Youngest team in the NHL three years in a row

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Created by: gretzkyghosts

Team: 2024-25 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 6, 2023

Published: Oct. 6, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

It could be difficult to keep everyone next year 2025-'26.
Okposo, Jost, Girgensons, Olofsson, Erik Johnson, Comrie have all been dropped from this year’s roster.
They have been replaced by players with ELC's Kulich, Ostlund, Rousak, Ryan Johnson, Savoie.
Greenway, Levi, Quinn, Peterka and Johnson are in their final contract year in which they will earn approximately $9,550,000 in 2024-'25 and will be seeking decent raises the following year.
If they all perform as well as expected, they should expect to receive contracts similar to Samuelsson or about $4,500,000 each, or $22,500,000 total.
These new salaries will increase the total cap by $13,000,000 more than the project cap space of this year, even with Power and Dahlin receiving contracts less than what most Sabre ACGM's and other pundits predict.
As well as he played last year, and demonstrated that he is a solid team player who likes to play for Buffalo, Skinner may be a casualty due to his age and cap hit and will be traded or bought out of his final contract year.
Alternatively, Casey and Jokiharju are traded to make cap space and are replaced by other players (Wahlberg/Strbek) on their ELC.

DAHLIN'S TERM WAS REDUCED FROM 8 YEARS TO 5 YEARS.
THANKS FOR THE HEADS UP

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bryson, Jacob	1	$1,500,000
Weissbach, Linus	1	$800,000
Richards, Justin	1	$800,000
Murray, Brett	1	$800,000
Stillman, Riley	1	$1,485,000
Mittelstadt, Casey	8	$5,485,000
Krebs, Peyton	2	$1,500,000
Biro, Brandon	1	$850,000
Clague, Kale	1	$850,000
Jokiharju, Henri	1	$2,850,000
Power, Owen	3	$5,500,000
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	2	$1,500,000
Cederqvist, Filip	1	$935,000

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Dahlin, Rasmus		8	$11,000,000

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Buried

Jacob Bryson: $350,000 ($1,500,000)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2024
2025
2026

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$85,500,000	$76,331,069	$0	$3,975,000	$9,168,931

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 2	Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C M-NTC UFA - 6	Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 3
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 LW, RW RFA - 1	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 6	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Kulich, Jiri $918,333$918,333 C, LW RFA - 2	Savoie, Matthew $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 2	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Mittelstadt, Casey $5,485,000$5,485,000 LW, C RFA	Krebs, Peyton $1,500,000$1,500,000 C, LW RFA	Rousek, Lukas $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 1
	Östlund, Noah $918,333$918,333 ($475,000$475K) C RFA - 2	Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $11,000,000$11,000,000	Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 6	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($1,000,000$1M) G RFA - 1
Power, Owen $5,500,000$5,500,000 LD/RD UFA - 7	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 2	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $1,500,000$1,500,000 G RFA
Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 1	Jokiharju, Henri $2,850,000$2,850,000 RD RFA
Stillman, Riley $1,485,000$1,485,000 LD RFA

Oct. 6, 2023 at 11:05 a.m.

OldNYIfan

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It's a good team (already) with a promising future. If Levi turns out to be the real deal, this is a contender in the 2025 playoffs.

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 11:17 a.m.

wojme

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But I thought the sabres had 45 mil in cap space and had the money to sign 30+ year old free agents to bloated deals.

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 11:39 a.m.

PHEN

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Dahlin will not sign for 8 years. He wants a 3-4 year deal prob around 10.5

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 1:02 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Youngest team in NHL
2021-22: NJD
2022-23: CBJ
2023-24: BUF

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 1:08 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: OldNYIfan

It's a good team (already) with a promising future. If Levi turns out to be the real deal, this is a contender in the 2025 playoffs.

I think they have very good shot at 2024 playoffs. They weren’t that far of wild card last year. And all their competitors are aging or banged up (BOS, FLA…NYI, PIT for possible wild card). Will be fun to watch.

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 2:22 p.m.

BuFfaLOFaN

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Youngest team in NHL
2021-22: NJD
2022-23: CBJ
2023-24: BUF

Were we not the youngest last year as well?

edit: just checked. they where tied for youngest.

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 2:23 p.m.

BUFF36

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Not bad Ghost, where's Novikov ? He could be ready by then.

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 2:26 p.m.

NHLfan10506

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Quoting: BuFfaLOFaN

Were we not the youngest last year as well?

edit: just checked. they where tied for youngest.

