Three Teamer

Created by: Arh613

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 14, 2023

Published: Jul. 14, 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

Could something around this framework make sense for all three teams?

Obviously this is not a finished product, but I was thinking that Anaheim needs some D, so they acquire UPL, a mid draft pick and two D that can play in the top 4 (hanifin top pair) that are both relatively young for retaining just over a mill on olofsson, 1.4 mill on gibson and giving up henrique.

Calgary gives up Hanifin to get Olofsson at ~1.2 AAV and add Rosen to their prospect pool

Buf - Gets Gibson at the 5 AAV number along with one year of Henrique to help support / insulate the young roster and help fill in for Quinn while hes rehabbing his injury

Trades

BUF

Hanifin, Noah

CGY

Olofsson, Victor ($2,375,000 retained)
Rosén, Isak

Additional Details:

Olofsson would be double retained from the Ducks as well in this scenario (1,187,500 AAV)

BUF

Gibson, John ($1,400,000 retained)
Henrique, Adam

ANA

BUF

2024 6th round pick (TBL)

TBL

Comrie, Eric ($900,000 retained)

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Victor Olofsson: $2,375,000 (50%)
Eric Comrie: $900,000 (50%)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$76,179,820	$0	$4,570,000	$7,320,180

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	Henrique, Adam $1,456,250$1,456,250 LW, C M-NTC UFA - 1
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 1	Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($32,500$32K) LW, RW RFA - 2
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $2,500,000$2,500,000 ($500,000$500K) RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 7	Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Gibson, John $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 4
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	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) G RFA - 2
Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 1	Johnson, Erik $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Stillman, Riley $1,350,000$1,350,000 LD RFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
Rousek, Lukas $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 2

Top Comments

Jul. 14, 2023 at 10:52 a.m.

rktkt66

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 940

Likes: 601

If the Sabres were to take the big swing and forfeit one of their top prospects to trade for Hanifin, it wouldn't be just to flip him to another team like Anaheim - especially for an overpriced goalie and aging center. The Sabres would trade for Hanifin to keep him.

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Jul. 14, 2023 at 11:03 a.m.

GeneralLandro

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 15,550

Likes: 11,936

Anaheim really doesn’t need to be buying a LHD as we have a whole stable about ready to make the jump

Jul. 14, 2023 at 11:03 a.m.

DDossett

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 782

Likes: 339

I dont see why the sabres do this at all. I like gibson but his contract is to long. UPL and comrie could be just as good as him this year and although i agree we could use a veteran center to support our youth im not sure we need to trade 5 good pieces for an over paid back up goalie and a rental aging out center to play his off wing and a line up. You can get a rw/c for a better price.

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Jul. 14, 2023 at 11:09 a.m.

Arh613

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 231

Likes: 79

Quoting: rktkt66

To play him where? I get that Rosen is a top prospect, but realistically hes somewhere between 5-10 for us IMO. I'd have Benson, Savoie, Kulich, and Ostlund all in front of him and thats just forwards. Not everybody can be in Buffalo or stay in Roch forever.

I get not being too excited about Gibson, and if you don't believe he can bounce back to a ~ .910% - .915% type guy with a better team around him then the whole trade is pointless. BUT the reality is we need to clean up our D core a bit, and I'd like to see us move Olofsson for a more defensively responsible forward who only has 1 year left.

I like Clifton as our #4 Dman and I think that Hanifin would demand too high of an AAV on his next deal for us to bring him back as a #3 or #4 with no pp time...

Jul. 14, 2023 at 11:24 a.m.

Boltsbeathabs

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 6,723

Likes: 2,531

TB says no thanks we have Comrie already making 125k less in Johansson

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