With a fast-approaching trade deadline, one thing is clear: The Buffalo Sabres will sell, but they won’t clean house.
Who will the Buffalo Sabres wait to trade in the offseason? Expect them to work the phones and look to trade veteran players who have accrued value. Not everyone on this list will have all-out offensive statistics that will help any team they’re traded to in scoring. But they will serve a potentially new team in one way, shape, or form.
In return, look for the Sabres to strike deals for draft picks and even prospects to fill other spots in their organization from the AHL-downward. If the Sabres trade the right players for the right place, you can at least hold out hope they will become buyers both at next season’s trade deadline and next offseason.
But first, they have some roster reshaping to do. So which Sabres, if they remain with the team beyond the trade deadline, will wind up somewhere else before October 2022? Here are three names.