Four scoring lines Buffalo cost of living discounts 5 ELC to sign next year

Created by: GMTD

Team: 2025-26 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 12, 2023

Published: Aug. 12, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Accurate/Prorated

LTIR Enabled: Yes

Season Days: 186

Days Remaining: 186

Season Remaining: 100%

Projected Cap Hit Prior To Days Remaining

: $35,611,904

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

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Lindgren, Mats	3	$950,000
McCarthy, Gavin	3	$950,000
Strbak, Maxim	3	$950,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	7	$8,500,000
Johnson, Ryan	7	$3,500,000
Krebs, Peyton	7	$3,500,000
Levi, Devon	7	$5,500,000
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	7	$2,500,000
Jokiharju, Henri	7	$2,750,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	6	$5,000,000
Peterka, John-Jason	6	$5,000,000
Quinn, Jack	6	$5,000,000
Power, Owen	6	$7,100,000

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$89,500,000	$89,428,570	$0	$2,707,500	$71,430

Prorated Cap Hit

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, C RFA	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Peterka, John-Jason $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW RFA	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 5	Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C M-NTC UFA - 5
Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 1	Savoie, Matthew $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, LW RFA
Östlund, Noah $918,333$918,333 ($475,000$475K) C RFA - 1	Krebs, Peyton $3,500,000$3,500,000 C, LW RFA	Kulich, Jiri $918,333$918,333 C, LW RFA - 1
		Rosén, Isak $894,167$894,167 ($525,000$525K) RW RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 5	Dahlin, Rasmus $8,500,000$8,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 7	Levi, Devon $5,500,000$5,500,000 G RFA
Power, Owen $7,100,000$7,100,000 LD/RD UFA - 6	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $2,500,000$2,500,000 G RFA
Johnson, Ryan $3,500,000$3,500,000 LD RFA	Jokiharju, Henri $2,750,000$2,750,000 RD RFA
Novikov, Nikita $867,500$867,500 ($57,500$58K) LD RFA - 1

Taxi Squad
McCarthy, Gavin $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD RFA
Lindgren, Mats $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD RFA
Strbak, Maxim $950,000$950,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD RFA
Wahlberg, Anton $896,667$896,667 ($0$0$0$0) C RFA - 1

Top Comments

Aug. 12, 2023 at 8:35 a.m.

AntiAnalytics

Joined: Jul. 2023

Posts: 5,647

Likes: 3,746

I’d switch the lines around a bit,
but that’s a pretty awesome collection of talent right there
Go Sabres!

Aug. 12, 2023 at 8:49 a.m.

Dan_the_Man

Joined: Oct. 2022

Posts: 2,788

Likes: 1,010

NY has the 2nd highest state income tax rate in the US Please explain this "cost of living discount" That Krebs signing is hilarious most are actually.

Aug. 12, 2023 at 8:53 a.m.

jonh514

HuGo is a Boss GM

Joined: Dec. 2021

Posts: 6,998

Likes: 3,054

LOL. Tage Thompson moving back to the wing? All his success has come at center.

Really overthinking this. Maybe Oilers should move McDavid to wing as well!

Aug. 12, 2023 at 9:26 a.m.

GMTD

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Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 4,716

Likes: 2,441

Quoting: Dan_the_Man

NY has the 2nd highest state income tax rate in the US Please explain this "cost of living discount" That Krebs signing is hilarious most are actually.

Buffalo has the second best city lifestyle of all NHL teams: https://gavingroup.ca/lifestyle-rankings/
Buffalo is NOT New York City.

Quoting: jonh514

LOL. Tage Thompson moving back to the wing? All his success has come at center.
Really overthinking this. Maybe Oilers should move McDavid to wing as well!

Mittelstadt did really well as the top line center last season with 17 pts in 11 games.
This line up would give Buffalo two top lines and two other scoring lines.
It is doubtful other teams could match up against this line up.

BUFF36 liked this.

Aug. 12, 2023 at 9:36 a.m.

MisstheWhalers

Joined: Jan. 2019

Posts: 23,682

Likes: 12,380

Wonder what Dahlin and Power's next contracts are gonna look like, really need to get them both locked down to long term deals.

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