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Created by: elchud

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: May 22, 2021

Published: May 22, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Blow it up, build back better. Why finish with the 8th worst record, miss the playoffs, when you can get a better lottery ticket.
Intent is to improve organizational depth and balance the rosters and add draft picks.
Intent is to add 2021/22 cap that doesn't improve the team. Intent is to get Beniers & Clarke. Intent is to finish with one of the 4 worst records in the league in 21/22.
Intent is to make the playoffs in 23/24 (maybe 22/23 if Shane Wright arrives)
Reinforcements in 22/23. Beniers/Clarke/Turcotte/Quinn/Samuelsson/Luukkonen/2022 1st round pick

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnson, Ryan	3	$925,000
Peterka, John-Jason	3	$925,000
Kukkonen, Miska	3	$850,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	8	$10,000,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	4	$3,750,000
Jokiharju, Henri	4	$2,250,000
Asplund, Rasmus	4	$1,875,000
Andersson, Lias	2	$1,145,000
Borgen, William	2	$1,145,000
Fitzgerald, Casey	2	$750,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Goligoski, Alex	3	$3,000,000
Rittich, David	1	$1,500,000
Houser, Michael	2	$750,000
Caggiula, Drake	1	$750,000
Dea, Jean-Sébastien	2	$750,000
Fogarty, Steven	2	$750,000
Mersch, Michael	2	$750,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Fitzgerald, Cavan		2	$750,000

Trades

BUF

2021 2nd round pick (SEA)

SEA

Pilut, Lawrence [Reserve List]
Ristolainen, Rasmus ($2,700,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Seattle selects Ristolainen (at 50% retained salary) in the expansion draft. The trade is SK 2021 2nd for Lawrence Pilut.

BUF

Andersson, Lias [RFA Rights]
Grans, Helge [Reserve List]
Kupari, Rasmus
Määttä, Olli
MacDermid, Kurtis
Quick, Jonathan
Turcotte, Alex
2021 1st round pick (LAK)
2021 2nd round pick (LAK)
2021 2nd round pick (STL)

LAK

BUF

Beagle, Jay
Eriksson, Loui
Roussel, Antoine
2021 1st round pick (VAN)
2022 1st round pick (VAN)
2023 1st round pick (VAN)

Additional Details:

2022 1st top-16 protected (2024 unprotected)
2023 1st top-16 protected (2025 unprotected)

VAN

Reinhart, Sam [RFA Rights]

Additional Details:

Sam Reinhart signs for 5 years, $35million

BUF

2021 1st round pick (ANA)
2022 5th round pick (ANA)

Additional Details:

ANA 2021 1st is 4th overall (SEA - 1st, NJ - 2nd, BUF - 3rd)

ANA

2021 1st round pick (LAK)
2021 1st round pick (VAN)
2021 2nd round pick (LAK)
2021 2nd round pick (STL)
2021 2nd round pick (BOS)
2021 6th round pick (COL)

Additional Details:

LAK 2021 1st is 8th overall
VC 2021 1st is 9th overall

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Loui Eriksson: $4,000,000

Retained Salary Transactions

Rasmus Ristolainen: $2,700,000 (50%)

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
26	$81,500,000	$78,900,474	$113,916	$1,062,500	$2,599,526

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Mittelstadt, Casey $3,750,000$3,750,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 2
Asplund, Rasmus $1,875,000$1,875,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Andersson, Lias $1,145,000$1,145,000 C, LW RFA - 1	Kupari, Rasmus $863,333$863,333 ($212,500$212K) C, LW, RW RFA - 2	Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Caggiula, Drake $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
	Eakin, Cody $2,250,000$2,250,000 C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $10,000,000$10,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Jokiharju, Henri $2,250,000$2,250,000 RD RFA - 3	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 2
Goligoski, Alex $3,000,000$3,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Borgen, William $1,145,000$1,145,000 RD UFA - 2	Rittich, David $1,500,000$1,500,000 G UFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 LD/RD RFA - 1	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1
Määttä, Olli $3,333,225$3,333,225 LD UFA - 1	MacDermid, Kurtis $875,000$875,000 LD/RD, LW UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Roussel, Antoine $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Beagle, Jay $3,000,000$3,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1
Houser, Michael $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1

May 22, 2021 at 1:34 a.m.

BadBadgers

Canucks

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 583

Likes: 254

Canucks decline

May 22, 2021 at 1:37 a.m.

elchud

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 56

Likes: 21

OK. I thought it would be helpful to clear 12 million in salary to add Reinhart and help fund the Pettersson/Hughes contracts.

