[The Sabre Report] Espace disponible sous le plafond salarial des Sabres par saison (via Spotrac) : 20-21 -> 8,821 M$ (4e dans la LNH), 21-22 -> 15,505 M$ (2e dans la LNH), 22-23 -> 17,234 M$ (1er dans la LNH), 23-24 -> 10,676 M$ (4e dans la LNH), 24-25 -> 8,449 M$ (8e dans la LNH actuellement). « Économique. Efficace. Efficace. »
Sabres cap space available by season (via Spotrac):
2020-21 -> $8,821,589 (4th in NHL)
2021-22 -> $15,505,378 (2nd in NHL)
2022-23 -> $17,234,402 (1st in NHL)
2023-24 -> $10,676,071 (4th in NHL)
2024-25 -> $8,449,485 (8th in NHL currently)"Economic. Effective. Efficient."
— The Sabre Report (@TheSabreReport) August 19, 2024
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I can’t remember a team moneyballing their way into becoming a perennial playoff contender as aggressively as the Sabres have tried to do so.
No, cheap owner who cares more about an internal-salary-cap than winning…
Low IQ argument from TSR.
You can argue the merits of GMKAs plan to built our own team from the draft from scratch. Im fine with that and agree its taking a bit too long. But when you are fielding the youngest team in the league for 3 straight seasons, it’s obvious that the cap isn’t going to be reached.
The sabres proved we are able to develop players that can win when they are 26+. Look at all the players we trade away. Let our current team get a couple years older and then if we aren’t spending to the cap I’ll agree there’s an issue.
20-21: Sabres had ~$5M in retained salary.
21-22: Sold the old core, rebuild part 3, would make no sense to be at the cap.
22-23: Still rebuilding, youngest team in the league.
23-24: This is where you can start to make an argument that more should’ve been done. (Ran it back and did not acquire a top 6 forward after Quinn went down)
24-25: Adams tried to acquire Necas or Ehlers and neither of them wanted to sign an extension which would eat up that cap space.
I’ll agree with the idea that Pegula is cheap if the Sabres aren’t at the cap starting next season as the next wave of ELCs are due.
Edit: To be clear in 20-21, Sabres retained about half on Hall and Staal when they were traded. So at the start of the year the Sabres did not have $8M in cap space.
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20-21 – Still rebuilding, but let’s gain experience
21-22 Still rebuilding, but let’s gain experience
22-23 Okay, let’s build off that and prepare to sign a bunch of youngins
23-24 We should be good now, I think?
24-25 We have to sign 4 youngins, but I hope we’re better than next year!
25-26 Time to spend
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Perspective.
Buffalo Bills were 55m over the cap. Explain it.
If TP is cheap, why is he only being « cheap » selectively.
A few of the years they were at the cap or within like 2-3m of the cap.
He is not cheap, you are just coping
Im not sure if effective and efficient should ever be used to describe the Sabres unfortunately.