Season Opener

Created by: Archarte

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 2, 2023

Published: Jul. 2, 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

I like the idea of returning Dahlin to his natural left position with Johnson protecting the blue line and moving the puck up the ice. Clifton would be a perfect match with Power and Samuelson would provide a very strong LD3 with either Boosh or Joki finishing out the group in a situational start condition.

Olofsson trade could be to any team that will take him. He just needs to move on to make room for the youth. Give the youth the third line to see who may be ready to make the transition with a strong protective fourth line and proven ability with the top six. Then that third line can be throttled on and off the ice situationally depending on the freedom in the games progress.

Could be a very exciting start to the season.

Trades

BUF

2025 4th round pick (MIN)

ANA

Olofsson, Victor

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Jacob Bryson: $700,000 ($1,850,000)
Riley Stillman: $200,000 ($1,350,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$70,322,737	$0	$5,177,500	$13,177,263

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C UFA - 7	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 7	Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($32,500$32K) LW, RW RFA - 2
Kulich, Jiri $918,333$918,333 C, LW RFA - 3	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 1	Nadeau, Olivier $836,667$836,667 ($82,500$82K) RW RFA - 3
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $2,500,000$2,500,000 ($500,000$500K) RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Johnson, Erik $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 1	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) G RFA - 2
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($1,850,000$2M) LD/RD UFA - 1	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 3	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 7	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Rosén, Isak $894,167$894,167 ($525,000$525K) RW RFA - 3
Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Jul. 2, 2023 at 12:46 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,878

Likes: 14,573

We did not sign Johnson to play top pair minutes. Samuelsson and dahlin are a perfect pair. Don't fix what isn't broken.

Dahlin is better on the right side and has been since he was 16 years old

Nadeau obviously doesn't make the team. Jesus

Jul. 2, 2023 at 12:53 p.m.

DragonKnight

Joined: Feb. 2023

Posts: 645

Likes: 162

Luukkonen is missing.

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Jul. 2, 2023 at 1:01 p.m.

Burnzie8_88_4Cup

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 1,730

Likes: 522

I'm certain Nadeau isn't ready. I could see him on a Line with Cederqvist and Kozak in ROC. For Buffalo, I'd rather see Rousek on the 3rd L RW with Kulich.

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Jul. 2, 2023 at 1:36 p.m.

gretzkyghosts

Joined: Apr. 2018

Posts: 5,352

Likes: 4,799

Quoting: DragonKnight

Luukkonen is missing.

Quoting: CB37

I'm certain Nadeau isn't ready. I could see him on a Line with Cederqvist and Kozak in ROC. For Buffalo, I'd rather see Rousek on the 3rd L RW with Kulich.

Olofsson in the press box is a lot more valuable to the Sabres trying to make the playoffs than a 4th round pick in '25.
Granato thinks Jokiharju (21min/gm) is >> Lyubushkin (15min/gm).

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