What would be fair? The 12 million in contracts, 2021 1st, and 2022 2nd + 2023 2nd? Down grade the two future 1sts to 2nds? I'd probably go for that.

May 22, 2021 at 1:37 a.m.

Nighthawk

2018 Canucks

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 2,172

Likes: 747

On the Reinhart trade...

They’ve ridden out those contracts into the last year & may as well see it through for one last year. The 3 1sts would come back to haunt the Canucks for many years since Reinhart won’t get close to putting Van over the top.

The 12m saved minus 7m leaves 5m. That might get a RHD to fill a need or at least the 3C spot. So holes & depth still remain.

Cap space for Petey & Hughes then Boeser soon would be a hardship.

So Canucks ride it out or use buyouts if prudent would be the better options.

May 22, 2021 at 1:46 a.m.

elchud

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 56

Likes: 21

I changed the trade. Eriksson/Roussel/Beagle, 2021 1st, 2022 2nd, 2023 2nd.
(Although would anyone be surprised if Benning made a dumb trade?)

May 22, 2021 at 1:53 a.m.

jwg314

STL

Joined: Jul. 2019

Posts: 3,619

Likes: 1,637

Quoting: elchud

I changed the trade. Eriksson/Roussel/Beagle, 2021 1st, 2022 2nd, 2023 2nd.
(Although would anyone be surprised if Benning made a dumb trade?)

I think that trade would get you a bag of pucks, not Reinhart. That’s 3 cap dumps.

May 22, 2021 at 1:53 a.m.

Tjm220

Sabres fan

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 4,853

Likes: 3,031

You might as well say your intent is to not sell any tickets at any Sabres home games for the next two seasons. Gee, that sure sounds fun.

May 22, 2021 at 1:53 a.m.

elchud

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 56

Likes: 21

Quoting: jwg314

I think that trade would get you a bag of pucks, not Reinhart. That’s 3 cap dumps.

Its 6 distinct entities. 3 cap dumps, one 1st, two 2nds.

May 22, 2021 at 1:55 a.m.

jwg314

STL

Joined: Jul. 2019

Posts: 3,619

Likes: 1,637

Quoting: elchud

Its 6 distinct entities. 3 cap dumps, one 1st, two 2nds.

Right. I think those picks would get you the cap dumps, not a star player.

elchud liked this.

May 22, 2021 at 1:55 a.m.

elchud

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 56

Likes: 21

Quoting: Tjm220

You might as well say your intent is to not sell any tickets at any Sabres home games for the next two seasons. Gee, that sure sounds fun.

Pegulas can afford it. Fans will come around if the kids stay positive. Sam Reinhart looked like he was being held hostage the entire season. Stick with Granato, trust the plan, there's only one way to go when you hit rock bottom.

May 22, 2021 at 1:57 a.m.

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jwg314

STL

Joined: Jul. 2019

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Quoting: elchud

Its 6 distinct entities. 3 cap dumps, one 1st, two 2nds.

Since this is from a BUF perspective, you wouldn’t need to give Reinhart in that deal.

May 22, 2021 at 1:59 a.m.

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Tjm220

Sabres fan

Joined: Jul. 2020

Posts: 4,853

Likes: 3,031

Quoting: elchud

It’s pretty clear the Pegulas only care about money. Blatantly making it obvious that you have no intention of winning any hockey games isn’t going to get anyone to pay the watch this team. They have no desire to lose $20 million a season because they can only get 300 people to show up to games. And those 300 people are fans of the opposing team. Even if they understood what planning was, there’s no way they would sign up for a plan that sees them embarrassing the city for 3 more years.

May 22, 2021 at 2:03 a.m.

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elchud

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2021

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Quoting: Tjm220

I think that they think the Sabres can turn around like the Bills turned around.

I've seen some awful Sabres teams in my lifetime (and some awful Bills team). The Teddy Nolan teams were always fun to watch. Add someone like Shane Wright or Connor Bedard and the fans will come back.

May 22, 2021 at 2:17 a.m.

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elchud

Thread Starter

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 56

Likes: 21

OK, last comment for the night. Three 1sts is fair, 12 million is a lot of salary to take back.

Reinhart to me is worth the 2021 1st (9th overall) plus 2023 1st (somewhere between 21st and 24th overall? who can know these things)

So then is the 2022 1st (somewhere between 17th and 20th?) worth 12 million in cap dumps. I think so.

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