If The Sabres Spend To The Cap

[Porous Five Hole]

The Sabres have 21.7M in cap space right now. This includes the Skinner buyout. 

RFAs:

Quinn

McLeod

JBD

Byram (traded)

A goalie (or Levi). 
 

Give Quinn 2MM, JBD 1.5MM, McLeod 4.5MM, and 1.5M on backup goalie.  That leaves the Sabres with at least $11MM to spend. Or maybe they flip Quinn for a pick just to move on…now more cash to spend and a roster spot to fill.

We know the team needs more than hoping Kulich will be a top six forward and could use someone high end now that JJP is gone.

-Want to buy out Muel and give Marner 14MM? Done. 
-Prefer Ehlers and someone else? Go ahead.  
-Brock Boeser to help the center spine? Sure. 
-Overpay for Ekblad? All set. 
 

Other teams are desperate for cap space. Byram can be part of this trade, or the Sabres can move futures and prospects to cap strapped teams.  
-EP40?

-Jason Robertson?  

-Maybe work out something with the Aves since they have no space and no picks in rounds 1-3 for 2025 and 2026?

-Right the wrong by re-acquiring Brandon Hagel from cap strapped Tampa?

The Peterka cap savings gives the Sabres options to be aggressive. For the purpose of this, I’m assuming the Sabres are spending to the cap (I know, how dare me). 
 

Who do you want?

[#freejame]

It depends on the return for Byram. If it’s someone like Rasmus Andersen (sp?), we need to make another more for a top 6 forward and probably by our Mule. If we get back a top 6 forward for Byram, we should overpay one of the two top RHD UFAs. 

[PerreaultForever]

Clearly, they are not spending to the cap. They are not serious about winning. 

[LGR4GM]

I'd be interested in Hagel if he's moved. 

[Porous Five Hole]

I would love to pry Hagel or Robertson. I would also offer Quinn or something to Vegas for Nick Hague (can play LD or RD). That might not get us to the cap max, but it makes this team a lot better. 

Edited 8 hours ago by Porous Five Hole

[ASlugAbove]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

I'd be interested in Hagel if he's moved. 

 

7 minutes ago, Porous Five Hole said:

I would love to pry Hagel or Robertson. I would also or Quinn or something to Vegas for Nick Hague (can play LD or RD). That might not get us to the cap max, but it makes this team a lot better. 

We are not getting Hagel, unfortunately. Were a team that drafted him and didnt sign him come time and relinquished his rights, we have no direction from ownership, a 14 yr playoff drought, horrible management, and no palm trees. He'd be insane to even consider us.

[HumanSlinky39]

If they spend to the cap I'll eat my hat.

[Turbo44]

Why would they start spending to the cap now? Pegula isn’t a proponent that it takes money to make money. He’s not willing to invest in the team and infrastructure as much as needed. And now we have 14 years 

[DarthEbriate]

The soapbox I’ve been on all this last season. Pegula has to make the statement public that EEE is over. Until he does that, Adams just runs the defense that he has all the resources he needs. Say it’s over, say we’ll spend to the cap to win, and that the expectation is playoffs. Then fire Adams when he fails because he is still relying on UPL for 50 games.

[Carmel Corn]

I forgot, what does EEE stand for?

 

[CallawaySabres]

It doesn’t matter, the owner doesn’t care about winning

[Indabuff]

57 minutes ago, HumanSlinky39 said:

If they spend to the cap I'll eat my hat.

What type of hat?  Fedora,  beret, fascinator?  

[HumanSlinky39]

16 minutes ago, Indabuff said:

What type of hat?  Fedora,  beret, fascinator?  

Nike ballcap, Yankees.

Edited 17 hours ago by HumanSlinky39

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, Carmel Corn said:

I forgot, what does EEE stand for?

 

Efficient  economical, & excrement.

[GoPuckYourself]

If they spend to the cap at least I know they're trying and will give the slightest of hope.

