SackTastic
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A good hockey player is a good hockey player no matter what continent they were born on.
What garbage.
What garbage.
....meaning you may be fine with a top ten pick (or a few) as you would be with a top 3.
I don't want the 8th pick in the draft.
I want a top 3 pick, if you are gonna stink, do it right. Pittsburgh success with 2 1st overall and 2 2nd overall picks in 4 consecutive years. Tell me Edmonton's 3 straight #1 overall picks isn't gonna make a difference?
If you told me we could pick 4th and 9th, I'd take that as well, but I'd rather have the top 3 pick.
I'm blown away by how many people on this forum support Darcy Regier, it would seem the owner of the franchise drinks from the same tub of Koolaid so there's a good possibility Regier remains the man in charge of rebuilding this wreck.
Regier has never built a contender. He got lucky with rule changes, he had no hand in selecting pieces that were valuable to success at one point (Vanek, Miller, Tallinder, Roy, Pominville etc.), and he didn't make trades to boost that contending roster (Drury, Briere, Lydman). He didn't trade for a guy like Zubrus at the deadline that year... Zubrus would've been valuable to the team.
What the heck does this mean? Goalies are the hardest to project because most don't mature until they are past 25. You draft them at 18/19. Miller was a drafted on hope and he went to MSU and dominated. How many top 10 goalies have been great?
Luongo, Fluery, Barrasso, Fuhr
that's all I can find dating back to 1980!
you draft goalies in round 3, 4, 5 every other year and hope you hit a home run once a decade.
....meaning you may be fine with a top ten pick (or a few) as you would be with a top 3.
You understand you're not getting into the Top 3, unless you finish there. No team is giving those picks up....
Grigorenko slipped in the draft because he had mono, was run down, and didn't perform up to his normal pace because of it. But if you want to believe some lie, you go right ahead. If Mono didn't happen we would not have him. Fact. But you keep believing some lie.
Surely those who believe these Sabres can get into the playoffs know that the Sabres are trolling them right?!?
We need a strong team with good chemistry and a solid identity. We also need good leadership and great goaltending.
I think too much is read in to picks. Let's concentrate on the direction rather than just 'get the best player'.