It’s July 1…also known as Christmas Day for hockey fans. The Sabres usually stay on the sidelines during free agency and yet we always get excited. Today will be no different, I presume. We get our hopes up in belief the Sabres will make a splash and they try to sign a few key players but quickly drop out when the price goes up.
The most excitement could be watching where current Sabres free agents end up in the upcoming hours.
We will be updating the site all day but this is the perfect place to chat with other Sabres fans and share any rumors you here throughout the day. The free agency primer can be read here.
Toronto Globe Top 100 Free Agents
Pending UFA’s : Toni Lydman, Henrik Tallinder, Raffi Torres, Patrick Lalime, Adam Mair, Jeff Cowan, Cody McCormick, Joe Dipenta,Matt Ellis
Pending RFA’s : Philip Gogulla, Tim Kennedy, Mike Weber, Marc-Andre Gragnani, Mark Mancari, Patrick Kaleta, J.P. Lamoureux,Derek Whitmore
Sabres Depth Chart
| LW | C | RW | ||||||||
| 1 | Thomas Vanek | 6.4 | 7.142 | Derek Roy | 4 | 4 | Jason Pominville | 5.5 | ||
| 2 | Jochen Hecht | 3.5 | 3.525 | Tim Connolly | 4.5 | 4.5 | Drew Stafford | 2.3 | ||
| 3 | Tim Kennedy | RFA | 0 | Paul Gaustad | 2.5 | 2.3 | Mike Grier* | 1.4 | ||
| 4 | Nathan Gerbe | 0.85 | 0.85 | Tyler Ennis | 0.875 | 0.875 | Patrick Kaleta | RFA | ||
| Res | ||||||||||
| —– | —– | —– | ||||||||
| Luke Adam | 0.6875 | 0.875 | Paul Byron | 0.545 | 0.555 | Zack Kassian | WIN | |||
| Jacob Lagace | 0.545 | 0.558 | Felix Schutz | 0.556 | 0.55 | Corey Tropp | Mich St. | |||
| Marcus Foligno | SUD | OHL | Travis Turnbull | 0.51 | 0.51 | Justin Jokinen | Minn. St. | |||
| Phillip Gogulla | RFA | Marek Zagrapan | RFA | Gregg Sutch | MGA | |||||
| Cedrick Henley | VAL | Kevin Sundher | CHL | Christian Isackson | U.Min | |||||
| Riley Boychuk | PTL | Steven Shipley | OSA | |||||||
| D | D | |||||||||
| 1 | Craig Rivet | 3.5 | 3.5 | Chris Butler | 0.585 | 0.85 | ||||
| 2 | Steve Montador | 1.55 | 1.55 | Andrej Sekera | 1.25 | 0.975 | ||||
| 3 | Tyler Myers | 0.875 | 1.3 | |||||||
| Res | ||||||||||
| —– | —– | —– | ||||||||
| Mike Weber | RFA | Mark Pysyk | EDM | |||||||
| Marc-Andre Gragnani | RFA | Alex Biega | 0.515 | 0.528 | ||||||
| Nick Crawford | 0.555 | 0.572 | J. Gauthier-Leduc | RN | ||||||
| Brayden McNabb | KTY | WHL | Mark Adams | PRO | NCAA | |||||
| TJ Brennan | 0.638 | 0.875 | Corey Fienhage | KAM | WHL | |||||
| Drew Schiestel | 0.571 | 0.75 | Matt Mackenzie | CGY | ||||||
| Drew MacKenzie | UV | NCAA | ||||||||
| Slava Buravchikov | KHL | KHL | ||||||||
| Dennis Persson | 0.735 | 0.85 | ||||||||
| G | ||||||||||
| 1 | Ryan Miller* | 6.25 | 6.25 | |||||||
| 2 | ||||||||||
| —– | ||||||||||
| Jhonas Enroth | 0.685 | 0.867 | ||||||||
| J.P. Lamoureaux | RFA | |||||||||
| Connor Knapp | Mia – OH | NCAA | ||||||||
| Brad Eidsness | UND | NCAA | ||||||||
| Nick Eno | BGU | NCAA | ||||||||
| Under Contract | 16 | |||||||||
| Estimated Hit | 37.617 | Estimated Salary | 45.835 | |||||||
| Estimated Cap | 59.4 | Projected Budget | 55 | |||||||
| Cap Space | 21.783 | Money Left | 9.165 | |||||||
| * denotes NTC | ||||||||||