Confirmed Signing with Link: [BUF] D Henri Jokiharju re-signs with the Sabres (1 year, $3.1M)
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GirardSpinorama
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It does walk him to UFA, which I don't think the Sabres have a huge problem with. I don't think he's in the long-term vision. We'll likely sign a stopgap RHD for 25/26 while hoping Strbak and/or Komarov are ready for 26/27.
Adams will attach next years 1st round draft pick to him if you have some spare 4th liners laying around...
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Haven't looked. Theoretically, we'd only need a one year stop-gap. Hell, maybe we even re-up Joker for 1 more year after this.
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Seems a little rich for him, but he's got leverage. It's not a ridiculous deal either...he's just one of those smallish #5ish jack of all trades "tweener" types that's hard to want to really invest in long-term, unless it's dirt cheap.
It's more than "bottom-pairing" money, which is fair. And less than "Top-4 money" these days, which is fair. So it's intuitively in the right sort of range in that respect...but it does still feel a bit high.
Like...he can step up into your Top-4 in a pinch, better than the vast majority of bottom-pair guys...but you don't want him there. And when he's pushed down to the bottom-pairing...he doesn't really have the defined skillset as a physical, PK ace, stay-at-home type that teams prefer there. Just a bit awkward as a "fit" to commit significant money to or "build around".
Same realm as Liljegren, which probably set the market here.
It's more than "bottom-pairing" money, which is fair. And less than "Top-4 money" these days, which is fair. So it's intuitively in the right sort of range in that respect...but it does still feel a bit high.
Like...he can step up into your Top-4 in a pinch, better than the vast majority of bottom-pair guys...but you don't want him there. And when he's pushed down to the bottom-pairing...he doesn't really have the defined skillset as a physical, PK ace, stay-at-home type that teams prefer there. Just a bit awkward as a "fit" to commit significant money to or "build around".
Same realm as Liljegren, which probably set the market here.
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Did something happen for Sabres fans here to no longer love Jokiharju or is it just that the next step never happened?
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He just... doesn't do anything? He's youngish and shoots right and that's literally all there is to him.
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He did lead the team in the plus-minus I guess but yeah he doesn't really excel at anything.
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We never “loved” Joker. He’s never been that good. He isn’t awful either. He’s just kind of…there. His best games are the ones where you don’t even notice him.
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I mean, yeah, probably. When we added him, he was very young and was viewed as having significant potential. He just never really developed any further.
It's also because we swapped Nylander for him... we were excited that we got a defenseman the same age who was already playing semi decent in the NHL for a guy that made it evident he had no nhl qualities besides his skill he had upside but we knew he was never gonna put the work in to realize his potential.
