Damn the Sabres were stacked

[John Eichel da GOAT]

Aren't I supposed to be the Sabre hater that starts troll threads? Here is the stacked roster. No idea why it didn't become a dynasty.

61	Maxim Afinogenov	su	RW	27	6-0	190	L/-	6	September 4, 1979
43	Martin Biron	ca	G	29	6-2	186	-/L	8	August 15, 1977
48	Daniel Briere (C)	ca	C	29	5-9	174	R/-	8	October 6, 1977
51	Brian Campbell	ca	D	27	5-10	192	L/-	6	May 23, 1979
33	Mike Card	ca	D	20	6-1	201	R/-	R	February 18, 1986
35	Ty Conklin	us	G	30	6-1	185	-/L	3	March 30, 1976
19	Tim Connolly	us	C	25	6-1	190	R/-	5	May 7, 1981
23	Chris Drury (C)	us	C	30	5-10	191	R/-	7	August 20, 1976
3	Michael Funk	ca	D	20	6-4	199	L/-	R	August 15, 1986
28	Paul Gaustad	us	C	24	6-5	227	L/-	2	February 3, 1982
55	Jochen Hecht	de	C	29	6-1	198	L/-	7	June 21, 1977
36	Patrick Kaleta	us	RW	20	6-1	198	R/-	R	June 8, 1986
45	Dmitri Kalinin	su	D	26	6-3	210	L/-	6	July 22, 1980
12	Ales Kotalik	cs	RW	28	6-1	225	R/-	4	December 23, 1978
5	Toni Lydman	fi	D	29	6-1	208	L/-	5	September 25, 1977
41	Clarke MacArthur	ca	LW	21	6-0	192	L/-	R	April 6, 1985
22	Adam Mair	ca	C	27	6-1	208	R/-	6	February 15, 1979
25	Mark Mancari	ca	RW	21	6-3	225	R/-	R	July 11, 1985
30	Ryan Miller	us	G	26	6-2	168	-/L	3	July 17, 1980
13	Jiri Novotny	cs	C	23	6-4	209	R/-	1	August 12, 1983
27	Teppo Numminen	fi	D	38	6-2	198	R/-	17	July 3, 1968
38	Nathan Paetsch	ca	D	23	6-0	195	L/-	1	March 30, 1983
20	Daniel Paille	ca	LW	22	6-1	200	L/-	1	April 15, 1984
76	Andrew Peters	ca	LW	26	6-4	240	L/-	2	May 5, 1980
29	Jason Pominville	ca	RW	24	5-11	180	R/-	2	November 30, 1982
9	Derek Roy	ca	C	23	5-9	184	L/-	2	May 4, 1983
37	Michael Ryan	us	C	26	6-1	188	L/-	R	May 16, 1980
44	Andrej Sekera	cs	D	20	6-0	200	L/-	R	June 8, 1986
6	Jaroslav Spacek	cs	D	32	6-0	210	L/-	7	February 11, 1974
21	Drew Stafford	us	RW	21	6-2	215	R/-	R	October 30, 1985
10	Henrik Tallinder	se	D	28	6-4	215	L/-	4	January 10, 1979
26	Thomas Vanek	at	LW	23	6-2	214	R/-	1	January 19, 1984
15	Dainius Zubrus	su	RW	28	6-5	225	L/-	9	June 16, 1978

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[The Zetterberg Era]

Dude, they weren’t stacked, they were scary good.

Seriously that was one of my favorite post-lockout teams. I wish they had advanced stats for those early years lol.

They had some of those advanced stats, because I know the Wings had a pretty absurd control over proceedings out of that lockout in terms of the Datsyuk and Zetterberg prime with Lidstrom still operating at his peak. The fancy numbers were pretty good on those teams.

Which I think was really the problem, until the Pens got better, I am not sure I see a different outcome for whatever team was making it out of the East, the Ducks and Wings were awfully good during that time period.

I would also probably lob the Sharks out as really the best team of the last 20 or so years to never payoff a title. That Nucks team that came up just short in 11 was fantastic too, both of them had more than the Sabres in my opinion.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

No matter how good a team is, I’m never going to recognize Drew Stafford of all people from a low quality picture like that.
Also, “most historic offense”....??? What??

Drew Stafford is the embodiment of the generic white male. JC Penny’s ads, college brochures, stock images of businessmen, prescription medicine ads featuring a couple happily hiking, Home Depot related things, my man can do it all.