Buffalo - Moves to Consider

Created by: Arh613

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 14, 2022

Published: Jul. 14, 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

Obviously, I'm probably off on trade value here, but if you can get something to work at a reasonable price for Marino including Mitts + it would provide great depth defensively and versatility up and down the lineup. Strome is a guy that is pretty comparable to Mitts, just more expensive so use him as a short term replacement or sign a 4th line C and move Hino up w/ Krebs & Olofsson.

Just my thoughts on a few moves that we could still make to continue to improve our roster in the short & long term.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Pilut, Lawrence		1	$925,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Strome, Dylan		2	$4,000,000

Trades

BUF

Marino, John

PIT

Mittelstadt, Casey
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)

Buyouts

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

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$61,141,667	$0	$3,537,500	$21,358,333

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
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1	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
Strome, Dylan $4,000,000$4,000,000 C UFA - 1	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2	Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,700,000$1,700,000 RW, LW UFA - 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	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2	Anderson, Craig $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G UFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 2		Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Pilut, Lawrence $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 14, 2022 at 12:43 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

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no thanks. i like dahlin on his right side with samuelsson

Jul. 14, 2022 at 12:44 p.m.

Shibbal18

Joined: Jan. 2016

Posts: 25,250

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Dahlin is on the right, but id still do this

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Jul. 14, 2022 at 12:48 p.m.

Hullsy09

Joined: May 2022

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What does mitts project as at this point?

Jul. 14, 2022 at 12:57 p.m.

thewookie1

Joined: Jun. 2016

Posts: 2,422

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Don't see a point of this trade sense we already have 3 players on the right

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Jul. 14, 2022 at 1:47 p.m.

Arh613

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 231

Likes: 79

Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld

no thanks. i like dahlin on his right side with samuelsson

Quoting: Shibbal18

Dahlin is on the right, but id still do this

Quoting: thewookie1

Don't see a point of this trade sense we already have 3 players on the right

Guys, Dahlin played <30 games on the right last year, and I did like him with Samuelsson in that span. BUT, adding Marino gives us a legitimate top 4 RHD who's strong defensively. Again, Sammy was great at the end of last year, but realistically Joki, and Lyubushkin are 3rd pair RHD so there's plenty of versatility still in the lineup.

You can still go
23-26
25-Marino
and rotate the other 3/4 D on the roster

Adding Marino gives affordable positional depth in an overall weak area in our organization.

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