‘His firing in Buffalo was an infamous moment in the history of the Sabres. A few weeks prior, Kim Pegula endorsed Botterill in an interview with The Associated Press. Behind the scenes, however, Kevyn Adams and the Pegulas were concocting a new plan for the Sabres’ hockey operations. Botterill was fired after he refused to run the team in Terry Pegula’s vision that the owner summarized in three words, “Effective, efficient and economic.”‘