GDT: NHL Entry Draft 6/21 8:00PM, 6/22 1:00PM (NBCSN, NHL-N)

[Dubi Doo]

Botts drafting is about the only thing I dont hate about him. He got good value out of his 2 picks once again.

 

[Tatre]

Trades

Anyone

Show you care

 

[AustonsNostrils]

Button's low opinion of Cozens worries me because he was so accurate on Virtanen, he didn't even rank Virtanen in the 1st, at least he had Cozens at 14th. The Black Book analysis of him is terrible for a 7th overall.

Prove 'em wrong Yukon Kid!

 

[Chainshot]

 

[jc17]

L.A. could walk away with Turcotte, Bjornfot, and Kaliyev. That would be a big draft

 

[Fezzy126]

Bakes is thinking goalie in the near future

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Bakes has never watched a prospect he didn’t like. He always says the Sabres made a good choice after every pick, all through the years where they were actually making less-than-good choices, so I don’t put much stock in his takes.

 

[Chainshot]

Bakes is thinking goalie in the near future

Portillo.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

Nylander was a Murray pick.

Shouldn’t be lumped in with Botts’ drafts in evaluating the Sabres’ thinking.

Why not, despondent poster was talking about this being a problem with the Sabres since Pegula bought the team.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

I doubt they make it out of the second round. I would imagine that teams are reassessing there do not draft lists this morning and are rationalizing themselves into what they hate about Kaiyev not being that bad or that Brinks’ skating is not a cause for concern.

Let's be honest, unless the kid has a tattoo that says Meth Life, do not draft lists really mean: do not draft in first round.

 

[Chainshot]

Let's be honest, unless the kid has a tattoo that says Meth Life, do not draft lists really mean: do not draft in first round.

Even if he does, the guy scores. Could it be this age thing? Or is it all the quirky personality/effort takes?

#whinerline

They heard him.

 

[Dingo44]

Scott Wheeler of The Athletic has the Sabres as one of the top winner's in the first round:

Wheeler: Ranking the 2019 NHL Draft's first-round winners...

Buffalo Sabres
If Alex Turcotte was the first real prize of the first round, Dylan Cozens was a close runner-up. He was one of the three players I debated as the No. 3 prospect in the draft in the back half of the season (alongside Turcotte and Bowen Byram). His ability to play out wide with his speed and length — while still having the presence of mind to make a lot of high-end plays in transition or off the cycle — should make him an excellent top-six centre and impact forward. He’s the perfect fit for the Sabres too, in that they desperately need a 2C to play behind Jack Eichel and he and Casey Mittelstadt can now challenge each other for those minutes. The Sabres did well.

Though I’m a little lower on the Ryan Johnson pick (I felt like he was a late second-rounder instead of a first-rounder), he’s an impressive two-way defenceman who really came into his own offensively in the last third of the season and will have the benefit of time to continue to progress at the University of Minnesota. He won’t wow you, but he can really skate and get the puck moving in transition to avoid spending time in his own zone.

 

[Duddy]

Great to be a winner, I remember all the offseasons the Bills won. Leading to all their super bowls.

Also saying a team that drafts a late second rounder in the first round, is really weird.

 

[Snippit]

Scott Wheeler of The Athletic has the Sabres as one of the top winner's in the first round:

Wheeler: Ranking the 2019 NHL Draft's first-round winners...

Legit makes no sense how he has us as a winner, if we took a guy he had rated in the late 2nd in the first round...but okay

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

For everyone who is upset they didn't take a home run swing; isn't that exactly what Cozens represents?

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

Great to be a winner, I remember all the offseasons the Bills won. Leading to all their super bowls.

Also saying a team that drafts a late second rounder in the first round, is really weird.

Legit makes no sense how he has us as a winner, if we took a guy he had rated in the late 2nd in the first round...but okay

Very few people had Johnson had as a late second rounder.

 

[sabremike]

For everyone who is upset they didn't take a home run swing; isn't that exactly what Cozens represents?

Wait wasn't the book on Cozens "low cealing/high floor"?

 

[jc17]

For everyone who is upset they didn't take a home run swing; isn't that exactly what Cozens represents?

Not really. Cozens has the tools and work ethic that should allow him to play in the NHL, but maybe not the skill to be a top player. I see him as a super high floor, moderate ceiling. As opposed to someone like Caufield or Zegras with a pretty high ceiling, but a much lower floor than cozens.

I don't want to jynx it, but I think he has one of the lowest chances of busting

 

[WpgBuffan]

Button's low opinion of Cozens worries me because he was so accurate on Virtanen, he didn't even rank Virtanen in the 1st, at least he had Cozens at 14th. The Black Book analysis of him is terrible for a 7th overall.

Prove 'em wrong Yukon Kid!

Black book had Ryan Johnson at #20. So you must love that pick then.

 

[SnuggaRUDE]

Wait wasn't the book on Cozens "low cealing/high floor"?

Not really. Cozens has the tools and work ethic that should allow him to play in the NHL, but maybe not the skill to be a top player. I see him as a super high floor, moderate ceiling. As opposed to someone like Caufield or Zegras with a pretty high ceiling, but a much lower floor than cozens.

I don't want to jynx it, but I think he has one of the lowest chances of busting

High floor low ceiling for a guy universally in the top 10? That's just lazy reporting shorthand for: "We don't know how he'll translate."

If he puts it together with that frame, the skys the limit. If it doesn't translate he'll flame out.

 

[truthbluth]

JT Miller to Vancouver. The return will tell me how mad I should be at Botts.

 

[CatsforReinhart]

Passing on Zegras is going to come back to haunt us.

 

[CatsforReinhart]

JT Miller to Vancouver. The return will tell me how mad I should be at Botts.

You will be mad.

Botts,"Slow and steady, we will win sooner or later"

 

[jc17]

High floor low ceiling for a guy universally in the top 10? That's just lazy reporting shorthand for: "We don't know how he'll translate."

If he puts it together with that frame, the skys the limit. If it doesn't translate he'll flame out.

Why ask if your mind is made up?

I gave reasons for high floor, "low" ceiling, and you say i'm wrong based on size and draft position?

I might be wrong, but not based on that

 

[CatsforReinhart]

Eklund,"NHL trades are going to happen"

Eklund,"Called it boys"