Buff-a-GO

Created by: Mr_neutral

Team: 2024-25 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: May 6, 2024

Published: May 6, 2024

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

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UFA - 5

Description

Hard to put an accurate price on UPL. With Levi, Peterka, Quinn and Byram needing new deals after 24-25, Its important Buffalo pay attention to that when signing and or trading.

Savoie or ostlund I think are ready to play for the big club. Best get them going sooner than later, with the need for small contracts in the lineup with the raises that are due soon.
The Ehlers addition would be huge only if there was an agreement for extension in place.
Otherwise I say gun for hometown Kaner.

I'm just a neutral hockey fan here, having my hand at an objective look at Buffalo.

Also, I forgot about jokiharju, what should they do with him?

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka		3	$4,250,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Girgensons, Zemgus		1	$2,750,000

Trades

BUF

Ehlers, Nikolaj

WPG

Kulich, Jiri
2025 2nd round pick (BUF)

Additional Details:

A promising young prospect who has shown good production in the ahl, is likely ready for alot of nhl time. The sabres have a logjam of forward prospects, and Jets have cap decisions to make coming up.

BUF

Smith, Reilly
2026 3rd round pick (SJS)

Additional Details:

Buffalo happy to shed skinners deal 2 years early. Smith will be gone after this season when Levi, JJ, Quinn and Byram need new deals. Also think this would only happen if Buffalo added a big scoring winger like ehlers. He'll need a new deal after the year too but shedding skinner helps immensely.

PIT

Skinner, Jeff ($4,000,000 retained)
2024 4th round pick (PHI)

Additional Details:

Pittsburgh gets more offensive production for the same cost as Smith for an extra 2 years while they attempt to stay competitive.

Buyouts

Christian Ehrhoff: $0

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Skinner: $4,000,000 (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
20	$83,500,000	$81,111,904	$0	$4,025,000	$2,388,096

Roster

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Ehlers, Nikolaj $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 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
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
Smith, Reilly $5,000,000$5,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Savoie, Matthew $886,667$886,667 ($1,000,000$1M) C RFA - 3	Benson, Zach $950,000$950,000 ($650,000$650K) LW RFA - 2
Greenway, Jordan $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1	Girgensons, Zemgus $2,750,000$2,750,000 LW, C UFA	Rosén, Isak $894,167$894,167 ($525,000$525K) RW RFA - 2

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Dahlin, Rasmus $11,000,000$11,000,000 LD/RD UFA - 8	Power, Owen $8,350,000$8,350,000 LD/RD UFA - 7	Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka $4,250,000$4,250,000 G RFA
Samuelsson, Mattias $4,285,714$4,285,714 LD UFA - 6	Byram, Bowen $3,850,000$3,850,000 LD/RD RFA - 1	Levi, Devon $925,000$925,000 ($1,000,000$1M) G RFA - 1
Johnson, Ryan $925,000$925,000 LD RFA - 1	Clifton, Connor $3,333,333$3,333,333 RD UFA - 2

Special Teams

Power Play 1
Tuch, A.		Thompson, T.		Peterka, J.
	Dahlin, R.		Ehlers, N.

Power Play 2
Greenway, J.		Cozens, D.		Benson, Z.
	Quinn, J.		Power, O.

Top Comments

May 6 at 2:16 p.m.

whitecocoa48

Pens are better

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If I'm Dubas I probably consider that.

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May 6 at 2:20 p.m.

Mr_neutral

Blake

Joined: Apr. 2024

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Seems like it'd make sense for both sides. Pitt takes on no more cap, and Buffalo gets to drop 5M at the end of the year to help sign youngsters to new deals. Sid can make producers out of anyone it seems so, skinner would be a fit on his wing I think

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May 6 at 2:22 p.m.

Windjammer

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Winnipeg most likely considers that.

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May 6 at 2:28 p.m.

CF18GM

Joined: May 2021

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I don't think that's the kind of return WPG is looking for with Ehlers. They don't really have cap issues either and if that's the best return out there, I would rather they keep Ehlers as an own-rental if they can't re-sign him.

May 6 at 2:31 p.m.

Stadel

Joined: Jun. 2015

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I think both moves are solid, so kudos on that. I think girgs comes in at a little less cause of a down year but otherwise about right. UPL contract is probably right too.

But I think you're way too bullish on Savoie immediately stepping in to be the 3C. He's probably getting a full year in Rochester and internally, they think he's going to be a winger.

I like Ehlers, and I think he'd be a good fit. But 3C is a bigger priority at this stage.

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