While your analysis is nothing short of intoxicating, I must elaborate and present a counter argument that suggest that a PPQB and in fact talent do not necessarily make a good power play.

I give you my former favorite team the Powerless Penguins. When Ryan Malone took his hulking frame to TB the Pens PP entered a downward spiral and the TB PP ascended. Having a player on the team with a big body, good hands, and above all a willingness to stand in there every power play is perhaps THE most important thing to have.

The Penguins rolled Malkin, Crosby, and one of the games best PPQBs Gonchar out there all the time but were 20th or lower on the PP for the past two seasons. Then you looks at the tactical wizardry of the humble Habs and their epic PP. They don't have a net guy or a great deal of talent but they constantly score on the PP.

Puck movement, having a guy who can waste little time setting it up, coaching, a net guy, a QB, play makers, puck retrievers, and snipers all play a role. Kaberle is no cure-all but it might help to have him. I dunno.

An underlying theme to your last sentence is something that also disgusted me all season; the Sabres' puck control (or lack of ability to do so). I'm not talking about them playing keep-away, I'm talking about them trapping the puck along the boards when a defender tries to clear it, settling down errant or hard passes, or picking the puck out of mid-air on a clearing attempt. We fail miserably at closing the gap between the player and the boards, allowing the puck to leave the zone entirely too often.

http://www.spectorshockey.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1278:sunday-nhl-rumor-roundup-june-6-2010&catid=5:trade-rumors&Itemid=4

Jim Matheson says it could be a Pominville for Kaberle swap deal.

I am not big on Kaberle but i think they should keep that option open in case other things fall. I don't want to go into the season next year with Chris Butler and Mike Weber being top-6 on defense. They need competition....

That leaves us with Stafford and Grier as our top RW's.... I know Kennedy played RW on the Vanek line for a while, but still, that is horrible winger depth on the right side. The only way I trade Pommers in this situation is if we make a move to get a Top 6 right winger also, because right now we only have 1, and thats Pominville.

Lingering Leaf

Let's face it, the Toronto Maple Leafs don't need Tomas Kaberle. They have Dion Phaneuf now. But they have a tough chore convincing teams to take the defenceman unless the team wanting Kaberle can get him signed to a three-or four-year contract for, say, Sergei Gonchar-type money ($5 million a year). If so, you give up a top six forward for sure, but Leafs' fans are dreaming if they think they can get Bobby Ryan for Kaberle. Not a chance, even if Brian Burke drafted him for the Ducks when he was their GM. Would the Sabres take Kaberle and give up Derek Roy or Jason Pominville? Probably. Would the Sharks take him for Devin Setoguchi? You bet. Would the Blue Jackets for Jake Voracek. For sure. How about Dallas for Loui Eriksson or Jamie Benn? Try the Bruins for centre David Krejci?

Holy fucking fuck...Boyes couldn't suck a dick if it landed in his mouth.

Foster would be OK but he is still frigged from the broken leg he had from the icing in 2008. I'd much rather see Hamhuis get signed here

Zbynek Michalek? I love that guy...he's a mobile wall. I'd love to see him join the Sabres.

Kaberle isn't worth Roy OR Pominville; we'd be getting MARGINALLY better, AT BEST.

Kaberle isn't worth Roy OR Pominville; we'd be getting MARGINALLY better, AT BEST.

You just steered the bandwagon into a ditch, Debbie Downer.