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That's fine, but after three drafts, his top six forward pipeline is empty.

He knows that in the modern NHL, the goal is to win games 2-1. That's how Ralph won in the EPL.

Botterill's last 8 picks, 6 defensemen and 2 forwards. He also traded a first round pick for a defenseman (Montour).

So what, we have 5 legit forward prospects in the pipeline?

Sebastian Aho?

Pick the big winger who scores.

All right. Table's set.

Because you would be broke, working the street corners by now. ?

That kid might need a cane to get to the stage.

Cool, now we can stop the Knight nonsense.

Son of a b****!!!

That's a suprise

Kings bringing a jersey to the podium

If Botterill picks Knight, can be be fired before FA starts?

Yep, the draft could go off the rails a bit here.

He does, because he knows he's going to be booed every year (maybe for wrong reasons), but he shows up anyway. Let the hosting team pick the MC and step out of the way for the draft. Let the team spokesperson open the draft and welcome everyone to the event, and get out of the way when they honor their legends.

Bettman is such a smarmy weasel.

The air is thick with anticipation!

So this franchise ends up paying a 3rd and McCabe (a 2nd round pick) for Vesey? How many successful franchises spend a 2nd and 3rd round pick for a 3rd liner with mediocre numbers?

This is the point in time where O'Reilly's contract becomes a bargain.

If Terry 'drill a well' Pegula chose $7.5M over the opportunity to make this team better, then this franchise is doomed.

Every locker room has issues, but there's a difference between a locker room having issues and it being toxic. O'Reilly wasn't toxic, but the front office treated the situation that way. It would be interesting to see how Krueger would have handled the situation. He seems to have a stronger approach to handling the locker room. Hopefully he can keep the team on the same page as it continues to mature.

The response equivalent to an old man yelling at the neighborhood kids to get off his lawn.

In other words, standard message-board fodder.

The seemingly cosmic ways the Sabres were screwed in this unbelievably bad deal is mind-boggling. Discussing it as part of the current events makes sense at this time. If people are still obsessing on it after the draft and FA (where hopefully Botterill will acquire a couple of legit 2nd liners), then we can play the move-along card.