NHL Lottery May 5th

[inkman]

2 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You responded to @Mr. Allen 's post suggesting firing their GM helped the Islanders win the lottery. I assumed that you were suggesting keeping Adams somehow led to us not winning. 

I'm curious, who have you hated that we've drafted the past 5 years?

All of them.  I dislike almost every single Sabre not name Tage or Alex. I hate all of them.  

[PotentPowerPlay21]

5 minutes ago, Night Train said:

I'm looking for the Swedsh 5-8 160 LB. Center the Sabres will draft. 

Does anybody remember the 2021 draft when the Sabres passed up Matthew Knies 6'3" 227 lbs. (who scored 29 goals for Toronto this year) and drafted Aleksandr Kisakov 5'10" 150 lbs. (who barely plays for the Amerks)?

My point is that it doesn't matter where the Sabres pick, they will screw it up anyway.  Kevyn Adams and Jerry Forton will probably still say that they like the pick! Maybe they can double down and pick another weak, undersized player? It took 5 years for these bozos to build the softest team in the league.

[LGR4GM]

5 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You responded to @Mr. Allen 's post suggesting firing their GM helped the Islanders win the lottery. I assumed that you were suggesting keeping Adams somehow led to us not winning. 

Keeping Kevyn Adams, has literally, kept us from winning. We've gotten worse every year for 3 straight years under his uninspired, frail, weak, and otherwise poor leadership. 

You walked into that one. 

2 minutes ago, PotentPowerPlay21 said:

Does anybody remember the 2021 draft when the Sabres passed up Matthew Knies 6'3" 227 lbs. (who scored 29 goals for Toronto this year) and drafted Aleksandr Kisakov 5'10" 150 lbs. (who barely plays for the Amerks)?

My point is that it doesn't matter where the Sabres pick, they will screw it up anyway.  Kevyn Adams and Jerry Forton will probably still say that they like the pick! Maybe they can double down and pick another weak, undersized player? It took 5 years for these bozos to build the softest team in the league.

So you dislike Zack Benson? 

[Broken Ankles]

7 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

You responded to @Mr. Allen 's post suggesting firing their GM helped the Islanders win the lottery. I assumed that you were suggesting keeping Adams somehow led to us not winning. 

How do you know his not being fired definitively has NO affect on the lottery?  There are forces out there.  Just b/c you choose to ignore them does not mean they don’t exist. 

[PromoTheRobot]

5 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Keeping Kevyn Adams, has literally, kept us from winning. We've gotten worse every year for 3 straight years under his uninspired, frail, weak, and otherwise poor leadership. 

You walked into that one. 

 

I don't think so, but you just go on believing whatever.

2 minutes ago, Broken Ankles said:

How do you know his not being fired definitively has NO affect on the lottery?  There are forces out there.  Just b/c you choose to ignore them does not mean they don’t exist. 

You mean like The Secret but in reverse?

Edited 2 hours ago by PromoTheRobot

[FrenchConnection44]

WTH was that BS lottery? Nobody knew exactly what those numbers meant at the start and what the numbers we needed to get, until the fourth draw. And the rest of the way it made no sense either. It was just such a bizarro system.
 

That had to be the most absurd lottery draw system I’ve ever seen. Come on. 
 

Of course we get screwed. 
 

Bettman should be sent to Gnome, Alaska to dig dirt. After he cuts through the ice. 

[LGR4GM]

1 minute ago, PromoTheRobot said:

I don't think so, but you just go on believing whatever.

"I assumed that you were suggesting keeping Adams somehow led to us not winning."

Yes, I am suggesting that keeping Adams has kept the team from winning games. Hook. Line. Sinker.

[Scottysabres]

Don’t care where we fell on the draft board for 1st rd. Trade the pick to better the team if a deal is there. Trade a prospect or 2 to better the team if a deal is there.

Fir the love of the hockey gods, just better the team for next season!!!!!

