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and very young - a week, or so, away from being ineligible for this draft. yes.

Despite Pegs love for Kane, not happening. He might make sense as an UFA next year but not this year, giving up draft capital

Not exactly - they kind of lucked into the playoffs the 1st year and were 6-10 the 2nd year. Took 3 years to be a "real" contender. Of course, 3 years in KA's timeline now

God no, not even sure I'm trading 28 for him. 41, sure

I'm not so sure - I think it's pretty fair value. It's not all that hard piling up players playing with Pat Kane.

I agree - my rankings show a ton of D available in rounds 2-4 that either have size and defensive ability or are small and are fast with a offensive upside. Of course, I don't have any in those rounds with both, those are top 15 players - Nemac and Jiricek and maybe Korchinski and Mintyukov. Though, as LHD, the latter 2 don't interest me as much

true - always BPA as these guys won't play for us for at least 2-3 years. If all else is equal, though, look for centers a D. I don't really want Lekkerimaki at 9 and Yurov at 16. Lekk is a bit small and Yurov may be available at 28 due to the Russian thing

Yep, always better drafting centers as they can move to wing easily. Wingers don't move to center typically. Tonight look for BPA at 9, center at 16 and D at 28 (unless by some miracle Nemec or Jiricek falls to 9 or we move up for one of them)

WGR said something like, in his 2 drafts he's only drafted 3 dmen in 12 picks, and one was Power. Look for us drafting a lot of centers, a lot of dmen (hopefully most being RHD) and a goalie in the draft

A gamble but definitely worth taking, considering the trade return. If he sucked you send him to the AHL and it's UPL time

Mafia should flood Murray's social media, if he has one. wouldn't hurt. Buffalo starting goalie has to be > than AHL (what Ottawa did to him last year)

But why would we trade for a player who's an UFA in 6 days?

It would have meant getting a starting goalie (though an average one) and something like Jiricek at 7 and Savoie at 9. fukkkkkkkkkkkkk

Like it if at least one of the RHD is available at 7. If not, no need to trade up to 7, you're getting the same potential at forward at 9. Too bad you're not KA

Solid idea

If Nemec and/or jiricek make it to 6 or 7, I’d do what it takes move up a couple of spots

True but obviously the acquiring team would have the same concerns

Kuemper

I’ve wanted Kuemper for 3 years but there’s no reason to believe he’d want to come here unless for $$$ if COL can’t afford him

Sabres didn’t talk with Hughes at the combine for whatever reason…

Peterka had a great playoff. Playoffs for rookoies can be tough, certainly a learnign experience. For instance, in Vanek's first year with Buffalo he was benched quite a bit in the playoffs by Ruff.

Sure looks like the lavas guy deflected the clearing pass over the boards and shouldn’t have been a penalty but tough to tell. Funny how refs hide their whistles in OT but love calling the mandatory over the glass penalty even when it might have been an erroneous call.

Great - video looked like it went in the goal well before time expired …but not going to argue

Looks like he scored before time ran out - what happened?

Rochester getting badly misplayed but refs bad again. 2-0 Utica and Amerk guying literally tackled going to the net to get a pass. Right in front of ref who ignores it and Utica takes over and scores 15 seconds later. Same ref then calls a much less blatant hook on Rochester 20 seconds later. 4-0 Utica game over