Trettioåtta

Which of the top prospects will fall? There is always one

With 15.8 seconds to go. Hopefully it causes some traction in the sport. I might try and go to Slovakia next year for it. Does anyone know when tickets go on sale? How much better do we need to get our D now? Dahlin, Risto, Scandella are a nice top three, but we can't expect Dahlin to carry the load right out the door.

Rasmus Sandin

Man this is amazing! I actually can't believe it. We should get an elite player to fill our weakest area. Insane. Worth the bad nights sleep

Well if we don't get first overall, we will have had about an 83% chance of winning a first overall at some point during the tank

"We have to have a stronger leadership group"

We need more addition but subtraction!

We always get the worse brother... Please don't make this another Nylander pick

It also doesn't really work, as they are affiliated with NHL teams, so suddenly the Rochester Americans roster has Eichel and Reinhart on it and plays in the NHL

So basically, if we miss out this year we have failed on the odds of 75% (pretty much)

Anyone want to calculate our total chance at a first overall these last 6 years? It was like 50% in 14 and 25% in 15 I think? Calculated: we have had in total a 62.7% of first overall since the tank started

Yeah, sadly GMTM was famed for his talent spotting ability, which seemed to fall off a cliff when he joined us. Worth noting Reinhart was our pick regardless of if we picked 1 or 2. Also I think Nylander will be the biggest bust of those, I doubt he ever properly cracks an NHL lineup. He was only drafted that high because of his family.

The important thing that everyone is forgetting is that we traded for Eichel's friend. Maybe this really is Eichel's team, and not in the way Pittsburgh is Crosby's, Edmonton is McDavid's or Washington is Ovechkin's

Not necessarily true, you can do things like take on cap or combine him with a highly touted but almost certain bust of a prospect to get more etc.

Sabres are drafting 6th this year. Calling it now.

I think it might be too late...

Yes the two people able to do this job are the floundering incumbent and myself

Like a 20 point drop in performance, not just no improvement

Yeah I agree, forgot about it

Yeah I liked that deal actually. He is 1 - 1 now. I still feel that he is watching this show and doing nothing about it

Has JB done anything good as the GM? Time to question if he was ever up to the challenge

Yeah a second in 2 years is basically useless. I hope JB gets torn alive in the post-deadline interview

Oh man this sucks

What are the conditions?

1st, prospect + 4th