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When in doubt, wait to hear it from a secondary or third credible (key word) source before believing or wondering about if it’s true. Just a thought.

It’s incredible how some fans want to stay so ignorant of facts when they continue to believe Eichel makes Reinhart better, but there’s no way Reinhart does the same for Eichel and has done it for years now.

Still being optimistic ... Sabres 4 Flyers 2 Reinhart, Skinner, or Risto with a goal

Is anybody else using that night mode? The OP is barely readable. Dark blue with black print… Yikes. I skipped right over it 😂

Agree. Unfortunately, enough sports fans eat up any sports radio as long as the home town team is discussed. And they start to think the talent on the station is legit. I don’t get it but some fans actually think Schoop and Bulldog are talented, informative, and smart talk show hosts. It’s stunning. But if you aren’t exposing yourself to legit national talent that don’t talk about your precious local team all day, you tend to not have the ability to do a comparison. So the local radio hosts stay secure in their jobs.

The regulars will continue to deny it. There’s nothing you can prove, show, or say that will alter their minds. It’s a lost cause. It’s been for years.

IMO ... Putting any stock in Borgen being so physical that it will affect (positively) another team from being as physical because big bad Borgen is on the ice ... is a bit premature. Just a touch. And at the NHL level, it may take him 2-3 years before he starts to throw meaningful hits aka “Wilson style”. Not to mention at the NHL level, he may never get anywhere near “Wilson level” of physicality. Let alone the super rare occasion of a fight.

Niiiice screen by Sam Good shot Risto

No obnoxious boo birds in the arena tonight. That’s a plus 😂

One game in. Not in the least concerned, worried, or mentally bridge jumping. I’ll leave that stress and drama to others 😂 Get back at it today. Make adjustments, push back and win it tonight. 😡 Let’s go Buffalo! 4-2 Sabres

I just went alphabetically and did a handful of teams here to compare Buffalo at 8% hit rate with a few other teams. Anaheim Ducks 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 12 players total. 2 players have played 100 or more games. 16% hit rate. Arizona Coyotes 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 15 players total. 1 player has played 100 or more games. 6% hit rate Boston Bruins 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 6 players total. 2 players have played 100 or more games. 33% hit rate Calgary Flames 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 8 players total 1 player has played 100 or more games. 12% hit rate Carolina Hurricanes 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 12 players total 2 players have played 100 or more games. 16% hit rate Chicago Blackhawks 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 13 players total 3 players have played 100 or more games. 23% hit rate Colorado Avalanche 3rd round picks (2008-2017) that played 100 or more NHL games. 7 players total 2 players have played 100 or more games. 14% hit rate Yea, Buffalo needs to start hitting on the 3rd rounders just a little more. Even if it’s 1 out of every 6 picks.

Considering it’s the first game, Which one are you?

Looking at that Hall goal again. Reinhart was smart and patient. It made all the difference there.

Not a terrible period after being off from real competitive hockey for 8 months. something to build on ...

My source told me he’s a really cool dr. Good personality.

First time out of the gate. Not terrible. I bet they tighten it up a little next game or two.

I think the rookie season of Cozens impact will be roughly in the ballpark of the full rookie season of Reinhart and Skinner. So would you consider them “impactful” in their rookie seasons? And “impactful” has a different definition for different fans.

God awful jacket there Duffer. Good lord.

I just want to know, Of the players that have played 100 games or more, What was the “hit rate” of other teams during that 10 year span. Are most teams above/below 8%?

Yea I figured they wouldn’t keep Jeff Skinner on the fourth line… He’s with Lazar and Sheahan on the 3rd.

Where is Okposo? I bet at game time it’s a little different.

Interesting ... Of the players that have played 100 or more, What was the “hit rate” of other teams? Are most teams above/below 8%?

