Holy Mackerel! Sabres Win Dahlin Lottery!

[Taro T]

No matter what happens and how upset it makes you, there are no possible outcomes that are legitimate evidence that the Draft Lottery is rigged. 

The only thing that can happen to constitute proof would be an impossibility - Toronto winning, as an example. Or the Denver Broncos. 

 

Keep that in mind as we all moan about something that is pretty likely to be an upsetting turn of events for the Buffalo Sports fan. 

And prepare your sacrifice to the hockey gods ASAP!

 

Let's go Buffalo! Let's go lotto balls! Bring us Dahlin!

<_<

 

It's rigged. :p

[Andrew Amerk]

The Swedish name change... ###### worked! Dahlin!!!!!!

I thought the board switched the names to support Lehner?

[nfreeman]

What if he’s really awesome? Like a no-BS top-5 NHL player?

 

And maybe JBott finds a good goalie, and Eichel stays healthy, and Mittelstadt flourishes, and Risto improves with less pressure on him, and McCabe and Bogo rebound, and Guhle develops, and Reino and ROR show up when it matters?

 

It could happen.

[Taro T]

So all it took was wearing a friggin' red tie?!?

 

Darn Tim Murray & his f###ing blue ties!

 

:lol:

[Huckleberry]

I knew I woke up with an erection for a reason.   

Going to work with the same grin on my face as botteril :p

[Brawndo]

Sabres didn't have a rep in the room for the actual NHL draft lottery

 

They changed their routine, trusted the process & were rewarded

 

Per Harrington

[calti]

Better than Hasek?

 

Better than Hasek?

 

Better than Hasek?

If he turns out to be as good as bobby orr.....anything short of that will not surpass Hasek

[Huckleberry]

 

Stallin' for Dhalin

Edited April 29, 2018 by blåbär

[JujuFish]

It's been 31 years since we last drafted #1 and there are 31 teams in the league.  Fitting.

[Randall Flagg]

We still have a lot of work to do to put a contender, even just for the playoffs, on the ice.

 

But when you're talking two pieces under 24 to build a franchise with, is there a single team you'd switch Eichel/Dahlin with?

 

Their competition:

McDavid/Draisaitl, or McDavid/Klefbom

Matthews/Marner, or Matthews/Nylander

MacKinnon/Rantanen, or MacKinnon/Makar

Laine/Trouba 

Barkov/Ekblad

Jones/Werenski

Kucherov/Sergachev

Pettersson/Boeser or Horvat/Boeser

Gaudreau/Hamilton or Gaudreau/Monahan or Monahan/Hamilton

Montreal's 3rd overall pick/Drouin or Montreal's 3rd/Galchenyuk :lol:

White/Chabot for Ottawa

Barzal/Beaullivier?

Keller/Strome or Keller/Chychrun

Parayko/Fabbri 

Aho/Slavin, Svechnikov/Slavin

Patrick/Provorov

McAvoy/DeBrusk

 

on and on

 

There's not a single under 24 duo that I would trade Eichel/Dahlin for. That's a helluva foundation, Jason. Do something with it.

[Doohicksie]

Just don’t let Brandon Beane pick for them, he’ll take Rasmus Allen.

 

I just laughed out loud.

Yay, we're going to have 2 Rasmusses. 

 

Rasmus...Rasmus...

Asplund is on his way too...

The Rasmi?

 

The Three Ras Men.

[dudacek]

Rasmus allows Risto to slide into the Seabrook slot alongside his Keith

Jack has Sam and Casey to ride shotgun to his Kane.

 

The depth will come.

That core could form a contender for the next 10 years.

[inkman]

Botterill looked like he could hardly contain himself, haha! He brought some lottery luck from Pittsburgh.

Tim Murray be like

 

https://goo.gl/images/mR4jvk

[Doohicksie]

######in eh we won the #1 spot. Welcome to Buffalo Rasmus !

 

Son of a bitch.  I just read a Tweet that says he prefers Ranch over Bleu Cheese with his wings.

 

 

 

BUST.

[SabresBillsFan]

Wow now the NHL just up a call on Vegas overtime winner. What a joke

It's been 31 years since we last drafted #1 and there are 31 teams in the league. Fitting.

And I remember Pierre sturgeon in his rookie year. Actually Ray Sheppard was a better player that year

[LTS]

Yea... I'm still up.  This is still awesome.  

[Brawndo]

NHL announces #Sabres lottery-winning combination was 1-4-6-14.

[Randall Flagg]

Remember how often it would infuriate us that our defensemen couldn't make basic plays at the point? It was a win if the puck didn't bounce over their stick, or if they were able to fling it down the boards for a 50/50 battle, or if they didn't have an ill-advised cross ice pass get picked off (looking at you 82). 

Dahlin, with the puck on the blue line, does things I've never seen another hockey player do. His ability to use his hips and c-cuts to fake guys and create shooting and passing lanes is unbelievable. 

He and Jack will often have each other on the right side of a one-timer setup, too. 

Delicious

[Ducky]

Congrats guys... I was pulling for you.
Dahlin is another piece for the core of your team!
What a great year to pick first overall.

Nice to see the Oilers drop a spot and the Canes move up too.

Edited April 29, 2018 by Ducky

[Huckleberry]

NHL announces #Sabres lottery-winning combination was 1-4-6-14.

 

My new lottery numbers :p

[MODO Hockey]

The happyness is unreal on this board atm, love it =) Sweden is comming to buffalo for real

[etiennep99]

The NHL has made these lottery odds even worse than the NBA. At least with the NBA the worst team has a 25% chance. I think, no matter what, the worst team should have a 50% chance. They work their butts off to have the worst record and they should be rewarded.

 

 

I thought that too, but thre's a problem with that in the lottery.  When you think about i, at 50% the last place team will win it often enough that when it doesn't win, it will feel totally ripped off (rigged?).  That's true especially if a much lower placed team wins it, with much lower odds as 50% has to be spread over the 14 other teams.  At least the old system only allowed a team to move up a max of 4 places, so the last place team that failed to win still had good odds of keeping the pick.

 

Poor Arizona keeps on finishing near the bottom and hasn't won yet either. But then again, Arizona wouldn't exist without almost constant NHL intervention.

[etiennep99]

I'm happy, but super happy that we don't have to draft Mr. Super-Sized Diaper Pants Svechnikov [Look at his highlights if you don't catch the drift.]

[Eleven]

I thought that too, but thre's a problem with that in the lottery.  When you think about i, at 50% the last place team will win it often enough that when it doesn't win, it will feel totally ripped off (rigged?).  That's true especially if a much lower placed team wins it, with much lower odds as 50% has to be spread over the 14 other teams.  At least the old system only allowed a team to move up a max of 4 places, so the last place team that failed to win still had good odds of keeping the pick.

 

Poor Arizona keeps on finishing near the bottom and hasn't won yet either. But then again, Arizona wouldn't exist without almost constant NHL intervention.

 

Let's not forget the Mexican-American war.

[Claude_Verret]

Dahlin!

 

The lottery win that I hope will heal the tank war rift among the fan base. Appropriate I guess that they finally won the damn thing by finishing dead last without tanking.