Playoff Contender or Pretender

Created by: WCSF

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 30, 2022

Published: Apr. 30, 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

The cost of obtaining Reimer/Bonino/Demelo in trades may be more or less or different than I have identified. Also, the free agent costs may be off a bit. These are the veterans or types of veterans I would like to see the Sabres target though. If the Sabres upgrade in net, move Bryson/Fitzgerald to 4th pairing and Asplund to 13th forward it will represent a substantial improvement in depth. Lots of youth being asked to play important roles though, I recognize.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Kozak, Tyson	3	$859,000
Nadeau, Olivier	3	$859,000
Rosén, Isak	3	$925,000
Kukkonen, Miska	2	$845,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Biro, Brandon	1	$800,000
Bryson, Jacob	3	$1,300,000
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	1	$850,000
Murray, Brett	1	$825,000
Olofsson, Victor	3	$4,650,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
DeSmith, Casey	3	$2,400,000
Määttä, Olli	2	$3,150,000
Butcher, Will	1	$800,000
Davidson, Brandon	1	$800,000
Prow, Ethan	1	$800,000
Schuldt, Jimmy	1	$800,000
Subban, Malcolm	1	$800,000
Caggiula, Drake	1	$800,000
Hayden, John	1	$800,000
Jankowski, Mark	1	$800,000
MacInnis, Ryan	1	$800,000
Malone, Sean	1	$800,000

Trades

BUF

SJS

Bjork, Anders ($800,000 retained)
2022 6th round pick (BUF)
2023 2nd round pick (VGK)

BUF

DeMelo, Dylan
2023 5th round pick (NYR)

WPG

Portillo, Erik [Reserve List]
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Anders Bjork: $800,000 (50%)

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	$81,500,000	$60,610,000	$0	$3,120,000	$20,890,000

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
Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Olofsson, Victor $4,650,000$4,650,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
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	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Bonino, Nick $1,025,000$1,025,000 C, LW M-NTC UFA - 1	Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3
	Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1

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	Reimer, James $2,250,000$2,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
	DeMelo, Dylan $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2	DeSmith, Casey $2,400,000$2,400,000 G UFA - 2
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2
Määttä, Olli $3,150,000$3,150,000 LD UFA - 1	Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $1,300,000$1,300,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Top Comments

Apr. 30, 2022 at 12:02 p.m.

MisstheWhalers

Joined: Jan. 2019

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Likes: 12,381

Jets should take that.

Apr. 30, 2022 at 12:08 p.m.

Birtle34

Bandwagon fairweathe

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 7,642

Likes: 3,271

Needs better tending for playoffs or any sort of run, but the squad is coming together.

Apr. 30, 2022 at 12:09 p.m.

tsyls

Joined: Jun. 2019

Posts: 6,731

Likes: 4,825

If Portillo will sign jets say yes. Even without him committing to signing this is still a good deal. Also a good deal for BUF as they get a really solid shutdown dman.