TrueBlueGED
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It's entirely possible Botterill finishes his 3rd season as GM without matching the point total Murray had the season he was fired. Think about that.
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18 minutes ago, shrader said:
After the Indy fiasco I don't know why anyone would want to hire him.
Delusions of Belichick 2.0.
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17 minutes ago, GASabresIUFAN said:
I’m done waiting for signs of improvement.
It’s now two years in a row that Jbot has waited to long to support the team following a good start. Adding Montour at the deadline last year and Frolik now are not solutions. They aren’t even band-aids.
I’ve been saying this since Berglund went AWOL. Find a friggin’ 2C. I applauded the MoJo acquisition. It was a reasonable attempt, but what was the backup plan if it didn’t pan out? Mitts?
Where was the faceoff winning 3C to anchor the penalty kill?
Why has nothing been done to fix these issues? How does getting Frolik help a team that can’t score, can’t win a faceoff and can’t kill a penalty? What do we need with another crappy bottom 6 forward.
Botterill losing GA is like Johnson losing Cronkite.
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4 minutes ago, SwampD said:
Good lord. Re-debating the tank...
What else is there to do?
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8 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
After Black Sunday, they missed the playoffs twice and then made the playoffs twice (2010 and 2011), including a division-winning season. In 2011, they were beating Philly 3-2 in the first round of the playoffs, and were winning game 6, in Buffalo, in the 3rd period, before falling apart and losing that game and then game 7.
They then missed the playoffs in 2012, and, when they had a poor start in the following season, panicked, fired Lindy (instead of Darcy, which would've been the correct move) and commenced the tank in early 2013.
I believe that the right GM/coach combo would've chosen not to tank and would've delivered MUCH better results for the 7 seasons from 2013 to present than what we've actually had.
Do you disagree?
Yes. The best players from those teams were aging out and we had no viable replacements or path to get them. Roy was washed, Hecht was at the end, Pominville and Vanek were fading fast, and Miller was merely okay at that point. They were all set to get new contracts within a year, so we'd be stuck with aging stars on expensive deals or or the futures we ended up with. Our best hopes at that point were Grigorenko and Girgensons. That's not a situation which is likely to produce good results. May the results have been better? Sure, marginally do. But a genuinely "good" team that makes the playoffs 50% of the time? Hardly a likely outcome.
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4 minutes ago, tom webster said:
So, two teams going nowhere are going to swap assets on the final year of crazy contracts that neither can afford.
If that's not a stereotypical NHL GM trade, I don't know what is.
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7 minutes ago, Zamboni said:
And since almost every move JB makes isn’t telegraphed or leaked before it’s actually done.... I’m in the “believe it (rumors) when I see it’s actually done”, boat.
I'm not actually sure that's true. Scandella and Skinner came out of nowhere, but Johansson, Frolik, Vesey, Sheary, Kane, Hutton, O'Reilly....that stuff was all out there in advance.
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3 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
Correct.
Would you rather have Jack, or have a good team?
For example: St. Louis doesn't have anyone as good as Eichel. They missed the playoffs in 2010 and 2011, but didn't tank. Since then, they've made the playoffs 7 out of the last 8 years (8 out of 9 if you assume they make it this year) AND won the cup last year.
Would you rather have their team or the Sabres?
That's adorable, you're assuming the team would be good if we didn't tank. It's like you have completely wiped the time period between the co-caps and the tank from your mind.
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11 hours ago, Pimlach said:
I friend in Chicago told me that Crawford could get traded to Buffalo for “a defenseman”.
This would be a waste of an asset.
I believe every rumor that involves Botterill making a move that won't help the team in any meaningful way.
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37 minutes ago, nfreeman said:
It was 3-1 after 2. The Sabres had 13 shots on goal at that point.
The Sabres did not record a shot on goal in the 3rd period until more than 8 minutes had elapsed.
