Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

[DetDannyWilliams]

Update: The Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL Drafts. 2016 #NHLDraft will be here in Buffalo. pic.twitter.com/K8SGe7zTFX

— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) March 1, 2016

[YardRat]

Re: Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

Good. I wish the Bills had that many also, both teams are going to need them.

[chernobylwraiths]

Re: Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

As has been said on GR, having all those picks seems nice but they can't use them all. An NHL team can only have 50 players under contract at any time. So they will have to trade some of them.

[coastal]

Re: Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

Prospect porn

[mightysimi]

Re: Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

Usually anyone below the 3rd isn't fast enough to even play in the league.

[DetDannyWilliams]

Re: Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

As has been said on GR, having all those picks seems nice but they can't use them all. An NHL team can only have 50 players under contract at any time. So they will have to trade some of them.

maybe they can this is where having an ECHL team comes in handy



The Elmira Jackals are a professional minor league ice hockey team based in Elmira, New York. The Jackals play in the East Division of the ECHL's Eastern Conference. They were originally part of the United Hockey League. They are the ECHL affiliate of the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League and the Rochester Americans of the American Hockey League.

[mightysimi]

Re: Sabres now have 21 picks in the next two NHL drafts

So the idea is to trade big league assets to acquire picks to stockpile the farm team's, farm team?