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Not to put a ton of weight on plus/minus or anything, but Risto is having a very nice year in terms of not being on the ice for a ton of goals against, which isn't nothing.

It's funny, because Montour seems to work okay with Risto.

I'm still mad they traded him.

Montour is fine. He's like Sekera.

This is essentially it. While he's made a couple moves I've been happy with, for the most part he has done things that made the team the same or worse than it was when he got here. Too many unforced errors for my taste. This team would probably be in better shape right now if he had simply done nothing.

I was trying to find a good spin for it that aligned with the Concept of Jason Botterill, alas...

That's part of cap management though. Being able to identify value contracts is like THE thing he was brought here to do. And he has done NOTHING of the sort.

How about the 8.275 mil of nothing in exchange for Ryan O'Reilly's "costly" 7.5mil?

Can't waive him though. That would be dead cap that we need for *checks notes* Michael Frolik.

This is exactly what should have happened.

Nope. Cap Genius *waves hands provocatively*

Man @Randall Flagg, we're on the same page right now. Trading that 4th for Frolik has been a master-stroke in stupidity. Just another absolutely trash player sucking up useful cap space for no reason.

Welp, this trade turned out to be stupid. 2 points and a -3 through 15 games for a player with a $4.3 mil cap hit. Maybe the Cap Genius should have just kept the damn 4th round pick and the cap space, eh?

I can't help but think that if Botterill had waived Bogo sooner he could have gotten more for Scandella at the deadline.

That's the problem.

That's a riot. Why is he upset? He knows this team better than us mousepotatoes right?

And then when they finally shoot it's a bad angle and it goes all the way down. SMH

It never needed to be like this. This team, with basically zero scoring depth, was 8 points out of playoff spot coming into tonight. They could have been closer if Botterill was worth a damn.

It's wild that Skinner just can't put anything together right now

Thanks ref

He looks tired. Just the way he's getting up and down in the crease. They're going to have to let Johansson play a game here.

Not to defend Hutton too much, but he's definitely been the victim of some really sloppy play in our end tonight. Ottawa is bad, but they appear to match up well against us for whatever reason. They're fast and that's about it, but it's enough to get us running around.

Dahlin has made some confident plays tonight

Okposo has had a very nice game tonight.

Season on the line. Who are the Buffalo Sabres? Let's find out.