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Buffalo Sabres A to Z: Amend

Victor Olofsson has the opportunity to make up for an oddly disappointing season and earn his next good deal.

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Joe Yerdon
Sep 13, 2023
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To get ready for the upcoming Buffalo Sabres season, I’ll be previewing most of those involved in the eventual successes and failures by going through the alphabet using a different word each time - a revolutionary theme if there ever was one.

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It feels weird to say that a guy who scored 28 goals has a lot to make up for, but this is the position Victor Olofsson is in as we head into the 2023-2024 season.

Olofsson had a career-high in goals last season, perhaps an overdue correction from shortened seasons of the past, notably 2019-2020 when he scored at the same pace then (0.37 goals per game) as he did in 2022-2023. It was Olofsson’s third 20-goal campaign in four full NHL seasons, although it was his third-lowest point total (40).

For a guy whose specialty is lighting it up on the power play and making opposing teams pay dearly for committing illegal offenses with his shot that’s easily one of the 10-best in the league, never before did a nearly 30-goal season feel so disappointing.

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