It's Year 2 for the 'decentralized' NHL draft. Will the format stick?

Sports Columnist You won't be able to watch GMs bounce from table to table and wonder what or who they're talking about.A An overall view of the main floor at the NHL draft in what was then First Niagara Center on June 24, 2016.

Under the new format, teams are staying home rather than having a table on the draft floor.A Buffalo hosted the 1991 NHL draft in Memorial Auditorium and this will be the event's third run in KeyBank Center, following 1998 and 2016.

Trading Tuch means that the Sabres lose one of their roster cornerstones and will have to reconfigure the gap that his departure leaves on the top line at right wing.

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