[PromoTheRobot]

Just now, LGR4GM said:

"I assumed that you were suggesting keeping Adams somehow led to us not winning."

Yes, I am suggesting that keeping Adams has kept the team from winning games. Hook. Line. Sinker.

1 minute ago, FrenchConnection44 said:

WTH was that BS lottery? Nobody knew exactly what those numbers meant at the start and what the numbers we needed to get, until the fourth draw. And the rest of the way it made no sense either. It was just such a bizarro system.
 

That had to be the most absurd lottery draw system I’ve ever seen. Come on. 
 

Of course we get screwed. 
 

Bettman should be sent to Gnome, Alaska to dig dirt. After he cuts through the ice. 

https://puckgm.puckpedia.com/draft-lottery-combos

There was no secret. You could have looked up every winning combo for every team.

[LGR4GM]

Just now, PromoTheRobot said:

Lol. Good luck. 

[Broken Ankles]

Kev celebrating the  9 OA.

[PromoTheRobot]

Just now, LGR4GM said:

Lol. Good luck. 

I'm not the one taking posts out of context to score points in some game in your own head.

[Taro T]

Just now, FrenchConnection44 said:

WTH was that BS lottery? Nobody knew exactly what those numbers meant at the start and what the numbers we needed to get, until the fourth draw. And the rest of the way it made no sense either. It was just such a bizarro system.
 

That had to be the most absurd lottery draw system I’ve ever seen. Come on. 
 

Of course we get screwed. 
 

Bettman should be sent to Gnome, Alaska to dig dirt. After he cuts through the ice. 

Still believe it could've been made better if they'd've used the jumbotron somewhere (MSG, or whatever they're calling the new MLG in TO would be obvious choices (had they held this on a night the Loafs weren't hosting a game at least)) and had 1000 small team logos and a "draw again" on the last combo on a big board with each one lit up (and the jumbotrons are big enough they should've been able to at least have small visible logos for all 1,001 permutations) and then as a ball is drawn then all the no longer possible combos go black.  (Maybe do it in a cascade effect so as to build the drama a bit?)  After the 4th ball is drawn 1 logo remains lit and they "grow" it until it takes up the full screen.

Redo for the 2nd draft, but now the 1st lottery winning team's logos are replaces with "draw again" as well.

WAAAAY better than what they actually did.

[Flashsabre]

I didn’t watch it. Did they show Adams?

Good on the Sabres dropping 2 spots. They don’t deserve any reward for how horribly they have run the franchise.

Edited 2 hours ago by Flashsabre

[PromoTheRobot]

1 minute ago, Taro T said:

Still believe it could've been made better if they'd've used the jumbotron somewhere (MSG, or whatever they're calling the new MLG in TO would be obvious choices (had they held this on a night the Loafs weren't hosting a game at least)) and had 1000 small team logos and a "draw again" on the last combo on a big board with each one lit up (and the jumbotrons are big enough they should've been able to at least have small visible logos for all 1,001 permutations) and then as a ball is drawn then all the no longer possible combos go black.  (Maybe do it in a cascade effect so as to build the drama a bit?)  After the 4th ball is drawn 1 logo remains lit and they "grow" it until it takes up the full screen.

Redo for the 2nd draft, but now the 1st lottery winning team's logos are replaces with "draw again" as well.

WAAAAY better than what they actually did.

But they did "keep score" in real time. They eliminated teams that weren't in the running and they showed the winning number for any remaining team at the final ball.

Just now, Flashsabre said:

I didn’t watch it. Did they show Adams?

Good on the Sabres dropping 2 spots. They don’t deserve any reward for how horribly they have run the franchise.

Yeah, for 1.5 seconds. Enough to trigger people. And it's not just Buffalo falling back two spots. Boston, Philly, Nashville and Seattle all fell back two spots.

[Andrew Amerk]

9 minutes ago, Scottysabres said:

Don’t care where we fell on the draft board for 1st rd. Trade the pick to better the team if a deal is there. Trade a prospect or 2 to better the team if a deal is there.

