‘”That was the last playoff round for the Sabres? Wow, I knew the the last few years have been tough. I didn’t realize that was the last time,” Briere, now vice president of the ECHL’s Maine Mariners, said here Thursday night. “It’s hard to imagine almost. I look at their team and there’s a great base there to have a special team. I don’t want to speculate what needs to be done. That’s not my job. But you look at the top-end players that they have and there’s definitely a recipe to have a great team here.”‘