You missed the point.
A few posters are starting a new theme/agenda about how we don’t have a #1 center or even a top 6 centers. Then lamenting that we had one but traded him away. Acting as if we were close to accomplishing anything when Jack was here. Thats not an attack on Jack. It’s a simple statement of fact. That you took it to be an attack on Jack is on you.
The irony of their whining is we almost made the playoffs with Tage as the 1C putting up 47g 94pts. Production from a Sabres 1C we haven’t seen for quite some time. To steal from your post… an injured riddled season wipes that season out apparently.
After the year we almost made the playoffs I thought our best players would regress and met a some opposition "they are young" etc. I also wouldn't call any of our centers a elite at that time so the agenda isn't really new in my case at least.
I don't think we have top end centers but my hope has always been that we'd go with three balanced scoring lines.
I had the same hope with Eichel-ROR-Reinhart back in the day and then Cozens-Thompson-Mitts. I even hoped we'd add to those three since Cozens might be a better fit as a winger.
To make the playoffs we need som kind of edge. We don't have the stars that other teams have or the budget. So we need to build smart and deep. Two checking lines doesn't really work when your scoring lines are mediocre. Our bottom 6 would be great for Toronto or another top heavy team.
It's just two games but it's also more than a decade of suck. I know what a bad Sabres team looks like.