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12 minutes ago, SabresBillsFan said:

It better not be Chicago. ***** them. Yes they were bad but the tank job was on purpose. They need to feel the pain.

But the NHL has to let them rebuild with Kane and likely Towes gone next season. 

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Just now, Randall Flagg said:

This worry is always overstated to me

McDavid and Draisaitl are both probably better players than Bedard will be, and the two of them have led their team to a playoff series with home ice advantage just one time in their first six years (not counting covid crap since I don't know what the heck was happening there and the canadian division was garbage)

Chicago has nothing right now 

Chicago just won how many cups years ago. Sorry but big markets have no issues selling tickets. Chicago did this tank on purpose just like Buffalo did but Buffalo never had the assets that Chicago had before they started to sell off. A handful of those players were in their mid 20’s. 

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2 minutes ago, The Jokeman said:

But the NHL has to let them rebuild with Kane and likely Towes gone next season. 

Big markets don’t have issues with tickets like small markets. Plus how many Cups did they win. Gee enough is enough with that crap!

Posted
1 minute ago, SabresBillsFan said:

Big markets don’t have issues with tickets like small markets. Plus how many Cups did they win. Gee enough is enough with that crap!

Yet am I'm sure the NHL sell more Bedard jerseys if was a Blackhawk vs Anaheim or Columbus.

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5 minutes ago, Rico7 said:

 

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So bad. I was half watching and was like wait what? Cut to a Columbus feature?  Seemed like a typical NHL mistake, miles behind the other leagues in terms competence and professionalism.  

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Posted
8 minutes ago, Carmel Corn said:

As usual with the NHL....something really fishy went on here and the fish stinks most from the head.

I agree, I don't understand why they don't show the balls fall as the whole card thing is convoluted as all heck.

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The lottery should be an hour long show 

highlight a bunch of the prospects, not just 1 

reveal only 3 or 4 teams at a time 

have a better reveal than an old man with a big card 

have more spots up for grabs (like they used to) 

 

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17 minutes ago, SabresBillsFan said:

Chicago just won how many cups years ago. Sorry but big markets have no issues selling tickets. Chicago did this tank on purpose just like Buffalo did but Buffalo never had the assets that Chicago had before they started to sell off. A handful of those players were in their mid 20’s. 

Huh?

 

11 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

Bedard and McDavid get to battle it out to see who will represent the Western Conference as runner up to the Eastern Conference Stanley Cup winning Buffalo Sabres for the next 15 years.

 

But McDavid has played 8 seasons and never even sniffed that to this point, why is that suddenly going to start now, and how will Chicago get there when their roster and prospect pool outside Bedard are probably both the worst in the NHL? That's not even to mention the franchise which hasn't seen a playoff series since Obama's first term

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Honestly I've seen better prospect highlights from a few guys over the years, not just McDavid. Not convinced I'd take him over Matthews at the same stage of development and maybe even a few other guys in the last 8 or so years

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5 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

Huh?

 

But McDavid has played 8 seasons and never even sniffed that to this point, why is that suddenly going to start now, and how will Chicago get there when their roster and prospect pool outside Bedard are probably both the worst in the NHL? That's not even to mention the franchise which hasn't seen a playoff series since Obama's first term

Hawks had 3 1st rounders last year and have 6 firsts, 8 2nds and 5 3rds to play with over the next 3 years.

They have $41 million in cap space.

And they just got the player of the next decade.

Not every GM is Tim Murray.

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.... and with the 13th pick in the 2023 NHL draft, the Buffalo Sabres trade the 13th overall pick (& 173) to Chicago for 18, 52 & 131.

With 18th selection, the Sabres draft Hamburg native Quentin Musty.

The Sabres then trade 39 & 52 to Stl for 30 & 106

With the 30th pick in the 1st rd, the Buffalo Sabres select Swedish defender Tom WIllander.

 

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3 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

The NHL is very suspicious at times. The lottery seems so rigged. Buffalo wins the lottery twice, when the top prospects are defenseman? 

The only draft since the Sabres decided to tank that would've been better to get 1st overall in '18 with Dahlin was the '15 draft where McDavid went 1st overall.  Am not complaining about winning that one.  (Not complaining about winning Power's lottery either, but there likely were better 1st overalls than in his year.)

Hopefully the next time the Sabres end up in the top 3 of the draft is when they trade a stud that no longer fits into the big picture for a couple of #1's and one of them pops.

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Posted
10 minutes ago, Claude Balls said:

The NHL is very suspicious at times. The lottery seems so rigged. Buffalo wins the lottery twice, when the top prospects are defenseman? 

Sorry but you can not complain that the Sabres won when the prizes were Dahlin and Power 

Dahlin will be as important a 1st over all pick as anyone not named McDavid over the last 10 years 

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Posted
1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

Button has us taking Oliver Moore.

He plays like a Sabre: fast and relentless.

One of many good choices at 13. We’ll get a shot at players who would have gone around 8th in a more typical draft.

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