Buffalo Sabres GM Tim Murray went into the off season with a boatload of free agents both restricted and unrestricted. After re-signing Johan Larsson on April 29th, Buffalo was looking at 22 total free agents to make decisions on.

They began the sorting-out process in earnest yesterday with the announcement that seven RFA's have received qualifying offers:

D, Rasmus Ristolainen
D, Jake McCabe
D, Casey Nelson
F, Zemgus Girgensons
F, Marcus Foligno
F, Daniel Catenacci
G, Jason Kasdorf


Buffalo now has 15 unrestricted free agents headed towards July 1st.

From the roster:

C, David Legwand
D, Carlo Colaiacovo
G, Chad Johnson

In the system:

D, Bobby Sanguinetti
D, Matt Donovan
D, Chad Ruhwedel
D, Michael Sdao
C, Eric O'Dell
C, Tim Schaller
C, Colin Jacobs (not qualified)
F, Cole Schneider
RW, Jerry D'Amigo
LW, Alexander Guptill (not qualified)
LW, Jack Nevins (not qualified)
G, Nathan Lieuwen (not qualified)


Thanks to CapFriendly, General Fanager and Cap Central for some of the information used in this piece

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