Quoting: pickleboi
One can only do so much with this god awful team. I think it's an improvement tho. All the defensemen have good defensive analytics except for mahura I think, and the goaltending is the best tandem they've had in years, and the offense actually has a bottom-six.
First, it is not a GawdAwful team, just really bad chemistry and bad luck.
Second, pay no attention to "LITTLE" he rarely has anything of value to offer.
Third, I think you are giving up on Tage too soon. He had a great playoff in 2019, looked really good in the prospect challenge and while he played in Rochester.
Fourth, I think the Sabres will try to resign Girgensons and maybe Larsson. I am pretty sure they will at least try to sign Zee.
Fifth, I do not think we will see Johansson at center again. I would try Sam at center (I love RHC) and move Jeff to RW to play with Jack.
Your salary guesses are as good as any these are mine:
Montour, Brandon 3 $5,150,000
Reinhart, Sam 8 $7,000,000
Olofsson, Victor 2 $4,000,000
Mittelstadt, Casey 1 $1,000,000
Kahun, Dominik 2 $2,000,000
Lazar, Curtis 2 $700,000
Ullmark, Linus 3 $4,500,000
Gilmour, John 2 $800,000
We will see what the future brings. Kruger as the coach looked really good early, but I never really liked his line-up. Playing Sobotka while sitting Rodrigues and not playing Jeff with Jack made no sense to me at all.
While I loved the value Jason got getting Miller, Jokiharju and Montour he really butchered the Scandella trade.
Finally, overall nice effort.