The Buffalo Sabres announced that Patrick Kaleta has accepted his qualifying offer. The rule states that the qualifying offer has to include a 10% increase in his salary and therefore he is set to make $550,000 next season. I have updated the Sabres roster with Kaleta included in the salary numbers.
| LW | C | RW | ||||||
| 1 | Thomas Vanek | 6.4 | Derek Roy | 3.5 | Jason Pominville | 4.5 | ||
| 2 | Clarke MacArthur | RFA | Tim Connolly | 4.5 | Drew Stafford | RFA | ||
| 3 | Daniel Paille | 1.35 | Paul Gaustad | 2.5 | Patrick Kaleta | 0.55 | ||
| 4 | Jochen Hecht | 3.8 | Adam Mair | 0.775 | ||||
| Res | Matt Ellis | 0.5 | ||||||
| D | D | |||||||
| 1 | Craig Rivet | 3.5 | Chris Butler | 0.585 | ||||
| 2 | Steve Montador | 1.55 | Andrej Sekera | RFA | ||||
| 3 | Toni Lydman | 3.15 | Henrik Tallinder | 3.25 | ||||
| Res | Nathan Paetsch | 1.05 | Joe Dipenta | 0.55 | ||||
| G | ||||||||
| 1 | Ryan Miller | 6.25 | ||||||
| 2 | Patrick Lalime | 1 | ||||||
| Under Contract | 18 | |||||||
| Estimated Hit | 49.687 | Estimated Salary | 49.26 | |||||
| Estimated Cap | 56.8 | Projected Budget | 50 | |||||
| Cap Space | 7.113 | Money Left | 0.74 | |||||
| * denotes NTC | ||||||||
| Other Notables | ||||||||
| D | Tyler Myers | 0.85 | ||||||
| D | Mike Weber | 0.563 | ||||||
| F | Nathan Gerbe | 0.85 | ||||||
| F | Tim Kennedy | 0.635 | ||||||
| F | Phillip Gogulla | 0.685 | ||||||