Weaponizing the cap space

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Created by: GenW

Initial Creation Date: Jul. 26, 2021

Published: Jul. 27, 2021

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Team Explanation

Johnson, Okposo, Burns, Girgensons, Hagg, Kuemper, and Koskinen off the roster at the end of their contracts. Frees up a ton of cap when the rookies need new deals. Retention on Eichel only lasts 1 year after that. Skinner contract gone an additional year after that(assuming there's no buyout later on).

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnson, Ryan	3	$850,000
Power, Owen	3	$850,000
Rosén, Isak	3	$850,000
Kisakov, Alexander	3	$850,000
Poltapov, Prokhor	3	$850,000
Bloom, Josh	3	$850,000
Portillo, Erik	3	$850,000
Sardarian, Stiven	3	$850,000
Huglen, Aaron	3	$850,000
Konecny, Jakub	3	$850,000
Levi, Devon	3	$850,000
von Barnekow Løfberg, William	3	$850,000

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Mittelstadt, Casey	4	$3,250,000
Asplund, Rasmus	2	$1,000,000
Dahlin, Rasmus	6	$5,250,000
Jokiharju, Henri	6	$3,250,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Burroughs, Kyle		3	$2,250,000

Trades

BUF

Koskinen, Mikko
2022 5th round pick (EDM)

EDM

2022 6th round pick (BUF)

BUF

Johnson, Tyler
2022 1st round pick (TBL)

TBL

2022 4th round pick (BUF)

BUF

Boldy, Matthew
Greenway, Jordan
Rossi, Marco
2022 1st round pick (MIN)

MIN

Eichel, Jack ($2,000,000 retained)

Additional Details:

Used to think retaining on Jack was a no go. Thinking about it though, with this team not competing any time soon, it makes sense to retain probably up to 3 million to get the better deal.

BUF

Burns, Brent
2022 1st round pick (SJS)

SJS

Miller, Colin ($1,937,500 retained)

Additional Details:

Saves the sharks 6 million and gets them younger, in return Buffalo gets draft capital and a roster player

BUF

Kuemper, Darcy

ARI

2023 3rd round pick (BUF)
2022 1st round pick (TBL)

BUF

2022 1st round pick (TOR)

TOR

Kuemper, Darcy ($2,250,000 retained)

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Cody Eakin: $583,334

Retained Salary Transactions

Jack Eichel: $2,000,000 (20%)
Colin Miller: $1,937,500 (50%)
Darcy Kuemper: $2,250,000 (64.29%)

DRAFT YEAR	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
25	$81,500,000	$74,833,084	$113,916	$1,097,500	$6,666,916

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Johnson, Tyler $5,000,000 RW, C NTC UFA - 3	Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
Greenway, Jordan $2,100,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Mittelstadt, Casey $3,250,000 C RFA - 3	Cozens, Dylan $894,167 C, LW RFA - 2
Ruotsalainen, Arttu $925,000 C, LW RFA - 1	Asplund, Rasmus $1,000,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Peterka, John-Jason $886,667 RW, LW RFA - 3
Bjork, Anders $1,600,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000 C, LW UFA - 2	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000 C, RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $5,250,000 LD/RD RFA - 3	Burns, Brent $8,000,000 RD NTC UFA - 4	Koskinen, Mikko $4,500,000 G NTC UFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000 LD RFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $3,250,000 RD RFA - 3	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $778,333 G RFA - 1
Hägg, Robert $1,600,000 LD UFA - 1	Burroughs, Kyle $2,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000 RW NTC UFA - 2
Murray, Brett $775,000 LW RFA - 1
Weissbach, Linus $842,500 LW, RW RFA - 2
von Barnekow Løfberg, William $850,000 LW, RW RFA
Rousek, Lukas $830,000 RW RFA - 2

Jul. 27, 2021 at 6:08 a.m.

Sabresforlife

Joined: May 2019

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I think the sabres should be using cap space for picks but I'd try to keep the term as short as possible - I think 3 years is about the limit they should go

Jul. 27, 2021 at 6:16 a.m.

FunMustBeAlways

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Burns still has positive value so we’re basically paying a 1st for Collin Miller here.

Needless to say, that’s not a good deal for us.

Jul. 27, 2021 at 6:35 a.m.

GenW

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2021

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Quoting: FunMustBeAlways

Burns still has positive value so we’re basically paying a 1st for Collin Miller here.

Needless to say, that’s not a good deal for us.

Honestly wasnt sure, ive seen sharks fan say his contract is horrible and they want it gone. What would you do here?

Jul. 27, 2021 at 7:21 a.m.

Sabresforlife

Joined: May 2019

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Quoting: GenW

Honestly wasnt sure, ive seen sharks fan say his contract is horrible and they want it gone. What would you do here?

I think the bigger problem is he has a NTC which I doubt he'd waive for Buffalo.

Jul. 27, 2021 at 7:55 a.m.

GermanGretzky

Oilers Fan

Joined: May 2021

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Likes: 11

EDM accepts

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Jul. 27, 2021 at 8:00 a.m.

GrinReaper

Joined: Aug. 2020

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Oilers accept and will match the Kuemper deal and add a mid tier prospect with that much salary retained in the deal

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Jul. 27, 2021 at 8:06 a.m.

GenW

Thread Starter

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 421

Likes: 206

Quoting: Sabresforlife

I think the bigger problem is he has a NTC which I doubt he'd waive for Buffalo.

Likely. Both teams blow but at least he lives in SJ

Jul. 27, 2021 at 9:26 a.m.

Amakoue

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Wild decline easily for quite a few reasons
1) only one of boldy, or Rossi are being offered
2) cap
3) not taking on cap dump like Rask and also greenway will not be added, it will be Kevin fiala for cap purposes

Jul. 27, 2021 at 9:41 a.m.

CD282

Joined: Mar. 2017

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Quoting: GrinReaper

Oilers accept and will match the Kuemper deal and add a mid tier prospect with that much salary retained in the deal

I doubt they'd do that. Kuemper is a rental and they just signed Smith - why would you spend a 1st + on a rental goalie who is going to play <50% of the games?

Jul. 27, 2021 at 9:43 a.m.

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crankshaft

Joined: Jun. 2020

Posts: 2,611

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Quoting: GenW

Honestly wasnt sure, ive seen sharks fan say his contract is horrible and they want it gone. What would you do here?

Sharks can probably find a much better deal for their first cause this is pitiful
if we're moving a bad defense contract it's going to be Vlasic, not Burns who is still a pretty strong offensive dman.

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