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Fans of the Buffalo Sabres have been fed up with their team’s inability to make the Stanley Cup Playoffs since 2011, and it shows in a recent poll from The Athletic.

The Buffalo Sabres have the longest playoff drought in the NHL today, and are tied for the longest playoff drought of any team in the 4 major North American professional sports leagues along with the NFL’s New York Jets.

Both clubs have now gone 14 years without a single playoff experience, and understandably, patience is wearing thin with the frustrated Sabres fan base, as things aren’t projected to change any time soon.

The Six Categories Where Buffalo Scored Rock Bottom

In a poll of over 13,000 fans by The Athletic, the Sabres came in dead last in multiple categories, including roster building, cap management, drafting and development, trading, free agency and overall vision.

The only category that they didn’t finish dead last in was their drafting and developing, which barely improved from last place to 29th overall out of the 32 NHL clubs.

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Is There Any Path to Redemption for the Sabres’ Leadership?

There is no fan base in hockey more frustrated than Buffalo’s, and rightfully so given the franchise’s abhorrent streak of futility. Over a decade without making the playoffs is not something that’s easily forgivable, especially when it doesn’t feel like there’s an end in sight.

So far this summer, the Sabres traded JJ Peterka to the Utah Mammoth and also didn’t make any major signings. Nearly every projection by NHL analysts has them once again missing the playoffs, which would be for a 15th straight year.

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