What should the Sabres do with their spare $19 million?
Assuming the majority of RFAs sign for about their qualifying offers, and that we buy nobody out, we will have about $19 million to spend this summer, including on Sam Reinhart and Robin Lehner/his replacement.
That’s enough to acquire at least two significant pieces, especially since Bogo, Scandella, Pominville Beaulieu and Moulson’s more than $20 million are off the books before we need to buck up for Casey and Rasmus Junior.
What should we do with the cash?
CURRENT ROSTER
$5.0 Moulson $10 Eichel $6.0 Okposo
$1.6 Girgensons $7.5 O’Reilly $5.4 Pominville
$0.7* Wilson $1.5 Larsson $0.9* Reinhart
$0.7 Rodrigues $0.9 Mittelstadt $0.8* Baptiste
$0.9* Smith $0.9* O’Regan $0.9* Fasching
$0.9 Nylander $0.9 Malone $0.8* Bailey
$0.8 Olofsson $0.9 Oglevie $0.8 Pu
$0.7 Karabacek $0.6 Criscuolo $0.7 Cornel
$0.7 Porter (Asplund) $0.7 Griffith
$4.0 Scandella $5.4 Ristolainen
$2.4 Beaulieu $5.1 Bogosian
$1.6 McCabe $0.8 Nelson
$0.9 Pilut $0.9* Antipin
$0.8 Guhle $0.8 Borgen
$0.7 Stephens $0.7 Tennyson
$0.7 Martin $0.7 Fedun
(Budik) (Dahlin)
$4.0* Lehner $0.8 Ullmark $0.8 Johansen $0.6* Kasdorf
*RFA qualifying offer