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He’s a defenseman

Not thrilled with who who they decided to go after, but happy that they picked up 2 legitamite NHL defenseman.

26 year old AHL goalie last playing for the Preds AHL team.

Sabres now have 3 former first overall Defenseman on the roster.

Either they are confident that Jokiharju will be fine at 4D or there is another add, IMO

I think he pushes Stillman to 7D right now.

I don’t dislike it, but I hope there is another add.

Schenn to the Preds on a 3 year deal, wow The Predators signed Luke Schenn on a three-year, $8.25 million deal. Goaltender Antti Raanta is back with the Hurricanes on a $1.5 million contract.

The signing of Ryan O Reilly better explains it. There were reports of Ryan O Reilly and Duchene not getting along back in the Colorado days.

Hopefully he shows to be as promising as they are.

If he was a good locker room guy in Nashville, I don't understand why Nashville would buy him out. They save some space this season, but the next two have a lot of dead cap. Seems excessive for someone a year removed from such a great season, unless there are other issues.

Wow, Savoie and Benson seem to have a ton of chemistry. If they play together next season and build that some more as well as build up some more strength, could see a Benson-Savoie-Greenway line, or something to that effect.

No, he played a full season in the NHL last year, contracts don’t slide after that.

Let him cook for 4-5 years and see if he becomes something useful.

If we got a Pavel Datsyuk at 13 OA, the rest of the draft would hardly matter, and I like what Kevyn Adams did with the other high picks.

Definitely ahead of Savoie. They played on the same line and Benson outproduced Savoie, while bringing a better defensive game. Kulich is a more interesting question, he’s shown a lot of development over the last year, with a great world juniors and a strong. AHL campaign. But I think overall, Benson gets the slight nod.

I like the draft a lot. Benson should fit into the emerging top 6 of the future, and may end up being Skinner’s eventual replacement. I don’t think his size will be too much of an issue as we should still have Cozens, Thompson, and Tuch in the top 6, as well as average sized players in Quinn and JJP who should round it out. (Obviously a number of other prospects will be vying for top 6 minutes in the next few years) Wahlberg should fit in nicely as a 3 or 4C for us in the future. He’ll bring some size to our bottom six and will have the skill to keep up with the skilled wingers that don’t make the top 6. Strbak was a great pick, and I see him developing into a solid stay at home Dman, either as a 4 or 5D. It’ll take some time for him to get there though, so we need to add another Dman this offseason. McCarthy also has a shot at becoming a bottom pairing defenseman for the Sabres, or at least Quality depth. Local kid that probably fits the wanting of on be here bill. I like the shot at the goalie, he’s got an outside shot at becoming something. Nice to see the goalie pipeline getting stocked back up. Not much opinion on the rest, but I like what we came away with. Excited for free agency and seeing if we can get some help on defense, but this is a good start to the offseason.

More size for the Sabres.

6'1" G Jakob Fowler taken in the third, thats a little surprising.

Whelp, there goes Sawchyn, I was hoping he somehow made it to our third.

Strbak

Plenty of good D options here

If he continues to fall, Andrew Christall would be a steal at 39, even if the forward cupboards are pretty damn full.

Andrew Christall still on the board, a steal here. Even though we probably should stay where we are and pick the best D available, wouldn’t mind a trade up to snag him.

Bummer, I was hoping he’d make it to the second.