OhMyDahlin

This team won't have a legit starting goalie solidified until one of Luukkonen, Portillo or Levi step up and take the job. Until then it will be more Craig Anderson, Dustin Tokarski and Aaron Dell...or guys like them.

Anybody crapping on Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, just doesn't know goalies. He hasn't even played 40 AHL games, when it usually takes 100-200 games for a goalie to find their game. Not saying he's going to be the future, but it's silly to call him a bust already.

FUN FACT: Utica's captain is Buffalo's own Ryan Schmelzer.

DO NOT TOUCH LUUKKONEN. Leave him where he is, let him develop.

And the majority of them will add 15-20 pounds before they get to the NHL.

I'm just like you...but I wouldn't turn down a family vacation. Life is too short, the opportunity to make those memories only comes around every so often.

Sam Reinhart is the product of being bad. Jack Eichel is the product of the tank. Dylan Cozens and the other names you mentioned are the products of a rebuild. They are all very different.

Hasek was also drafted 199th overall...not in the first round.

You mean besides the fact they can't score or defend? I guess so.

I can agree with taking one somewhere in the draft, but I don't agree with spending a first round pick on a goalie right now. Sure. I'll take more goalies, I just don't want to spend a first round pick on one right now.

Oh, see that's where we really differ...I think Krueger had more power than we'll ever know. I think he was the de facto GM last offseason, given the players we signed.

What opportunity has either of them had? Luukkonen had a few games on awful Rochester and Buffalo teams. Portillo was a freshman. Portillo will prove this year that he is the future.

Taylor Hall came to Buffalo for three reasons...Ralph Krueger, Jack Eichel and $8M. Kevyn Adams had nothing to do with it, it would've happened no matter who the GM was.

They have Luukkonen and Portillo...there's no reason to draft a goalie in the first round.

It's unconscionable to me how some people still don't understand the concept and that it actually worked. It's everything after that that's been the problem.