Buffalo Big Changes Next Year

Forums/Armchair-GM

Page 1 of 1

Created by: TMLBRIAN

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 30, 2021

Published: Mar. 30, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Tampa Deal Clears Cap for Tamp and they get 1st overall. Buffalo get 2 young pieces to compliment their team and get a proven (but over priced) winner in Johnson.

Sign Danault to have a brutal 1-2-3 punch down the middle. CIrelli and Danault both were top 6 in Selke last year + Eichel.

Buyout Skinner because he has been useless. The cap hit on the deal is brutal next year (not this year) - so they would have to plan for that.

I still don't love their right side of the D for this year, but that could be adjusted for next year.

Thoughts?

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	3	$4,500,000
Jokiharju, Henri	2	$950,000
Reinhart, Sam	6	$5,500,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Oleksiak, Jamie	2	$2,500,000
Danault, Phillip	5	$5,000,000
Ullmark, Linus	3	$3,000,000
Reimer, James	1	$2,000,000

Trades

BUF

Kerfoot, Alexander
2021 2nd round pick (TOR)
2021 4th round pick (TOR)
2022 4th round pick (TOR)
2022 5th round pick (TOR)

TOR

For hall (50%) and Ullmark (50%) at TDL

BUF

2021 2nd round pick (FLA)

FLA

Montour TDL

BUF

TBL

2021 1st round pick (BUF)
2021 2nd round pick (BUF)
2022 2nd round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

1st overall

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Jeff Skinner: $1,472,222
Kyle Okposo: $5,000,000

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$80,580,305	$113,916	$850,000	$919,695

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 5	Reinhart, Sam $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW UFA - 3
Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Cirelli, Anthony $4,800,000$4,800,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Quinn, Jack $894,167$894,167 RW, LW RFA - 4
Kerfoot, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $5,000,000$5,000,000 C UFA - 6	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Eakin, Cody $2,250,000$2,250,000 C UFA - 1	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Sergachev, Mikhail $4,800,000$4,800,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Ristolainen, Rasmus $5,400,000$5,400,000 RD UFA - 1	Ullmark, Linus $3,000,000$3,000,000 G UFA - 4
Dahlin, Rasmus $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Jokiharju, Henri $950,000$950,000 RD RFA - 3	Reimer, James $2,000,000$2,000,000 G UFA - 2
Oleksiak, Jamie $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 5	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 LD/RD RFA - 1
Lazar, Curtis $800,000$800,000 RW, C UFA - 1

Mar. 30, 2021 at 3:38 p.m.

Tarlam01

Juraj Slapshotsky

Joined: Jan. 2020

Posts: 1,131

Likes: 582

I can guarantee you that Danault will never sign in BUF. He'll have a lot of similar offers elsewhere if he it the market

Mar. 30, 2021 at 3:38 p.m.

EsoYeezus69

Jinx god

Joined: Sep. 2019

Posts: 10,203

Likes: 13,730

1. Danault, Reimer and Oleksiak won't sign here.
2 There's no way does Buffalo does that Leafs deal.
3. No way in hell Tampa accepts.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 3:39 p.m.

littlejerryseinfeld

Joined: Nov. 2017

Posts: 27,867

Likes: 14,566

I wouldn't make that toronto trade for just ullmark, let alone both ullmark and hall and both retained.

sabres89 and wojme liked this.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 3:43 p.m.

sabres89

Joined: Feb. 2017

Posts: 8,272

Likes: 6,247

Definitely do the florida, i would do the tampa one but they decline, the toronto one is a no.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 3:51 p.m.

palhal

LongtimeLeafsufferer

Joined: Jul. 2015

Posts: 59,713

Likes: 22,771

As a Leaf, Ullmark and certainly Hall are unneeded. But instead of the Sabres trading for 14.6m in cap for those three players and lose all those picks, wouldn't the Sabres be better just to spend 14.6m on UFAs and keep the picks. Maybe not immediately but soon.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 4:09 p.m.

