Who Are The Three Most Important Sabres to Getting Back to the Playoffs?

[SabreFinn]

1. Goalie, and I assume UPL will be back on track to start the season. The question is how long will he keep it together, what does it take to break him again?

2. and 3. Kesselring and Byram. They will be paired with Power and Dahlin and get over 20min each every game. Kesselring is new to me, I just know he is big, shoots hard, but is unexperinced. Byram is a great puckmover that had a hard time on defense last season. He finds himself out of position way to often and I have wanted to see him traded for a player that has defensive positioning in the DNA for two summers.

If Kesselring and Byram can show us a defensive game at a level of a top4 D wingman. And UPL is back on track to play at his best. Then we might be playing meaningful games in April.