One move that solves all our problems

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Created by: sabertooth12

Team: 2020-21 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 13, 2020

Published: Oct. 13, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

We are 2m over the cap in this scenerio, but I think we could get around it by cap dumping Girgs/Eakin or figuring something out with Okposo's contract. It's doable

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Olofsson, Victor	3	$4,500,000
Reinhart, Sam	2	$6,500,000
Ullmark, Linus	2	$2,500,000

Trades

BUF

Additional Details:

Arizona makes this trade to free up $2,500,000 in cap space to sign one of the free agent wingers (Dadonov/Hoffman/Granlund) to take Taylor Hall's spot. Risto paired with Hjalmarsson is the perfect fit for him to balance offense and defense, and both would be a force to play with physically

ARI

Hutton, Carter
Ristolainen, Rasmus
2022 3rd round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

Retain $1,000,000 on Hutton

Risto has more value than Goligoski, which is why the pick added in isn't higher. Even at 35, Goligoski has relatively good GAR% analytics and is a good veteran two-way guy to pair with Jokiharju for a year. He played pretty well at 23 minutes a night last year and he certainly isn't washed. Raanta is exactly who we need in goal for a year.

BUF

Tuomisto, Antti [Reserve List]

DET

Mittelstadt, Casey [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Try to get a high upside RD prospect for Mittelstadt from any team that still sees potential in him. We will need to replace Risto/Montour/Colin Miller in the coming years

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2021
2022
2023

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
21	$81,500,000	$76,798,334	$1,487,500	$4,337,500	$4,701,666

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Hall, Taylor $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW NMC UFA - 1	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 6	Olofsson, Victor $4,500,000$4,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 7	Staal, Eric $1,625,000$1,625,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Reinhart, Sam $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW UFA - 1
Eakin, Cody $2,250,000$2,250,000 C UFA - 2	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 3	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 3
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 3	Lazar, Curtis $800,000$800,000 RW, C UFA - 2	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LD/RD UFA - 1	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 2
Goligoski, Alex $5,475,000$5,475,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $925,000$925,000 ($637,500$638K) RD RFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,850,000$2,850,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Montour, Brandon $3,850,000$3,850,000 RD UFA - 1	Ullmark, Linus $2,500,000$2,500,000 G UFA - 1
		Raanta, Antti $4,250,000$4,250,000 G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Rieder, Tobias $700,000$700,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:15 p.m.

Asd24

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we are over the cap space and thats without the retention on hutton

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Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:17 p.m.

Skyraider112

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Montour is the guy to move before the season, not Risto. If we can get a 3rd line winger for Montour that would be great. We cannot add more cap, we still need to sign 2 top 6 forwards and our starting goalie

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Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:18 p.m.

sabertooth12

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Quoting: Asd24

we are over the cap space and thats without the retention on hutton

I understand and made note of that... I still think it is a good move

Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:20 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

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you are over the cap, without the retention and with only 21 players

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Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:20 p.m.

sabertooth12

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Quoting: Skyraider112

First, we don't need another 3rd line winger, we have Cozens, Thompson, and Kahun to resign if they really need one. I'm fine with getting rid of either at this point, however I like Montour better because of his contract. We know what Risto is and he has needed to go for a long time. It's simply time to move on

Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:21 p.m.

sabertooth12

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Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld

you are over the cap, without the retention and with only 21 players

I understand that, like I said I think it is a good move and getting under the cap is doable. Vegas did it in one day almost effortlessly

Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:22 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

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Quoting: sabertooth12

I understand that, like I said I think it is a good move and getting under the cap is doable. Vegas did it in one day almost effortlessly

then do it, get under the cap.

Oct. 13, 2020 at 1:27 p.m.

sabertooth12

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Quoting: littlejerryseinfeld

then do it, get under the cap.

Can I just get back some feedback on the actual moves? The fit, the value, etc... I know the cap is important but this whole site is hypothetical anyways

Oct. 13, 2020 at 2:33 p.m.

dzmets

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Quoting: sabertooth12

I understand that, like I said I think it is a good move and getting under the cap is doable. Vegas did it in one day almost effortlessly

Vegas is still 1 million over the cap with 2 roster spots yet to fill. To get themselves close they had to trade a quality defenseman that holds value for basically nothing. Vegas has been working extremely hard to try and move MAF contract and at this point appear to have given up because of how difficult it has been.

Oct. 13, 2020 at 6:21 p.m.

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Skyraider112

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Quoting: sabertooth12

Yes we need good 3rd line wingers. Cozens is a center. TT has proven nothing and Kahun isn't signing likely. Do you really want Eakin, Girgensons, or TT as Cozens wingers? That doesn't set him up for much offensive success. Risto is a much better player than Montour, Montour will walk after 1 year, trade him now. Risto works well as our 2nd pair RHD.

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