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I believe it. People here would still ***** talk Brett Hull in the airport. Botterill is safe because he hasn't slighted (real or perceived) the city of Buffalo yet.

No way. This city is vindictive as hell. If anyone even goes to the Frozen Four you could bet they'd be booing his kid. People are still mad about Jimmy Vesey.

Yeah, let's get a few more in here. I need more teams to beat.

Do the Islanders

Thanks for knocking down that alley-oop @LTS

Clearly Botterill wants to hire Ted Nolan.

Ray Shero's teeth! Woah!

Very telegenic group we got here

They can talk all they want about the playoffs tomorrow. Tonight is for us, the losers.

Okay, but just to be clear, Karin Housley is a racist.

This is dumb. They should be doing profiles of the top prospects or something.

Some beach, somewhere...

Not to mention Hitchcock who is, what, a hundred years old?

Hutton is who he's always been: a goalie that can pull starter duty on and off, but not full time. He's streaky. Ullmark should have been better this year, but I think his lack of development is on the coaching staff. Bring in a better goalie coach and maybe he improves. The *team* defense being a mess didn't help things any.

Have any coaches on the prospect list won with average goaltending? I don't think we can simply reduce this to the Hasek/Nolan comparable. Took the words outta my mouth.

I don't know if that's really even a thing to worry about. The principles of the game don't really change, just the way the league enforces rules. The Sabres are a finesse scoring team similar to the Canucks back then. They used mobile defensemen to move the play. I think AV might find the situation familiar.

I'm not sure what your point is then. Are you saying AV is good because he was able to coach to his team's strengths?

When was Vancouver ever big and strong?

I'm more in favor of AV than T-mac.

I think it's the idea put forth above: that they don't get much from being in the A. He might not have been happy with their development on the Sabres, but he probably felt it was still the better spot for them.

I think this is part of the reason Housley got fired. I think Botterill expected more work on individual player development but between Tage, Casey, and Pilut it's clear that Housley and his staff weren't getting it done.

McLellan is probably fine.

Our local media people are just the worst at asking questions.

And I'm not advocating for him to actually coach this team. I'm simply pointing out that he has a quality about him that perhaps the last few coaches haven't and that it shouldn't be taken for granted. If you can't get the players to play for you, it doesn't matter what your system is.

I was referring more to Lafontaine hiring Nolan.