@Yotes269
Quoting: Ledge_And_Dairy
Buffalo isn't remotely close enough to contending to do something like this
Quoting: Ruxin679
Dahlin>chychrun. Pass.
This is extremely painful.
Jakob should have been drafted by the Sabres.
https://buffalonews.com/sports/sabres/pegulas-sabres-have-inside-knowledge-with-top-ranked-defenseman/article_b97ff175-c3b0-538b-a509-b582e201e1fa.html
"I actually went to school with Terry Pegula’s daughter and son in Boca Raton, Fla.," Chychrun said Saturday.
"They live three miles down the road from me in Florida. I’m friends with his younger daughter.
She was kind of the only person in Florida I could talk hockey with at school. "
Instead Murray drafted Nylander.
Bear in mind in the 2016-'17 season (the year after Jacob was drafted) Buffalo had the following defensemen play Gorges 66, Falk 52, Bogosian 56, Franson 68, Kulikov 47 a total of 289 games, I think there was room for Jakob on the roster.
I doubt his presence on the team would have kept the team out of last place to draft Dahlin the following year.