#219, C Ryan Rucinski

[LGR4GM]

5'10" center with good numbers. Heading to Ohio State

[PerreaultForever]

Typical Sabres pick. No thank you. Virtually no chance of making the NHL imo. 

[LGR4GM]

40 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

Typical Sabres pick. No thank you. Virtually no chance of making the NHL imo. 

[Slack_in_MA]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

Typical Sabres pick. No thank you. Virtually no chance of making the NHL imo. 

Out of curiosity, what type of player wouldn’t be a “typical Sabres pick” in the late rounds? Can’t the same be said for every other teams’ late round picks?

Are there too many rounds in the draft? Should they just leave the draft after the 3rd round?

Edited June 29 by Slack_in_MA

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, Slack_in_MA said:

Out of curiosity, what type of player wouldn’t be a “typical Sabres pick” in the late rounds? Can’t the same be said for every other teams’ late round picks?

Are there too many rounds in the draft? Should they just leave the draft after the 3rd round?

Non typical would be big guys who maybe aren't high enough because they have skill shortcomings or speed shortcomings. Guys you develop for the AHL team support system or if they are good enough they become the guys who can chuck 'em to quote Lindy. We go for the too small to be high picks with speed and skill we think might turn them into................I guess Victor Olafsson. I'm going to the extreme ends here but that's the general idea. You can make arguments for either but we don't generally do both. We go the one way only and that's what makes it "typical". 

imo you also weight your draft back end towards D and goal because goalies take the longest and often bloom late and D take longer to develop than forwards. 

[Shoot da Puck]

In 3 years this could lower one of our regular season losing streaks from 12 games to 11

[Taro T]

22 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Typical Sabres pick. No thank you. Virtually no chance of making the NHL imo. 

Which is said of virtually EVERY non-goaltending 5th - 7th round pick made by any NHL team.

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, Taro T said:

Which is said of virtually EVERY non-goaltending 5th - 7th round pick made by any NHL team.

True. The gambles/reaches are guys that have one exceptional attribute and you hope they develop others. 

[DarthEbriate]

I figure you get one pick over 180OA to hit once every 10 years. Olofsson (2014-181), Paetsch (2003-202), Wideman (2002-241), Gaustad (2000-220). Had a good run in the early 2000s.

TBD: Kozak (2021-193)

I don't think Mancari and his 42 career games counts (2004-207).

Best of luck to Rucinski.