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Keeping O’Reilly Gives the Sabres Their Best Trio of Centers in Over a Decade

You have to go back to 2005 to find the last Sabres team that had at least three centers that were this good. The 2005-06 Sabres had four solid centermen in Chris Drury, Daniel Briere, Tim Connolly, and Derek Roy, and this gave them a lot of lineup flexibility in the process. I remember when Daniel Briere first arrived in Buffalo. He made an immediate impact and many thought he could potentially form a strong scoring tandem with then Sabres winger Miroslav Satan. However, it wasn’t Satan that Briere developed the chemistry with, it was instead Jochen Hecht and J.