My interpretation of Jack's expression and body language: "JFC I can't believe I'm stuck here with this group of effing losers."
Last night was the kind of game that can send a mentally weak team that's been suffused in losing ever since the idiotic tank into a major tailspin.
Let's see whether RK can muscle them out of it.
That's no different than in the years preceding the tank.
1 minute ago, WildCard said:Good news is you can just copy and paste this for next January too
To laugh or to cry, that is the question.
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Unfortunately, a team this thin at forward couldn't afford to lose anyone for an extended stretch, let alone Skinner AND Olofsson. The team should still make a big move to bring in a 2C who is under contract beyond this season, but playoffs are likely no more than a pipe dream at this point. It didn't have to be this way, but it is. Too bad.
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20 minutes ago, triumph_communes said:
Steve Smith is vastly overrated
Maybe by Botterill, but I didn't see anyone else singing his praises.
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I'm excited that the franchise has finally decided to play its second best LHD.
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10 hours ago, Eleven said:
Yes, I would hire Lavvy and fire Krueger. I like coaches who can do more with less. You have to know this about me by now! And Laviolette is that coach.
Maybe in years past, but that Nashville roster can't be characterized as "less."
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1 minute ago, SwampD said:
He was hitting guys in the hands and they weren’t catching it. JFC! The only balls these jokers can catch are picture perfect spirals placed directly in their hands with no one contesting them. Any time any DB makes contact with any of them, they don’t catch the ball. They’re really not good.
An why is Dabol playing for field goals in the third. They frigging went into their safe hide-hole shell. And why was there so many empty backfields in OT. He was calling the game like they needed to score a touchdown on every play instead of just running an offens to get down the field. It Was Terrible.
Not on Josh.
...including Texans DBs. Twice, one of which should have been a pick-6. One can believe in Allen as the franchise without treating him like an overprotective parent.
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And the worst clock management of the playoffs award goes to...Sean Payton! A 10 year old Madden addict would've played that last few minutes better.
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2 minutes ago, GoPre said:
Unless there’s something I’m missing, what’s with the talk on Cam Newton? He has a year left on his contract. The Colts would have to give something up to make him their quarterback. Why do that?
All year word out of Carolina was they were looking to move on, so presumably, they'd cut him. Of course, Kyle Allen then proceeded to play like Nathan Peterman for half the year, so who knows.
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If I'm the Colts and I'm inclined to take a chance on a guy who might be finished, I'm taking it on Cam.
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Bills in the 2nd half and OT.
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Just now, Gatorman0519 said:
True. Its a shame McDermott never did beat him.
On the other hand, if he does retire, the Bills should open betting as favorites for the division.
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1 minute ago, Gatorman0519 said:
He probably should of called it a day after the Super Bowl. His skills are clearly eroded and the magic is gone. Father time is ruthless.
I agree. I just don't think he walks away like this. I think he'd be more likely to retire if they had missed the playoffs entirely than after the last two weeks.
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After the Bills game, I honestly thought I'd be emotionless if the Pats lost. A hollow victory. Nope, it's still a nice pick-me-up.
Can Brady's career possibly end on back-to-back home losses to a team that tried to tank and the freaking Tannehill-led Titans? I don't think so. I mean, I so hope it does, but dude is too competitive to go out that way.
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1 minute ago, Wyldnwoody44 said:
Tom Brady goes off into the sunset on a pick 6
Not a chance he retires like this. Zero. Also, if NE takes this kick for a TD I'm quitting sports.
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I would like to personally thank Julian Edelman for dropping the easy 3rd down conversion, and Bill Belichick for inexplicably morphing into Doug Marrone and punting with a very real chance of never getting the ball back.
GDT Sat 11th January. Sabres V Canucks 1pm ET
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The draftees may be mostly Murray's, but the players and contracts are mostly Botterill's. Okposo, Bogosian, Ristolainen. That's the complete list of players who were both acquired and signed to their current contracts by Tim Murray.