Sabs 2022-2023 deadline

Created by: lalalallafontaine

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 24, 2022

Published: Dec. 24, 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

Trying to make smart smaller moves that could work out well in the future. Not sold on the idea of going all in this year and trading away lots of assets. I’m also holding on to a bit of hope our goalies will turn it around soon.

All trades are rough estimates of cost didn’t put too much thought into who would win. Lmk where would have to add to make them fair.

Not sure what to make of the sabs d men this year outside of our top 4.

Kings trade- we have enough goalie prospects they don’t, they have enough rhd prospects we don’t

Wild trade- they need cheap forwards, we can give them a cheap forward. I think we have given mitts tons of opportunity to show he’s the long term 3c and hasn’t worked out. Change of scenery could help him. Also let’s us play krebs more. The prospects are coming we need to see if krebs is our 3c.

Ducks- hard for me to justify this one. Always really liked comtois for some reason so I just traded for him. Johnson prob won’t sign so why not get what we can. Comtois signs 3 years exte

Free Agent Signings

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Sure who plays here, Not		1	$800,000
Not sure who plays, Here		1	$800,000

Trades

BUF

2023 2nd round pick (MIN)
2024 4th round pick (MIN)

MIN

Mittelstadt, Casey ($1,000,000 retained)

ANA

Johnson, Ryan [Reserve List]

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Casey Mittelstadt: $1,000,000 (40%)

Buried

Anders Bjork: $475,000 ($1,600,000)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
28	$82,500,000	$66,209,167	$0	$3,702,500	$16,290,833

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
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3	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
Comtois, Maxime $2,037,500$2,037,500 LW RFA - 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
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1		Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,700,000$1,700,000 RW, LW UFA - 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	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 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	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 2
Not sure who plays, Here $800,000$800,000	Spence, Jordan $820,000$820,000 ($82,500$82K) RD RFA - 2	Anderson, Craig $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G UFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2
Pilut, Lawrence $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1	Clague, Kale $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
	Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Top Comments

Dec. 24, 2022 at 9:40 a.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,809

Likes: 14,533

Thats an overpay for Comtois, not to mention by trading johnson, we lose out on a 2nd round compensatory pick. so you are trading 2 2nds, including a top 40 pick.

Comtois has like no value, hes a 25 point player who cant play more than 13 minutes on the worst team in the NHL.

what do you plan to do with 28 contracts? you can only have 23

Dec. 24, 2022 at 11:21 a.m.

gretzkyghosts

Joined: Apr. 2018

Posts: 5,352

Likes: 4,799

Edited Dec. 24, 2022 at 12:38 p.m.

I will try to be a bit more positive.
Who knows the value of Mittelstadt, a second may be too much. On the other hand I have seen many ACGM's from other teams thinking he is worth much more than that.
Spence would be a nice pick up, IMO Portillo should be enough as they are both only prospects, there 6 D-men and only 2 GK on an NHL team. Kisakov may be the Sabres best LW prospect (depending upon who is doing the ranking.)
If you like Comtois sure trade a player that may not sign with Buffalo.

Now here is my big bold prediction for this years TDL.
It will be very similar to last year.
One trade that netted a 6th round pick.
It puzzled me how inactive the Sabers were last year.
But IMO they knew the team was coming together and trading anyone even a vet as Miller could upset the plan.
I see the same this year.
Without Samuelsson the team is bad, with Samuelson and without Power, Lyubushkin and Jokiharju, they still find a way to win.

EDIT
From a comment on this site: https://theathletic.com/4029058/2022/12/22/buffalo-sabres-playoffs/?source=dailyemail&campaign=601983
32 GP 127 gf 109 ga = 3.97 - 3.40
With Samuelsson
19 GP 87 gf 54 ga = 4.57 - 2.84
Without Samuelson
13 GP 40 gf 55 ga 3.07 - 4.23

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