Brawndo Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Good! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvin Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Just now, Brawndo said: They took pity on us? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jad1 Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 13 minutes ago, Brawndo said: So if the worst team in the league wins the lottery, is that considered a 'win'? If that's the case, the Sabres are probably screwed. 🤔 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 21 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said: They took pity on us? I think the opposite. if your team is consistently garbage, you cant keep winning the first pick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottysabres Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 This looks like the NHL protecting the players potential futures. I wonder if Dahlin, Reinhart and Eichel have secretly hired lobbying firms for this 😄 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Thorny Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Honestly bad teams at the “top” of the draft can now fall less spots, and be leapfrogged by less potential teams. As someone who doesn’t want a lottery at all I like the changes. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jad1 Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 1 minute ago, Brawndo said: Finally! Everything is coming up Sabres! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Also how is it the Kakko/Lafreniere rule? They’d have needed a third win for this to affect them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thwomp! Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 38 minutes ago, Thorny said: Also how is it the Kakko/Lafreniere rule? They’d have needed a third win for this to affect them That will be this year. That's why they're changing it for next. 😉 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) These rule changes would not have affected Buffalo’s drafts. In the past 7 years, they have moved up in the draft order zero times and won the lottery once. These draft lottery changes seem like they add quite a bit of complexity for a pretty minor alteration. Has any team ever even moved up in the lottery 3 times in 5 years? How many times has a team moved up more than 10 spots? All I can think of is philly doing it in 2017. Seems like the main change is that the worst team can only fall to #3. Edited March 8, 2021 by Curt 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 (edited) 23 minutes ago, Curt said: These rule changes would not have affected Buffalo’s drafts. In the past 7 years, they have moved up in the draft order zero times and won the lottery once. These draft lottery changes seem like they add quite a bit of complexity for a pretty minor alteration. Has any team ever even moved up in the lottery 3 times in 5 years? How many times has a team moved up more than 10 spots? All I can think of is philly doing it in 2017. Seems like the main change is that the worst team can only fall to #3. The Sabres haven’t been leapfrogged by any team below 10? I’m pretty sure they have Edited March 8, 2021 by Thorny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorny Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 Any winner of 1, 2, or 3 that came from a spot below buffalo and below 10 would not have been able to do so Pretty sure just last year “team E” wouldn’t have qualified and we’d have picked 7th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Posted March 8, 2021 Report Share Posted March 8, 2021 7 minutes ago, Thorny said: Any winner of 1, 2, or 3 that came from a spot below buffalo and below 10 would not have been able to do so Pretty sure just last year “team E” wouldn’t have qualified and we’d have picked 7th Well, the tweet says can’t jump more than 10 spots, not that a team below 10th can’t move up. So a team at 11 could move up to 1-3, 12 could move up to 2-3, 13 could move up to 3. I guess they are doing away with the lottery for 3rd though. Oh yeah, totally forgot about the Rangers. So Rangers and Philly have done it. But when I said that their drafts wouldn’t have been affected, I really just meant that they wouldn’t have been prevented from drafting high at any point. Just to illustrate that these changes aren’t “anti Sabres”. Poor wording on my part though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhMyDahlin Posted March 9, 2021 Report Share Posted March 9, 2021 Just in time for the Shane Wright draft, eh? That should be fun when he ends up in New York. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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