Skinner $3M retained, + for John Tavares. I
Without reviewing the numbers, I was dissapointed with how Tage, Tuch and Dahlin started. Of course Cozens had an awful season.
Understood but offense puts people in the seats….so a rebuilding team can at least have entertaining games. Loosing 5-4 is more fun to watch, than watching the Devils win 2-1 with their trap.
The catch-22 is that he wouldn’t accept a trade to a rebuilding team. By all accounts, the only team he’d accept a trade to is Toronto and I can’t imagine Berube wanting him at all, even at $4.5m
I would think they’d be mostly done by July 1st. They simply are not an attractive ufa destination.
A buyout provides $7.55 million in additional space this season and $4.55 next year. So, for two years a buyout actually provides more or the same space as a trade at 50% retention. Year 3, 2026-27, of a buyout stings as the cap hit is $6.44; but it is important to remember that the cost in 2026-27 doesn’t get appreciably better if you wait ($6.0 million if you wait until next year and $5.55 if you wait two years). In years 4-6 the hit is $2.44, but by then the cap could be close to $100 million. The Oilers and Florida both had more dead-cap than that this season and they are still playing.
This is the line of logic that has ex-Sabres all over the playoffs while we talk about holes in the roster.
People are still mad because he said he didn’t appreciate people booing Granato while also saying he understood why people are frustrated.
Do you really want players that are content to be losing? Do you need a roster filled with guys who don't care if they're getting booed? Players that are just happy to be getting paid? You could re-sign Kyle Okposo. Maybe find another Skinner.
Buying Skinner out this year creates approximately the same cap space in 25/26 and 26/27 as it does if you wait a year, AND it provides the benefit of an extra $7.55 million in space this year. The only downside to buying Skinner out this year is the 3 years of $2.44 million in dead cap that applies to 27/28 through 29/30. Most NHL teams that are trying to make the playoffs and contend would jump at the opportunity to obtain an additional $7.55 million to upgrade and remake their roster and would not fret about a far from insurmountable $2.44 million in dead cap 4-6 seasons from now. The benefit that can be gained from the extra space this year far outweighs the negative of the dead cap a 1/2 decade from now when the actual cap has gone up by 10-20%.
I understand buy out. Ive said the only one that makes sense is the last year. Its 5.66 or so. Buy out earlier its higher.
Sabres can go after 2 players: Necas and joshua ?
I think Necas and Joshua would be great additions. Assuming you get the RFAs and Girgs signed to relatively conservative extensions and that you have a player making under $900k as the 13th forward, you are only left with about $7 million in cap though. That won’t be enough to sign Necas alone. You probably need upwards of $10.5 to $11 million to sign both of those players.
Girgs 1 mil per and Krebs low and bryson and joki havent so much clue about if they Will keep ? The cap would not be a bit problem. Perhaps try trade skinner with the 1 pick
Joshua gonna get more than 3 mil per
