Opening Night Roster

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Created by: SabresFan78

Team: 2024-25 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Apr. 23, 2024

Published: Apr. 23, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Traded Joker to make room for DeMelo. Not sure what his true value is on the street but he's a young righty so should be worth something. Added toughness and depth up front with Lafferty and Duhaime.

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka		4	$3,500,000
Krebs, Peyton		2	$1,250,000

UFA	YEARS	CAP HIT
DeMelo, Dylan	4	$4,500,000
Lafferty, Sam	2	$2,000,000
Duhaime, Brandon	2	$1,850,000
Desharnais, Vincent	1	$1,200,000

Trades

BUF

2024 2nd round pick (FLA)
2025 2nd round pick (TOR)

ARI

Jokiharju, Henri [RFA Rights]

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	$87,500,000	$82,467,736	$0	$3,500,000	$5,032,264

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 3	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
Peterka, John-Jason $855,833$855,833 LW, RW RFA - 1	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	Kulich, Jiri $918,333$918,333 C, LW RFA - 2	Savoie, Matthew $918,333$918,333 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 2
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Lafferty, Sam $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, C, LW UFA	Duhaime, Brandon $1,850,000$1,850,000 RW, LW UFA
	Krebs, Peyton $1,250,000$1,250,000 C, LW RFA

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 $3,500,000$3,500,000 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
Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 1	Desharnais, Vincent $1,200,000$1,200,000 RD UFA

Apr. 23 at 1:58 p.m.

BUF10

Joined: Sep. 2022

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They will have to get another center. I don’t think Kulich will play center right away. Savoie will start in the AHL. Lafferty is a winger.

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Apr. 23 at 2:06 p.m.

AntiAnalytics

Joined: Jul. 2023

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Adding “toughness” to the 4TH LINE doesn’t make the TEAM harder to play against
Just means we’ll have an extra couple hits for that 10min they’re out on the ice

Essentially, it does nothing

Apr. 23 at 2:08 p.m.

AntiAnalytics

Joined: Jul. 2023

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Quoting: BUF10

They will have to get another center. I don’t think Kulich will play center right away. Savoie will start in the AHL. Lafferty is a winger.

Krebs most likely gets first shot at 3C anyways

Apr. 23 at 2:18 p.m.

JokiStan

2285 Stanley Cup Cha

Joined: Jun. 2020

Posts: 1,537

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Hope not. They need to actually go get a real 3rd line center instead of blindly hoping Kulich can fill that void. Starting Kulich on wing makes the most sense which means we won't

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Apr. 23 at 9:59 p.m.

Burnzie8_88_4Cup

Joined: May 2019

Posts: 1,738

Likes: 525

Quoting: BUF10

They will have to get another center. I don’t think Kulich will play center right away. Savoie will start in the AHL. Lafferty is a winger.

Quoting: JokiStan

Hope not. They need to actually go get a real 3rd line center instead of blindly hoping Kulich can fill that void. Starting Kulich on wing makes the most sense which means we won't

I love me some Kulich, but even tho he's improved his FO, I think Lindy will want a relieble 3 C to win FO when he really need it, prefer a Lefty, Cozens can handle the right draws.

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