Three-year plan - 2021-22

Team: 2021-22 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 25, 2021

Published: Aug. 30, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

First year of a three-year plan.

Year Two - https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2751724
Year Three - https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2752352

- Trade Eichel to Vegas, getting good assets back for the long-haul. Tuch goes on long-term IR with surgery while Krebs can be thrown in the lineup now or go to the minors for a bit. Hague can goes on the roster for now but can be flipped as the Sabres are deep at LD.
- Buffalo acquires Quick to give cap relief to LA while getting a better draft pick and gives the team a goalie that isn't 40 (Anderson) for a few year to play with UPL.
- Buffalo takes on Subban's contract for a year, but can deal him at the deadline and retain half the salary. Helps on the RD for a year.
- Henrique is acquired to again, to give cap relief to the Ducks. Henrique can be the veteran insulator for Cozens and Mittelstadt and eventually move down the lines as the younger centers get better. In this scenario he waives his M-NMC.
- Buffalo goes to Minnesota to acquire Zuccarello to help with their upcoming awful cap situation. The Sabres send back a low-priced winger in Thompson but it costs the Wild a first. The team can also eat his cap hit for the next several years. *I saw he has a NMC once on the Sabres but when I traded for him he did not so I'm moving forward as if he doesn't have one*

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