Three-year plan - 2022-23

Team: 2022-23 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 29, 2021

Published: Aug. 30, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Second year of the three-year plan

Year one - https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2744288
Year three - https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/2752352

- All of the first grouping of trades are from 2021-22 (Vegas, Los Angeles, New Jersey, Anaheim, Minnesota)
- Dahlin (8x$8m), Mittelstadt (3x$2m), Jokiharju (3x$2m) all signed prior to 2021-22 season
- Hypothetically, the Sabres won the lottery again and drafted Shane Wright first overall
- Owen Power, Ryan Johnson, and Jack Quinn all make the team
- The big move is trading for Mitchel Marner. Toronto gets bounced in the first round again and Marner is the scapegoat. Buffalo trades two firsts, a second, and Olofsson for a cheaper goal scorer and young, cost controlled picks. Marner gives the team a superstar in his prime with term that can play with Cozens on the top line as Cozens becomes the number one center and Mittelstadt becomes the number two.
- Tuch comes back and is the power forward the Sabres have desperately needed for years.
- Calvin de Haan comes on as a veteran defenseman that can be a solid bottom-four guy.

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