‘”The watch on Ryan O’Reilly has been pretty consistent,” Dreger said with Howard Simon and Jeremy White on Wednesday morning. “My understanding is that Sabres general manager Jason Botterill, not surprisingly, is looking for an excellent return for Ryan O’Reilly, otherwise it doesn’t make a ton of sense that he would move him. So what does excellent return mean? Does that mean he’s campaigning for a spot in the top-five [of the draft]? Some believe that could be the case. That would have to be part of that package. It’s gonna be real interesting to see if that deal gets done, but time is ticking away here.”‘