Age: 37
Contract: $4.25 million, under contract through 2016-17
Introduction: Brian Gionta, the hometown boy from Rochester, is no longer a boy at the ripe old age of 37. He's also no longer the offensive producer he once was - slipping from an astonishing 48 goals in 2006 to the mid 20's for many years, and now down to the low teens.
However, Gionta wasn't brought to the Sabres to pile up goals - he was signed, and given the captain's C in order to lead a ragtag group of youngsters and castoffs through a few troubled years.