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Expecting he either got a C or an F as well. Tough graders at SHKIIIP. 😉

Was Norris given an Incomplete?

I'll take the average draft odds, and just say, we'll be drafting 9 or 11.

But you need at LEAST 4 people to cover Bills rookie & invite minicamp. Just how many people do you need to cover THE draft lottery? The Snooze thinks, and proably agree with them, that it doesn't warrant a reporter's full output. Plus, they still have Harrington to opine about it. Do they really need an entire journalist to opine about such a weightedy matter? Probably not. No idea when the Sabres will make whatever changes Friedman hinted at official. And the draft isn't for another month and a half. They can probably pull Lance back into the Sabres beat for the day when the 1st occurs and should have somebody else in place by the latter.

Our odds won’t be that great next year after we win the Cup! (Joking)

i don’t follow. i’m also pretty sure that i don’t want to follow and will regret asking for clarification. it’s a mickey mouse move to announce lysowski’s reassignment without having someone on staff to take over the beat.

If it's Sabres-related, I watch. Doesn't mean I'm happy that they've gotten VIP seating at this consolation prize clown show the last 14 years.

Those changes came so fast we were barely able to digest it!

This is even better than the thread about Friedman saying changes are coming.

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.