Would Buffalo be an obvious playoff team if they didn't make terrible moves

[Beerz]

Sure.

What do you mean "Sure" lol .. That is exactly the problem people have with "tanking" ... that it is intentional.

 

[Turin]

The rot is deeper than just the players on paper and it starts all the way at the top. So even without the terrible moves there's no guarantee they aren't inexplicably still terrible.

 

[Panthaz89]

The lineup in the OP would not be waiting for a kid to develop while they have a glaring need for role players and checking Fs. Also, Benson will be 21 this coming season and has yet to eclipse 30 points.

Benson already plays the grind and grit game better than everyone on the Sabres.......you clearly have no idea what his game is. He won't be 21 this upcoming season as he hit 20 literally this month unless we plan on being in the Cup finals. He was already THE guy in the Sabres bottom 6 for 80% of the games he's played....he only recently got some real playing time in the top 6 which is understandable for a guy who was 19.

The guy already plays a veteran defensive game.

 

[Stive Morgan]

There's a reason they have 0 playoff wins since 2011 and it's not because of any player.

 

[MNRube]

Benson already plays the grind and grit game better than everyone on the Sabres.......you clearly have no idea what his game is. He won't be 21 this upcoming season as he hit 20 literally this month unless we plan on being in the Cup finals. He was already THE guy in the Sabres bottom 6 for 80% of the games he's played....he only recently got some real playing time in the top 6 which is understandable for a guy who was 19.

The guy already plays a veteran defensive game.

He may be a decent 3rd liner now, but he would be more valuable as a trade chip in the scenario outlined in this thread. The OP shows a team ready to contend, but also one with no defensive role players.

 

[acor]

A team would be good if it didn't make terrible moves?
Yeah, kinda- thats how it works.

 

[Beerz]

He may be a decent 3rd liner now, but he would be more valuable as a trade chip in the scenario outlined in this thread. The OP shows a team ready to contend, but also one with no defensive role players.

The OP shows an unrealistic and impossible line up.

 

[biturbo19]

If nothing else, that team would have a boatload of drama with keeping the malcontents around. When guys want out, keeping them around is rarely an avenue to "improving" your team. Morale would still be in the toilet, locker room would probably be even more fractured, and ultimately...building the "right mix" for a roster is pretty make or break in a parity league. Lack of talent is somewhere well down the list of problems with the Sabres. Even just saying "erase the trades that they lost but keep the ones that they won" still doesn't really rectify the issues there. Those goof ups obviously don't help, but there's a lot more going on there than just the "on paper" roster and how that looks.

 

[ExtraLoveSauce]

If nothing else, that team would have a boatload of drama with keeping the malcontents around. When guys want out, keeping them around is rarely an avenue to "improving" your team. Morale would still be in the toilet, locker room would probably be even more fractured, and ultimately...building the "right mix" for a roster is pretty make or break in a parity league. Lack of talent is somewhere well down the list of problems with the Sabres. Even just saying "erase the trades that they lost but keep the ones that they won" still doesn't really rectify the issues there. Those goof ups obviously don't help, but there's a lot more going on there than just the "on paper" roster and how that looks.

They became malcontent because they were competitive players who wanted to be on a winning team and got traded to teams whose management did what winning teams did if we kept reinhart,eichel and ror and still got dahlin and traded mitts with the 2019 first for top players they would have been happy skinner was a start but we needed more moves like that