Quoting: Mwasylko34
Loved to draft defensemen I should have said. Yes the D core we have now is strong but I would of rather of Botts drafted forwards over defenseman like he did.
OK, I understand what you mean.
Who drafted Cozens, Mittelstadt, Pekar, and Davidsson?
Do you remember how bad the Buffalo defense was when he became the GM:
2016-17 Buffalo Sabres:
34 Casey Nelson D 11 Rochester Americans
67 Brady Austin D 5 Kladno
45 Brendan Guhle D 3 San Diego Gulls
46 Erik BurgdoerferD 2 Hershey Bears
77 Dmitri Kulikov D 47 Winnipeg Jets
4 Josh Gorges D 66 Out of hockey
38 Taylor Fedun D 27 Texas Stars
41 Justin Falk D 52 Belleville Senators
47 Zach Bogosian D 56 Tampa Bay Lightning
6 Cody Franson D 68 Omsk Avangard
29 Jake McCabe D 76 Buffalo Sabres
55 Rasmus RistolainenD 79 Buffalo Sabres
Other than Ristolainen and McCabe, it was 3rd pairing, AHL, Europe or out of hockey.
He needed to draft a lot of defensemen as the team had zero depth at the blue line.
But if you examine his first two picks in each of his three drafts, 3 defensemen and 3 forwards. It looks pretty balanced to me.