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Created by: Sabresfuturecupwinners

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 24, 2023

Published: Feb. 24, 2023

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

The buzz and asking price for Chychrun is a 1st plus 2 top tier prospects. Sabres give up their first, their top D prospect and one of their 1st picks from last year. Also throw in Bryson to give them a young bottom pair defender. Bjugstad is brought in for veteran presence and to play a more well rounded 2nd/3rd line RW. Thoughts?

Trades

BUF

ARI

Bryson, Jacob
Johnson, Ryan [Reserve List]
Östlund, Noah
2023 1st round pick (BUF)
2023 4th round pick (BUF)

Buyouts

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

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
24	$82,500,000	$64,626,667	$0	$3,620,000	$17,873,333

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
Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3
Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Bjugstad, Nick $450,000$450,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2	Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 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
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2	Anderson, Craig $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1
Clague, Kale $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1

Top Comments

Feb. 24, 2023 at 4:53 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,891

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You want a veteran presence so you bench a 10 year vet who wears a letter?

Feb. 24, 2023 at 5:09 p.m.

homiedaclown

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 7,136

Likes: 3,156

Well since u asked for thoughts….

-Bjugstad sucks, wouldn’t play him over anyone in our current lineup- or even over Asplund. Hell, I’d rather play Hinostroza.
Bjugstad has been banished to ARZ for a reason- again, he sucks.

-Chychrun is a really good player obviously. But i don’t see how we give him & Dahlin & Power all big $$$ on their next contracts. So it just doesn’t make sense to me to spend all these assets to get Chychrun, only to turn around & flip him in a year & a half or so.
I don’t think it’s smart to devote $30mil in Cap space to our Top3 defensemen

Feb. 24, 2023 at 5:33 p.m.

MayDay19

CEO

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 74

Likes: 33

Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld

You want a veteran presence so you bench a 10 year vet who wears a letter?

Do you see Okposo as a positive/essential piece of our lineup? No sarcasm just asking for an opinion.. What I see is a player that is only playing because he is a leader, I dont see anything beneficial from him being on the ice. I see a very slow player who has been giving the puck away more and more as the season rolls on. I dont see him as a physical player and I dont see him as a protector of sorts. Thoughts?

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