CoopsTroops

Rutta 4ever

Joined: Sep. 2020

Posts: 4,539

Likes: 3,914

Oooh a 1OA and bag of assorted candy. Interesting, but that's enough to get Tampa to move on from Sergachev and Cirelli.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 4:14 p.m.

Maximporebski

DanyHeatley4allstar

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 299

Likes: 51

As a Leafs fan I love the TOR trade.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 4:16 p.m.

Maximporebski

DanyHeatley4allstar

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 299

Likes: 51

Quoting: EsoYeezus69

1. Danault, Reimer and Oleksiak won't sign here.
2 There's no way does Buffalo does that Leafs deal.
3. No way in hell Tampa accepts.

1&2 are valid, but Tampa would be dumb not to accept tbh. They are so strapped against the cap that they will have to move significant pieces in order to stay below the threshold. Maybe not Sergachev, but Cirelli is likely out just because they have too many good forwards and he can be expendable,

Mar. 30, 2021 at 4:18 p.m.

Maximporebski

DanyHeatley4allstar

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 299

Likes: 51

Quoting: palhal

Hall is unneeded in Toronto, but Ullmark isn't. He would be a great acquisition on the Leafs behalf. Great goalie who can split games 60/40 with Campbell, and that can allow Freddie to go in LTIR and be 100% for the playoffs.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 4:19 p.m.

#10

EsoYeezus69

Jinx god

Joined: Sep. 2019

Posts: 10,203

Likes: 13,730

Quoting: Maximporebski

A lot of players would go before Cirelli and Sergachev.

KINGS67 liked this.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 4:39 p.m.

#11

Point21

Joined: Apr. 2017

Posts: 1,263

Likes: 283

Tampa hangs up the phone and blocks all contact

KINGS67 liked this.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 6:08 p.m.

#12

Maximporebski

DanyHeatley4allstar

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 299

Likes: 51

Quoting: EsoYeezus69

A lot of players would go before Cirelli and Sergachev.

So as presently contracted, they would be 5.366 mil over the cap next season, and that accounts for 11F, 5D, and 1G. So you need 1 extra player at each position. I hope the taxi squad remains a thing because its helpful to get guys in an out of the lineup without taking cap hits as scratches. Cal Foote and Borgman are RFA as well. You are probably looking at a big piece or two departing, unless BriseBois finagles another season ending surgery to one of the big dogs again. Tampa is in deeeeeeeeeeeeeeep cap trouble come 2021-22.

TMLBRIAN liked this.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 6:17 p.m.

#13

TMLBRIAN

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 9,526

Likes: 4,174

Quoting: Maximporebski

absolutely. Hence why they unload over 15m in this and get the 1st overall pick. Not their number one preference. But one hell of a consolation prize.

Maximporebski liked this.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 8:19 p.m.

#14

EsoYeezus69

Jinx god

Joined: Sep. 2019

Posts: 10,203

Likes: 13,730

Quoting: Maximporebski

Killorn, McDonagh, Johnson, Gourde would go before these guys, that's approximately 21.5 mill. I'm pretty sure they'd rather trade their picks to get rid of McDonagh and Johnson than trade Sergy and Cirelli who're more important then the guys I named.

Mar. 30, 2021 at 9:11 p.m.

#15

Maximporebski

DanyHeatley4allstar

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 299

Likes: 51

Quoting: EsoYeezus69

Sure but it would be a hard task to find suitors for Killorn, McDougnah, and Johnsons contracts. These guys are regressing with age. You're right though, they could dump them with picks to Detroit or NJD or Ottawa but it takes away ice time from their young players. Most teams are pinned against the cap with future RFA's to sign anyways, so it'll be a tough task for BriseBois to navigate Tampa through it. Interesting to see what happens.

EsoYeezus69 liked this.

Page 1 of 1

DISPLAY SETTING

BETTING ODDS

LOCALE

ARCHIVE

CBA

CALCULATORS

FANTASY HOCKEY TOOLS

TOOLS

PLAYERS

WESTERN CONFERENCE

EASTERN CONFERENCE

INTERACTIVE FEATURES

Forums/Armchair-GM