Buffalo Next Year

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Created by: TMLBRIAN

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 13, 2021

Published: Apr. 13, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

This is if Eichel Wants out. Montreal would be a good fit and it would take a kings ransom to get Eichel.

Tampa trade sheds cap (they are WAYYYY over for next year as it currently stands). They give up Cirelli and Johnson as a cap dump and get last years 8th overall pick and a few other picks.

Buffalo's team is much more solid in this version than it is this year. A lot more balanced and they added some very good defensive pieces in Cirelli, Danault, Martinez and Savard.

This is a complete remake of this team but I think it would be a lot more competitive and potentially dooable.

I think they should do everything they can to keep Eichel but if they can't this would be a good consolation.

Thoughts?

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	3	$4,500,000
Jokiharju, Henri	1	$950,000
Reinhart, Sam	5	$5,500,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Danault, Phillip	5	$5,000,000
Ullmark, Linus	3	$3,500,000
Reimer, James	1	$1,500,000
Martinez, Alec	2	$4,500,000
Savard, David	3	$4,500,000

Trades

BUF

Byron, Paul
Caufield, Cole
Suzuki, Nick
2021 1st round pick (MTL)
2021 2nd round pick (TBL)
2022 1st round pick (MTL)

MTL

Eichel, Jack

BUF

TBL

Quinn, Jack
2021 2nd round pick (BUF)
2022 3rd round pick (BUF)

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$73,830,304	$113,916	$1,687,500	$7,669,696

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Cirelli, Anthony $4,800,000$4,800,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Reinhart, Sam $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW UFA - 3
Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Suzuki, Nick $863,333$863,333 ($537,500$538K) C UFA - 1	Caufield, Cole $880,833$880,833 ($300,000$300K) LW, RW UFA - 2
Byron, Paul $3,400,000$3,400,000 LW, 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
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2
	Eakin, Cody $2,250,000$2,250,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Savard, David $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA - 4	Ullmark, Linus $3,500,000$3,500,000 G UFA - 4
Martinez, Alec $4,500,000$4,500,000 LD UFA - 3	Ristolainen, Rasmus $5,400,000$5,400,000 RD UFA - 1
Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $950,000$950,000 RD RFA - 3	Reimer, James $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 2
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 LD/RD RFA - 1

Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:11 p.m.

palhal

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Joined: Jul. 2015

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That's a lotta cap going Montreal's way. Don't know if they want to swallow that. Instead of making that Tampa trade, wouldn't the Sabres be better to find a 2m 3rd line winger, spend 7.8m on a UFA centre and keep Quinn and the two picks?

Apr. 13, 2021 at 11:37 p.m.

Campabee