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Agreed. But what else are they giving us to take on 4x$8 for Couture, or 3x$5 for Martin Jones?

We'd have to take on a contract for sure and they have some terrible ones.

Anyone think the Eklund pick puts the Sharks in the conversation? They've been aggressive in the past.

Nope, but he is kicking my hockey team. The team may have earned the kicking, but they’re still mine.

Poltapov will be Aho to Raty’s Puuljarvi. Best Sabre 2nd rounder since Danny Gare. Because I want him to be. It was in part relative to position and opportunity - the gained little for taking the obvious in Power and lost a bit for taking Rosen, according to the Athletic board.

Adams said in his post draft presser that McCabe will test FA, but said no such thing about Ullmark, rather he said they are still talking and implied that he hopes to sign him before free agency. Did you hear him say something different elsewhere?

VO put up his numbers in the SHL, R2s were in Finland in a weaker league, but point taken.

I’m not sure what you’re saying here, that if you put R2 into Vic’s PP slot, he’d have better numbers? I think that’s probably true, but it’s also the same for Cozens, or Thompson, or Bjork, or pretty much any of them. None of them can shoot as good as Victor and wouldn’t score as many as Victor IMO, but that wasn’t really my point. My point didn’t really have anything to do with Olofsson. It was that I hadn’t seen anything from R2 that suggested 60-point scorer, in response to GA essentially saying that’s why he ranked him at 4. My point was I haven’t seen R2 demonstrate the skill

He’s scored some nice one-timers, but VO’s is purely elite and I don’t see many other similarities to their game. I like R2, but he scored 6 points in 17 games as a 23-year-old rookie. I didn’t see a thing in those 17 games that said 60-point potential to me.

Running the national team PP and dangling? Not a bad start. I heard #23 is available.

The spoiled child was promised he would get what he wanted if he behaved, but it’s already past lunchtime and it hasn’t happened yet. He’s starting to get angry. It pretty hard not to see this quote as anything but ^^^^ “just take what they are ***** offering you Kevyn, you little *****! For ***** sakes! I want it now!”

I see Alex Pietrangelo upside in Power. It’s not Hedman, but it’s top-10 NHL defenceman. Do you think Dylan has top 10 upside? I need to revisit WJC game tape, because maybe I’m spending too much time thinking about the kid that hit a wall hard over the last 20 games.

One guy didn’t play at all last year, and the other struggled due to a bout of COVID. Looks like the Sabres were tracking them from earlier in their careers, did some homework some other scouts didn’t and decided they were worth it. Those are the kind of bets you need to make to unearth some hidden gems. Be interesting to see where each goes.

I’m looking forward to seeing how the 01 run of picks from Rosen to Nadeau progress this year. There will be some risers in that group of 6. Considering how only Cozens is expected to play the bulk of the season in Buffalo and Power will likely be the top overall prospect on many lists, the Sabres really flipped the script this weekend on the depth of their pipeline and will climb pretty high up a number of lists. That's even without the Eichel return. Ryan Johnson at 10 or 11 isn’t ridiculous, but he could just as easily be 4. Peterka, Samuelsson, Johnson, Poltapov, Kisakov, UPL, and R2, likely topped by Rosen is a pretty deep, varied and on a tier. And I wonder where the Sabres would place Levi on that ladder. It’s pretty big leap from behind Albert Lyacksen in the fall to the top 10 now, one good tournament and training camp later, but the brass sure seemed high on him yesterday and paid a big price for him. No longer waiver-exempt, same with Joki.

The ranking should be in order of how they would be picked today in a league-wide dispersal draft. Power is one. Ordinarily I like it when people don’t buy the hype, but in this case one would be foolish to ignore it. It would be pretty hard to find many people who aren’t Sabres fans who would rank Cozens over him Jack Quinn is #3. Pretty easily. R2 is intriguing but I think you are way overvaluing his proximity to making it in this case. I’m not sure he’s in the top 10 Putting Sandarian behind two players who were drafted after him is an odd choice.

Wilfred van barnacle Liechtenstein is rivaling Morris Titanic, Taro Tsujimoto and Jean-Luc Big-Stones for the best name in Sabre history. Our 1st Russian pick? He’s P(random syllables)ov.

Every couple drafts a pick just catches your eye on 1st impression and just becomes your guy, right or wrong. Cant wait until he gets here.

Save the Power selection, I think this was his draft, not Kevyn’s. And he certainly put his stamp on it. Most clearly calculated and interesting list of picks since 2012 in my view.

I really expected to scroll along and see this post quoted next to a Sabremike gif

We are having a hard enough time getting an “equivalent of 4 first-rounders” return. If we are asking that without taking on salary as well - as Russo implies - we’re *****. It’s a hand we can’t win. Is this another Terry ultimatum like “trade him but I’m not paying the bonus?” Only it’s accompanied by a “And don’t embarrass me either, like the O’Reilly deal?” So Kevyn’s left looking like an unreasonable a-hole to his peers?

😂 Still worried about our reputation… That's so 2019 pleasant dreams

Who cares? We gotta pay someone to get to the cap and need someone to take all the tough matchups. Two years, $26 million. What do we got to lose?

LOL, the prospect pool is fine. We have two of the best U22 in the world plus three more guys all picked around 30th overall. Trouble is we only have two defencemen over 22.

@thorny further to the above, Peterka, Quinn, this year’s large crop, and next year’s two first rounders all avoid next year’s tough season and hopefully join and augment a team on the way up when they are ready.

If it wasn’t clear, I wasn’t saying they are doing this, only that if they are committed to this path - which I believe they are -it’s the way they can and should do it. As the prospects themselves, I might be wrong but I perceive starting a sell-off in 2021 with the first group already in the system with at least one pro season under their belts is preferable to the 2nd in 2012. We’re talking completely different time periods. Mittelstadt, Asplund, Thompson, Cozens, Bryson, Samuelsson, Jokiharju, Lukkonnen, Dahlin, Ruotsalainen, Girgensons, Kassian, McNabb, Foligno, Myers, Ennis, Adam