If the Buffalo Sabres hope to make some noise in the Stanley Cup playoffs any time soon, the team will need to look different at the blueline than it currently does.
Everyone has spent long hours, hours that none of us will ever get back, obsessing over the rumors that linked Anaheim’s Cam Fowler to the Sabres, and while the Sabres really could need a left-handed shot worth a damn, the more you look at Fowler, the more you wonder whether he is actually worth the investment.
The same cannot be said of St. Louis Blues defenseman Kevin Shattenkirk, whose HERO chart (courtesy of The Hockey Writers) is so promising it might make you weep:
And maybe you’re saying to yourself, but that doesn’t include what he did in 2015-16, to which I say – come on.