So, I've started to notice a pattern around the league, and it's this: Teams that take our old, rotten core, have become just that, rotten. For clarity, the 'core' refers to what we all commonly remember as the post Drury-Brier Sabre core. For current rosters, off the top of my head, we have:
Minnesota: Pomminstein, Vanek
Winnipeg: Armia, Stafford, Myers, Lemieux
Nashville: Gaustad
Vancouver: Miller
St.Louis: Miller
Montreal: Vanek
NYI: Vanek
I know I'm missing some, but that's essentially it. All teams that are, after the addition of our guys, terrible. With, of course, the exception of Nashville. Not only that, but in each case outside of Nashville, those guys are core players as well; they are major parts of those franchises. It amazes me that nobody learned from what took the Sabres years to learn with these guys