 

[Drag0nDan]

14 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

The Sabres have 21.7M in cap space right now. This includes the Skinner buyout. 

RFAs:

Quinn

McLeod

JBD

Byram (traded)

A goalie (or Levi). 
 

Give Quinn 2MM, JBD 1.5MM, McLeod 4.5MM, and 1.5M on backup goalie.  That leaves the Sabres with at least $11MM to spend. Or maybe they flip Quinn for a pick just to move on…now more cash to spend and a roster spot to fill.

We know the team needs more than hoping Kulich will be a top six forward and could use someone high end now that JJP is gone.

-Want to buy out Muel and give Marner 14MM? Done. 
-Prefer Ehlers and someone else? Go ahead.  
-Brock Boeser to help the center spine? Sure. 
-Overpay for Ekblad? All set. 
 

Other teams are desperate for cap space. Byram can be part of this trade, or the Sabres can move futures and prospects to cap strapped teams.  
-EP40?

-Jason Robertson?  

-Maybe work out something with the Aves since they have no space and no picks in rounds 1-3 for 2025 and 2026?

-Right the wrong by re-acquiring Brandon Hagel from cap strapped Tampa?

The Peterka cap savings gives the Sabres options to be aggressive. For the purpose of this, I’m assuming the Sabres are spending to the cap (I know, how dare me). 
 

Who do you want?

 

I think tampa moves Bjorkstrad, McDonaugh, and sheary if they're looking to move people.  6.5M for 90 points is a bargain.  

Colorado's going to move Necas if i had to guess?  He probably wants to get to UFA status next year and won't extend but it fills the top 6 void, and buffalo has guys who they'd probably be interested in.  

Petterssons a tough decision - you have gotta feel really good about him as the player he was before last year.  

Edited 6 hours ago by Drag0nDan

[Porous Five Hole]

1 hour ago, Drag0nDan said:

 

I think tampa moves Bjorkstrad, McDonaugh, and sheary if they're looking to move people.  6.5M for 90 points is a bargain.  

Colorado's going to move Necas if i had to guess?  He probably wants to get to UFA status next year and won't extend but it fills the top 6 void, and buffalo has guys who they'd probably be interested in.  

Petterssons a tough decision - you have gotta feel really good about him as the player he was before last year.  

I chose Hagel because he doesn’t have any trade protection.  Everyone else does except Sheary (who was playing the Amerks in the AHL playoffs in April).  

[DarthEbriate]

13 hours ago, Carmel Corn said:

I forgot, what does EEE stand for?

 

From Fairburn's Athletic article 6/16/2020 (the day of the press conference). I hope he'll not be too upset I'm quoting his quotation from an article five years past.

Quote

 

Times have changed. On Tuesday [6/16/2020], Terry and Kim Pegula fired Sabres general manager Jason Botterill. In explaining their decision to do so, the Pegulas, who own both the Sabres and the Bills, repeatedly mentioned needing to get “leaner.”

“I mentioned three words: effective, efficient and economic,” Terry Pegula said. “I’m the last guy to know anything about technology. I can’t even mute this thing (Zoom) we’re talking on here. But I can tell you this, with all the existing technology that exists in the world of sports today, we can move forward much leaner than we operated in the past and much more efficient. We have all the tools to look at and fine tune over and over, slow it down in slow motion, back it up, look at it again of a player and what he does in a split second. You’re right, we’re going to get leaner. It’s just the way the world is heading. Any business today, you look at the things they do. They’re more efficient. They do things quicker. They use this technology that we all have at our finger tips.”

 

This was, and remains, the Sabres business model until Pegula publicly says otherwise.

[Drag0nDan]

2 hours ago, Porous Five Hole said:

I chose Hagel because he doesn’t have any trade protection.  Everyone else does except Sheary (who was playing the Amerks in the AHL playoffs in April).  

Trade protection just keeps you from going to buffalo though.  We might not be a good partner for that reason.  

[LGR4GM]

To quote Sparta... 

"IF"