Max the Cap Playoffs or Bust

Created by: elchud

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 14, 2022

Published: Apr. 14, 2022

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

Weaponize cap space to add key pieces and organizational depth and veterans to balance the lineup and make the damn playoffs. 8 D on the roster the whole season, Eakin as 13th forward only suits up if a center is injured, Peterka first call-up if a wing goes on IR. UPL in Rochester all season unless a D or goalie goes on IR. Colorado purges cap. Compher is flipped half-retained to Calgary who purges cap at a high cost, but gets back a retained Compher and goalie prospect and can then bring back Gaudreau and sign Tkachuk/Mangiapane/Kylington to long term RFA deals (adjusted for Calgary to upgrade a 3rd to a 2nd), Florida purges cap and adds a future 2nd. Sabres get NTCs waived for Monahan/Lucic/Hornqvist for immediate buy-outs. Can't buyout these players with this tool, but the buy-outs will take the total cap to 80million (85 million is what is shown)

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnson, Ryan	2	$925,000
Kukkonen, Miska	2	$750,000
Worge Kreü, William	2	$750,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Olofsson, Victor	4	$4,100,000
Bryson, Jacob	3	$2,000,000
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	2	$1,125,000
Murray, Brett	2	$750,000
Biro, Brandon	2	$750,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Husso, Ville	2	$6,000,000
Larsson, Johan	2	$3,000,000
Hägg, Robert	2	$1,750,000
Anderson, Craig	1	$2,250,000
Eakin, Cody	2	$1,000,000
Poturalski, Andrew	2	$750,000
Hayden, John	2	$750,000
Malone, Sean	1	$750,000
Dell, Aaron	1	$750,000
Houser, Michael	2	$750,000

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Wouters, Chase	2	$750,000
Bongiovanni, Wyatt	2	$750,000
Cairns, Matthew	1	$750,000
McKay, Dryden	1	$750,000
Olischefski, Kohen	1	$750,000
Robson, Mat	1	$750,000
Wotherspoon, Tyler	2	$750,000
Healey, Josh	2	$750,000
Mersch, Michael	1	$750,000
Boka, Nick	2	$750,000

Trades

BUF

COL

Pilut, Lawrence [Reserve List]
Ruotsalainen, Arttu [RFA Rights]

BUF

Additional Details:

Gudas signs 2 year extension (2 x 3.25)
Hornqvist buyout

FLA

2023 2nd round pick (VGK)

BUF

Lucic, Milan
Monahan, Sean
2023 1st round pick (CGY)
2024 1st round pick (CGY)
2024 3rd round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

Monahan buyout
Lucic buyout

CGY

Compher, J.T. ($1,750,000 retained)
Portillo, Erik [Reserve List]
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)

Buyouts

Retained Salary Transactions

J.T. Compher: $1,750,000 (50%)

Buried

Milan Lucic: $4,125,000 ($5,250,000)
Patric Hörnqvist: $4,175,000 ($5,300,000)
Sean Monahan: $5,250,000 ($6,375,000)

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
23	$82,500,000	$84,429,167	$0	$3,037,500	-$1,929,167

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	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Olofsson, Victor $4,100,000$4,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Larsson, Johan $3,000,000$3,000,000 C, LW UFA	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
	Eakin, Cody $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Husso, Ville $6,000,000$6,000,000 G UFA - 3
Bryson, Jacob $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2	Anderson, Craig $2,250,000$2,250,000 G UFA - 1
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Gudas, Radko $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD UFA - 1
Hägg, Robert $1,750,000$1,750,000 LD UFA - 1	Johnson, Erik $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Apr. 14, 2022 at 5:07 a.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 38,365

Likes: 19,587

Flames don't consider that

Apr. 14, 2022 at 5:11 a.m.

elchud

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 56

Likes: 21

Edited Apr. 14, 2022 at 5:21 a.m.

Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy

Flames don't consider that

Frees up 10 million in cap, and freeing up 10 million in cap has a high cost. I added a 2nd round and 3rd round swap, but I do think original trade was fair. Compher at 1.75 has fantastic value, maybe he slots as 3C for you, defensively sound and tough, and is a right-shot which Calgary always could use more of. Theoretically Portillo can take over for Markstrom when that deal ends. If he signs (which is a big if). Cheers.

Apr. 14, 2022 at 5:35 a.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 38,365

Likes: 19,587

Quoting: elchud

Flames don't need to free up 10M in cap space. It does not cost a 1st to move Lucic and it certainly doesn't cost a 1st to move Monahan.

Compher is a a replacement level player even on a team as good as Colorado. He is neither defensively sound or tough, plus you are way out of the loop if you think Calgary needs right handed shots.

Calgary already has a significantly better goalie prospect than Portillo in Wolf too

Apr. 14, 2022 at 8:42 a.m.

Xqb15a

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 11,404

Likes: 9,045

Like for the 1 millionth time, EJ and Compher aren’t cap dumps and sure as hell BUF is on EJ’s no trade list every day.

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Apr. 14, 2022 at 8:46 a.m.

McRanteskog

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COL declines as the value of the return is about half of what it should be.
If those are the returns, COL has cap space to hold them or move to next best bidder

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