up assets for players, unless we're getting a fleecing gift. We don't need a middle six RW that badly with Quinn around.

If we can't get Bishop and his cap hit to come here, then I think we should just chuck a 6x1 contract at Phil Kessel for the hell of it.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Power, Owen	3	$925,000
Johnson, Ryan	2	$900,000
Cederqvist, Filip	2	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	2	$950,000
Bryson, Jacob	2	$1,500,000
Biro, Brandon	2	$925,000
Murray, Brett	2	$850,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Holtby, Braden	2	$5,000,000
Larsson, Johan	1	$1,500,000
Pysyk, Mark	3	$1,500,000
Hinostroza, Vinnie	2	$1,250,000
Malone, Sean	2	$775,000
Tokarski, Dustin	2	$775,000
Oglevie, Andrew	2	$775,000

Trades

BUF

Bishop, Ben

DAL

Future Considerations

BUF

Marino, John

PIT

Jokiharju, Henri
Olofsson, Victor [RFA Rights]
2022 1st round pick (FLA)

Additional Details:

@ TDL, Olofsson @50% retained so cap works. PIT gets a firmly second-pairing RHD, so a small downgrade there, but Geno finally has some help on his wing, and a late first. An overpay, but that's what it'd take to wrench away a young talent with term.

Our defense just has to improve if we want to be better.

Buyouts

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

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$62,160,000	$0	$2,195,000	$19,340,000

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 5	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 1	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,250,000$1,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Marino, John $4,400,000$4,400,000 RD UFA - 5	Holtby, Braden $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA
Power, Owen $925,000$925,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Pysyk, Mark $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $950,000$950,000 G RFA - 2
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Bryson, Jacob $1,500,000$1,500,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Larsson, Johan $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, LW UFA

Top Comments

Mar. 12, 2022 at 3:01 p.m.

BuFfaLOFaN

Joined: Jul. 2019

Posts: 9,507

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We could get someone like Ryan Chesley with the FLA pick, who could replace Marino is a couple years, think Jokiharju is a better fit on this team long term than Pysyk, and Olly can just get traded for a pick we can use to increase our odds at getting a good RD.

Definitely going to have to get some cap next year if we are going to have Samuelsson, Power, Quinn, Cozens, Krebs, Peterka all on ELC's

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Mar. 12, 2022 at 3:25 p.m.

jazzhandz321

Joined: May 2015

Posts: 1,099

Likes: 220

I mean you guys could go Bettman .500. 34-34-14 sounds like a realistic goal for next year

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Mar. 12, 2022 at 3:27 p.m.

jazzhandz321

Joined: May 2015

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Also BIshop being on LTIR mean you could probably dump a decent cap hit on the Stars in return or you can trade for assets back instead of Future considerations

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Mar. 12, 2022 at 3:40 p.m.

Kingcong3930

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 63

Likes: 15

Quoting: jazzhandz321

Also BIshop being on LTIR mean you could probably dump a decent cap hit on the Stars in return or you can trade for assets back instead of Future considerations

The Bishop deal is to reach the cap floor, as they're barely at the cap floor with his $5M cap hit only on IR.

Unless they made more moves to bring salary on, sending out any kind of significant salary back to Dallas in that deal would mean they're not cap compliant.

Mar. 12, 2022 at 3:52 p.m.

Rew77

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 261

Likes: 105

You could take some cap from the Pens in the Marino trade to get a better deal. Maybe take Zucker, kap or Matheson.

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