The Sabres just need to lose one more game and they will have a 100% chance at the #2 pick, and a 20% chance at the #1 pick.

Jack Eichel is the consensus #2 selection and projects to be almost as good as Connor McDavid.

The other way this might work is if the Arizona Coyotes win a game. Either way gets the Sabres the best odds.

What we are seeing, however, is the Coyotes losing every goddamn game and the Sabres trying to put together a little season-ending win streak.

If the Sabres win ton-- if the Sabres get a POINT tonight, everyone in the organization should be fired.

I thought it was that new owner guy messing up the team. Maybe I'm thinking of the Bills. I'll shut up now. All I know is that they keep taking all the 'good' Amerks.


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The NHL lowered the odds of the worst team getting the first draft pick.

I have never understood that.

Credit football: the worst team picks first. There's no lottery. Lotteries for drafting are stupid. Like the fucking players who will lose their jobs when the kids come in aren't going to try hard.

If you finished last you USED to have a 25% chance at getting the first pick in the NHL. It's 20% now. Buffalo is in slightly better shape because they have the first rounder of the Islanders as well, but...

I guess the thing is, it's pretty cowardly of the NHL to implement this shit when the worst teams are the small markets of Edmonton and Buffalo. When Chicago and Pittsburgh and the NY Rangers sucked, oh god, you couldn't stack the deck in their favor enough.

Personally, it's to the NHL's *credit* that they are the last league with small markets. I make fun of the last round of expansion with Pinback as a running joke, but having teams in Columbus, Long Island, Calgary and Buffalo is COOL. Sports aren't just for people that live in the 32 largest American cities. How much has the NBA improved by getting teams into San Antonio and Oklahoma City? A lot, as far as I am concerned.

There is a hell of a consolation prize at the #2 draft spot, however. We'll get into the best prospects for the next draft in our next post.

Hi!

This will be a bitter, angry thread where we document all the stuff that happens to stop the worst team in hockey from getting the #1 pick in hockey at the end of the year.

The NHL would rather CLOSE THE FUCK DOWN than allow Connor McDavid to go to Buffalo. It will be fucking horseshit.

Our first update concerns the fact that the kid broke his hand trying to beat the shit out of someone. Get well, Connor! It's a nicer day in Buffalo today than Denver.

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