Hope Vibes and Lollipops

Created by: BUFF36

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 13, 2023

Published: Aug. 13, 2023

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

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UFA - 5

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Well hopefully the internal growth of the Youngins keeps going. Losing Quinn hurts, was hoping he was one of the Youngins who took that step. Really wish he would have added a middle 6 option like Duchene or Tatar. Think Kulich will get his shot and is a dog. Rousek and Okposo can flip when need be and if Kulich isn't ready Rousek or Olofsson can slot in and Kulich can learn from the press box or Rochester.

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BUF

2024 5th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Lyubushkin, Ilya

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Eric Comrie: $650,000 ($1,800,000)
Jacob Bryson: $700,000 ($1,850,000)

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$74,266,903	$0	$4,570,000	$9,233,097

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 7	Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C 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 - 4	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 1	Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Rousek, Lukas $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 2
Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW 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	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	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 1
Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 1	Johnson, Erik $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 1
Stillman, Riley $1,350,000$1,350,000 LD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2

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Aug. 13, 2023 at 9:17 a.m.

gretzkyghosts

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Edited Aug. 13, 2023 at 10:26 a.m.

Who really knows.
This is as good as it gets.
Peterka, Krebs. Power, Luukkonen and Jokiharju could all take a huge leap forward.
Let me repeat my big bold predictions, 100 pt season, and Levi (21 years 287 days old on opening day) will have a season similar to Carey Price (21 years 55 days old on opening day) had in 2008-'09 when he played 41 games and Montreal went to the second round.

EDIT:
@Boos Thank you, Tom Barrasso 18 years old nearly his entire first season 2.84 GAA 26-12-3
IMHO Levi will do much better than that.

Second edit:
That team also had a lot of young players.
Andreychuk, Cyr, Tucker and Housley started the season at 19 YO
Very young defense Wiemer, Ruff and Ramsey all 22 or 23 YO.
Of course Barrasso 18 YO nearly the entire season

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Aug. 13, 2023 at 9:18 a.m.

Boos

Joined: Apr. 2020

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I think that's pretty much the lineup we'll be seeing, I like that top-six as laid out and the top-4 on d.

P.S.

Don't worry about the Bills. Allen's a tough cookie. Super Bowl bound this season.

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Aug. 13, 2023 at 9:25 a.m.

Boos

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Quoting: gretzkyghosts

Gotta love the positivity here. People forget Tom Barrasso came right out of high school and did pretty well in net that first season winning the Calder and Vezina.

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Aug. 13, 2023 at 10:23 a.m.

BUFF36

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Quoting: gretzkyghosts

Well there's your Hope

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Aug. 13, 2023 at 10:25 a.m.

BUFF36

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Quoting: Boos

I think that's pretty much the lineup we'll be seeing, I like that top-six as laid out and the top-4 on d.

P.S.

Don't worry about the Bills. Allen's a tough cookie. Super Bowl bound this season.

Yes he is, but even a game or 2 could hurt us. Just want to see better from the other Allen

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