The 2017-18 NHL regular season continues to look like it will be one worth watching for fans of the Buffalo Sabres.
For starters, the Sabres already have two reasons for every fan to believe that the playoffs will make a return to the 716: their names are Jack Eichel and Sam Reinhart, and they just happen to be two of the more successful sophomores in the NHL this season. Despite a disappointing 2016-17 campaign that saw the Sabres’ hopes of making the playoffs derailed in large part due to injuries to key players, Eichel and Reinhart defied the sophomore slump and have made significant strides in their development.