A year ago today, the Buffalo Sabres had a defense that appeared on paper to be one of the league’s worst.
As a result, many fans were wishing that defensive prospect Brendan Guhle would be given a spot on the Sabres roster, and complained when Guhle was sent back to the WHL after playing three games with the Sabres last December on an emergency basis.
Fast forward to this past weekend, when the Sabres announced that they were assigning Guhle and three other prospects to play for the Rochester Americans of the AHL. There might have been some surprise that the Sabres assigned Guhle to the AHL so quickly, but one would be hard-pressed to find any pundits that considered him to be a legitimate threat to crack the opening night roster.