Adams and Granato CANNED

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Created by: NeedTheCleanser

Team: 2024-25 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 22, 2024

Published: Mar. 22, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

I generally like Donnie. He brought us from utter laughingstock to mediocre but I don’t think he’s the guy from here.

Adams is, was, and always has been WAY over his skis in this role. All of our best players were Botterill acquisitions or lesser parts for bigger deals. He needs to go even more.

Need someone with less attachment to prospects, and PHI is a perfect trading partner.

Free Agent Signings

RFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
Bryson, Jacob	1	$2,000,000
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka	2	$4,000,000
Krebs, Peyton	2	$1,750,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Girgensons, Zemgus		1	$2,000,000
DeMelo, Dylan		5	$4,500,000

Trades

BUF

Frost, Morgan
2025 4th round pick (PHI)

PHI

Jokiharju, Henri [RFA Rights]
Östlund, Noah
2024 1st round pick (BUF)

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

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	$84,374,403	$0	$2,500,000	$1,125,597

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 LW, RW RFA - 1	Thompson, Tage $7,142,857$7,142,857 C M-NTC UFA - 6	Tuch, Alex $4,750,000$4,750,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 3	Cozens, Dylan $7,100,000$7,100,000 C, LW UFA - 6	Quinn, Jack $863,333$863,333 ($850,000$850K) RW, LW RFA - 1
Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 2	Frost, Morgan $2,100,000$2,100,000 C RFA - 1	Kulich, Jiri $918,333$918,333 C, LW RFA - 2
Girgensons, Zemgus $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C UFA	Krebs, Peyton $1,750,000$1,750,000 C, LW RFA	Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Byram, Bowen $3,850,000$3,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Dahlin, Rasmus $11,000,000$11,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 8	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $4,000,000$4,000,000 G RFA
Power, Owen $8,350,000$8,350,000 LD/RD UFA - 7	DeMelo, Dylan $4,500,000$4,500,000 RD UFA	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($1,000,000$1M) G RFA - 1
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 6	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Rousek, Lukas $775,000$775,000 RW RFA - 1
Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 1
Bryson, Jacob $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD RFA

Mar. 22 at 11:21 a.m.

Schuyler

Joined: Jun. 2022

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That's an insane price for frost

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Mar. 22 at 11:22 a.m.

Doobs92

Joined: Mar. 2023

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I feel like Frost is just a worse Mittelstadt, who is also going to get paid big time in a year. Why would Buffalo do this, especially at that price?

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Mar. 22 at 11:24 a.m.

NeedTheCleanser

Thread Starter

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Quoting: Schuyler

That's an insane price for frost

He’s really good! Perfect 2C/3C.
What do you think the price would be?

Mar. 22 at 11:31 a.m.

Schuyler

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Quoting: NeedTheCleanser

He’s really good! Perfect 2C/3C.
What do you think the price would be?

he's incredibly streaky and probably tops out at a 60 point center in his best years I'd look else where sabres IMO need to find a balance last year it was all offense no defense this year they gave up so much of that offense to play mediocre D

Mar. 22 at 11:33 a.m.

SharkTank

Tank it baby

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Adams is a YES man.

A puppet.

Pegula's love him.

He's probably not going anywhere.

Granato likely gets axed.

But will the Pegula's be willing to spend big money on a good head coach? 🙄

Mar. 22 at 11:58 a.m.

Lsendel3

Joined: Feb. 2020

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Brutal for Buffalo. A top 10 pick, a B+/A- prospect, and a serviceable 4/5 RHD for Frost. I mean why.

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Mar. 22 at 12:00 p.m.

Chasebrown44

Joined: Apr. 2019

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As a Flyers fan I would say no to this trade. Even though I am not a fan of Frost at all. I think he has more value in a trade at this moment than he brings to any team. With that said I think the Flyers could do better.

Mar. 22 at 12:01 p.m.

BUF10

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Quoting: SharkTank

Adams is a YES man.

A puppet.

Pegula's love him.

He's probably not going anywhere.

Granato likely gets axed.

But will the Pegula's be willing to spend big money on a good head coach? 🙄

Granato isn’t getting fired. Signed an extension before the season.

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Mar. 22 at 12:04 p.m.

SharkTank

Tank it baby

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Quoting: BUF10

Granato isn’t getting fired. Signed an extension before the season.

Great.

You're still better than the Sharks.

Well 31 teams are better than the Sharks.

Mar. 22 at 1:17 p.m.

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AntiAnalytics

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Quoting: NeedTheCleanser

He’s really good! Perfect 2C/3C.
What do you think the price would be?

NO, he isn’t
You’re massively overrating him & that trade is straight garbage

Any GM who makes a deal like this should be fired on the spot
Sorry, but it’s that bad dude

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Mar. 22 at 1:18 p.m.

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AntiAnalytics

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Quoting: Chasebrown44

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Mar. 22 at 1:18 p.m.

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AntiAnalytics

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Quoting: Lsendel3

Brutal for Buffalo. A top 10 pick, a B+/A- prospect, and a serviceable 4/5 RHD for Frost. I mean why.

^ this

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Mar. 22 at 1:19 p.m.

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AntiAnalytics

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Quoting: Schuyler

That's an insane price for frost

^ and this

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Mar. 22 at 1:20 p.m.

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AntiAnalytics

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Quoting: Doobs92

I feel like Frost is just a worse Mittelstadt, who is also going to get paid big time in a year. Why would Buffalo do this, especially at that price?

^ and DEFINITELY this

Mar. 22 at 1:55 p.m.

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littlejerryseinfeld

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Quoting: Chasebrown44

Holy crap

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Mar. 22 at 3:07 p.m.

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Ujeje

Joined: Mar. 2023

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Quoting: Chasebrown44

I want what you have.

Been pro-Frost guy since his first NHL-games, but imo this is an offer you can't refuse. Pick around 9-12 this year, solid prospect Östlund (who could end up being better than Frost) and also solid RHD. Drysdale, Bonk, Jokiharju sounds good RD for the future.

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Mar. 22 at 10:14 p.m.

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JokiStan

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Adams is flawed but I do think he's trying and has done some good. He can stay. Granato on the other hand is not the right coach for this squad and SHOULD be out after this year, but won't be

Mar. 22 at 10:17 p.m.

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JokiStan

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Quoting: Chasebrown44

That's a big overpay as is lol

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