Buffalo Boy's Blog

Um ......NO

HELL NO!

Sabres fans, its the same old crap. Drew Stafford may well be the big signing of the offseason, why? I have no clue. Yeah he had 31 goals during the regular season then obviously forgot to show up for the playoffs because he didn't have nary a goal in the playoffs. So why they would throw the money they did at him is beyond me. Is the free agent crop that thin? Save the money and invest in a 10 year deal for Tyler Myers.

Add to that the possibility, to even think that Chris Drury A) may be bought out by the New York Rangers and B) the Sabres may consider bringing him back and C) Tim Connolly may be brought back under the right circumstances and it looks like the same lame offseason crap. Empty promises from management and ownership.

Drury and Connolly are both shot, they have had way too many miles put on their fragile bodies either via injury or in Drury's case just being a small player getting pounded on a nightly basis. Neither of these moves makes sense. Sure there will be fans who want to bring Drury back for nostalgic purposes but that will be the only reason because he isn't the same player he was four years ago. He has had a rough go of it in New York and last year only played 24 games due to injuries. If the Rangers are buying him out, there is something very, very rotten.

Connolly has been shot since his last concussion. He has never become what we hoped he would and offensively we will never see what he could have been. He plays scared of getting hit in the offensive zone and this past year coughed up more pucks than any forward in the league, he is a very good penalty killer I will give him that but thats about it.

Its time to move on with Connolly and we moved on without Drury four years ago. Id rather have Rob Neidermayer another year if you want that veteran guy on your third or fourth line.

If they do sign either Connolly or Drury I have to question the motives of this new ownership, I thought we were going to invest the money to bring in the best free agents and establish a cup contender. If thats the case then go out and go after Brad Richard's, don't go half ass and sign two guys who aren't going to lead you to the regular season much less the playoffs or a Stanley Cup.