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What can be done to ensure the playoffs

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Team: 2020-21 Buffalo Sabres
Initial Creation Date: Dec. 11, 2020
Published: Dec. 11, 2020
Salary Cap Mode: Basic
Free Agent Signings
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1$975,000
UFAYEARSCAP HIT
1$4,000,000
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  1. 2021 5th round pick (BUF)
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Devils get a reliable 3rd/4th line center and give up minimal assets
NJD
  1. Eakin, Cody
  2. 2022 3rd round pick (BUF)
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Sabres clear cap, and add the 3rd Round Pick as a sweetner
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22$81,500,000$74,243,334$1,487,500$4,470,000$7,256,666
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LW
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C
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UFA - 1
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C
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UFA - 1
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UFA - 1
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UFA - 7
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C
UFA - 3
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$6,000,000$6,000,000
RW
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UFA - 3
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UFA - 1
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UFA - 1
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$3,875,000$3,875,000
RD
UFA - 2
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$778,333$778,333 (Performance Bonus$132,500$132K)
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RFA - 2
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Dec. 11, 2020 at 10:58 p.m.
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Taking risto off the top pair would be a good start
Dec. 11, 2020 at 10:58 p.m.
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I think Buffalo is more likely to hope for a rebound season out of Skinner than sign Hoffman - and I don’t think he’d sign that anyways. Last I heard he’s looking for term
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Dec. 11, 2020 at 11:04 p.m.
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We just signed Eakin so trading him now is out of question. Especially if we're paying? to get rid of a guy we just signed?
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Dec. 11, 2020 at 11:05 p.m.
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Hoffman is not signing that low
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Dec. 11, 2020 at 11:31 p.m.
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We JUST signed eakin. No UFA will ever sign with us again if we sign them and then trade them. Why does no one here understand this?
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Dec. 11, 2020 at 11:32 p.m.
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Quoting: Stanley_Cup_To_Manhattan
We just signed Eakin so trading him now is out of question. Especially if we're paying? to get rid of a guy we just signed?


Sim city nonsense
Dec. 11, 2020 at 11:32 p.m.
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Quoting: Isles777
Taking risto off the top pair would be a good start


Tage Thompson center alert too
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Dec. 11, 2020 at 11:57 p.m.
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Quoting: Isles777
Taking risto off the top pair would be a good start


That’s realistic they won’t cut his ice time.
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:02 a.m.
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Quoting: Gmonwy
Hoffman is not signing that low


Probably not. But options, teams, and time, one month until games, are not on his side. How many trams have 5+ mil to pay him???
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:05 a.m.
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LL
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:06 a.m.
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Quoting: Sabres923
That’s realistic they won’t cut his ice time.


Dahlin-Miller
McCabe- jokiharju
Montour-risto
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:30 a.m.
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Quoting: Isles777
Dahlin-Miller
McCabe- jokiharju
Montour-risto


Ristolainen has been playing top minutes since 2014 over handful of coaches they won’t cut his ice time. those D pairs are probably right, but Montour-Ristolainen will most likely be the first pair unfortunately.
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Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:31 a.m.
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Quoting: Sabres923
Ristolainen has been playing top minutes since 2014 over handful of coaches they won’t cut his ice time. those D pairs are probably right, but Montour-Ristolainen will most likely be the first pair unfortunately.


crazy
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:38 a.m.
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Quoting: Isles777
crazy


The only player that had success with him was Lawrence Pilut who left for the KHL.
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:39 a.m.
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Isles7
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The only player that had success with him was Lawrence Pilut who left for the KHL.


IIRC pilut was very good defensively
Dec. 12, 2020 at 12:49 a.m.
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IIRC pilut was very good defensively


Yep. In 17-18 he led the SHL in points as a defenseman. He wasted his time in the AHL, the past two years. He was really good in the games he played. Krueger isn’t a great coach is lineup decisions was a big reason why they just missed the 24 team playoff.
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Dec. 12, 2020 at 8:51 a.m.
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They aren’t trading Eakin right after they signed him

Tage Thompson couldn’t even play the wing well in the nhl,
putting him at center is one of the worst ideas I’ve seen here

Also... gotta improve the goaltending
UPL wasn’t even good in the AHL last year. No need to rush him up here before he’s ready
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