I cannot provide you an name of a forward that the Sabres can get, but Vanek, Connolly, Roy, Pominville etc to me are very skilled...but to me I would like to see 1 player on offense that is a leader and can put it all together...someone who has been through the wars of the playoffs...someone all the players can look to for leadership...you now, someone like Drury (oh and in their biggest game last night, he DID score 2 goals, but I'm sure some here will still kill Drury just to make themselves feel better, but I digress)
This team needs size and toughness...and I hate to say it, the fact that Darcy craves skill players who are under 5'9....to me he is one of the biggest issues. Regier made some great moves over his tenure (Gratton for Briere most notably) but I truly believed this at the time and believe it now: Regier was 'LUCKY' that the rules changed which fit his style of building a team and we flourished for over a year and a half, and at the end ofg the President's Trophy season, you started to see the Sabres struggle more and you knew the clock was going to strike 12 on Regier.
Now that 'luck' has fizzled out, and we are left with a team treading water and hoping for the future...yet again.
Remove Regier, extend Lindy, and change the philosophy.
You can say this is about money, but this is a league with a cap. It is not like the Sabres can spend $20 million more, they need to spend it wiser.