Brandon Montour Out for Rest of Preseason with a Hand Injury

[Sabres Fan in NS]

2 minutes ago, LTS said:

The number of contracts coming off the books leaves open the possibility of tooling the roster to its true potential.  Tampa will be in a tough situation to keep all their players, Boston will be getting a bit too old, Toronto.. well. hah.

Contracts expiring at the end of this season for Buffalo:

UFA: Sobotka, Sheary, Vesey, Girgensons, Larsson, Wilson, Bogosian, Scandella, Hunwick

RFA: Reinhart, Rodrigues, Mittlestadt, Montour, Ullmark, Thompson, Olofsson, Lazar

Rostered: Eichel, Skinner, Okposo, Johansson, Ristolainen, Miller, McCabe, Dahlin, Hutton

Basically, they can let the UFAs walk or trade this year and get something.  They can qualify whomever they want for RFA and sign them. Only Reinhart will really be a question mark with regards to contract.

They will have money open to make things happen.

This is why some here, myself included, feel that the coming offseason will be the big one.