Might as well take it a step further

Created by: nhldeadline2

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 27, 2023

Published: Jan. 28, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Just having some fun because that top 6 would be an absolute nightmare for the next 2 years

Trades

BUF

Meier, Timo

SJS

Mittelstadt, Casey
Savoie, Matthew
2023 1st round pick (BUF)
2025 2nd round pick (BUF)

BUF

McCabe, Jake

CHI

Bryson, Jacob
Olofsson, Victor ($2,375,000 retained)
2023 2nd round pick (VGK)

Additional Details:

Olofsson fetches *at worst* a 2nd plus at $1.2M next year.
(Blackhawks take Bryson as a body/fine 7th dman for the next few years after they sell off everyone at the deadline, or Sabres can do the waiver shuffle. For value's sake, I'd give up a 6th for him if Buffalo needed to add a depth defenseman)

BUF

Konecny, Travis

PHI

Östlund, Noah
2023 2nd round pick (BUF)
2024 1st round pick (BUF)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Victor Olofsson: $2,375,000 (50%)

Buried

Vinnie Hinostroza: $575,000 ($1,700,000)
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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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$65,201,667	$0	$3,620,000	$17,298,333

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
Meier, Timo $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Konecny, Travis $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3	Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
		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	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Anderson, Craig $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G UFA - 1
	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 2
Clague, Kale $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2

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

Top Comments

Jan. 28, 2023 at 8:20 p.m.

Kyle_Davidson

Kyle from Chicago

Joined: Feb. 2018

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I don’t like the package for McCabe.

Please don’t misunderstand when I say that because I don’t want to imply it’s “not enough” but it feels to me like Buffalo is offering their spare parts for what is definitely not a spare part for Chicago and other potential suitors.

I would keep it simple, prospect pick leave it at that. For example I would suggest

Chicago Blackhawks

Bloom
2023 2nd (Middle one of Buffalo/Philly/Vegas)

Buffalo Sabres

Jake McCabe

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Jan. 28, 2023 at 8:30 p.m.

sabres89

Joined: Feb. 2017

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Quoting: Kyle_Davidson

Bloom
2023 2nd (Middle one of Buffalo/Philly/Vegas)

Buffalo Sabres

Jake McCabe

Frankly I think olofsson is criminally underrated, so Bloom and a second is fine. Although I'd rather have Murphy.

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Jan. 28, 2023 at 8:53 p.m.

nhldeadline2

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 336

Likes: 123

Quoting: Kyle_Davidson

Bloom
2023 2nd (Middle one of Buffalo/Philly/Vegas)

Buffalo Sabres

Jake McCabe

I agree the value of the trade I posted is more than fair. But being against having to flip a guy to get the extra 75% of the value is fair enough. Olofsson should get you a 1st assuming health, which puts the risk fully on CHI, so understandable.

This post is mostly about how much of a nightmare the 2nd line would be tho

Edit: also, yeah I should've just kept it simple but needed to move a body out for the roster to work

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Jan. 28, 2023 at 8:58 p.m.

nhldeadline2

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 336

Likes: 123

Quoting: sabres89

Frankly I think olofsson is criminally underrated, so Bloom and a second is fine. Although I'd rather have Murphy.

Fair enough on Murphy. Just a huge McCabe fan. With Power/Dahlin I think the handedness doesn't matter too much so can rework the defensive lineup however you want

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Jan. 29, 2023 at 10:05 a.m.

owentippett

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 426

Likes: 155

With Konecny having a career year, he fetches more than that deal. But tbh I’ve never heard of Ostlund so maybe that deal isn’t totally unrealistic if he’s a highly touted guy.

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