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So Vesey steals the puck at the point, can't beat the turned-around defenseman down the ice, and ends up holding the guy for a penalty. 50 years of Sabres hockey and this is what we've ended up with.

EPL strategy.

Fundamentally, the Sabres are a horror show. They had better zone coverage under Nolan, and that's not saying much. Being gritty and constantly out of position doesn't fix their problems, albeit the games would be more entertaining (like under Nolan).

If Vesey could finish, the Rangers wouldn't have traded him for a bag of pucks.

It's almost like hiring a coach with no hockey coaching experience the last 5 years was a bad idea.?

I'm beginning to hate that f###ing lottery.

This team won't crack 75 points this season.

He realized that as bad as he is at his job, he's still smarter than his boss. That's the sweet spot right there.

Let's not be hasty here. The big question is 'how is this handled in the English Premier League?'

I don't know. This seems like a situation where you're wrong until you're right. If you pick five bad GMs in a row, but the sixth one wins the cup, who cares about the five losers. There are only 31 (soon 32) of these jobs. If a candidate is afraid to take the job because he might get fired if he makes a mistake, who wants him? At some point, the odds dictate that an owner will pick a good GM. I'd rather the owner play those odds that sit around concerned about his reputation as another season goes down the drain.

He'd also kick all the Swedes off the team.

Maroon was a FA this past off season, right? Wonder how Botterill missed him. Must have been preoccupied video-scouting Jimmy Vesey.

There has got to be another ECHL defensemen out there who can pull us out of this mess. GET ON IT JBOTT!!!

Girgensons clowns Yandle on that last goal. Perfect!

Montour is giving a great effort tonight, but I'm still trying to wrap my brain around playing our best defenseman (despite Risto's minutes) on the third line as a winger.

Botterill must not have liked the cut of his jib.

Wasn't he was a FA this past offseason?

Can we add another defenseman to the fowards to take Vesey's spot?

Yeah, at what year in his development does he start to do this?

It's what happens when you hire guys who are doing the job for the first time.

Montour scores his first of the season, passing Jimmy Vesey on the goal-scoring list.

It's a young team that sucks at the fundamentals. This team needs to spend a couple of seasons under a dinosaur coach.

Staylock, sounds like a goblin from Harry Potter.

I don't know, he does have them scoring like an EPL team.

Could have had 8 out there and it wouldn't have made a difference.