Derrico

I dvr and watch every single game. I do fast forward commercials, intermissions and even between whistles most times. You can watch the full game and get through it in just over an hour.

Nothing like staring your orgainizations 4th string goaltender in a must lose game. Tank on......

Just read through the last few posts and wow was that ever tame. This tank has really beaten us down.....

Dude I'm sure he's going to try and make the team better if he defers the selection to next season. However, if he realistically realizes that it is unlikely he can make the team substantially better and there is a high probability he finishes in the bottom 10 next season he would be doing his franchise a huge disservice by not giving the Sabres the selection in what is considered by all experts to be a weaker draft. Of course he will try to improve them but we've stated before a) Snow is an idiot b) the owner doesn't want to spend money and c) nobody wants to play on the Island.

If the Isles think their big improvement comes from icing a pile of rookies next season than tank on my friends. We all saw how that worked out for the Sabres early in the season..... Bingo. As I said, let them defer. It's one thing Snow thinking he can make his team better and another him actually accomplishing this.

Anything short of first overall and I really hope we do get their 2015 pick. The thought of Snow and the Isles signing a bunch of UFA's based on Snow's proven track record of being inept, the owners proven track record of being cheap and nobody wanting to play there is comical. If you mean bring in as many UFA's as possible you mean maybe 1 middling player then sure. As others have said, this is an average UFA offseason and there is no draw to go to the Isles (especially if the cap goes up substantially and give better teams have more opportunity to be active this summer).

No way. I hope you're right I just don't think they will be MacKinnon good (I know your point projections say otherwise) but I don't see it.

The Rangers were horrendous this year.

Although this is great in theory as it would create some real excitment for the non playoff teams, I think there are several negative unintentional consequences of this idea. Firstly, what would happen with a team like the Islanders? Say there was no condition and Buffalo has their first this year or they defer and we have it for sure next season and the Isles miss the playoffs? There is a real incentive to not even enter the tourney or just throw the games. So if that's the case, teams won't even trade first round picks and those are usually included in the majority of big trades. Secondly, I think trade deadline day would become a very dull day. If the Sabres still want to win that post season lottery tourney they would be more inclined to hold onto buys like Miller and Ott to try and win the tournament which would prove for a very boring deadline (which is proven time and again that the media and fans love that day). To me, alot of excitment comes from trades and you would kill somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90% of all deals in my opinion if we went to this system. I am strongly in favour of saying no to option C.

Oh this road trip is going to get interesting. I'm very pro tank but with us missing arguably our best forward in Girgs, our best dman in Myers and now going with 2 AHL goalies this could get real ugly. I know it's ugly now but damn if we blow the tank at this point then we really are cursed.

Ya I would be more inclined to go with 3 as well. Alot can change over 5 years but I think 3 years would be fair.

Ya I agree that I hope this does not change. However, the way I read it it's not McDavid or 6th overall. We would have a % chance at McDavid and then a higher % chance at the #2 pick and if we didn't win that we would have an even higher % chance at #3 and so on. Therefore we could pick no lower than 6th (assuming we finish last) but have a shot at 1-5. I think the biggest way to stop teams from tanking yet give an advantage to the worst teams is their idea on having the avg. number of points over a 5 or even 3 year horizon count.

It goes both ways though. We all think the Isles will suck next year but if they add a few guys in the offseason then they may end up somewhere in the 5 to 15 worst record. In that case, the odds of them winning a top 3 or 5 lottery draw would actually improve when compared to this years odds (if I read it correctly). Also, I'm assuming the Isles have not had a great record over the previous 5 years if they are using that metric.

Feel free to cancel your seasons anytime. The blue and gold club wait list is already way to ###### long.

Great points, completely agree.

That is rediculous, hope the gens don't meet the wolves next round.

All that partying....

Hahahha, ya this is true. I'm not expecting much from them come playoff time but I haven't had a team I cheer for make the playoffs in all four sports since the Sabres nearly five years ago so it will be a nice change..... I like this point. Close enough lol.

All of the sports teams I cheer for in each of the leagues mentioned are on that list (Sabres, Bills, Raptors, Blue Jays). :cry: :doh: Why God?? Why?!?!

As others have mentioned, the large % of road games (where we've played much worse on the road) should help. Even with an 8 point lead, I sure don't think we're a lock for last, especially considering we still play most of the bottom feeders.

Hhahaha fair enough. Those games coming up against Edmonton and Calgary are going to be huge.

Man last night was great for the tank. With Buffalo up 1-0 early and Edmonton down 2-0 early I thought here we go, we will only be up by 4 points with us having to play an extra game. But the Tank prevailed and we got a huge comeback shootout win by Edmonton last night!! Just out of curiousity, if you have Buffalo beating those 3 bottom feeders (Isels twice) who do you have as Buffalo's other two 'upsets'? I see Carolina as a very beatable team, New Jersey as a reasonable chance for a win and Vancouver is in a tailspin and can certainly be beaten. On top of that we have 2 more against the Red Wings who are banged up and not a very great team this year.

Wow.

I guess that is true but it just goes to show it certainly can happen and the way we've ruined draft spots in the past is probably contributing me to thinking it has a better chance of happening than it really does. I never thought we would have had a chance against Boston and San Jose a couple of weeks ago but won those. Really I didn't think we had much of a shot against Tampa either but pulled that one off. Then I think ok, we've been on a bit of a run but we will probably get beat by Chicago by 5 goals. We did lose obviously, however there was a Sabres shot to the net late in the game that had a decent shot of tying it.

Which means we could end up drafting 4th. The tank is very much still on!