'Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier has never had the reputation of being a wheeler and dealer and at times has taken the hits from the public about it. (Where is Bob Corkum?) Yet the reality is that the club that is on the ice is totally of his making. To think that only Jay McKee remains from the team that won the conference championship in 1999 is all the evidence we need to see that, while his cautious style of making moves drives us mad sometimes, the on-ice performance is the proof of the pudding.'