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On more no trade lists than any other team. I don't think 2nd place would even be close, but I'm not sure Chevy has over paid for that many players over the years. Connor 50m over 7 years. Up for a huge raise...I think 10m or more. Morrissey signed for 8 x 6.25m. Three more seasons in that one. Vilardi bridged under 3.5m for 2 years. Perfetti bridged for 3.25m for 2 years. Scheif 7 x 8.5m and same as Helle. He has had a few doozies in the past like Pavelec. Kulikov for 10m over 3 years. Some people think Pionk's is too long at 6 years. Wheeler's was too long and a bit high but Chevy has said they thought they might be buying him out at the end of the deal and it was discussed before he was signed. All in all, I think he is pretty frugal considering he is in one of the, if not the, hardest market to be a GM, especially concerning free agents. Here's what I remember Jets' players saying why they like it here. Good place to raise a family, schools are mentioned. Most of the players say the organization treats them well and the wives/families are integrated quite well. (Well, maybe not Trouba's!) They usually make the playoffs. No MBL or NFL or NBA so they are the biggest ticket around. Players like Iafallo asked for an extension and said he likes the outdoors. Helle, Connor, Iafallo, Samberg and some others are big hunters/fishers. They don't mention it but they are paid in USD and that turns into 1.4 as much in CAD. If players like the nightlife, they probably wouldn't like living here for 7 months.

As long as Boston and Philly don’t move up I’m ok. But those are big city teams that Bettman would like to recover, so you never know.

I guess this is what happens when you have chat bot do your work for you.

next year is the year to win the lottery... so that can only mean Buffalo wins this year and Boston wins next year

Not really, Reimer and UPL graduated. 😉

Kulich got a C. Highest grade they gave any Sabre!

Holy ####! They gave Dahlin a D!?!? They must've really held that 10 game injury absence against him. 😉

Yes it is, after you read the tweet.

That's pretty much how its worked for all of the lotteries after the Crosby lottery. 14 numbered balls popped into the machine and then 4 are taken out randomly. Those 4 balls can be randomly drawn into 1,001 different permutations (not counting which order they're drawn in; so 1-2-3-4 is equivalent for this exercise to 1-2-4-3 and 2-1-3-4, etc. etc.). They leave 1 combination as a redrawn; this year that is 11-12-13-14 per your Puckpedia article. So, there are exactly 1,000 winning combinations. Depending upon how the league wants the odds divvied up, teams are randomly allotted 10x that number of 4 number combinations. So, if they wanted the last place team to have a 10% chance of winning they'd assign them 100 random combinations and if they wanted them to have a 20% chance of winning they'd get 200. The Sabres have a 6.5% chance of winning so they were given 65 winning combos. And interestingly (or not) the Sabres have 1, 2, 4, 5 as one of their combos. Watch this to be the year that the balls are drawn 4, 2, 1, 3 so the Sabres will miss it by the just about the slimmest possible margin (1245 vs 1235 vs the winner 1234). And for the 2nd draw, they use 14 balls once again and the remaining teams all keep their original combinations. But now instead of just 1 redraw combination, there are now x+1 redraw combinations with x being the number of chances the team that won the 1st lottery had as those combinations now no longer are valid as winners.

Regardless of how the Sabres are playing, don't you think getting an NFL beat is a promotion?

F...as in FORWARD! 🤣

So basically Sabres killed him, he died and went to heaven.

Legally anyway. I think FLO has a $30/mo-cancel anytime deal.

The bar for success much higher there. Once they got back in the playoffs the bar was raised to winning in the playoffs. So now it's seen as failure. As it should be. This is now also the moment a good GM needs to pounce on whoever they hire. There will be a desire for change. Maybe even change for the sake of change and that's when you can target pieces of their roster. Going to be the same for the Avs and others. These teams will not run it back as is. Sabres GM however, will just bank on Levi and complain about his palm trees and taxes.

Any one notice on the Sabres.com site they gave him an F grade? Pretty sure it's a mistake but kind of a bad look.

@That Aud Smell Lysowski is on the beat until his replacement is announced. Harrington will continue to cover continue the Sabres as a columist.

Oh I agree, I think St Louis is being built much better than the Sabres. Their roster has much more balance. They can play physical and with speed. They aren't there yet but I suspect they will keep rising. Remember back at the beginning of the year when people here were debating if Sabres could or should trade for Parayko (as if he was available)? I imagine a number of those posts haven't aged well 🙂 Winnipeg is like surrounded by nothing. I would think it's high on many no trade lists. If you were American born would you be happy going there? Likely not. Maybe if you were from Minnesota it's not that different but not if you were from anything east coast or west (although there's less hockey there). They have to over pay and they have to entice. IF Buffalo was a winning team it would be much much more desirable than Winnipeg. That's the IF though isn't it? The vibe this year is they aren't even trying to get better. They are doing nothing. It just feels like they've given up. It's so sad.

Don't watch then.

Not sure how it will work but the odds remain the same. Four lottery balls will be drawn and whatever the 4-digit sequence is, the team assigned that sequence wins. Buffalo is assigned 64 combos. You can see them here: https://puckgm.puckpedia.com/draft-lottery-combos

Same old story. These hypocrites don’t give a crap about kids once they exit the womb. Especially the fundamentalists out there.

Hopefully they do the right thing and trade the pick for a top 6 forward.

How does the lottery actually work live? Like with the different odds?