You have to go back to 2005 to find the last Sabres team that had at least three centers that were this good. The 2005-06 Sabres had four solid centermen in Chris Drury, Daniel Briere, Tim Connolly, and Derek Roy, and this gave them a lot of lineup flexibility in the process. I remember when Daniel Briere first arrived in Buffalo. He made an immediate impact and many thought he could potentially form a strong scoring tandem with then Sabres winger Miroslav Satan. However, it wasn’t Satan that Briere developed the chemistry with, it was instead Jochen Hecht and J.
Keeping O’Reilly Gives the Sabres Their Best Trio of Centers in Over a Decade
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