In what continues to look more and more like an offseason that left something to be desired, Jason Botterill put most of his focus on upgrading the Buffalo Sabres’ blue line this past summer. Through 21 games, the results have been somewhat mixed, to put it lightly. The top-six showed flashes of becoming a strong group in transition to start the season, but over the last handful of games, they look more like the same group that struggled in 2018-19, despite several new faces.
Now that we’ve officially hit the quarter-mark of the 2019-20 campaign, we’ll take a look at which members of the Sabres’ defensive top-six have been consistent (both positively, and negatively) and which have been a mixed-bag of sorts in the early-going.