Former big hitting Sabres Dmen who were in the system at the same time

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Created by: gretzkyghosts

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 2, 2023

Published: Jan. 2, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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POSSIBLE DEFENSIVE LINE UP FOR THE 2015-2016 SEASON THE YEAR AFTER EICHEL WAS DRAFTED.
I THINK THESE 6 ARE A LOT BETTER THAN GORGES, FRANSON, BOGOSIAN, PYSYK, AND WEBER WHO PLAYED MOST OF THE SEASON.

I see there are many discussions about adding toughness to the Sabres.
All five of the defensemen played for the Sabres and were all part of the organization at the same time.

As I stated below, not that having all them would make the Sabres a winning team, just how many hard hitting defensemen the Sabres had in the system at the same time.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED	YEARS	CAP HIT
Larsson, Johan	1	$925,000
Molson, Matt	1	$925,000
Gionta, Brian	1	$925,000
Ennis, Tylor	1	$925,000
Stafford, Drew	1	$925,000
Grigorenko, Mikhail	1	$925,000

Trades

BUF

Zadorov, Nikita

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Over the past five years only Ristolainen and Gudas have more than his 863 hits.

CGY

No trade just for fun

BUF

McCabe, Jake

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While he ranks only 45th among all D-men with 455 he also played in the fewest games 246.
He was certainly one of the hardest hitting Sabres.

CHI

No trade just for fun

BUF

Ristolainen, Rasmus

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Only Gudas has more hits than Rasmus' 933 over the past 5 years.
He is obviously the poster child of how much GM's value defensemen who hit.

PHI

No trade just for fun

BUF

Ruhwedel, Chad

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Honorable mention.
He has played the fewest games of all of the defensemen mentioned but he still ranked 95th OA among all NHL with 318 despite only playing 171 games.
Let go for nothing.

PIT

No trade just for fun.

BUF

McNabb, Brayden

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He ranks 30th over the past years with 734 hits.
One of the worse trades in Sabre history among many really horrible trades made by Tim Murray.
He and two second round picks for career minor leaguer Hudson Fasching and for ever fourth liner Nicolas Deslauriers.
What makes this most distasteful in not only did the Sabres one of the top +/- defensemen in the NHL over the past 5 years, (+44 ranked 42), but one of those seconds was used to draft Erik Cernak, imagine him in a Sabre uniform.

VGK

No trade just for fun.

I made this post mainly to point out how many physical defensemen the Sabres had in the system at the same time, but having physical defensemen and forwards does not necessary lead to winning.

BUF

Myers, Tyler

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Myers ranks 51st with 440 hits over the past five years.

VAN

No trade just for fun

BUF

Reinhart, Sam

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Rebuilding 15-16 team

FLA

No real trade just for fun.

BUF

Halák, Jaroslav

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Rebuilding 15-16 team, not traded to Capitals

NYR

No trade just for fun

BUF

Foligno, Marcus

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Rebuilding 15-16 team

MIN

No trade just for fun

10.

BUF

Eichel, Jack

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Rebuilding 15-16 team

VGK

No trade just for fun

11.

BUF

Ullmark, Linus

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Rebuilding 15-16 team

BOS

No trade just for fun

12.

BUF

Rodrigues, Evan

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Rebuilding 15-16 team

COL

No trade just for fun

Buyouts

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

Buried

Craig Anderson: $375,000 ($1,500,000)
Alex Tuch: $3,625,000 ($4,750,000)
Anders Bjork: $475,000 ($1,600,000)
Kyle Okposo: $4,875,000 ($6,000,000)
Vinnie Hinostroza: $575,000 ($1,700,000)
Tage Thompson: $275,000 ($1,400,000)
Tyson Jost: $875,000 ($2,000,000)
Casey Mittelstadt: $1,375,000 ($2,500,000)
Jeff Skinner: $7,875,000 ($9,000,000)
Victor Olofsson: $3,625,000 ($4,750,000)

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
19	$82,500,000	$81,091,667	$0	$50,000	$1,408,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Molson, Matt $925,000$925,000	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 4	Stafford, Drew $925,000$925,000
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,200,000$2,200,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Reinhart, Sam $6,500,000$6,500,000 RW UFA - 2	Rodrigues, Evan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1
Foligno, Marcus $3,100,000$3,100,000 RW, LW UFA - 2	Ennis, Tylor $925,000$925,000	Gionta, Brian $925,000$925,000
Grigorenko, Mikhail $925,000$925,000	Larsson, Johan $925,000$925,000

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Myers, Tyler $6,000,000$6,000,000 RD M-NTC UFA - 2
McNabb, Brayden $2,850,000$2,850,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 3	Ristolainen, Rasmus $5,100,000$5,100,000 RD UFA - 5	Halák, Jaroslav $1,500,000$1,500,000 ($50,000$50K) G NMC UFA - 1
Zadorov, Nikita $3,750,000$3,750,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Ruhwedel, Chad $800,000$800,000 RD UFA - 2	Ullmark, Linus $5,000,000$5,000,000 G NMC UFA - 3

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
		Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 2
		Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 2
		Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 2
		Bryson, Jacob $1,850,000$1,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 2

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