Here Are The Top 10 NHL Buyout and Trade Candidates. Team Breakdown: Blackhawks have a few forwards that could interest the Sabres, Eric Staal fills the two year void at center for the Sabres, Free Agent Breakdown: Sabres Would Be Wise To Pursue Brodie, Free Agent Breakdown: Alex Pietrangelo is a long shot the Sabres plan to explore, Team Breakdown: Oilers and Sabres have felt like good trade partners for years. Sabres Trade Johansson to Wild for Staal September 16th, 2020 The Buffalo Sabres have traded forward Marcus Johansson to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for forward Eric Staal. The team is looking at as little as $22MM or so on their internal salary cap to fill 13 roster spots, and new contracts for RFA’s Sam Reinhart, Victor Olofsson, Brandon Montour, and Linus Ullmark are bound to eat up the vast majority of that space. The Buffalo Sabres have decided that Curtis Lazar played well enough to keep around, signing him to a new two-year contract.
Expected Buffalo Faceoff: Should the Sabres take Athanasiou or draft pick in exchange for Montour? While prospects like Dylan Cozens are expected to take a roster spot, it’s rare that you see an NHL team with so many pending free agents in one year. G: Elvis Merzlikins, Columbus Blue Jackets With free agency now less than a month away, many teams are already looking ahead to when it opens up.  There will be several prominent players set to hit the open market while many teams have key restricted free agents to re-sign.  New Buffalo GM Kevyn Adams will certainly have his work cut out for him as more than half of their players are in need of new contracts in the coming weeks. Saving $1MM in salary may also be important for a team that has been rumored to be looking at an internal budget this season due to reduced revenues. Recalled defenseman Lawrence Pilut from Rochester (AHL). Asplund, 22, played in 29 games for the Sabres this season, recording his first three NHL points.

G: Tuukka Rask, Boston Bruins RW: Nikita Kucherov, Tampa Bay Lightning. That’s exactly what seems to have happened in Buffalo when the Sabres made the move to fire Jason Botterill and hire Kevyn Adams as GM.

Team Breakdown: Are the Sabres and Hurricanes a Match As Trade Partners? F: Nick Suzuki, Montreal Canadiens.

Even at that $10MM cap hit he likely represents excess value for the team, unlike some of his high-priced teammates (Jeff Skinner, who carries a $9MM cap hit through 2026-27, scored just 23 points this season).
McKenzie also makes sure to point out that neither the Sabres or Eichel himself have expressed any desire to part ways, in fact just the opposite appears to be true at the moment.

Assigned F Dalton Smith to Rochester (AHL).

The rookie elite, led by Calder Trophy-winner Makar, is an older group than usual. The team has been struggling of late, commencing a 1-7-2 record in the past 10 games. The regular season schedule was released on June 21, 2018. F: Dominik Kubalik, Chicago Blackhawks That was likely the plan for this season, though Laaksonen was actually signed to his entry-level deal just a day before the team fired GM Jason Botterill. D: Roman Josi, Nashville Predators Assigned F Jean-Sebastien Dea to Rochester. September 28, 2020 at 1:47 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee 11 Comments. Seravalli reports that at the end of that period, the team requested that the coaches take a 25% pay reduction for another extended period of time; they declined. Recalled F Jean-Sebastien Dea from Rochester (AHL). The young forward is a true franchise talent that now has 337 points in 354 career games, despite often playing with an underwhelming roster.

Though both players hold partial no-trade clauses, Michael Russo of The Athletic reports that neither one had their new team blocked. Seravalli notes that this is the first reported instance of a coaching staff rejecting a voluntary pay cut.

“And again, we’re trying to add picks or prospects, and at the same time ice a team.”, Buffalo Sabres| Casey Mittelstadt| Dennis Cholowski| Detroit Red Wings| Dylan Cozens| Marc Staal| Steve Yzerman, September 24, 2020 at 3:48 pm CDT | by Gavin Lee Leave a Comment. b Game was played at Tribute Communities Centre in Oshawa, Ontario. Below are the 2019-20 honorees: G: Connor Hellebuyck, Winnipeg Jets However, that amount covers just ten players, as Buffalo counts seven unrestricted free agents and six restricted free agents among their regulars from this past season. “We’re heading into the draft, we’re heading into free agency, we don’t really know when we’re starting, what the landscape is going to look like next year. [7][8], The preseason schedule was published on June 15, 2018.[9]. He also played quite well for the Boston Bruins in last year’s playoffs, scoring 11 points in 22 games as a depth option. Other UFAs: F Michael Frolik, D John Gilmour, G Andrew Hammond, D Matt Hunwick, F Taylor Leier, D Casey Nelson, F Vladimir Sobotka, F Scott Wilson.