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They should. And hopefully it'll be a current player as this pick ends up part of the package for him. (If not, fork it, take Martin. Roll the dice on a possible Peca.)

Forking #9.

Believe the Sabres would end up 3rd if they won the 2nd drawing and the 12th place team won the 1st one. (Only way the Sabres could get 3.) So, yeah, they can't end up 11, but they theoretically could also end up 3.

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

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.

Not really, Reimer and UPL graduated. 😉

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

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.

And then shortly thereafter Vinc had probably the save of the season. Vancouver worked a great back door play and Vinc found a way to get his stick onto the shot towards the nearly empty net.

PSA Reminder: Bandits go for the 2 game sweep in Vancouver tonight at 9PM Eastern. ESPN+ will carry it in the States. TSN/TSN+ will carry it in Canada. Saskatchawan killed Halifax in Halifax yesterday 15-7 (maybe 16-7, lost track of the score with all the idiotic penalties the Mad Dog 2020's kept taking at the end of the game. The Rush had at least 3 penalty shots at the end as Halifax insisted on taking more penalties after they already were 2 men down. A win on Friday night or Sunday night and they'll face the winner of the Bandits series. A win tonight gives the Bandits a week off to get even healthier waiting for the winner of the other series.

Hate how they never bother to interview any of the horses. They talk to LITERALLY everybody else with any kind of connection to the race no matter how tangential. (Due to the fact it's a 5 hour show covering a 2+minute event.)

This place just isn't the same without Dwight. The jockeys are heading out to the paddock and not one single word about this (apparently since 2024).

Would hope both would. Expecting Swayman will bounce back.

No data. Expecting it'd be the normal 2-2-1. According to the Rocket, they went 2-3 this round to cut down on travel (well, duh). Only going to Ra-cha-cha shaves 4 hours off the trip from Laval to Cleveland.

Though they shouldn't include it as a criterion in voting, they'll include his Olympic play, particularly in '10, in the voting. It'll take a while, but personally do expect Miller will get there eventually. SHOULD he be there? That's a different question.

It's NOT surprising. It's just sad. Because he scored a LOT of those points as a F. And voters for that honor pay as much attention to details like that as season ending AS team voters paid attention to which side of the ice Ovechkin played on back in '13 when he was voted the 1st team RW and the 2nd team LW. Of course Housley's scoring stats don't include ANY of the assists he had on Stephane Richer's goals (he had a TON of those). So, maybe you're onto something there. If you take off the points he scored playing up front and replaced them with the assists he had for the Sabres (and other teams' as well, he had a LOT of stops along the way) opponents then he's maybe top 2 or 3 in defenseman scoring and not just top 4.

And into the Sabres HoF back in '23. And into MSU's HoF back in '13. And into USA Hockey's HoF in '22. [EDIT: And into the Greater Buffalo Sports HoF back in '22 too.] If friggin' Housley can be in the NHL HoF, Miller will get there too. (That and the IIHF HoF in Kingston are about the only 2 he ISN'T in.)

And the Bandits DID bring their A game. AND the Warriors cracked under the pressure of trailing in a game for the 1st time for more than 4 minutes in 2 months. Having Belter back in the lineup has been a huge add this playoffs too. He and Weiss were both out of the lineup the 1st time the Bandits hosted them in the 1 goal loss.

Welcome to the world of gate revenue driven sports leagues. We only want to play on weekends and we don't want anyone sitting around TOO long, so we start some series while the other earlier series are still ongoing if we're already at a weekend that otherwise would pass with no games played. (Know that you already knew that, btw.)

Well, they likely do need those too. But the D personnel (and IMHO the D scheme) had a greater need to be improved this off-season.

So, are they going to have the 4 balls pop out of the shoot live on air or are they going to still do the stupid "flip the cards" immediately after the balls were drawn? Guess it could be kind of cool if they showed all the 1001 permutations on a video board like the Sabres now have but with team logos instead of the actual # combos and as balls get drawn, all the losing combinations go dark until there's only 1 logo left lit up.

Can't make chicken salad from chicken #### regardless of how good the chef is.

Except in March and April in the NHL where he's had 8 of 10 games giving up 3 or less and 7 of 10 games giving up 2 or less.

Thank you for the link to that data. Looking closer at it, Byram was on the ice for 46% of Dahlin's 5v5 minutes plus Dahlin missed another 12% of the season during which Byram was usually, if not always, their top guy in ice time. So, @dudacek's contention that Byram faced the other team's best forwards more often than not looks to be correct.

The 2 didn't really get split up until the trade deadline. Ballparking that time from them realizing Samuelsson was a dumpster fire early to the trade deadline as 60%. Didn't go back game by game on it. And he was their primary D-man when Dahlin was out the 10 games, too.