Strike out in free agency so resolve to do absolutely nothing? That’s a great recipe to make sure you get fired.

There’s like a 50 percent chance this happens.

After all the bluster they’ve been mustering, to do absolutely nothing would be suicide for ticket sales. Matt Savoie would have to come to training camp and be the second coming of Connor McDavid for people to be excited enough about this season without a significant addition being made.

They do this Adams may not make the whole year

Every good player seems to have a NTC which the Sabres are likely on most teams list and no free agent wants to come here. They have limited options.

Strike out in FA is a good thing, not a bad thing. What big FAs has FLA signed? They signed.....wait for it....Rodrigues and Kulikov....oh, BUF should have....oh wait...

What ever the Sabres do it will be more than was done for Granato last season.
Really Eriks Johnson and Robinson to help the Sabres make the playoffs while Samualsson and Quinn are injured.

While last season was a disappointment, it was not a disaster.
Benson, will be bigger, older and better next season.
Hopefully, Quinn will play the entire season as well as he did the 27 games he was healthy (his production projects to 27 g and 57 pts over 82 games).
Take out the first two months of last season and Connoer Clifton played very well scoring 4 goals, 16 pts finishing with +20 over the final 60 games.
Bowen Byram will be a Sabre the entire season.
Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen appears ready to take the reins and be our net protectors.
Savoie or Kulich could make the jump, but the Sabres should sign a couple of free agents better than Erik Robinson and Tyson Jost.

Trade for low hanging fruit such Reilly Smith (13 g 40 pts), Kevin Hayes (13 g 29 pts), Cam Atkinson (13 g 28 pts) or Ilya Mikheyev (11 g 31 pts).
Pit, SL, Phi or Van may pay us to take them, while they would be measurable better than Robinson (2 g 9 pts) and Jost (3 g 6 pts).

Target Riga connectioned Teddy Blueger (6 g 28 pts) and Matt Dumba in free agency to give us a center who can win FO and another hard hitting RHD.

A big splash would be nice, but several small ripples may do just as well.