As anyone with eyes could see, for the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th round, the Buffalo Sabres did no worse, and no better than the majority of teams. So they didn’t “under perform” or "over perform" compared to a lot of teams. It would have been nice to hit on a couple 4th rounders, but the majority of the teams didn’t either. Who’s had NHL time? So i took a 10 year sample. From 2008 - 2017. In my opinion it’s too soon to judge anyone drafted in the 3rd round in 2018 or more recently to determine if a team drafted well in the 3rd. If you disagree, then post the more recent years if you want. I added the Buffalo picks (if there are any) just to see the names. This is the round (along with 2nd, and 1st) where teams really turn from a “hope” mentality, to expect their pick to make their NHL team at some point and do rather well. 2008 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 65 St. Louis Jori Lehtera C 307 34 77 111 167 2018-19 67 Philadelphia Marc-Andre Bourdon D 45 4 3 7 52 2011-12 68 Chicago Shawn Lalonde D 1 0 0 0 0 2012-13 69 Phoenix Michael Stone D 472 31 93 124 264 2019-20 74 Los Angeles Andrew Campbell D 42 0 2 2 12 2015-16 75 NY Rangers Evgeny Grachev L 34 1 3 4 2 2011-12 77 Boston Michael Hutchinson G 127 0 1 1 0 2019-20 78 Calgary Lance Bouma L 357 30 46 76 210 2017-18 79 Ottawa Zack Smith L 662 98 106 204 722 2019-20 81 Buffalo Corey Fienhage D 82 New Jersey Adam Henrique C 665 186 192 378 204 2019-20 85 Anaheim Brandon McMillan L 171 14 22 36 60 2014-15 90 NY Rangers Tomas Kundratek D 30 1 6 7 10 2012-13 Out of 30 picks, 12 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 12 players, only 7 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2009 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 62 NY Islanders Anders Nilsson G 161 0 3 3 6 2019-20 63 Pittsburgh Ben Hanowski R 16 1 2 3 2 2013-14 64 Colorado Tyson Barrie D 554 80 266 346 179 2019-20 65 Montreal Joonas Nattinen C 1 0 0 0 0 2013-14 66 Buffalo Brayden McNabb D 466 18 72 90 363 2019-20 68 Toronto Jamie Devane L 2 0 0 0 0 2013-14 69 Dallas Reilly Smith R 577 144 210 354 150 2019-20 70 Nashville Taylor Beck R 92 11 12 23 32 2016-17 72 Nashville Michael Latta C 113 4 13 17 130 2015-16 73 New Jersey Alexander Urbom D 34 3 1 4 28 2013-14 75 Detroit Andrej Nestrasil R 128 17 31 48 18 2016-17 77 Minnesota Matt Hackett G 26 0 0 0 0 2014-15 80 NY Rangers Ryan Bourque L 1 0 0 0 0 2014-15 83 Vancouver Kevin Connauton D 314 27 49 76 177 2019-20 84 Los Angeles Nicolas Deslauriers L 376 31 31 62 355 2019-20 85 Washington Cody Eakin C 586 103 134 237 242 2019-20 Out of 30 picks, 16 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 16 players, only 6 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2010 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 62 Toronto Greg McKegg C 185 18 15 33 57 2019-20 64 Calgary Max Reinhart C 23 1 4 5 6 2014-15 66 Tampa Bay Radko Gudas D 479 26 94 120 619 2019-20 67 Carolina Danny Biega D 10 0 2 2 0 2014-15 68 Buffalo Jerome Leduc D 70 Los Angeles Jordan Weal C 218 32 37 69 56 2019-20 71 Colorado Michael Bournival L 113 12 10 22 24 2017-18 75 Buffalo Kevin Sundher C 80 Pittsburgh Bryan Rust R 309 78 92 170 104 2020-21 83 Buffalo Matt Mackenzie D 84 New Jersey Scott Wedgewood G 24 0 0 0 2 2017-18 86 Washington Stanislav Galiev L 26 1 3 4 4 2015-16 87 Atlanta Julian Melchiori D 30 0 2 2 8 2016-17 89 Philadelphia Michael Chaput C 169 6 16 22 78 2019-20 90 