2022-22…
CBJ: 25.7
NJD: 26.0
BUF: 26.4

Source: Elite Prospects

Oct. 6, 2023 at 3:05 p.m.

Tintin

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Oct. 6, 2023 at 7:00 p.m.

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Stadel

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Quoting: PHEN

Dahlin will not sign for 8 years. He wants a 3-4 year deal prob around 10.5

Zero chance they sign him to a deal that pays him 10+ mil and walks him to FA.

If they're paying double digits its cause there's term. Just cause Peters says he heard it doesnt mean its true

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Oct. 8, 2023 at 1:21 p.m.

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gretzkyghosts

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Edited Oct. 8, 2023 at 7:19 p.m.

Quoting: OldNYIfan

It's a good team (already) with a promising future. If Levi turns out to be the real deal, this is a contender in the 2025 playoffs. That is what I believed until the Penguins game.
Hopefully it was an aberration or that the Penguins are a Stanley Cup team.

Quoting: wojme

But I thought the sabres had 45 mil in cap space and had the money to sign 30+ year old free agents to bloated deals. You my friend were the only person who understood the point of this post, thank you very much.

Quoting: PHEN

Dahlin will not sign for 8 years. He wants a 3-4 year deal prob around 10.5 You are correct Dahlin most likely will not sign for 8 and I changed it 5 years, but why should he get paid more than Makar?

Quoting: BuFfaLOFaN

Were we not the youngest last year as well?
edit: just checked. they where tied for youngest. One of the youngest for sure.

Quoting: BUFF36

Not bad Ghost, where's Novikov ? He could be ready by then. OMW, he certainly could be. He and Johnson surprised a lot of people I am sure.

Quoting: NHLfan10506

2022-22…
CBJ: 25.7
NJD: 26.0
BUF: 26.4
Thank you for the update, I could have said ONE of the youngest NHL teams instead.
Source: Elite Prospects

Quoting: Tintin

Seems like the obvious move to me would be for the Sabres to try and swing a trade for a young top 4 RHD sending one of those younger forwards the other way.
Could get a very interesting D back for one of Kulich, Rosén, Peterka and Östlund. One for the forward prospects, Jokiharju and a first would get a very good RHD, completely agree with you.

Quoting: Stadel

Zero chance they sign him to a deal that pays him 10+ mil and walks him to FA.
If they're paying double digits its cause there's term. Just cause Peters says he heard it doesnt mean its true Completely agree, as I said above why should Dahlin receive a contract larger than Makar?

Great conversations, love to exchange ideas.
Granato always sees the silver lining and not the dark clouds.
I hope Stillman, Clague and Biro will all clear waivers
Early evening update, they all cleared waivers, good news for Rochester better news for Buffalo.
It was a shock to see Bryson was kept over Stillman.
Hopefully Jacob and bounce back.
Was Metsa suppose to play at least one preseason game?

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Oct. 8, 2023 at 1:32 p.m.

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NHLfan10506

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Quoting: gretzkyghosts

Thank you for taking the time to comment on this post.
Typically a post without trades receives little attention.
Showing that the cap will be tight EVEN with Dahlin and Power accepting contracts well below reported figures was the primary purpose of the post
Great conversations, love to exchange ideas.
Granato always sees the silver lining and not the dark clouds.
I hope Stillman, Clague and Biro will all clear waivers.
It was a shock to see Bryson was kept over Stillman.
Hopefully Jacob and bounce back.
Was Metsa suppose to play at least one preseason game?

Love Metsa

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Oct. 8, 2023 at 6:44 p.m.

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BUFF36

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Quoting: NHLfan10506

Love Metsa

Had a hell of a playoffs for Rochester last year.

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Oct. 9, 2023 at 8:30 a.m.

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BuFfaLOFaN

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Quoting: gretzkyghosts

Thank you for taking the time to comment on this post.
Typically a post without trades receives little attention.
Showing that the cap will be tight EVEN with Dahlin and Power accepting contracts well below reported figures was the primary purpose of the post
Great conversations, love to exchange ideas.
Granato always sees the silver lining and not the dark clouds.
I hope Stillman, Clague and Biro will all clear waivers
Early evening update, they all cleared waivers, good news for Rochester better news for Buffalo.
It was a shock to see Bryson was kept over Stillman.
Hopefully Jacob and bounce back.
Was Metsa suppose to play at least one preseason game?

Looks like 8x11m is the contract for Dahlin. Not bad, all things considered, i will take that.

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