9 Sabres Thoughts That Might Make You Yell at Me

Ruff didn't "ruin" Adam. Adam played his own way down the line-up and all the way back to Rochester. Because not only did he not play solid D, he stopped scoring points entirely, which pretty much would make him useless on any roster in the NHL (except maybe Columbus's?) Ennis is a pure offensive talent, and he's flourishing under Ruff. Drury and Briere played by far their most offensively productive years under Ruff. So yup.

The Sabres have under 6 mil in cap space to work with this off-season, and need to extend Tyler Ennis. Drew Stafford has a 4 million dollar cap hit. It'd be tougher than you think to get to that next level with him still around. His effort is just too damn inconsistent. But my biggest problem w/ your comment is saying that Darcy hasn't found anyone late in the draft. You don't even have to look hard.. Ryan Miller was a 5th round pick.

.. and just because i had too much time on my hands and wanted to look around a bit: Brian Campbell was the 156th pick in Darcy's 1st draft Paul Gaustad at #220 in 2000 Dennis Wideman at #241 in 2000 Patrick Kaleta at #176 in '04 Gerbe at #142 in '05 Foligno was a 4th rounder and that's not including solid contributors that were taken in the early rounds, but not in the first, such as pominville, derek roy, hank tallinder, afinogenov, sekera, macarthur, enroth, mcnabb Not all are all stars,but i think they qualify as something more than "virtually no(thing)" from the late rounds.

I said virtually no late round finds. I was counting Miller and Campbell, Gaustad, Kaleta, and Gerbe are just fan favorite they're not anything more than what you would expect from late round picks and you can question whether or not they'd be on the NHL roster for other teams. (I do think Gerbe is miss used and yes Gaustad played the end of the season for Nashville but they were kinda handcuffed they just gave up a ton for him and he didn't produce much. #2 "don't jump the gun on Foligno", he hasn't proven anything yet. Wideman is a solid 4th defender who Darcy didn't keep so it doesn't matter. This is just typical of Buffalo fans. Fall in love with your players because they're on your team. This is why other NHL cities hate us. None of those players are that great. pominville (solid, nothing special), derek roy (puts up points against lesser players but cracks under pressure), hank tallinder(solid defender), afinogenov(highlight reel goals but wasn't that great and never lived up to his true potential), sekera(hasn't lived up to potential), macarthur(was alright against lesser players then put up halfway decent numbers on toronto's tp line), enroth(backup goalie who hasn't proven anything), mcnabb (hasn't proven anything)