‘”I think ever since the game against Tampa Bay on New Year’s Eve, which was certainly a disappointing game, you look at where we were at the mid-point of that game. I think Ralph is really focused a lot with our group about our short-term goals, and that’s great for our internal group,” Botterill said when speaking with the Buffalo media on Tuesday. “From our standpoint, from a managerial perspective, we do have to take it a little bit more from a longer range perspective, and we’ll certainly see how things progress here.’