Buffalo Sabres on the Brink: Will This Season Finally Break Their Playoff Curse?
Finally, the same thing goes for Sabres players. It doesn’t matter who we’re talking about – nobody should feel safe in Buffalo’s dressing room if the Sabres miss the playoffs again. Either management will want to shop them around, they’ll ask to be traded, or both. Thus, Buffalo’s lineup will look significantly different in the 2026-27 campaign if the Sabres prove they’re not worthy of the investment in the ‘25-26 campaign.
Early Injuries To Key Sabres Players Can’t Be An Excuse For Buffalo To Fail This Season
We said it earlier this summer, on more than one occasion – if the Buffalo Sabres intend on ending their Stanley Cup playoff drought at 14 years, they can’t afford to let the injury bug take a major bite out of their roster. Obviously, that’s something that only the Hockey Gods can control, but the Sabres simply don’t have the organizational depth to withstand the damage if someone meaningful is sidelined for a notable stretch of time.
The biggest problem for the Sabres may be that they’ve exhausted their fan base with year after year of sub-par play. Indeed, since 2012-13, Buffalo hasn’t finished higher than fourth place in its division. And they’ve finished as high as fifth place only three times in that span. The rest is year-after-year of 6th, 7th and 8th-place finishes. That basically takes a blow torch to your fan base. Nobody wants to be associated with a perennial non-factor of a team. You start to shrink your customer total rather than increase it.
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