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Created by: P1zzaPolarBear

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 7, 2021

Published: Sep. 7, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I was just bored, and decided to try and make Buffalo a contending team. I did break up some of the core, and got rid of some good prospects, but tried to keep it mainly intact, and tried to improve some of the needed areas. I got Lindholm and Andersson for a starting Centermen and top pairing right defencemen. I got Sundvisqt and Tuch to improve the right side, and got Kappo Kakhonen for a better Golatending option, and plan to cycle through the goalies, for a three way goalie tandom. I also got rid of Eakin, Bjork and Toranki to clear up some of those spots for the newer players. I signed Zach Parise to a one year contract since nobody else has, and although it is unlikely, this is for fun, and its a one year contract. Trust me, I know some of these trades will raise some controversy, and I tried to keep it fair, but I know they aren't perfect. Also, side note, none of these lines are exact, feel free to arrange them however you see fit. If you want, feel free to counter offer some of these trades in the comments, and leave your thought's and opinions, and let me know if you think this team could make the playoffs, or if they are doomed to be another basement team. I also hope I don't offend any Sabres fans haha.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bloom, Josh	3	$875,000
Johnson, Ryan	3	$915,000
Kisakov, Alexander	3	$900,000
Levi, Devon	3	$775,000
Poltapov, Prokhor	3	$875,000
Power, Owen	3	$925,000
Rosén, Isak	3	$900,000
Sardarian, Stiven	3	$850,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus		3	$5,250,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Parise, Zach		1	$3,250,000

Trades

BUF

Andersson, Rasmus
Lindholm, Elias
2022 1st round pick (CGY)
2023 2nd round pick (CGY)

CGY

Eichel, Jack

BUF

Sundqvist, Oskar

STL

2022 3rd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Kähkönen, Kaapo

MIN

Thompson, Tage
2022 5th round pick (NJD)
2023 2nd round pick (BUF)

BUF

Tuch, Alex

VGK

2022 1st round pick (CGY)
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)

BUF

Severson, Damon

NJD

Miller, Colin ($1,500,000 retained)
2023 2nd round pick (CGY)

BUF

Lindholm, Hampus

ANA

Biro, Brandon
Samuelsson, Mattias
2022 1st round pick (FLA)

BUF

Future Considerations

ARI

Bjork, Anders
Eakin, Cody
Tokarski, Dustin
2022 2nd round pick (BUF)
2023 3rd round pick (BUF)

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Colin Miller: $1,500,000 (38.71%)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$69,991,958	$113,916	$850,000	$11,508,042

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 6	Lindholm, Elias $4,850,000$4,850,000 C, RW UFA - 3	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 5
Olofsson, Victor $3,050,000$3,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 3
Parise, Zach $3,250,000$3,250,000 LW UFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 2	Sundqvist, Oskar $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, C UFA - 2
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 2	Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,050,000$1,050,000 RW, LW UFA - 1
		Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $5,250,000$5,250,000 LD/RD UFA - 3	Andersson, Rasmus $4,550,000$4,550,000 RD UFA - 5	Kähkönen, Kaapo $725,000$725,000 G UFA - 1
Lindholm, Hampus $2,602,778$2,602,778 LD UFA - 1	Severson, Damon $4,166,666$4,166,666 RD UFA - 2	Anderson, Craig $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1
Butcher, Will $2,822,764$2,822,764 LD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 3

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Hägg, Robert $1,600,000$1,600,000 LD UFA - 1
Caggiula, Drake $750,000$750,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Dell, Aaron $750,000$750,000 G UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Pysyk, Mark $900,000$900,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1
MacInnis, Ryan $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) C UFA - 1
Hayden, John $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) C, LW, RW UFA - 1
Quinn, Jack $894,167$894,167 ($0$0$0$0) RW, LW RFA - 4
Bryson, Jacob $889,166$889,166 ($0$0$0$0) LD/RD RFA - 1
Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 2

Sep. 7, 2021 at 6:35 p.m.

#26

Marchy

Marchyyy

Joined: Apr. 2021

Posts: 382

Likes: 85

Quoting: xercuses

Nah if Skinner bouces back they could get close i feel

LOL, when your team depend on Skinner that should answer your question

Sep. 7, 2021 at 11:35 p.m.

#27

xercuses

Xercuses

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 13,506

Likes: 3,616

Quoting: Marchy

LOL, when your team depend on Skinner that should answer your question

exactly lmao

Marchy liked this.

Sep. 8, 2021 at 2:44 p.m.

#28

sabresparaavida

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 1,049

Likes: 850

Yeah, I don't think this team makes the playoffs. The defense would be solid, but that would be the only strength for the team. The first line would be pretty bad, a near bottom of the league 1LW, a below average 1C and below average 1Rw. The Second line would be average at best, horrendous at worst. Oloffson could play like a reasonable 2nd line W. Under Granato, Mitts played like a 2C (17p in 22GP) which gives some hope for the line. Sundqvist is more realistically a 3rd liner with a career high 31 points. The 3rd and 4th lines could be around average. The biggest problem would be the goaltending. I think Kaako would be a good 1b, but I dont think he could handle a 55-60 game load and still play at a good level, and Anderson is near league bottom as a backup. The Sabres are also in arguably the most difficult division, so all this together makes playoffs unlikely. I dont think our forwards would score enough, and our goalies would let in too many goals.

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