Fir the love of the hockey gods, just better the team for next season!!!!!

I’m impressed that you think KA would make moves to improve the roster. 

[Taro T]

Just now, PromoTheRobot said:

But they did "keep score" in real time. They eliminated teams that weren't in the running and they showed the winning number for any remaining team at the final ball.

They did.  But it would've been more dramatic seeing a huge chunk of the logos going black on the 1st draw and then fewer going away each time (though a greater percentage of the remaining #'s going away).  They could've had a separate screen (or maybe the corners of a board like the Sabres one) keeping the teams still alive lit up (for those too lazy to look through the big matrix to see if their favorite team was still alive) too.

They once again half-arsed what could've been sort of fun.

And Buccigross being forced to feign excitement only raised the cringe factor.

5 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

I didn’t watch it. Did they show Adams?

Good on the Sabres dropping 2 spots. They don’t deserve any reward for how horribly they have run the franchise.

Yes, yes they did.  The Sabres were one of 4 or 5 teams that still had a chance on the 1st lottery's 4th draw and they had each of those GMs shown in a Zoom meeting sort of layout.  (Tuned in late; don't know if they showed all 16 GMs to start the thing.)

[Taro T]

7 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

But they did "keep score" in real time. They eliminated teams that weren't in the running and they showed the winning number for any remaining team at the final ball.

Yeah, for 1.5 seconds. Enough to trigger people. And it's not just Buffalo falling back two spots. Boston, Philly, Nashville and Seattle all fell back two spots.

Not by himself, but Adams was "on screen" for pretty much the entirely of the 4th ball's draw along with the others that still had a chance to win.

[HumanSlinky39]

I honestly don't care who/what they pick. I'm tired of draft picks. Start trading some of them for players that can help NOW.

[FrenchConnection44]

10 minutes ago, PromoTheRobot said:

https://puckgm.puckpedia.com/draft-lottery-combos

There was no secret. You could have looked up every winning combo for every team.

Do I want to search for that? No.

Do fans who don’t have hours in the day to do that want to? No. 

Did I want to tune in and see the combos on ESPN ahead of time? Yes. They didn’t show that.

I’m not laying around on my butt in my parents basement spending time looking up that. I work for a living, sometimes 60+ hours, and I have innumerable responsibilities with kids and grandkids. I want to tune in, see exactly what is going on with my team, explained clearly, and know what the numbers mean each time they’re drawn.

they didn’t explain any of that. Until the fourth ball was drawn, and then, we have lower odds in the penguins!

The NBA does the lottery without any problem. That was classic NHL nonsense.

[Wyldnwoody44]

[Dr. Who]

16 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

I didn’t watch it. Did they show Adams?

Good on the Sabres dropping 2 spots. They don’t deserve any reward for how horribly they have run the franchise.

He was very busy with his coloring book.

[PromoTheRobot]

5 minutes ago, FrenchConnection44 said:

Do I want to search for that? No.

Do fans who don’t have hours in the day to do that want to? No. 

Did I want to tune in and see the combos on ESPN ahead of time? Yes. They didn’t show that.

I’m not laying around on my butt in my parents basement spending time looking up that. I work for a living, sometimes 60+ hours, and I have innumerable responsibilities with kids and grandkids. I want to tune in, see exactly what is going on with my team, explained clearly, and know what the numbers mean each time they’re drawn.

they didn’t explain any of that. Until the fourth ball was drawn, and then, we have lower odds in the penguins!

The NBA does the lottery without any problem. That was classic NHL nonsense.

Nothing in this lottery was different than any other year EXCEPT they drew the balls live on stage. I don't know what to tell you.

[Scottysabres]

Just now, Dr. Who said:

He was very busy with his coloring book.

Land it would have looked great had he not ate the crayons.

[Ctaeth]

feels pretty bad to have the sabres picking only ninth after how poorly this past season went.  they were in last place in the conference for what felt like an eternity.