‘One of the things about these trades, all of which are nuanced in their own way and carry varying levels of magnitude, is that they rarely paint the Sabres organization in a great light. With the various overhauls in the Sabres’ front office, there have been wide-ranging perspectives about how to turn the ship around. One thing that’s been shared across most of these front offices is they buy into relatively inflated assets, see productivity wane and then either lose the players in free agency or trade them at a deflated value.’