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Created by: gretzkyghosts

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 8, 2023

Published: Apr. 8, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Hopefully Comrie and Subban will clear waivers to give Buffalo 4 NHL GK in case Levi or Luukkonen are injured.

Free Agent Signings

RESERVE LIST		YEARS	CAP HIT
Johnson, Ryan		2	$950,000

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Jost, Tyson		3	$1,750,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Girgensons, Zemgus	3	$2,000,000
Okposo, Kyle	1	$2,000,000
Subban, Malcolm	1	$900,000
Pilut, Lawrence	1	$775,000
Orlov, Dmitry	2	$6,000,000

Trades

BUF

Petry, Jeff

Additional Details:

Penguins shed $4,400,000 cap space and get younger.
Picks could be added one way or the other, some of Jacob's salary could be retained.

PIT

Bryson, Jacob

Additional Details:

Bryson added to balance the rosters.
He certainly did not perform as well as last year, a new surrounding may help.

BUF

2024 2nd round pick (BOS)

Additional Details:

Not a trade, just giving the Sabres a late 2nd round from next year's draft.

ANA

Johnson, Ryan

BUF

Traded for picks, just do not know what would be their value.

NSH

Victor Olofsson has 20 or more goals at the TDL playing on the fourth line with Girgensons and Okposo.
Jost continues his revived career with Buffalo on the third line with Krebs and Peterka.
Kulich and Savoie are added to the roster to

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Eric Comrie: $650,000 ($1,800,000)

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	$83,500,000	$73,071,487	$0	$4,070,000	$10,428,513

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 4	Mittelstadt, Casey $2,500,000$2,500,000 LW, C RFA - 1	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 3
Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C UFA - 7	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 7	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 ($32,500$32K) LW, RW RFA - 2	Jost, Tyson $1,750,000$1,750,000 C UFA - 1	Krebs, Peyton $863,333$863,333 ($412,500$412K) C, LW RFA - 1
Olofsson, Victor $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 7	Dahlin, Rasmus $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 1	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($925,000$925K) G RFA - 2
Power, Owen $916,667$916,667 ($1,850,000$2M) LD/RD UFA - 1	Petry, Jeff $2,343,750$2,343,750 RD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $837,500$837,500 G RFA - 1
Orlov, Dmitry $6,000,000$6,000,000 LD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $2,500,000$2,500,000 RD RFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Stillman, Riley $1,350,000$1,350,000 LD RFA - 1
Lyubushkin, Ilya $687,500$687,500 RD UFA - 1