Worst Case Scenario

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Created by: GiantBoots

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 2, 2021

Published: Jul. 2, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

On November 6th, 2021, Jack Eichel took a hit along the boards that hurt his neck. He immediately left the ice, but team doctors decided he could still play. The next day, Jack decided to have surgery. Abandoning over $40000000 he could have earned on his current contract, Jack Eichel retired from the NHL and took control of his health. GM Kevyn Adams expressed disappointment, but pointed to the team's hot start as a sign that things were OK. That success immediately evaporated, of course, and the team's off-season signings looked even worse now. Dridger's year with Florida looked like a mirage, and Butcher has done nothing but struggle. After a trade deadline in which, despite being far out of the playoffs, they not only kept Ristolainen and Miller, but actually traded a draft pick for a 32-year-old centre to bolster their now Eichel-less team, Kevyn Adams was fired.

You're in charge of putting together a roster for 2022-23 now. You have several albatross contracts, Sam Reinhart is definitely leaving after his contract is up, and no one in this organization has experienced success as an adult. Good luck.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnson, Ryan		3	$925,000
Portillo, Erik		2	$900,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	2	$1,000,000
Reinhart, Sam	2	$6,500,000
Dahlin, Rasmus	1	$1,250,000
Jokiharju, Henri	1	$1,000,000
Olofsson, Victor	5	$4,500,000
Asplund, Rasmus	2	$1,250,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	3	$2,250,000
Ruotsalainen, Arttu	1	$1,500,000
Fitzgerald, Casey	2	$1,500,000
Bryson, Jacob	3	$2,500,000
Murray, Brett	1	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Driedger, Chris	4	$5,000,000
Butcher, Will	3	$2,500,000
Ryan, Derek	2	$2,000,000
Schultz, Justin	4	$4,500,000
Blackwell, Colin	3	$2,500,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Power, Owen		3	$925,000

Trades

BUF

SEA

Girgensons, Zemgus

BUF

Grant, Derek

ANA

2021 3rd round pick (FLA)

BUF

Quick, Jonathan
Turcotte, Alex
2023 1st round pick (LAK)

LAK

Reinhart, Sam

Additional Details:

(retaining $3.25M, but the software won't let me do that for some reason)

BUF

2023 4th round pick (EDM)

EDM

Grant, Derek

BUF

MIN

Dahlin, Rasmus
2023 4th round pick (BUF)

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
23	$81,500,000	$64,374,167	$0	$1,700,000	$17,125,833

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 5	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Olofsson, Victor $4,500,000$4,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,250,000$2,250,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Ruotsalainen, Arttu $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, LW RFA	Blackwell, Colin $2,500,000$2,500,000 C, RW UFA - 2	Ryan, Derek $2,000,000$2,000,000 C, RW UFA - 1
Neal, James $5,750,000$5,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Asplund, Rasmus $1,250,000$1,250,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Bryson, Jacob $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Schultz, Justin $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $1,000,000$1,000,000 G RFA - 2
Power, Owen $925,000$925,000	Fitzgerald, Casey $1,500,000$1,500,000 RD UFA - 1	Driedger, Chris $5,000,000$5,000,000 G UFA - 2
	Jokiharju, Henri $1,000,000$1,000,000 RD RFA - 2
Soucy, Carson $2,750,000$2,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Murray, Brett $900,000$900,000 LW UFA - 1		Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 4
Butcher, Will $2,500,000$2,500,000 LD UFA - 1
Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 1

Jul. 2, 2021 at 11:21 a.m.

mm1010

Mac1010

Joined: Mar. 2018

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Oilers Pass. Savoie is look like a great pick and steal for where they picked him as he is already starting to draw comparison to caufeild and what he did in college.

Oilers would just buy out neal.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 11:21 a.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

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Thats quite a story

Jul. 2, 2021 at 11:25 a.m.

TanSor

Joined: Jun. 2017

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Dahlin would be great but we need a center way more than a LD

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Jul. 2, 2021 at 12:36 p.m.

Clement

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Joined: Jun. 2021

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As good Rasmus can be, wild has zero need for d, & certainly won't be trading their top c prospect for a d player they have no need for

Jul. 2, 2021 at 12:43 p.m.

SadlyAnOilFan

Joined: Aug. 2018

Posts: 661

Likes: 321

Hire a hitman to take out skinner (in the knees, I’m not a monster) and then send the entire franchise down to the AHL for development. To make the finances work, I’ll get the players to panhandle at street corners during off hours, and sign other panhandlers to AHL league minimum contracts to fill out the rest of the roster. The Pegulas will need some revenue with $19M sitting on the LTIR, as I’m sure not a single fan showing up to any of the AHL games.

Jul. 2, 2021 at 12:48 p.m.

andrewnfld

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 33

Likes: 9

If I am Rasmus Dahlin I'm not even picking up the pen if anyone offers me just over a mil

Jul. 2, 2021 at 1:21 p.m.

sabres89

Joined: Feb. 2017

Posts: 8,375

Likes: 6,318

Quoting: SadlyAnOilFan

I dont think knees is enough. Kyle okposo still drags himself to games and appears to be playing on wooden legs. I like where your heads at though.

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