Buffalo Sabres: 5 players that need to leave in free agency – 2022
By Sion Fawkes
Anders Bjork
Bjork is signed through 2022-23, but that doesn’t mean the Sabres won’t part ways with the part-time fourth-liner. He is due to earn a base salary of $1.8 million next season, but the Sabres need to ask themselves whether it is worth paying someone who often ended up as a healthy scratch so much money.
In 58 games this year, Bjork averaged just 12:02 of average ice time, his lowest since 2018-19. Bjork’s eight points were also his lowest totals since then, when he logged just three. However, he played in just 20 games that season, and he averaged 0.15 points compared to the 0.137 points per game in 2021-22.
Bjork, who also displays more physicality than your average forward, recorded just 11 hits, by far his lowest career total when called upon to play 30 games or more. Overall, it was underperformance after underperformance across the board for Bjork. And it makes sense for the Sabres to just let him go somewhere else.