Room for 18 yr old Benson who was the 13th overall pick in 2023

Created by: Boos

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 5, 2023

Published: Oct. 5, 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

Line 1-- Why changed a devastatingly successful line of Skinner/Tage/Tuch?
Line 2-- Sorry Dylan and JJ, hope your shoulders are broad enough to carry Olofsson for a bit
Line 3-- Mitts and Greenway carry the rookie after Granato shelters him
Line 4-- Krebs centers what could end up being one of the better fourth lines in the league

As for the defense and goaltending? Hopes and prayers at this junction although I believe Dahlin and Power will be formidable in their roles and will carry a lot of weight moving forward with Levi using his Jedi mind tricks to attack the opposition.

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
23	$83,500,000	$75,591,903	$0	$6,220,000	$7,908,097

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
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($32,500$32K) LW, RW RFA - 2	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 7	Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 3
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 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	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 3	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	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 1	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 7	Johnson, Erik $3,250,000$3,250,000 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
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 1	Savoie, Matthew $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 3
Stillman, Riley $1,350,000$1,350,000 LD RFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 ($700,000$700K$700,000$700K) LD/RD RFA - 1

Top Comments

Oct. 5, 2023 at 7:39 p.m.

pretzelcoatl

n.1 Topias Vilen fan

Joined: Jul. 2021

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Benson falling to 13 was so stupid to watch, worse than Wright going 4th imo

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Oct. 5, 2023 at 7:52 p.m.

Birtle34

Bandwagon fairweathe

Joined: Jun. 2018

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Buffalo got a few gifts in last few drafts. Savoie is ridiculously skilled also, I would be surprised if benson doesn’t get back to junior and world junior championships this year. Possibly 9 games though,

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Oct. 5, 2023 at 7:56 p.m.

ht42

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 2,461

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Quoting: pretzelcoatl

Benson falling to 13 was so stupid to watch, worse than Wright going 4th imo

I belived that Benson will be draft after Bedard, Carlsson, Fantilli, Smith, Reinbacher, Michkov and Lenoard, but he falled a lot. Can be a big steal by Buffalo.

About Shane Wright, that's not the same situation. All the teams over them maked the good choice to not taking him. Also, somes repports said that he wasn't even in the top 5 in somes NHL teams scoutting lists for mutiples reasons.......

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Oct. 5, 2023 at 8:14 p.m.

JoeROFLCOPTER

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