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I was talking about the 155 games and 62 total points he gave us. A 52 goals playing with the Stastnys isn’t really relevant to Jacques time in Buffalo.

No, Bader has no idea what he is talking about. 2020-21 Östlund played 10 games at the U20 Swedish team and had 15 pts in those 10 games. He also had 2 pts in 5 U18 WJC 2021-22 He played 32 games for the U20 team putting up 42 including 33 assists. He also exploded at the U18’s w 10 pts in 6 games. Byron can you say small sample size for the 10 games on the U20 team in 20/21?

31g in 41 games in Swedish Jrs

Matt Seminoff at 179 is a huge value pickup for Dallas. He was ranked by Mckeens at 62 and Dobber at 70. Come on Sabres take Mittelstadt with the next pick.

No pressure kid, but you are now the 2nd best RHD prospect in the Sabres system and the top RHD can’t actually defend. Congrats that is quite a distinction.

Hopefully he’ll turn out better than former Sabre great Jacques Richard.

Novikov or Komarov, whatever. The odds either ever play for the Sabres are a out 10%. KA had a chance to get a solid RHD prospect at 41 and took another large Finish goalie with a 4th rd grade instead.

Another value pick. Still want Luke Mittelstadt.

Who?

Laaksonen and Novikov

Obviously time will tell. However, as I mentioned comparing her list to the 16 other lists I utilized for my consensus list, many of her rankings were outliers on the bell curve.

I guess the good news is that Campbell, Kuemper, probably Talbot and Allen are still out there. Maybe KA goes after Gibson? However he needs to get moving on this. I wonder if Grier will part with Hill or Riemer?

I never said in order. I said her model has players with lesser talent ranked significantly higher than players with clearly more talent.

On skill alone you are probably correct, but I have them (Krebs and JJP) over him because they are NHL ready now and Savoie may not taste the NHL for 2-3 years. In a year as Savoie or Levi will likely be No.1 on the list as the currently inexperienced NHL guys move off the list. Don’t forget that Power, Quinn and JJP all have less than 10 games of NHL experience. Krebs only has 61 and Samuelsson 54.

A couple of general thoughts on the first day. 1. Size matters - nearly all the skilled small forwards fell on draft day from their consensus draft status. Savoie, Nazar, Kemell, Lekkerimaki, and even Kulich all fell. Offensive D and Big D went earlier. Skilled D like Korchinski, Mintyukov and Mateychuk all went higher than the consensus; teams searching for the next Makar. Tall D like Pickering, Bichsel, Rinzel and Lamoureau all went substantially higher than expected. 2. Leadership and all around play matters - McGroarty and Geekie both went higher despite skating issues. 3. The Russian Factor - I’m not sure if it ultimately mattered. Yurov was the only one of the 3 major Russians to fall in the draft. Mintyukov, who already plays here, was drafted early on his offensive skill set. Miro was drafted around expectations despite his illness and nationality. I do think it was interesting that Miro (wash) and Yurov (Minn) went to teams very familiar with Russian players and the current political climate there.

I have been creating a consensus list every year for the last decade to see what experts from ex-GM Button to people like Mehgan Chayka say every year about the draft prospects to educate myself about the prospects. For the last couple of years I have published this list on the board. Over this decade I have found that some of these experts are better than others. This was my first time seeing Mehgan’s work product and I was honestly disappointed. The consensus board did a pretty solid job. Of the players list 1-27, only Firkus (24th) wasn’t drafted in the first round. Of the guys listed 28-32, 3 weren’t drafted in the first, and interestingly all 3 were arguably more defensive D in Chesley, Luneau and Odelius.

I think this is a great assessment of the excellent job KA and his crew did last night. Kulich is my favorite of the 3, but the more I read on Savoie the more excited I am at seeing him next season.

Yes and no. If you are in the business of scouting draft eligible players, your job is to try to figure out who should be draft early and who should not. She had a large number of players who her model said should be in the first round that clearly weren’t 1st rd talents.

The comparison to Aho is a good one. His Swedish linemates were Ohgren and Lekkerimaki. He was the straw that stirred the drink for that great line.

ESPN kept showing her "best available" players, based on her rankings of the players in the draft. She wasn't even close. LGR, Rakish, myself and others did a better job at ranking the players from simply reading scouting reports and watching video on the internet.

At the U-18's last season he lead the tournament in goals with 9 and a very mediocre Czech team.

I like this plan. Take the Havelid twins and get Luke Mittelstadt.

After seeing her rankings last night, no.

Sabres pick 41. There are 4 RHD that I really like still on the board. They are Ryan Chelsey (23rd on my board), Tristan Luneau (30), Seamus Casey (38) and Mattias Havelid (40). Hopefully at least one of these 4 will still be on the board when we draft.

So where do today's picks slot on the above list. All 3 are immediately in our top 10. I'd also slot all 3 ahead of last year's 14th overall pick Rosen. I honestly think all 3 are or will be better players. I my personal baord for this year I had Savoie 6th, Kulich 14th and Ostlund 18th. I had Rosen 21st on my board last season. I'd slot Savoie at 6th on our prospect list after Levi, but before Samuelsson. Samuelsson would fall to 7th. Kulich would then be 8th and Ostlund 9th, followed by Johnson at 10, Portillo 11 and Rosen 12.