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Head Coach Don Granato
Assistant Coach Marty Wilford
Assistant Coach Matt Ellis
Assistant Coach Jason Christie
Assistant Coach Mike Bales
Playoff Odds 0%
Projected Cap Hit $65,361,922
Projected Cap Space $17,138,078
Current Cap Space $176,141,355
LTIR Pool $0
Roster 26/23
Contracts 44/50
Transactions
Lukas Rousek | Rousek was loaned to AHL Rochester on Sunday. Mar 26
Kyle Okposo | Okposo scored the game-winning goal in a 2-0 victory over the New York Islanders on Saturday. Mar 25
Eric Comrie | Comrie made 26 saves in a 2-0 win over the New York Islanders on Saturday. Mar 25
Eric Comrie | Comrie will defend the home crease versus the New York Islanders on Saturday, Stefen Rosner of The Hockey News reports. Mar 25
Victor Olofsson | Olofsson recorded a power-play assist in Friday's 5-4 win over the New Jersey Devils. Mar 25

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Vinnie Hinostroza
Expected Return unknown
Vinnie Hinostroza - DAY-TO-DAY - Personal
Sat Mar 25, 2023
Vinnie Hinostroza | Hinostroza will sit out his second straight game Saturday due to personal reasons, Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News reports.

Fri Mar 24, 2023
Vinnie Hinostroza | Hinostroza (personal) won't be in the lineup Friday versus New Jersey, according to Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News.
Thu Mar 23, 2023
Vinnie Hinostroza | Hinostroza was absent from Thursday's practice for personal reasons, Paul Hamilton of WGR Sports Radio 550 reports.
Jordan Greenway
Expected Return unknown
Jordan Greenway - DAY-TO-DAY - Upper Body
Sat Mar 25, 2023
Jordan Greenway | Greenway (upper body) will be out of the lineup Saturday versus the New York Islanders, Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News reports.

Thu Mar 23, 2023
Jordan Greenway | Greenway (upper body) practiced Thursday but is not ready to return to the lineup, Sabres beat reporter Joe Yerdon reports.
Tue Mar 21, 2023
Jordan Greenway | Greenway (upper body) will not be in the lineup against the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, Bill Hoppe of the Olean Times Herald reports.
Mon Mar 20, 2023
Jordan Greenway | Greenway is day-to-day with an upper-body injury.
Mattias Samuelsson
Expected Return unknown
Mattias Samuelsson - DAY-TO-DAY - Upper Body
Sun Mar 12, 2023
Mattias Samuelsson | Samuelsson is week-to-week with an upper-body injury, per Heather Engel of NHL.com.
Ben Bishop
Expected Return Tue Aug 1, 2023
Ben Bishop - IR-LT - Knee
Surgery

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Performance Bonuses
Movement Clauses
35+ Over 35 Contract
IR - Injured Reserve
Entry Level Contract
Slide Eligible
Has Arbitration Rights
Two-way contract
(14) Forwards $40,776,669 49.4% of cap
Player POS Age 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
Okposo, Kyle RW 34
$6,000,000
M-NTC
$0
UFA
Skinner, Jeff LW 30
$9,000,000
$9,000,000
$9,000,000
$9,000,000
$9,000,000
$0
UFA

(2027)
Girgensons, Zemgus LW 29
$2,200,000
$0
UFA
Hinostroza, Vinnie RW 28
$1,700,000
$0
UFA
Tuch, Alex RW 26
$4,750,000
$4,750,000
M-NTC
$4,750,000
M-NTC
$4,750,000
M-NTC
$0
UFA

(2026)
Olofsson, Victor LW 27
$4,750,000
$4,750,000
$0
UFA
Greenway, Jordan LW 26
$3,000,000
$3,000,000
$3,000,000
M-NTC
$0
UFA
Jost, Tyson C 25
$2,000,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Thompson, Tage RW 25
$1,400,000
$7,142,858
$7,142,857
M-NTC
$7,142,857
M-NTC
$7,142,857
M-NTC
$0
UFA

