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No idea. Sounds like he needs to add some muscle.

This is a perfect 7th rounder. Very unknown but lots of upside. This is exactly where you take this type of player and can't have enough goalie prospects. Relative to where the picks are taken this might be my favourite pick of this draft for them.

That was going to be my first question 🙂 Late round goalies never an issue with that.

Well so is Mrtka but fair enough. Yes they had more picks. I like what they did though and as you know I'm comparing their rebuild with ours as they did it differently. I'm also just kind of looking at the competition and thinking playoffs. Draft plus trades. Next is free agency. Right now Montreal looks better. Detroit looks a little better. Ottawa same. Rangers same. Blue Jackets still better than us. I see no chance of playoffs for the Sabres as is.

Nesbitt was picked higher than ranked I agree but if he turns into Adam Lowry (which he could) nobody will say they over drafted in 5 years from now. Martone to Mrtka is a bad comparison as it's forward to D but he is a power forward in the making and will body past defenders. Amico is better than Bedkowski and has a much better chance of actually being in the NHL but yes, they are both big and mean. I hope Bedkowski works out. I also really like Murtaugh and we could have picked him instead of trading. He's not as good as Carter Bear but has some similarities.

Oh very different for sure. I have no issues with Bedkowski. It's not an either or I'd have been fine with both given where we picked. I don't like Timmins. Montreal made the big move in the second round. I'd bet Philly had their sights set on the Russian but Montreal jumped them and snagged him. Montreal has a Russian scout. That's probably a smart organizational move for them. I see him as the potential second round steal.

I'm on a delay. Currently in round 4. I'm on the west coast and sleep in. So I'm only talking about rounds 1-3 in that regard.

Look at their picks.

I don't see us spending a ton in free agency so unless something big still happens we will be well below the cap. I suppose he might dump a pile of cash at Byram and keep him but we still won't spend to the cap.

Yes Philly did, but in this draft it's all size and meanness. I have seen the D moves but I think Clifton was overly maligned in a bad system, I don't like Timmins he's worse than Jokiharju was. Kesselring I like, but I do not think he's as good as some here think either. We still have Samuelsson and imo the D isn't all that much better and is still dependent on Power being better. Which might happen, but might not. The draft picks are all way down the road guys.

But round 3. Lesser version. I hope he works out and develops into an NHL player but he's going to take years to get there. I don't like this trade. I think Kettles will be better than Timmins (for example).

I don't have any issues with this pick. In the very least he will balance out Rochester's team balance eventually. Maybe make the NHL and be a solid bottom guy.

Except he passed on some big (and mean) RHD at the top of the round to trade for cast off RHD and he shipped out our own tiny RHD and dumped the soft one last year so are we actually any better???

Philly going big, mean and nasty all over the place. Broad Street Bullies might be coming back. Talk about a team thinking opposite to the Sabres.

Isn't Timmins the guy the Bruins absolutely destroyed in the playoffs and hence Leafs dumped him? I might be remembering the wrong guy, but if that's him he was BAD. I don't know much else about them. Clifton would have been better to be a deadline dump and I bet you Pittsburgh gets at least a 2nd for him at the deadline but whatever. I liked the D depth with Clifton at the bottom better than now but I guess our quota for guys who hit on D is one max. aside - (Only the Sabres however. Only the Sabres could produce a video with Alex Tuch telling a kid he gets to announce the 2nd round pick and then turn around and trade away the 2nd round pick so the kid announces the 3rd rounder. It was a nice moving story and which pick it is probably doesn't matter to the kid who gets the insiders tour and all that but really? Bush league with the video. )

Not this year.

Some are more ready than others.

Oh if McQueen is healthy he's Getzlaf and he will be the steal of the draft, but it's a gamble. Ducks willing to gamble so we shall see how it goes. I see Mrtka as a safe conservative pick. You can't teach that sort of size and he's likely to become something decent, but it'll take several years. I'd rather have traded the pick than make this one. Or just go for the grit and character and take Bear. Really hate Detroit getting Bear. Did I say that enough yet? Probably keep saying it forever.

Pittsburgh's the team that I found odd in this draft. Maybe they are smarter but their picks seem out of place.

Ya, I had my eye on him as well. Raw talent but I think he will be really good. Didn't think we'd get a chance at him though. Originally (when they had a late first) I thought Philly would take him because they love size.

Kind of. Definitely not Chara. He genuinely looked sad though when his name was announced. I don't know the details on all these other teams but how many of them had their owners in the welcoming/draft group? I don't think many.

Not happy Detroit got Carter Bear. I thought that was why Philly traded up but then they went Nesbitt so whatever. I really liked Bear and don't want the direct competition to have him. I said 3 years away but could be 4. Dahlin will be gone by then.

Unlikely. Martone had a childhood Flyers jersey and billeted with the same family that Owen Tippett had. He's a Flyer. If McQueen is healthy Ducks got a new Getzlaf.

That's actually fairly possible. I personally don't like most of them (except Helenius) but I just kind of figure there's enough ceiling on some of them that you shpould be able to get somebody to bite but maybe not. 4D chess right?

Called it. Quite predictable really. I like the pick but he's realistically 3 years away. I really hope we don't rush this one.