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take this seriously but also dont

Created by: Buffalo_Chills
Team: 2020-21 Buffalo Sabres
Initial Creation Date: Mar. 5, 2021
Published: Mar. 5, 2021
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Description
OUR Buffalo Sabres are fundamentally BROKEN. No amount of trades or draft picks will fix what is happening. The Sabres need an experienced Hockey Ops. staff to run the show, and they need a coach who can identify what the players they have at their disposal are good at and put those players in a position to succeed. Without those things they have first time GM with no assistants and no GM experience in the slightest, and a head coach who is stuck in his ways, implementing a dreadful style of play with players who are almost ALL a mismatch for the play style.
The saddest part is that so many, MOST, fans can see that huge changes need to be made, but ownership is incapable or unwilling to do so, and that means we're stuck with whatever THIS is, indefinitely.
I'd love to say hey, I'm done. Vegas, you're my new team. Squad up. Let's roll. But it doesn't work that way. Not for most fans. Fans are FANatic. It's this excessive, unconditional support, near-impossible to break. But it seems like the Sabres have gone past the point of testing our fandom to trying to actually break us.
I used to get irked when an AGM here would have another team taking our best players for pennies or someone would comment about a player and totally mis-cast them because they never watched a Sabres game, but I'm over that. Send your best or worst trades, trade for who you want, for whatever you want. Any published Armchair GM can't be worse than what is actually happening with the team.
Trades
1.
BUF
  1. Chytil, Filip
  2. Gauthier, Julien
  3. Kakko, Kaapo
  4. Zibanejad, Mika
  5. 2022 1st round pick (NYR)
  6. 2022 4th round pick (NYR)
2.
3.
BUF
  1. Tuch, Alex
  2. 2021 5th round pick (CAR)
VGK
  1. Olofsson, Victor
  2. 2021 4th round pick (BUF)
4.
BUF
  1. 2021 3rd round pick (PHI)
PHI
  1. Staal, Eric ($1,625,000 retained)
5.
BUF
  1. 2022 7th round pick (LAK)
6.
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2021
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2022
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2023
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ROSTER SIZESALARY CAPCAP HITOVERAGES TooltipBONUSESCAP SPACE
23$81,500,000$69,646,665$1,487,500$7,000,000$11,853,335
Left WingCentreRight Wing
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$9,000,000$9,000,000
LW, RW
NMC
UFA - 7
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$5,350,000$5,350,000
C
NMC
UFA - 2
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$4,750,000$4,750,000
RW, LW
UFA - 6
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$4,000,000$4,000,000
LW
NMC
UFA - 1
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$6,375,000$6,375,000
C, LW, RW
M-NTC
UFA - 3
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$894,167$894,167 (Performance Bonus$850,000$850K)
C, LW
UFA - 3
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$925,000$925,000
C, LW
RFA - 2
Logo of the New York Rangers
$894,166$894,166 (Performance Bonus$350,000$350K)
C, LW
UFA - 1
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$925,000$925,000 (Performance Bonus$2,650,000$3M)
RW
RFA - 2
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$700,000$700,000
RW, LW
UFA - 1
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$800,000$800,000
RW, C
UFA - 2
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$863,333$863,333 (Performance Bonus$300,000$300K)
RW
UFA - 1
Left DefenseRight DefenseGoaltender
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$925,000$925,000 (Performance Bonus$2,850,000$3M)
LD/RD
UFA - 1
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$864,166$864,166
RD
UFA - 1
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$4,250,000$4,250,000
G
UFA - 1
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$889,166$889,166
LD/RD
RFA - 2
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$5,400,000$5,400,000
RD
UFA - 2
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$2,600,000$2,600,000
G
UFA - 1
Logo of the Calgary Flames
$1,237,500$1,237,500
LD
UFA - 4
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$3,850,000$3,850,000
RD
UFA - 1
ScratchesInjured Reserve (IR)Long Term IR (LTIR)
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$700,000$700,000
LD/RD
UFA - 1
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$2,200,000$2,200,000
LW, C
UFA - 3
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$2,250,000$2,250,000
C
UFA - 2
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$2,850,000$2,850,000
LD/RD
UFA - 1
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$700,000$700,000
LW, C
UFA - 1
Taxi Squad
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$874,125$874,125 ($0$0$0$0)
LW, C
RFA - 1
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$845,000$845,000 ($0$0$0$0)
LW, C
RFA - 1
Logo of the Buffalo Sabres
$700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0)
LW
UFA - 1
Logo of the Buffalo Sabres
$700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0)
LD
UFA - 1
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$700,000$700,000 ($0$0$0$0)
G
UFA - 1

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Mar. 5, 2021 at 9:21 a.m.
#1
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I agree with description whole heartedly. Ive been trying to shake em for years now.
I think these trades are dreams tho.
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Mar. 5, 2021 at 9:30 a.m.
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Have Fun
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We thought that the tank years were the plunge on the roller coaster where our hearts were in our throats, and post McEichel would be the climb up to the top of the next hill where we would slow up and get a grand view of the world and possibly a Cup, but really during the plunge a hole opened up in the track at the bottom and we are now in a free fall to the center of the Earth.
Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:19 p.m.
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VGKNation702
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Vegas isn’t moving Tuch
Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:36 p.m.
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Tspky
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You wouldn’t get both Zibanejad and chytil, and you wouldn’t get either of them with kakko in the deal. So this just doesn’t work
Mar. 5, 2021 at 12:51 p.m.
#5
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Zib and his NMC say nice try, which is the biggest issue with the Buffaloes of the league, last dibs at mgmt, coaches, staff, bargaining power, players and trades for players with clauses. 1 step forward, 2 steps back.
Only fun choice imo as a die hard fan, go balls out young!
Good luck... chin up
 
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