(2030)
Mittelstadt, Casey C 24
$2,500,000
$2,500,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Cozens, Dylan C 22
$894,167
$7,100,000
$7,100,000
$7,100,000
$7,100,000
$0
UFA

(2030)
Krebs, Peyton C 22
$863,334
$863,334
$0
RFA
Quinn, Jack RW 21
$863,334
$863,334
$863,334
$0
RFA
Peterka, John-Jason LW 21
$855,834
$855,834
$855,834
$0
RFA
TOTALS
$40,776,669
$40,825,360
$32,712,025
$27,992,857
$23,242,857
(8) Defence $17,041,667 20.7% of cap
Player POS Age 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
Clague, Kale D 24
$750,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Stillman, Riley D 25
$1,350,000
$1,350,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Jokiharju, Henri D 23
$2,500,000
$2,500,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Bryson, Jacob D 25
$1,850,000
$1,850,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Lyubushkin, Ilya D 28
$2,750,000
$2,750,000
$0
UFA
Dahlin, Rasmus D 22
$6,000,000
$6,000,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Samuelsson, Mattias D 23
$925,000
$4,285,714
$4,285,714
$4,285,714
$4,285,714
$0
UFA

(2030)
Power, Owen D 20
$916,667
$916,667
$0
RFA
TOTALS
$17,041,667
$19,652,381
$4,285,714
$4,285,714
$4,285,714
(4) Goalies $9,979,167 12.1% of cap
Player POS Age 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
Anderson, Craig +35 G 41
$1,500,000
$0
UFA
Bishop, Ben
IR
G 36
$4,916,667
NMC
M-NTC
$0
UFA
Comrie, Eric G 27
$1,800,000
$1,800,000
$0
UFA
Luukkonen, Ukko-Pekka G 24
$837,500
$837,500
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Levi, Devon G 21
$925,000
$925,000
$925,000
$0
RFA
TOTALS
$9,979,167
$3,562,500
$925,000
(0) Buried $0 0.0% of cap
Player POS Age 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
TOTALS
(1) Buyout & Retained Salary $791,667 1.0% of cap
Player POS Age 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
Hodgson, Cody
Buyout
C 33
$791,667
TOTALS
$791,667
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2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026
Roster Size

Number of players on the Active Roster. Cannot exceed 23 players. Excludes players on IR and LTIR.

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26 20 9 5
Standard Player Contracts

Number of players signed to Standard Player Contracts (SPC's). Cannot exceed 50 players. Some players do not count towards this, such as 18/19 Year-Old players in Junior with less than 10 NHL Games Played in Season.

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44 29 16 8
Upper Limit

The maximum Salary Cap Hit of all players counting towards the active roster. Often referred to as "Salary Cap". This is determined in the summer and is based on the previous season's revenues, per the CBA.

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$82,500,000 $83,500,000 $83,500,000 $83,500,000
Projected Cap Hit

Anticipated Season-End Cap Hit based on the current roster, calculated by summing all Cap Hits of players currently counting towards the Salary Cap. Assumes current roster is in effect for the remainder of season.

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$65,361,922 $64,040,241 $37,922,739 $32,278,571
Projected Cap Space

Amount of Cap Space projected to be available at end of year. Calculated as Annual Salary Cap minus Projected Cap Hit.

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$17,138,078 $19,459,759 $45,577,261 $51,221,429
Current Cap Space

Amount of Annual Cap Hit that can be added to the roster without exceeding the Upper Limit (Salary Cap Maximum) based on the current roster. For teams using LTIR, Current Cap Space is the amount of annual cap hit that can be added without exceeding the Salary Cap by more than the team's LTIR Pool.

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$176,141,355 $19,459,759 $45,577,261 $51,221,429
Maximum LTIR Pool

The maximum amount of Long Term Injured Reserve space potentially available. This is the Cap Hit of player on LTIR less the Cap Space available for team at time player was on LTIR. A player can go on LTIR when they expect to miss 10 games and 24 days in the season. A player on LTIR does not come off of the salary cap, instead a team is allowed to exceed the cap by the LTIR amount.

