Last season, the Boston Bruins dominated the NHL, including the Buffalo Sabres. This year, the Blue and Gold weakened them by signing Connor Clifton.
Few general managers in professional sports have built a team more methodically than Kevyn Adams in recent seasons. He took the down-and-out Buffalo Sabres and built a foundation across his first two seasons in office.
In Year 3, he made the team at least halfway decent, constructing a group that saw its highest points total in over a decade. But that team had a lot of flaws, lacking experience and physicality.