7+6=13

Thinking owners won't be and shouldn't be involved in the decision to give or not give massive contracts with term is pretty ridiculous IMO.

I'm just saying being out at the end of something is when the psychology makes sense - not at the start. I don't think there's a fan that doesn't understand exactly where you're at but today is at least a day of opportunity if nothing else. Let's see what this new guy / set up does.

IMO, wrong time to be out.

Good grief, where do these thoughts come from?

I'm proud of Jack for publicly making these comments. IMO, it's part of leadership from a player. He's in a position to put pressure on the front office and he did so. He without calling out specific players is demanding more from the team. JBot appears unqualified to make the right changes but he's now been given clear direction from the players leader.

I wouldn't trade Eichel for 2 Dahlin's.

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If we were a goalie away from doing something significant - I'd be ok with taking a shot at a former excellent one. Or if the other scenario was our future goalie was a year away - then I'd be interested. We're in neither situation so I'm not eating cap so we can't afford to get forwards for leadership.

I'll just contemplate on how where not having the opportunity to drop in the standings and increase our % at a top pick. hahaha

I think that's exactly what he meant and why it's so disturbing. The right GM and coach have relationships with most if not all the player agents and need to sell a vision and how their clients specific role (hopefully bigger and better will have in that vision. Of course it's a massive challenge to do that but when better than now with more money and this many players not under contract. It's why Botterill must go. He's already telling is he'll be careful in FA and press towards signing our own. Yikes!!!

I hear what your saying and anyone would have to be an idiot to think you'd get true transparency from an interview. However, he doesn't have to say things like I mentioned above in addition to "you have to be careful of signing players on July 1st in free agency and Buffalo has always had a better opportunity to sign their own players. It's the reason we brought in Simmonds right now." That's just down right scary. Say, we're not good enough and I we should be better than our record. We have a lot of work to do to determine if this group can get the job done and I'm disappointed how we're playing. This is an important off season and we'll make the tough decisions as we owe it to the players we see giving more effort than others. The expectations aren't being met. There's absolutely nothing inappropriate about saying that. The players and owner should hear him say it.

Oh yeah he was acting like things are right on track. He's comfortable with the defenseman here now and just need to work on depth up front. Is this dude serious? We're a defensive mess with 4th liners playing in the top 6-9. He thinks we just need depth up front? Wow

Botterill has to go and I wish RK could. We don't have to completely start over but with the additional cap space, RFA's and UFA's theres an opportunity for a different team to be built. I want Botterill no where near those decisions.

Love the Sabres too and am looking forward to the game as others have said. Listened to the Botterill interview on WGR just now. He's getting hard to listen to for me. I know there's nothing to really say but when he says "It's a situation where ...." it's like nails on the chalkboard.

Duh, can't believe I just did that. My bad, haha. How embarrassing.

Honestly not trying to be smart but why was Joker a good get? Nylander is out performing him in terms of points and has more than twice the goals in 5 less games. I think we lost on that one too without the privy of what they'll be. Maybe potential with Joker being younger?

I think it was. IMO, a legit NHL scorer is something I'm good with paying for. What they are doing with him and the players he's put around him are shameful.

If I"m TP, this news would incline me to fire JBot. I wouldn't want him in charge of even more money based on his inability to evaluate players. His only claim to fame is Skinner, IMO and he's allowing the HC to under utilize him. He's botched nearly every other decision he's made. This would give a new GM an opportunity to build the team the way he wants. More cap and there's a lot of players not signed. If you allow JBot to fill in these spots with current or new players and spend the additional cap - it makes it that much harder on the new guy.

I think if we go to 7 years he'll sign.

There's so much wrong with how we're playing since the loss to the AVS. Maybe the best, in terms of quality, I've seen us play this year. Coaching has to be part of it. This team needs their ass kicked.

I hope we don't lose Zemgus to free agency.

Not impressed with RK. Doesn't make any changes to what's not working.

I'm not sure what to think anymore. We've been through so much change since TP bought the team. We're getting a little better but there's not much that's clear about how we get to being a yearly playoff team for a while. I'm resigned to thinking we're going to have to get lucky.

Yeah I worded that incorrectly. Definitely believe they were created.

My post wasn't meant to suggest given and not earned. Calm down psycho.