Finding out your core just like Detroit

Created by: Momz

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jun. 22, 2022

Published: Jun. 22, 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

Similar to the Red Wings. This is a year to identify your core that is expected to lift you to the playoffs in a few years. Some guys will have opportunities (JJ Peterka/Quinn).

Now the Sabres had a strong end to their season which lead to some hope, some fans don't want just to roll the same lineup without some acquisitions.

I think bringing Letang to surround Dahlin and Power would be a great move as long as it's a 2yr deal (he's 35). I think the Sabres can afford to overpay a little since it's only 2 years and because the rest of the lineup costs basically nothing, not to mention that Okposo's contract is up next year. Ville Husso and Ukko-Pekka will be a 1A/1B tandem which is an upgrade over the goaltending they had in the past year.

The Monahan deal is a good cap dump for Buffalo.

I think they definitely can get more than 75pts this season.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	2	$1,250,000
Olofsson, Victor	2	$4,750,000
Ruotsalainen, Arttu	1	$950,000
Murray, Brett	1	$800,000
Bryson, Jacob	1	$925,000
Biro, Brandon	1	$925,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Letang, Kris	2	$7,750,000
Pysyk, Mark	1	$950,000
Husso, Ville	3	$4,500,000

Trades

BUF

Monahan, Sean
2022 2nd round pick (CGY)
2024 3rd round pick (CGY)

Additional Details:

(Basically copy paste from my Detroit team)

Buffalo is just a couple $K above the cap floor. I am taking on a cap dump. I thought about JVR but I went with Monahan since the Flames are desperate for any money they can find AND the sweetener to take the cap dump has a higher value.

My goal is just to gain assets.

There will be healthy scratches and there will be injuries that will allow Monahan to see ice time THAT'S IF he recovers. He could also possibly just stay on (LT)IR without taking time away from the young players.

Anyway, there is only 1 year remaining on his contract and at no point, the Sabres will have salary cap issues.

CGY

2022 5th round pick (NJD)

Additional Details:

(Copy paste from my Detroit team).

You may have 27M available. But you have to re-sign 3 of your best scorers AND you also have to fill your roster since you only have 12 roster players signed (excluding Monahan).

Every. Penny. Matters.

Even if you decide to give on one of the top 3 FAs

And for a team that still believes that it can contend, the picks have lesser importance to them than the money (especially a 2024 pick).

Buyouts

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

Buried

Jacob Bryson: $0 ($925,000)

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
21	$82,500,000	$68,460,000	$0	$3,120,000	$14,040,000

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	Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
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	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
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	Letang, Kris $7,750,000$7,750,000 RD UFA - 6	Husso, Ville $4,500,000$4,500,000 G UFA - 3
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $1,250,000$1,250,000 G RFA - 2
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Pysyk, Mark $950,000$950,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Monahan, Sean $6,375,000$6,375,000 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jun. 22, 2022 at 7:48 p.m.

Momz

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 38

Likes: 4

See the description.

Jun. 22, 2022 at 7:51 p.m.

JackSC87

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 875

Likes: 137

Honestly I think this is really good. I've tried before to figure out a way for Buffalo to get to the floor while still being able to bring up Quinn, Peterka, etc, and this is a good way of doing it in my opinion.

Jun. 22, 2022 at 7:51 p.m.

Traptor

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 634

Likes: 163

No way Monahan costs that to move.

Jun. 22, 2022 at 8:04 p.m.

BUFF36

Joined: Apr. 2020

Posts: 5,715

Likes: 4,783

Quoting: Traptor

No way Monahan costs that to move.

Why is that? Guy is beat up.

Jun. 22, 2022 at 8:12 p.m.

Tkachinla

Joined: Jul. 2016

Posts: 2,231

Likes: 401

Monahan is not dead. And not dead cap. Everyone thinks CGY will have to pay to move him, but that’s not the case. CGY isn’t doing this deal.

I’m also going to go out on a limb here and suggest there’s no chance Letang is signing a 2-year deal in BUF of all places. If he leaves PIT, it will be for a 4-year deal to a team that might make playoffs. BUF isn’t that destination yet.

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