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$0 $0 $0 $0
Current Roster Annual Cap Hit

Anticipated Cap Hit based on the current roster, calculated by summing all Cap Hits of players currently counting towards the Salary Cap + retained salary + buyouts.

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$68,589,170 $64,040,241 $37,922,739 $32,278,571
Carryover Bonus Overages

Teams can exceed the salary cap due to players receiving performance bonuses. If a team exceeds the salary cap due to performance bonuses, they carryover to the previous season and reduce the cap space a team has.

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$0 $0 $0 $0
Potential Bonuses

Performance Bonuses that players on the active roster are eligible to achieve. A team can exceed the salary cap due to performance bonuses, but they carry over to the following season.

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$3,620,000 $4,070,000 $1,850,000 $0
Retained Salary Remaining

Teams can retain salary/cap hit when they trade a player. A team can only have a maximum of 3 players that they retained salary on.

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3 3 3 3
(20) Non-Roster
Player POS Age 2022-2023 2023-2024 2024-2025 2025-2026 2026-2027
Subban, Malcolm G 29
$850,000
$0
UFA
Malone, Sean C 27
$750,000
$0
UFA
Cecconi, Joseph D 25
$750,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Murray, Brett LW 24
$750,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Nyberg, Philip D 25
$0
$0
UFA
Glotov, Vasii C 25
$0
$0
UFA
Davies, Jeremy D 26
$750,000
$0
UFA
$0
UFA
Weissbach, Linus LW 24
$842,500
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Pekar, Matej C 23
$764,167
$0
RFA
Lindstrand Cronholm, Linus D 22
$0
Kukkonen, Miska D 22
$0
Worge Kreu, William D 22
$0
Pilut, Lawrence D 27
$750,000
$0
UFA
Strand, Austin D 26
$750,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Ruotsalainen, Arttu C 25
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Huglen, Aaron LW 22
$0
$0
UFA
Cederqvist, Filip LW 22
$850,000
$850,000
$0
RFA
Rousek, Lukas LW 23
$830,000
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Houser, Michael G 30
$750,000
$0
UFA
Biro, Brandon LW 25
$762,500
$762,500
$0
RFA
$0
UFA
Costantini, Matteo C 20
$0
$0
UFA
Lyckasen, Albert D 21
$0
$0
UFA
Konecny, Jakub C 20
$0
$0
UFA
Nadeau, Olivier RW 20
$859,167
$836,667
$836,667
$836,667
$0
RFA

(2026)
Rosén, Isak RW 20
$925,000
$925,000
$925,000
$0
RFA
Poltapov, Prokhor RW 20
$0
$0
UFA
Kisakov, Alexander C 20
$859,167
$859,167
$859,167
$0
RFA
Sardaryan, Stiven C 20
$0
$0
UFA
Marjala, Viljami LW 20
$0
$0
UFA
von Barnekow, William LW 20
$0
$0
UFA
Novikov, Nikita D 19
$0
$0
UFA
Kozak, Tyson C 20
$850,000
$850,000
$850,000
$0
RFA
Savoie, Matthew C 19
$950,000
$918,333
$918,333
$918,333
$0
RFA

(2026)
Lindgren, Mats D 18
$0
$0
UFA
Östlund, Noah C 19
$950,000
$918,333
$918,333
$918,333
$0
RFA

(2026)
Kulich, Jiri C 18
$950,000
$950,000
$950,000
$0
RFA
Leinonen, Topias G 19
$0
$0
UFA
Neuchev, Viktor LW 19
$0
$0
UFA
Komarov, Vsevolod D 19
$0
$0
UFA
Richard, Jake RW 18
$0
$0
UFA
Karlsson, Gustav C 19
$0
$0
UFA
Ratkovic Berndtsson, Joel RW 19
$0
$0
UFA
Sjödin, Linus C 20
$0
$0
UFA
TOTALS
$16,492,501
$7,870,000
$6,257,500
$2,673,333