Cozens Demotion Not a Bad Thing

Created by: ashleyschaeffer

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 17, 2024

Published: Jan. 17, 2024

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

I want Cozens to be able to play a little simpler and focus on being a shutdown center. He overhandles the puck and get himself and the team into bad spots. I think some time running the 4th line will help reset him. And Robinson and Girgensons haven't been terrible. They can still generate offense. And with the 3rd line I put here, they would have to be more of an offensive zone start line. Mainly, I think Rosen has earned some more run while Skinner is out and I'd like to see Krebs given the chance to run an line that is more focused on offense. And putting Greenway with Tuch and Thompson should be more disruptive off of the forecheck and allow them to add more chip and chase into their game to sustain offensive pressure. Plus they'd look like a monster movie out there.

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Tyson Jost: $850,000 ($2,000,000)
Jacob Bryson: $700,000 ($1,850,000)
Eric Comrie: $650,000 ($1,800,000)
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

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$83,500,000	$74,642,737	$0	$5,745,000	$8,857,263

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	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	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 3	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 1	Rosén, Isak $894,167$894,167 ($525,000$525K) RW RFA - 3
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 7	Robinson, Eric $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 1
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
Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 2	Johnson, Erik $3,250,000$3,250,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4
Okposo, Kyle $2,500,000$2,500,000 ($500,000$500K) RW UFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 7