Never in my time with this blog would I ever have had a good reason to title a piece after an expression I use. However, the Saskatoon Blades have allowed for such a phrase to be used. While it can also be applied to the Lehtbridge Hurricanes, as they will pick second instead of first thanks to the Bantam Draft lottery, at least they will still have their pick. The Blades, who won the lottery and thus moved up two spots to the first overall pick, will instead watch the Brandon Wheat Kings make their selection with that pick. Why? In May 2012, the Blades had acquired then-overager Brenden Walker for draft picks. Somewhere along the way, the option was had by the Wheat Kings to swap first round picks in 2014, and they decided to use that. Well, when the ping pong ball came up Blades, that meant the real winner was the Wheat Kings, who will now be building for the future while trying to win a championship in the present, as they still have those aspirations that begin with a series against the Regina Pats. To rub salt in the wound for Saskatoon, the pick they get from Brandon has to go to the Vancouver Giants (the Nathan Burns trade from November 2012) to complete another trade. Sorry about your damn luck, indeed.
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