Prospect Pyramid pre-draft

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Initial Creation Date: May 19, 2022

Published: Jul. 3, 2022

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Team Explanation

Ranking prospects for the Sabres, not including anyone who has played 15+ NHL games. I want to see how much I think this will change after the 2022 draft.

Tier 1 = LW -- Elite/Top level prospect
Tier 2 = C -- Top 6/Top 4 potential
Tier 3 = RW -- Bottom 6 (Ranging from Pretty Good 3rd liner to consistent ice time 4th liner) or 5-7th NHL D-man
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Tier 4 = LD -- Needs to do more before an outlook can really be made
Tier 5 = RD -- Won't see NHL time in my opinion.
Tier 6 = G -- Goalie rankings

LTIR: Big dark horse prospect, boom or bust

Buyouts

Cody Hodgson: $791,667
Christian Ehrhoff: $0
Jeff Skinner: $1,472,222
Johnny Boychuk: $5,166,667
Kyle Okposo: $5,000,000
Rasmus Dahlin: $3,888,889
Alex Tuch: $791,667
Colin Miller: $1,291,667
Will Butcher: $756,098
Victor Olofsson: $341,667
Henri Jokiharju: $516,667
Casey Mittelstadt: $516,667
Cody Eakin: $583,334
Zemgus Girgensons: $766,667
Anders Bjork: $283,333
Tage Thompson: $250,000
Vinnie Hinostroza: $350,000
Mark Pysyk: $300,000
Dylan Cozens: $200,417
Jacob Bryson: $195,416
Malcolm Subban: $216,667
Rasmus Asplund: $187,500
Craig Anderson: $250,000
John Hayden: $250,000
Drake Caggiula: $250,000
Dustin Tokarski: $225,000

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
26	$81,500,000	$47,443,629	$113,916	$1,172,500	$34,056,371

Left Wing	Center	Right Wing
Peterka, John-Jason $886,667 RW, LW RFA - 4	Johnson, Ryan $925,000 LD RFA	Cederqvist, Filip $925,000 LW, RW RFA
Quinn, Jack $894,167 RW RFA - 4		Nadeau, Olivier $925,000 RW RFA
Power, Owen $916,667 LD RFA - 3		Rosén, Isak $925,000 RW RFA
		Laaksonen, Oskari $853,333 RD RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Bloom, Josh $0 LW RFA	Biro, Brandon $925,000 LW RFA - 1	Levi, Devon $925,000 G RFA
Rousek, Lukas $830,000 RW RFA - 2	Weissbach, Linus $842,500 LW, RW RFA - 2	Portillo, Erik $925,000 G RFA
Kozak, Tyson $925,000 C RFA	Huglen, Aaron $925,000 C RFA
Novikov, Nikita $925,000 LD RFA	Lyckåsen, Albert $925,000 RD RFA
Costantini, Matteo $925,000 C RFA	Murray, Brett $775,000 LW RFA - 1
Poltapov, Prokhor $925,000 LW RFA	von Barnekow Løfberg, William $925,000 LW, RW RFA
	Marjala, Viljami $925,000 LW RFA
	Konecny, Jakub $925,000 C RFA
	Sardarian, Stiven $925,000 RW RFA
	Pekar, Matej $764,167 C, RW RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Kisakov, Alexander $0 LW RFA

Jul. 3 at 3:10 p.m.

sabres89

Joined: Feb. 2017

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Would like to see more from rosen. That was house money, doesn't mean it's OK to waste it.

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Jul. 3 at 3:17 p.m.

Rob32sjsharks

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I think Jack is really your only tier 1 and Owen & Peterka are tier 2+.
I get the arguement but the Tier 1 on the pyramid is usually reserved for only the elite special talents, like a Marner, or Crosby. or McDavid type. no even wright would make the tier 1 in this draft class.

Jul. 3 at 3:25 p.m.

Shibbal18

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Brett Murray has already seen NHL time lol.

Jul. 3 at 3:29 p.m.

Sabres923

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Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

Peterka overall is a better player than Quinn. Power is definitely a tier one prospect.

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Jul. 3 at 3:43 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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If you added Krebs and Samuelson where would they stand?

Jul. 3 at 3:49 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

Gosh, if Power doesn’t get tier 1, I wonder what prospect dmen you’d include as tier 1?

For me, Sanderson, Power, Hughes are clearly tier 1. Edvinsson, Clarke, Morrow are probably 1/2 bubble.

Jul. 3 at 5:25 p.m.

sabres89

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Quoting: Sabres923

Peterka overall is a better player than Quinn. Power is definitely a tier one prospect.

As of right now, if there was only 2 spots in tier 1, I would say power and peterka.

Jul. 3 at 5:34 p.m.

sabres89

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

If you added Krebs and Samuelson where would they stand?

I would say tier 2. The season ended with Samuelsson playing the left side with dahlin playing the right as our first line. So he's playing first line, although he's probably carrying a lot of the defensive responsibilities from his first overall pick linemate. I wouldn't call him a first line d in this exercise, but he's playing on the first line. Krebs flashed some fancy playmaking, and although he's tenacious getting back, it didn't show up in his defensive stats. He's definitely middle 6, only question is will it be at center or wing.

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Jul. 4 at 2:48 p.m.

Skyraider112

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Sabres are elite

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Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

Quoting: Shibbal18

Brett Murray has already seen NHL time lol.

Shoot ya thanks for pointing that out, I made this a AGM a long time ago before he played this past season. No longer eligible for this pyramid due to the under 14 games requirement.

Quoting: Sabres923

Peterka overall is a better player than Quinn. Power is definitely a tier one prospect.

Agreed. And Peterka showed up big during playoffs while Quinn struggled. They are both very very good prospects, little separates them imo. I'm not as high on Power as most, but yes he deserves to be in the 1st tier here absolutely.

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Jul. 4 at 6:43 p.m.

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Rob32sjsharks

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Quoting: Skyraider112

In the context of our franchise and the potential of each of those players, I would consider them all to be elite prospects. I would agree with you that Quinn is the best of the three but Peterka really impressed during the AHL playoffs so I have him 1st.

Shoot ya thanks for pointing that out, I made this a AGM a long time ago before he played this past season. No longer eligible for this pyramid due to the under 14 games requirement.

Agreed. And Peterka showed up big during playoffs while Quinn struggled. They are both very very good prospects, little separates them imo. I'm not as high on Power as most, but yes he deserves to be in the 1st tier here absolutely.

I am not arguing the 3 of them aren’t high quality or Elite and if i wrote the tiers i would do them differently than the experts! but the experts like to keep tier 1 sacred and only 3-5 prospects in the entire NHL ever make the tier 1 in their rankings and i highly doubt Buffalo has 3.

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