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Created by: nhldeadline2

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 21, 2022

Published: Dec. 22, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Both of these trades might need a bit more from Buffalo as deadline deals.. IDK. If the Sabres are real I think this helps them alot in the short term and also takes some decisions off their hands in 2 years when they need to make choices for 2 and 3 years down the road.

2023-24 cap space: (assuming reported 1 mill increase)
= 6.2 (current post's cap space)
- 5.8 (net when Tage contract kicks in)
- 3.4 (net when Sammy contract kicks in)
+ 6.0 (Okposo contract ends)
+ 2.2 (Girgensons contract ends)
+ 6.1 (Monahan contract ends)
+ 1.7 (Hino contract ends)
+1.5 (Anderson contract end)
+ 4.9 (Bishop contract ends)
+ 3.7 (Cozens/Jost/Asplund RFA contracts end)
+ 1 mill (cap increase)
= 24.1
Notable RFAs
- Cozens (8x$7.5 - high end estimate)
- Jost (2x$2.5 - slightly above qualifying offer)
- Asplund (2x$1.2 - based off Girgensons 2nd deal, minus significant playing time/impact. Aspy gets to fight for his spot with the kids at camp)
Fitzgerald (or Klague. Notable is a stretch, but he's been *Okay* as a fill in, on a minimum 2-way contract fight for 7th D spot with Myers)
= 12.9 before free agents
Notable UFAs
-Okposo (would he sign a 1x$4 AAV?)
-Girgensons (2x$2.5 - 10% raise for vet with mutual love between him and Buffalo)
- Schenn (1x$1 - expirement works, capable partner for OP, worst case solid vet 3rd pair)
- Monahan (wildcard, walks in this scenario)
- Hino (wildcard, happy to bring him back on cheaper deal if he's happy here but walks in this scenario. Hes fine filling in but don't want him in the lineup nightly)
= 4.6 after signing own UFAs

2023 lineup:
FORWARDS
53 - 72 - 89
77 - 24 - 22
71 - 19 - CG
28 - 17 - 21
Depth: kids fight for a spot on the big club
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DEFENSEMEN
23 - 26
25 - Schenn
Edmundson - 46
45 / Myers (note: option to waive for mutual termination? They're fine with the cap but doing him a favor like they did with Bogo)
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GOALIES
Comrie
UPL/Levi fight for backup job

Trades

BUF

MTL

Mittelstadt, Casey
2023 2nd round pick (PHI)
2023 2nd round pick (VGK)

BUF

VAN

Additional Details:

Not exactly sure how valuable cap space is to VAN at the moment, but Nucks get a solid mid pair defenseman and a goal scorer along with a solid chunk of cap space.

Buyouts

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

Retained Salary Transactions

Victor Olofsson: $2,375,000 (50%)

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

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$71,626,667	$0	$3,620,000	$10,873,333

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	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
Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 2	Monahan, Sean $6,375,000$6,375,000 C, LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Garland, Conor $4,950,000$4,950,000 RW, LW UFA - 4
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
Asplund, Rasmus $825,000$825,000 LW, C RFA - 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	Schenn, Luke $850,000$850,000 RD UFA - 1	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 2
Edmundson, Joel $875,000$875,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 2	Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2
	Myers, Tyler $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
	Comrie, Eric $1,800,000$1,800,000 G UFA - 2
	Bishop, Ben $4,916,667$4,916,667 G M-NTC, NMC UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Fitzgerald, Casey $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) RD UFA - 1
Clague, Kale $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD/RD RFA - 1
Pilut, Lawrence $750,000$750,000 ($0$0$0$0) LD UFA - 1

Dec. 22, 2022 at 5:59 p.m.

#26

thewookie1

Joined: Jun. 2016

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Quoting: BadaBing

Not enough, remove a 2nd and replace it wth a 1st in 2023 and Peyton Krebs instead of Casey

Easy no

Dec. 22, 2022 at 11:15 p.m.

#27

jpsnow13

You know nothing JS

Joined: Jan. 2017

Posts: 7,078

Likes: 4,450

I think Hughes is aiming to weaponise his cap space and retain salary on those 2 to get 1st round picks, but as is, the value offered is ok with me.

I NEVER say that about a Sabre fan AGM, sooo good job.