The Sabres defense is deficient, but it's been so obvious for several years that the main problem with this club is goaltending. In part they have not addressed it properly and in part they just haven't gotten lucky with it either. Some random guys sign with other clubs and they flourish or a prospect comes out of nowhere to be good. That hasn't happened in Buffalo. Also, they had Ullmark in the building...who won games with a terrible team here. And they let him walk away. I'm sure he wanted to walk away too. All these guys want to play in the playoffs eventually.