Buffalo's active 14-year playoff drought is littered with bad roster decisions, and this one will likely join the list.
Jacob Bernard-Docker arrived to the Buffalo Sabres as part of the blockbuster Dylan Cozens trade in March. Despite 15 mostly successful appearances for the franchise, general manager Kevyn Adams shockingly decided to non-tender the restricted free-agent defenseman ahead of July 1.
"Where his projected salary was going to come out and where we had him potentially slotted (on the roster) — in the eighth spot, call it — with the moves that we had made over the last few days before it, just felt like that didn't make sense," Adams told reporters after the start of NHL free agency.