Chicago Joakim Nordstrom C 400 31 37 68 71 2019-20 Out of 30 picks, 12 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 12 players, only 7 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2011 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 63 NY Islanders Andrey Pedan D 13 0 0 0 18 2015-16 64 Florida Vincent Trocheck C 427 112 172 284 274 2019-20 65 Anaheim Joseph Cramarossa C 59 4 6 10 60 2016-17 66 Columbus T.J. Tynan C 19 0 1 1 2 2019-20 67 Winnipeg Adam Lowry C 408 57 66 123 215 2019-20 68 Philadelphia Nick Cousins C 324 41 57 98 138 2019-20 70 Chicago Michael Paliotta D 2 0 1 1 4 2015-16 72 NY Rangers Steven Fogarty C 18 0 0 0 2 2019-20 73 Carolina Keegan Lowe D 4 0 0 0 10 2017-18 75 New Jersey Blake Coleman C 247 57 38 95 204 2020-21 76 Florida Logan Shaw R 215 15 21 36 35 2019-20 77 Buffalo Daniel Catenacci C 12 0 0 0 0 2017-18 79 Chicago Klas Dahlbeck D 170 6 17 23 87 2017-18 80 Los Angeles Andy Andreoff L 173 13 12 25 216 2019-20 82 Los Angeles Nick Shore C 299 18 41 59 98 2019-20 83 Anaheim Andy Welinski D 33 1 5 6 8 2018-19 85 Detroit Alan Quine C 106 10 18 28 22 2019-20 86 Toronto Joshua Leivo L 169 31 34 65 56 2019-20 87 Florida Jonathan Racine D 1 0 0 0 2 2013-14 88 St. Louis Jordan Binnington G 84 0 1 1 4 2020-21 90 Vancouver Alexandre Grenier R 9 0 0 0 2 2016-17 91 Florida Kyle Rau C 42 2 3 5 6 2018-19 Out of 30 picks, 22 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 22 players, only 10 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2012 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 62 Columbus Joonas Korpisalo G 127 0 1 1 2 2019-20 63 Edmonton Jujhar Khaira L 219 21 31 52 143 2020-21 65 NY Islanders Adam Pelech D 247 12 49 61 78 2019-20 66 Nashville Jimmy Vesey L 305 60 51 111 82 2020-21 67 St. Louis Mackenzie MacEachern L 80 10 5 15 43 2019-20 70 Winnipeg Scott Kosmachuk R 8 0 3 3 2 2015-16 71 Tampa Bay Tanner Richard C 3 0 0 0 2 2016-17 73 Buffalo Justin Kea C 74 Dallas Esa Lindell D 308 27 73 100 91 2019-20 75 Calgary Jon Gillies G 12 0 0 0 2 2017-18 3 76 Ottawa Chris Driedger G 15 0 0 0 0 2019-20 77 Washington Chandler Stephenson C 209 22 33 55 26 2019-20 78 Philadelphia Shayne Gostisbehere D 340 51 148 199 123 2019-20 81 Pittsburgh Oskar Sundqvist C 202 30 35 65 70 2020-21 83 Pittsburgh Matt Murray G 199 0 4 4 8 2019-20 85 Boston Matt Grzelcyk D 197 10 44 54 126 2019-20 86 St. Louis Colton Parayko D 387 39 120 159 105 2020-21 87 Anaheim Frederik Andersen G 370 0 9 9 26 2020-21 89 Nashville Brendan Leipsic L 187 16 43 59 53 2019-20 Out of 30 picks, 18 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 18 players, only 13 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2013 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 63 Colorado Spencer Martin G 3 0 0 0 0 2016-17 66 Carolina Brett Pesce D 350 20 82 102 105 2019-20 69 Buffalo Nick Baptiste R 47 7 3 10 20 2017-18 72 Philadelphia Tyrell Goulbourne L 11 0 0 0 2 2018-19 74 Chicago John Hayden C 156 11 15 26 162 2019-20 75 NY Rangers Pavel Buchnevich R 247 59 88 147 70 2019-20 77 Pittsburgh Jake Guentzel L 244 98 102 200 92 2020-21 78 Ottawa Marcus Hogberg G 28 0 0 0 0 2019-20 79 Detroit Mattias Janmark-Nylen C 298 46 63 109 76 2020-21 80 NY Rangers Anthony Duclair L 353 79 83 162 115 2019-20 81 Minnesota Kurtis Gabriel R 38 2 3 5 98 2018-19 82 Toronto Carter Verhaeghe C 52 9 4 13 8 2019-20 83 Edmonton Bogdan Yakimov C 1 0 0 0 0 2014-15 86 Montreal Sven Andrighetto R 216 31 52 83 42 