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Created by: notkyleokposo

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 2, 2022

Published: Nov. 2, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

- When healthy
- I want to see Power not be forced into top pair minutes, let him develop
- I like the forward lines so just throw in Asplund up to 3LW
- Gregor/Vinnie are exchangeable for now, Vinnie could be a really solid TDL flip too
- I want to see Krebs play his natural position of LW
- Asplud can go anywhere
- Just an idea so relax
- This deal lines up well with a lot of the other deals like Skinner; Levi and Power will be getting their deals then and Buffalo needs to start spending money eventually

Trades

BUF

Gregor, Noah
Karlsson, Erik ($3,750,000 retained)

Additional Details:

EK is really good but has a high AAV. This trade sheds just under 8 mil and gets rid of the back end woes for the Sharks. It also gets Buffalo a true #1 RD who will be the 3rd best defenseman. This is all contingent on EK waiving his NMC

SJS

Lyubushkin, Ilya
Olofsson, Victor
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)
2024 1st round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

top 5 protected

Buyouts

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

Buried

Anders Bjork: $475,000 ($1,600,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$62,226,667	$0	$3,620,000	$20,273,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 5	Thompson, Tage $1,400,000$1,400,000 C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 2	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3
Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2		Gregor, Noah $950,000$950,000 LW, RW RFA - 1
	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 1	Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2
	Karlsson, Erik $6,250,000$6,250,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Anderson, Craig $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($500,000$500K) G UFA - 1
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($925,000$925K) LD/RD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 RD UFA - 1	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1
Clague, Kale $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 1
Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,700,000$1,700,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Nov. 2, 2022 at 11:05 p.m.

#26

homiedaclown

Joined: Jul. 2021

Posts: 7,136

Likes: 3,156

Hell no from the Sabres

This is laughable

Nov. 3, 2022 at 3:45 a.m.

#27

poeticentropy

Joined: Oct. 2020

Posts: 1,631

Likes: 531

Quoting: sabres89

I know, right? We have two first overall picks on defense, let them handle carrying the puck, and pair them with guys like Samuelsson and Lyubushkin. If you wanna try to upgrade to a better physical, defensive d to pair with power, great, but no interest in adding Karlsson. Somehow I feel like keeping olofsson, Lyubushkin, and the first is the better move.

After seeing the BUF game tonight I 100% agree. There's no need for a player like EK when you already have Dahlin and Power back there. He only would make sense on a team that is missing a good D that quarterbacks powerplays, and so really he fits best in SJ and probably wont go anywhere unless he starts demanding a trade

sabres89 liked this.

Nov. 3, 2022 at 9:19 a.m.

#28

All_Knowing

Joined: Aug. 2020

Posts: 1,660

Likes: 1,041

Quoting: wojme

A lot of these were cap moves which the sabres don't have a problem with. Some of these also involve players that fell out of favor in their respective locker rooms.

Ehhhh not really...

I mean yes some. But the recent ones are not. For a team like the Sabres, who have young talent but might not make the playoffs, moving a 34 year old UFA is not a crazy thought...But then again, I don't know the sabres org all that well so...

Below are the examples of captains who were moved and had nothing to do with cap issues / falling out of favor in their locker rooms

Bo Horvat - rebuilding team
Claude Giroux - lol certainly did not fall out of favor / was not a cap move -> just was a team that was not going to make the playoffs
Mark Giordano - just a team that was not going to make the playoffs
Oliver Ekman-Larsson - just a team that was not going to make the playoffs
Erik Karlsson - just a team that was not going to make the playoffs

Nov. 3, 2022 at 1:55 p.m.

#29

Czu8iks

Joined: Apr. 2022

Posts: 2,040

Likes: 1,373

Quoting: Rob32sjsharks

his value is rising right now being the #1 D man in goals and points by a mile so far this season and is looking like the EK65 of old.
but i get your reasoning.

Right now, his value rised so there are talks someone may take his contract of Sharks. And that's as high as it can go.

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