Sabres New Team

There have been debates about the Sabres over the offseason. One is whether the Sabres should sign Daniel Briere or Chris Drury. Another is whether the Sabres should lose some speed to add size or continue to use speed to try to continue winning. Some mid to lower priced unrestricted free agents that I see on the market at forward are Bates Battaglia, Brad May, Dean McAmmond, Brian Smolinski, Trevor Linden, and Jeff Cowan. Assuming that the Sabres sign either Briere or Drury, I do not see the Sabres going after a high level forward. On defense, if the Sabres can trade a player like Ales Kotalik or Jaroslav Spacek, they could go after a big time defensemen, but I don't really know if that type of defensemen is out there, as I am leary about Sheldon Souray's wrist. I would like to see the Sabres get a good defensive defensemen to go alongside Dimitri Kalinin once Teppo most likely retires. One of there types of players include Cory Sarich, Brad Stuart, Sean O'Donnell, Scott Hannan, or Brent Sopel. The only things I could see getting for Kotalik or Spacek would be draft picks. Who the Sabres sign in of Briere or Drury would determine who they sign unrestricted free agency. If the Sabres sign Daniel Briere I see the lines being maybe:
Hecht-Briere-Pominville
Vanek-Roy-Afinogenov
Kotalik-Connolly-Stafford
Paille-Gaustad-Mair
If the Sabres sign Chris Drury, I see the lines being:
Hecht-Connolly-Pominville
Vanek-Roy-Afinogenov
Paille-Drury-Stafford
Battaglia-Gaustad-Mair
(Ales Kotalik traded for maybe a 5th round draft pick.)
On defense, assuming Teppo retires, I see something like:
Tallinder-Lydman
Campbell-Spacek
Kalinin-Hannan
(Paestch as the seventh defensemen, Peters as reserve forward)

I have no problem keeping Ty Conklin as the backup to Ryan Miller.

Another thing would be possibly trading either Drury or Briere if one would not be signed so a team can sign him at a cheaper price, maybe bringing in picks or prospects (as Nashville and Philadelphia did).