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Created by: BVFA12

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 20, 2022

Published: Dec. 20, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Trades

BUF

Fabbro, Dante

Additional Details:

Rumors are Nashville is ready to move on from Fabbro. He is a right shot D. relatively responsible in his own end and his QO will not be high. He fits our age range.

NSH

Johnson, Ryan [Reserve List]
Poltapov, Prokhor [Reserve List]

Additional Details:

NSH is known as a defensemen building. Johnson would get an opportunity to sign there or they end up with a 2nd round comp pick. Both help NSH. Poltapov is a talented winger, lacking some size. NSH has little offensive prospects.

BUF

Kunin, Luke
Meier, Timo
2023 5th round pick (SJS)

SJS

Olofsson, Victor ($1,500,000 retained)

Additional Details:

VO for Kunin and a 5th. Other assets come from NJD.

BUF

Holtz, Alexander
Leddy, Charlie [Reserve List]
Tatar, Tomas
Thompson, Tyce
2023 1st round pick (NJD)

NJD

Meier, Timo ($3,000,000 retained)

BUF

Finishes the 3-team trade

SJS

Holtz, Alexander
Tatar, Tomas
2023 1st round pick (NJD)

BUF

Spacek, David [Reserve List]
2024 2nd round pick (MIN)

Additional Details:

Future RHD depth piece and a 2nd.

MIN

Additional Details:

Fitz and Mitts seem to be Granato favorites. Fabbro makes Fitz expendable. Mitts has the best trade value since his draft +2 season. Adams is not tied to him. MIN is also going for it with a need of cheaper players come the next two seasons due to cap jail. Both players fit their current model.

Clague has proven he can be a 6/7 d-man with ability to move up short term.

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Victor Olofsson: $1,500,000 (31.58%)
Timo Meier: $3,000,000 (100%)

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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TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$82,500,000	$64,951,667	$0	$3,620,000	$17,548,333

Roster

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	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($82,500$82K) LW, RW RFA - 3	Cozens, Dylan $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) C, LW UFA - 1	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 3
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2	Kunin, Luke $2,750,000$2,750,000 RW, C RFA - 2
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Jost, Tyson $2,000,000$2,000,000 C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 1
		Hinostroza, Vinnie $1,700,000$1,700,000 RW, LW 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	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	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 2
Fabbro, Dante $2,400,000$2,400,000 RD UFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2
Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Clague, Kale $750,000$750,000 LD/RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Skinner, J.		Cozens, D.		Tuch, A.
	Thompson, T.		Dahlin, R.

Power Play 2
Quinn, J.		Krebs, P.		Peterka, J.
	Power, O.		Kunin, L.

Penalty Kill 1
	Kunin, L.	Jost, T.
	Samuelsson, M.	Lyubushkin, I.

Penalty Kill 2
	Thompson, T.	Cozens, D.
	Dahlin, R.	Fabbro, D.

Dec. 20, 2022 at 9:43 a.m.

Sharkie69

stop daddy it hurts

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the 3-team trade is one of the weirdest trades I've ever seen on Capfriendly.

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Dec. 20, 2022 at 9:44 a.m.

OkMan

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Edited Dec. 20, 2022 at 2:01 p.m.

You’re definitely right in all the points you made about Nashville, but I have to say that they’d decline this. Fabbro probably would get more and Nashville only has two NHL-caliber RDs, so we’d have to get someone back that can play RD right away

Dec. 20, 2022 at 12:12 p.m.

JNoons13

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Just genuinely curious, why wouldn't the Sharks just trade Timo directly to New Jersey if thats the return? I don't see the Devils giving up extra assets to send him through Buffalo, especially when the Sharks can retain on Timo themselves.

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Dec. 20, 2022 at 12:28 p.m.

JayTea

14m in dead cap

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I'm not familiar with Fitzgerald, but the Minnesota trade makes sense on the merits you presented. I could see something like that happening.

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Dec. 20, 2022 at 1:03 p.m.

BVFA12

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TageAgainstTheMachin

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Quoting: JNoons13

1. It fits my narrative. (Snarky response)
2. Someone will need to take salary back from NJD to make the deal work and I can see them retaining on other players (Bonino & acquired Tatar) they may consider moving.

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Dec. 20, 2022 at 1:06 p.m.

BVFA12

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TageAgainstTheMachin

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Quoting: OkMan

You’re definitely right in all the pints you made about Nashville, but I have to say that they’d decline this. Fabbro probably would get more and Nashville only has two NHL-caliber RDs, so we’d have to get someone back that can play RD right away

There is a chance of that happening. NSH has had guys play their off wings. I am not sure how much more he could really get. He isn't a big point producer and it isn't like he is a pure shutdown guy either. I figured a "B" forward prospect and Johnson who is a "A-/B+" defensive prospect or if he fails to sign a 2nd round comp pick would be fair. All comes down to what Poile sees as potential value.

Dec. 20, 2022 at 1:29 p.m.

Smitty426

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Quoting: JNoons13

Thats what would happen. No need for a third team to help and lose 2 extra assets

Dec. 20, 2022 at 1:43 p.m.

Tintin

do not Devil my ass

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Quoting: BVFA12

Someone will need to take salary back from NJD to make the deal work and I can see them retaining on other players (Bonino & acquired Tatar) they may consider moving.

A few things wrong here though.
Tatar isn't a capdump, he's playing some of the best hockey of his career and moving him out for Meier is a somewhat self defeating purpose.
If the Devils would need to move cap back for the purpose of facilitating a big acquisition, it'd be Andreas Johnsson they'd be parting with, not Tatar.
Also, taking on a 1st, Holtz, Leddy and Thompson on top of Tatar for Meier retained is an overpayment to the extreme, say nothing if there isn't a reasonable extension attached to Meier.

It's a terrible move for the Devils, Meier is amazing but not worth all that.

Dec. 20, 2022 at 2:02 p.m.

OkMan

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Quoting: BVFA12

Considering the scarcity of young D men that are available, Fabbro’s will fetch more than he’s worth. For me, I’d look at the Nils Lundkvist trade as comparable and we might even get more than that

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