GDT: The Draft Lottery, Tuesday, April 9th

[Jame]

You think he's better than that, I think he's better than that, but prospect lists coming from the guys who are plugged into the league's scouts seem to have him hanging around the lower half of the top 10. It's definitely possible he's still on the board when we pick.

Yea, that’s all going to change really quickly...


Assume the top 2 and Byram all go before 7. There’s no way that 3 of Cozens, Krebs, Dach, Zegras all go before Turcotte. That’s what would need to happen for him to fall to 7.

I’m worried Krebs won’t fall to us now

 

[CatsforReinhart]

Sucks cause 5th we would have had Dach or Turcotte

 

[Jame]

My Prediction:

Player left on the board: Podklozin, Krebs, Zegras

We select: Boldy

I would have a meltdown...

 

[Sabreality]

There’s a US development guy heading to college right there that you’re leaving out.

There are two things Botterill loves. European D. College path. Zegras is the latter.

If I don't type it won't happen

 

[sabremike]

This was pretty much a complete and total disaster. The only 2 teams in our entire conference who aren't significantly ahead of us now are Ottawa and Detroit. We are screwed so bad.

 

[N.Y. Orangeman]

I would have a meltdown...

Agree. Boldy screams meh

 

[kirby11]

If you think the draft lottery is rigged you're a dummy

The NHL is too stupid to even know how to do that imo

 

[MagnumForce2]

One of Byram, Podkolzin, Dach, Cozens, Turcotte, Krebs will be there for us. We will have our choice of 2 of the 6....not that bad.

 

[Kyndig]

Didn't Chicago nearly win last years lottery? It was our ball that knocked it out of the way and then went up.

 

[MayDay]

We'll get a pretty good player in year and a half

Judging by the development curves of Mittlestadt, Nylander, and Risto (all selected at #8) - whatever player we select at #7 I don’t want to see on the Sabres until after at least two full years of seasoning.

Maybe start getting a few games in the 2021-22 season. Maybe.

 

[Chainshot]

I continue to hate the draft lottery.

 

[MackAttack26]

I would have a meltdown...

Same. But I totally see it happening

 

[sabremike]

Nobody has ever been as depressed as I am right now since Madonna learned she missed Tailhook.

 

[GellMann]

Imagine what it would feel like to not care about this because we had a game tomorrow

 

[N.Y. Orangeman]

7th...not 8th minute abs/pick. Not happy with the 7th pick? We’ll send you the 8th pick for free!

 

[Doug Prishpreed]

Let only let us win last year because buffalo gets the highest TV ratings

 

[ruff22]

I wonder if someone on Twitter could post this year's Stanley Cup winner while he's at it...

 

[Kyndig]

Longest active playoff drought and always getting bumped in the lottery. At least we have Dahlin who would still go #1 overall easily in this draft.

 

[Steddy33]

Bunch of sore losers. We won last year. Get a grip

 

[joshjull]

Same

 

[Montag DP]

The sky is falling.

Bunch of sore losers. We won last year. Get a grip

This is the internet. Moderate reactions will not be tolerated.

 

[WeDislikeEich]

I’m actually good with the #7 pick.

I obviously wanted a top 2 pick but I knew the odds were heavily against that and really just wanted to stay in that 3-7 tier and we did.

But even if we had fallen to #8, chances are at least 1 (or 2) of the top 7 would drop.

We should get the chance to draft a really good player at #7.

 

[Ralonzo]

How Hortunate!

Huck this hit.

 

[threeVo]

Hopefully we are stupid and take Podklozin because he scared everyone and by miracle we get him to come to NA and hes a beast.

HA JK WERE TAKING SODERSTROM LULZ

 

[Taro Tsujimoto]

Of course the Sabres were one off.

 

[kirby11]

Agree. Boldy screams meh

To mix sports analogies, we need a triple or a home run and Botts is gonna be like "yo I hit a broken bat single, please continue to employ me"