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Somebody made a great suggestion a while back about doing a series of individual player discussion threads to keep the hockey talk moving through the offseason. I figured if I want to read them, I may as well create them too. I'm will start a new thread about another Sabres player every couple of days running through the next few months. We can have at it about what we like about this player, what we don't, and how we see him fitting in to this team in the future. It might be a great opportunity to see what the forum consensus is about our roster. I'll start with our free agents, move on to the veterans under contract and finish up with prospects and new acquisitions as we get closer to next season. To kick things off: #35 Anders Lindback G (26-year-old UFA) Dallas 2/8/0 3.37 .875 Buffalo 4/8/2 2.76 .924 Lindback arrived in the NHL as part of an emerging trend for goalies: the big Scandinavian picked outside the early rounds. He spent his first two years shining as Pekka Rinne's backup in Nashville, making scouts around the league wonder if he could duplicate Rinne's success. Tampa believed, shipping two seconds and a third to the Preds for his services with the idea of making him their number one keeper. Instead, they got two years of disappointing performances. He lost his job to Ben Bishop and the Bolts did not offer him a contract last summer. He found work as a backup in Dallas, but his play there was so spotty that when Buffalo acquired him in a deal for Jhonas Enroth, many dismissed him as a contract dump at best. Others, pointing to his league-worst stats, said his real role was to ensure the success of the Sabres' tank. But Ted Nolan rode him hard and he responded very well, posting far superior numbers to his two predecessors in the Buffalo crease and adding an element of puckhandling, as he kept the Sabres in a number of games. The question is which version is the real Lindback. Did his post-deadline play has earned him another NHL shot? And will that shot be in Buffalo?