With the draft coming up, I was taking a look back at the Sabres’ recent draft history, and it’s not a very pretty picture. If you take out Jack and Sam, who would skew the results, and ignore everyone from 2016 forward as too young to know for sure how they’ll turn out, there’s not much in the great player category.
Out of 11 1st round picks from 2005 through 2013, there are only two who are still with the team — Risto and Gus. The Sabres’ 2005 and 2006 1st round picks (Marek Zagrapan and Dennis Persson) never played an NHL game, and the Sabres didn’t have a 1st round pick in 2007.