Loading up on right hand defensemen making room for prospects

Created by: gretzkyghosts

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 21, 2024

Published: Jan. 21, 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

Trades

BUF

2024 3rd round pick (BOS)

Additional Details:

Could be another team

WSH

Olofsson, Victor

BUF

Liljegren, Timothy

Additional Details:

Love Sammuelson, with Ryan Johnson playing well in the NHL and Novikov leading Amerk +/- LHD is too crowded.

TOR

Samuelsson, Mattias

BUF

2024 7th round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

Girgensons joins Blueger to form a Riga connection.
BTW Adams should tried to get Teddy in the off season.

VAN

Girgensons, Zemgus

BUF

2024 6th round pick (COL)

Additional Details:

This and any trade retention could be included

COL

Johnson, Erik

BUF

Barron, Justin

MTL

Krebs, Peyton
2024 3rd round pick (BOS)

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Tyson Jost: $850,000 ($2,000,000)
Jacob Bryson: $700,000 ($1,850,000)
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	$63,380,356	$0	$5,682,500	$20,119,644

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
Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 3	Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C UFA - 7	Kulich, Jiri $918,333$918,333 C, LW RFA - 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	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Savoie, Matthew $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 3	Rosén, Isak $894,167$894,167 ($525,000$525K) RW RFA - 3
Robinson, Eric $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW UFA - 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	Liljegren, Timothy $1,400,000$1,400,000 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	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 1	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 1
Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 2	Barron, Justin $925,000$925,000 ($275,000$275K) RD RFA - 1
	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 3

Top Comments

Jan. 21 at 11:51 p.m.

Stadel

Joined: Jun. 2015

Posts: 3,305

Likes: 2,109

I legit forgot about Novikov for a second, I know they're pretty high on him. I'd still be surprised if they moved Samuelsson but would be interested in that kind of swap.