Beniers >>>>>

Forwards are more important than defensemen.

I sure hope we draft a forward unless we drop to 4th and Berniers and Eklund are gone already. Who would we be losing to Seattle, you didn't include that. Also, I'm in favour of keeping Granato as head coach going into next year. 5-6 players have taken leaps and bounds seemingly under his leadership and we are winning games against pretty good teams even without Ullmark, McCabe or Eichel, our best players in their respective positions. Please share your thoughts

I don't think keeping Granato would be a bad idea at all. We've just seen BB have success in this league and having a veteran HC in charge could help continue the development of these younger players.

I think Seattle will likely be picking from a group of Asplund, Miller, McCabe and Borgen. Depending on the situation I think they would lean towards taking McCabe but thats just my opinion.

"Gave Sam a nice long raise." - I dont see Sam signing for less than $7 mill with this team, so 6 over 6 seems very unlikely. 0 interest in Power, let alone any of the dmen in the top of this draft, the Sabres are much better off trading the pick. Jokiharju gets more. Extremely hesitant to give Raanta that contract just because of his advanced stats on another team. Good luck getting Hyman to come to Buffalo, I want him but so do 31 other teams. Girgensons wont be LTIR next year and that 4th line will need way more Grit, not a place for Ruotsalainen or Thompson



McCabe is UFA, so Seattle takes someone that could walk in a week. Borgen would be the better option

Sabres cant drop below 3rd

Pretty much all teams have good goaltending. Granoto said it best, playing good offense means you don't have to play defense.

All fair points. Vegas took some UFAs so there is precedent for a guy like McCabe being taken. I think they protect 1. Eichel 2. Reinhart 3. olofsson 4. Mitts 5. Skinner 6. Asplund 7. Tage and for D 1. Dahlin 2. Joki 3. Borgen or Risto (I'd protect Borgen to expose Ristos salary) and then for G they're obviously protecting Ullmark. In this scenario McCabe gets scooped up but it could definitely be different idk.

If the team is willing to spend to the cap (which I'm not sure they are) in this scenario they still have $2,250,000 in cap room. So even if you include Grigenson, I wouldn't sign Sheenan leaving them with $800,000 in cap room. So it would take some moves to add another mill for Sam and pay Joki more. Not including there 1st rounder on the roster (which is most likely) gives them another $925,000 in cap room giving them $1,725,000 in room for Sam and Joki.

So it's definitely doable.

People seem to just have this thought that goalies don't matter in todays NHL. I don't buy that at all. having two potential starters can cover up for a lot of defensive deficiencies this team has. Also allows the team to play with more confidence helping elevate everyones game.

Just IMO.

Goalies matter but no one wants to pay for them, and I think every big goalie contract in the last 15 years has blown up in the teams face, so that doesnt help. The Sabres though absolutely need 2 solid goalies, I just see Raanta as someone with a high potential of blowing up in their face

Yeah I agree with you about big goalie contracts blowing up in teams faces. I tried to take a different approach of high dollar amounts for short years. If they could find a way to throw like 8 mill at Tuukka Rask or someone for 1 year (ala Taylor Hall) I would love that (although there is no way Rask would come to buf).

Be a nice stop Gap to give UPL another year in Roch and id still draft another goalie or 2 for the pipeline with there 10 picks in 2021.

If Rask doesnt retire, I'd love to add him

I meant 3rd sorry, but if we keep winning we may not finish last which would kind of be a shame