The season is over, and we’re going to rate every player who played more than 20 games this season on their performance the same way we were all graded back in the day - on a report card scale of A to F. We’re taking a look at everyone from Bailey to Rodrigues in our 2016-17 Buffalo Sabres Report Cards.
Age: 26
Contract: Cap hit of $775,000, under contract through 2017-18 season.
Introduction: When Nicolas Deslauriers was brought to Buffalo in 2014 (in one of Tim Murray’s first trades as GM) the former defenseman-turned-forward was seen by most as a throw-in to the trade, but with some potential to grow into his new position.