2018-19 88 Edmonton Anton Slepyshev L 102 10 13 23 14 2017-18 89 Columbus Oliver Bjorkstrand R 246 65 68 133 35 2019-20 90 Boston Peter Cehlarik L 40 5 6 11 10 2019-20 91 Winnipeg JC Lipon R 9 0 1 1 5 2015-16 Out of 30 picks, 18 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 18 players, only 9 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2014 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 61 Buffalo Jonas Johansson G 6 0 0 0 0 2019-20 63 Detroit Dominic Turgeon C 9 0 0 0 2 2018-19 65 Florida Juho Lammikko R 40 06 6 6 2018-19 66 Vancouver Nikita Tryamkin D 79 3 8 11 74 2016-17 67 Carolina Warren Foegele L 147 25 23 48 54 2019-20 68 Toronto Rinat Valiev D 12 0 0 0 2 2017-18 73 Montreal Brett Lernout D 21 0 1 1 6 2017-18 74 Buffalo Brycen Martin D 76 Columbus Elvis Merzlikins G 33 0 0 0 0 2019-20 79 Tampa Bay Brayden Point C 296 117 147 264 77 2020-21 80 Minnesota Louis Belpedio D 3 0 2 2 0 2018-19 82 St. Louis Jake Walman D 1 0 0 0 0 2019-20 86 Philadelphia Mark Friedman D 7 0 1 1 2 2019-20 89 Washington Nathan Walker L 17 2 2 4 12 2019-20 90 Los Angeles Mike Amadio C 148 16 21 37 24 2019-20 Out of 30 picks, 14 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 14 players, only 3 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2015 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 63 Arizona Kyle Capobianco D 12 1 0 1 2 2019-20 66 Vancouver Guillaume Brisebois D 8 0 0 0 0 2018-19 67 New Jersey Blake Speers C 3 0 0 0 0 2016-17 69 Columbus Keegan Kolesar R 1 0 0 0 0 2019-20 71 Colorado Jean-Christophe Beaudin C 22 0 1 1 7 2019-20 72 Tampa Bay Anthony Cirelli C 169 41 55 96 70 2020-21 76 Arizona Adin Hill G 30 0 0 0 2 2019-20 77 Florida Samuel Montembeault G 25 0 1 1 0 2019-20 87 Montreal Lukas Vejdemo C 7 1 0 1 0 2019-20 89 NY Rangers Aleksi Saarela C 9 2 2 4 0 2019-20 91 Chicago Dennis Gilbert D 22 1 2 3 40 2019-20 Out of 30 picks, 11 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 11 players, only 1 have played 100 games or more. —————————————————————————— 2016 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 65 Columbus Vitaly Abramov L 3 1 0 1 2 2019-20 66 Calgary Adam Fox D 70 8 34 42 32 2019-20 69 Buffalo Cliff Pu R 73 New Jersey Joey Anderson R 52 8 5 13 8 2019-20 76 Nashville Rem Pitlick C 1 0 0 0 2 2018-19 80 New Jersey Brandon Gignac C 1 0 0 0 0 2018-19 82 Philadelphia Carsen Twarynski L 15 1 0 1 4 2019-20 85 Anaheim Josh Mahura D 28 2 7 9 6 2019-20 86 Buffalo Casey Fitzgerald D Out of 30 picks, 7 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 7 players, no one has played 100 games or more. ————————————————————————— 2017 Draft Pick number/Drafting Team/Player/Position/NHL games played/Goals/Assists/Points/PIM’s/Last NHL season 64 Vancouver Michael DiPietro G 2 0 0 0 0 2019-20 67 Carolina Morgan Geekie C 2 3 1 4 2 2019-20 87 Montreal Cale Fleury D 41 1 0 1 6 2019-20 89 Buffalo Oskari Laaksonen D Out of 30 picks, 3 players saw at least 1 NHL game. Out of 3 players, no one has played 100 games or more. --------------------------------------------------------- Even in the 3rd round .... The majority of picks just don't make it to the NHL and the majority of the ones that do, don't have long NHL careers. 2010 draft for Buffalo was .... ugly. yikes! And passing on Brayden Point ... Ouch! Wish Sabres could have hit well on at least one, if not two picks in this 10 year span.

Let’s start the season optimistic. 5-3 Sabres Skinner, Staal or Risto with a goal