By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist

No. 97: June 26, 2015 – The Sabres trade a first-round draft choice in 2015 (Colin White) to Ottawa for Robin Lehner and David Legwand.

The Sabres knew they would be getting Jack Eichel with the second pick in the 2015 NHL Entry Draft. But they also had a pick later in the first round obtained from the New York Islanders. General manager Tim Murray was starting from almost scratch as he rebuilt the roster, and he needed a veteran goaltender.

That’s why the Sabres sent that first-round selection to Ottawa. Robin Lehner was only 24 at that point in his career and had shown some promise with the Senators. David Legwand came along in the deal to supply some experience.

Lehner had some issues on and off the ice here in Buffalo, and didn’t quite fulfill his potential here. He jumped to the Islanders last summer, and was a standout in goal for New York in 2018-19 in helping that team reach the playoffs.

(Follow Budd on Twitter @WDX2BB.)

Budd Bailey

Budd Bailey has been involved in almost every aspect of the local sports scene for the last 40 years. He worked for WEBR Radio, the Buffalo Sabres' public relations department and The Buffalo News during that time. In that time he covered virtually every aspect of the area's sports world, from high schools to the Bills and Sabres and everything in between. Along the way, Budd served as a play-by-play announcer for the Bisons, an analyst for the Stallions, and a talk-show host. He won the National Lacrosse League's Tom Borrelli Award as the media personality of the year in 2011, and was a finalist for that same award in 2017. Budd's seventh and eighth books, one on the Transcontinental Railroad and the other about Ichiro Suzuki, are scheduled to be released in the fall.

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