Pre Draft Guess

Created by: mikeyscav

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 2, 2022

Published: Jul. 7, 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

First Round Picks:
#9: Marco Kasper, C
#16: Danila Yurov, RW
#28: Tristan Luneau, RHD

Letters:
C: Kyle Okposo
A: Alex Tuch
A: Rasmus Dahlin

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Pilut, Lawrence		1	$1,000,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Olofsson, Victor	2	$5,000,000
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	1	$900,000
Bryson, Jacob	1	$1,200,000
Strome, Dylan	2	$4,000,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Mikheyev, Ilya	3	$4,500,000
Subban, P.K.	2	$3,750,000
Rask, Victor	1	$1,000,000

Trades

BUF

Rights to Ilya Mikheyev

TOR

2022 6th round pick (CGY)

BUF

Strome, Dylan [RFA Rights]

CHI

Mittelstadt, Casey
2022 4th round pick (BUF)

BUF

Reimer, James
2023 4th round pick (SJS)

SJS

2023 2nd round pick (VGK)

Additional Details:

After failing to entice an UFA goalie, Buffalo circles back and brings in a reliable vet

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

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$68,645,834	$0	$3,537,500	$13,854,166

Roster

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
Mikheyev, Ilya $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Strome, Dylan $4,000,000$4,000,000 C UFA - 1	Olofsson, Victor $5,000,000$5,000,000 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	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	Reimer, James $2,250,000$2,250,000 G M-NTC UFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Subban, P.K. $3,750,000$3,750,000 RD UFA	Anderson, Craig $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G UFA - 1
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2
Pilut, Lawrence $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Rask, Victor $1,000,000$1,000,000 C UFA	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
Bryson, Jacob $1,200,000$1,200,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Krebs, P.		Cozens, D.		Olofsson, V.
	Thompson, T.		Dahlin, R.

Power Play 2
Skinner, J.		Strome, D.		Okposo, K.
	Quinn, J.		Power, O.

Top Comments

Jul. 7, 2022 at 12:31 a.m.

papishark

Joined: Aug. 2019

Posts: 8,796

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Close but I think Reimer gets a little more

Jul. 7, 2022 at 12:36 a.m.

Shibbal18

Joined: Jan. 2016

Posts: 25,225

Likes: 9,027

Kinda a reach for Kasper, some mock drafts I've seen him almost at 16

Jul. 7, 2022 at 12:41 a.m.

homiedaclown

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 7,136

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Not at all a fan of these moves
Yikes!

Jul. 7, 2022 at 12:41 a.m.

homiedaclown

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 7,136

Likes: 3,156

Quoting: papishark

Close but I think Reimer gets a little more

🤣🤣🤣
He won’t even get this much

Jul. 7, 2022 at 1:01 a.m.

thewookie1

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 2,413

Likes: 1,014

I’d rather keep Mitts over Strome; Strome makes Mitts look fast as a skater.

Not interested in giving assets to overpay a 1 hit wonder Russian from Toronto

I’d avoid Russians in the draft at this point.

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