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Created by: mikeyscav

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 24, 2021

Published: Jul. 25, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Letters:
C: Kyle Palmieri
A: Dylan Cozens
A: Alex Goligoski

Trades:

MIN: Winner of Eichel sweepstakes. Buffalo gets a high end center prospect, a young up and coming goalie, a veteran winger who will help balance money, and a couple picks.

TBL: Cap dump for Johnson. Tampa gives up a younger RHD and a middle pick next year to shed money

Notable UFAs:

Ullmark: Still interest from Buffalo. Don’t love this, but solid value and the dude is starter when healthy

Palmieri: Veteran winger with strong numbers. Good to have around the young roster for a couple years

Goligoski: Veteran D that can hold down a top-4 position for the year. Can be flipped at the deadline for more assets

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus	2	$4,250,000
Jokiharju, Henri	3	$3,000,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	3	$2,500,000
Asplund, Rasmus	1	$900,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Ullmark, Linus	4	$4,750,000
Palmieri, Kyle	2	$5,500,000
Goligoski, Alex	1	$4,000,000
Sheahan, Riley	1	$900,000
Gaudreau, Frédérick	2	$925,000

Trades

BUF

Kähkönen, Kaapo
Rossi, Marco
Zuccarello, Mats
2022 1st round pick (MIN)
2022 5th round pick (MIN)

MIN

Eichel, Jack

BUF

Cernak, Erik
Johnson, Tyler
2023 3rd round pick (TBL)

TBL

Thompson, Tage

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Cody Eakin: $1,125,000 ($2,250,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$73,463,916	$113,916	$850,000	$8,036,084

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Zuccarello, Mats $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW NMC UFA - 3	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000$5,000,000 RW, C, LW M-NTC UFA - 3	Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Palmieri, Kyle $5,500,000$5,500,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Asplund, Rasmus $900,000$900,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 3	Ruotsalainen, Arttu $925,000$925,000 C, LW RFA - 1
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Gaudreau, Frédérick $925,000$925,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Bjork, Anders $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, RW UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $4,250,000$4,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Jokiharju, Henri $3,000,000$3,000,000 RD RFA - 3	Ullmark, Linus $4,750,000$4,750,000 G UFA - 4
Goligoski, Alex $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Cernak, Erik $2,950,000$2,950,000 RD UFA - 2	Kähkönen, Kaapo $725,000$725,000 G UFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 LD/RD RFA - 1	Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Sheahan, Riley $900,000$900,000 LW, C UFA - 1
Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2
Hägg, Robert $1,600,000$1,600,000 LD UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Skinner, J.		Cozens, D.		Olofsson, V.
	Johnson, T.		Dahlin, R.

Power Play 2
Zuccarello, M.		Mittelstadt, C.		Ruotsalainen, A.
	Palmieri, K.		Goligoski, A.

Jul. 25, 2021 at 3:26 p.m.

DiehardRedWingsFan58

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Palmieri is resigning with the islanders deal is close, Cernak isn't available and Johnson isn't waiving for that joke of an organization and dumpster fire of a team.

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Jul. 25, 2021 at 3:28 p.m.

mikeyscav

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Quoting: DiehardRedWingsFan58

Palmieri is resigning with the islanders deal is close, Cernak isn't available and Johnson isn't waiving for that joke of an organization and dumpster fire of a team.

Palmieri I can agree with. Johnson could easily be told by Tampa he’s going right back onto waivers and grabbed by Buffalo anyways. At least that’s what some people have been speculating

Jul. 25, 2021 at 3:34 p.m.

DiehardRedWingsFan58

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Quoting: mikeyscav

Palmieri I can agree with. Johnson could easily be told by Tampa he’s going right back onto waivers and grabbed by Buffalo anyways. At least that’s what some people have been speculating

Okay even if Johnson is waived, And if Buffalo claims him it doesn't matter. if Buffalo is on his 10 team no trade list he can still refuse to go to Buffalo that's his given right.

Jul. 25, 2021 at 3:47 p.m.

Boltsbeathabs

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Quoting: mikeyscav

Palmieri I can agree with. Johnson could easily be told by Tampa he’s going right back onto waivers and grabbed by Buffalo anyways. At least that’s what some people have been speculating

He says **** you I'm retiring and TB isn't the scumbag organization that is going to force that on a player. No chance Cernak would be part of it either. He does that and it ****s the lightning

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Jul. 25, 2021 at 3:57 p.m.

Amakoue

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1) Zuccarello isn't waiving for Buffalo
2) wild aren't trading Kaapo kahkonen. They have no G who are ready, and the one they selected won't be ready for two years

3) wild don't have capspace to take on Eichel

Jul. 25, 2021 at 3:59 p.m.

Tjm220

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Zuccarello has a no trade close too, Buffalo has no interest in him and he has no interest in them. Johnson would only ever waive for Buffalo if he were immediately being traded somewhere else. There’s no reason Buffalo should give Tampa anything when all they are doing is helping them out with their salary cap issues.

Jul. 25, 2021 at 4:07 p.m.

Boltsbeathabs

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Quoting: Tjm220

Cernak if TB would trade him ( they won't) is more than cap compensation for TJ a young beast top pair shut down RHS defenseman

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