After "no-goal" and "music city", it's definitely NOT sarcasm. My therapist says to assume impossibly bad outcomes in all scenarios in order to be happy with what really happens. My therapist makes a lot of money off me.
SABRES WIN LOTTERY!!!! Will pick #1 overall in the 2018 Draft
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After "no-goal" and "music city", it's definitely NOT sarcasm. My therapist says to assume impossibly bad outcomes in all scenarios in order to be happy with what really happens. My therapist makes a lot of money off me.
CaptPantalones
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Sportsnet just tweeted the top 3 won't be revealed until the 2nd intermission of the sharks/Vegas game. What a joke
zenthusiast
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Well, we'll be 4th, so I can go to bed unhappy without trouble
Unless of course, all three lottery wins come from outside the top three again.
I would normally watch that game, but now I'll skip it just because the NHL is such a gong show full of @#$ clowns.
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sabremike
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Here's the best example of the "brilliance" of the lottery: in 2015 if it didn't exist we get McJesus, which would've been swell. But more important: Arizona would've ended up with Eichel, thus helping to put out one of the league's ongoing tire fires. Instead they got lottoed, ended up with a guy who is trending bust and their long term viability is still in question.
dotcommunism
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You'll know which teams are in the top three regardless of who they are, you just won't know who picks 1, 2 and 3 specifically.
Husko
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I'd like to win it, but aside from that 2 vs. 3 vs. 4 feels small potatoes to me. Either we get a top notch winger prospect or a 1st pairing defensive prospect.
I didn't watch the lottery last year so I haven't actually seen them do one under the new format.
2018 Draft Lottery
What you need to know regarding Buffalo's odds at the NHL Draft Lottery in Toronto on Saturday.
We know that the Buffalo Sabres are guaranteed a top-four pick in this year's NHL Draft. Where exactly that pick will fall will be determined at the NHL Draft Lottery in Toronto on Saturday night.
The Sabres enter the lottery with the highest odds to win the No. 1 overall selection, at 18.5 percent. The chances decrease for each of the 14 remaining non-playoff teams in reverse order from where they finished in the standings, with Ottawa holding the second-highest odds at 13.5 percent.
Here's everything you need to know heading into Saturday.
What you need to know regarding Buffalo's odds at the NHL Draft Lottery in Toronto on Saturday.
We know that the Buffalo Sabres are guaranteed a top-four pick in this year's NHL Draft. Where exactly that pick will fall will be determined at the NHL Draft Lottery in Toronto on Saturday night.
The Sabres enter the lottery with the highest odds to win the No. 1 overall selection, at 18.5 percent. The chances decrease for each of the 14 remaining non-playoff teams in reverse order from where they finished in the standings, with Ottawa holding the second-highest odds at 13.5 percent.
Here's everything you need to know heading into Saturday.
dotcommunism
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Well after they've revealed picks 15 through 4, the teams in the top 3 will be whatever teams are left.
I'm stuck in the 2015 lottery reveal where they turn over cards until some of them are gold. I guess that isn't the way they're doing the reveal anymore. That's the last draft lottery I actually watched, last one where I felt like we had a good shot at a top pick.
joshjull
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Sabre the Win
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I hate watching the lottery but I always do, I go thru more emotions in that 15 minutes of team cards being flipped than a girl on her prom night.
I really don't think 2v3v4 is all that close. Svech has fallen into that trap of a guy who has been #2 all season with no chance of passing #1 which leads media and publications to say "well he's actually very close to the guys behind him". His classic stats are up there with most of your 1st overall forwards of the last decade and his fancy stats are incredible. He was basically the best in the league at nearly every underlying offensive category. He's an elite player in transition and possession. After franchise defensemen he's exactly what this team is missing. And Dahlin is the only for sure franchise defensemen.
I don't know how anyone can watch Mikko Rantanen and Nathan MacKinnon this season or Pastarnak and Bergeron and say they would pass that up to take a chance on Adam Boqvist. Boqvist could be great but Svechnikov will be great.
joshjull
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Completely agree...Svechnikov all the way, he’s a Tarasenko, Kucherov or Hossa type of impact winger. At the same time Eichel feeding a shooting talent like Zadina could be special.
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I'm jealous. I've seen all of western/Eastern Europe minus lithunia, latvia, estonia and scandanavian countries. I have some friends living in Sweden/norway but I keep putting off a visit... I think it would be great to head that way for a summer one year if I ever had the time/money
I've also had a hankering to head to the middle East for a while now too but the furthest I've gone is Syria like 9 months before the revolution, and Americans aren't so readily able to travel that way anymore. crazy trip that was, I've never really been in a place that felt like that before
