Some needed moves when healthy

Team: 2023-24 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Nov. 25, 2023

Published: Nov. 26, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

The idea behind the lines is to return to the transitional focused offense and abandoning the defensive outlook they've had for all but maybe 4 periods this year.

Goalies: Levi is a bottom 20 goalie right now and he needs to find consistency with his starts. Send him down to Rochester and let him get his legs under him again. UPL fully deserves to be the number 1 with his level of play over the past few weeks. Comrie had a tough one against NJD but he may just need to get a few games under his belt after an extended break. There's also no real options to improve on the market and goaltending has been league average

Defensive Pairings:
Dahlin and Sammy isn't working and Sammy isn't healthy most of the time. Joki has been playing his best hockey this season and performed well when paired with Dahlin this year. Let it be known that I've been a Joki denier the past few seasons and my opinion of him has done a total 180

Power and RJ is simple. They're young and playing well. Yes they leave a man open once in a while but we want to go back to scoring and these two are gonna help you score

Clifton-Sammy is an experiment to say the least. I think Clifton is struggling because EJ and that may be wrong but Clifton seems to be average when away from him in the few minutes he has.

Extra:
I may need EJ to be waived and trust a platoon of Bryson/Stillman/Clague instead. EJ has been brutal and his PK prowess is a myth imo. He's not the player he was and I was never for this signing since day 1


Forwards:
The idea is to put a player who has been good defensively on each line and abandon a "defensive" 4th line.

Line 1: Tage
Line 2: Greenway
Line 3: Quinn
Line 4: Krebs

If Krebs can't find a league average offensive game with Kulich and Rosen it may be time to have a conversation about him. I think his lack of production has been a result of KO and ZG being his linemates 99% of the time.

Jost and VO the extras. VO is a league average forward at this point and that's an improvement from KO and ZG. It's time for KO to retire and Girgs needs to find a new team. I think his ideal location is somewhere like NYI. Difficult decisions but they need to be made