What the Sabres need

Created by: Sabresforlife

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 13, 2023

Published: Oct. 13, 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

Trades

BUF

Hertl, Tomas ($1,137,500 retained)
Sturm, Nico

SJS

Jost, Tyson
Olofsson, Victor
Savoie, Matthew
2024 1st round pick (BUF)
2025 2nd round pick (BUF)

Buried

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	$73,811,070	$0	$4,720,000	$9,688,930

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
Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 3	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
Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Hertl, Tomas $5,612,500$5,612,500 C NMC UFA - 7	Ylönen, Jesse $775,000$775,000 RW, LW RFA - 1
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Sturm, Nico $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 2	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

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	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
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	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) G RFA - 2
Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 3	Johnson, Erik $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

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

Top Comments

Oct. 13, 2023 at 11:54 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 59,629

Likes: 22,724

Next year 50m in six players......Dunno, seem to turning into the Leafs. IMO, Hertl may not be good long term value.

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Oct. 14, 2023 at 12:00 a.m.

GuyGuyGuy

Prime Primeau

Joined: Apr. 2023

Posts: 5,455

Likes: 2,169

They need decent backup more than anything

Oct. 14, 2023 at 12:09 a.m.

ReadyToGetFlamed

Joined: Nov. 2022

Posts: 256

Likes: 83

Montreal has no reason to do that, KH has been very good at keeping/acquiring younger guys, and trading away older ones. So they have no reason to get rid of a 24 in a trade where they take an extra 1.5 mil on the cap for a 35 year old, 30 point vet who would take up a roster spot. As well as a goalie prospect that was bad in almost every league he is in.

Genuinely though, the Sabres threw away that 2nd rounder in 2022, very bad pick. Leinonen's numbers in every league except for the stint in JYP U20 are complete crap in his draft year, and shocker, he was just as bad in those leagues in 22-23.

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Oct. 14, 2023 at 12:32 a.m.

vols94