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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.

Murray wasn't a good GM, but he's better than Botterill.

That or he's spent most of the season playing on a line with Sobotka, who, interestingly enough, our idiot GM and soccer-boy coach believe is a NHL-caliber top-6 winger.

Kane wasn't worth the money it was assumed he wanted. But how much better would the top 6 fowards be with another 30 goal scorer? O'Reilly wasn't worth the money he was due, but how much better would this team be with a Selke winner at 2C? And now Reinhart isn't worth the money. Imagine how much better this team will be with one Botterill's infamous '3-piece' deals replacing Sam's 60+points in the lineup. Now that the Sabres tanked themselves into top 10 draft picks the last 6 years, how about finding a GM who can build an actual NHL roster around those players?

Not impressed with Ralph in general.

It's not as difficult as you make it sound. How many fans were on the Jokiharju train before Botterill made that trade? It wasn't a huge deal, but it has impacted the roster in a positive way. Botterill can find deals to make, the problem is that he has built the current roster with 9 puck-moving defenseman and Jimmy Vesey. He needs to focus on building forward depth and he doesn't need to hit a home run here. Just find a couple of guys better than Sobotka. He's a professional GM with fully staffed scouting department and tradable assets. It's time he moves from just stock-piling talent for the future to actually building an NHL roster that can compete and win this season.

Bad GMs, bad coaches, bad players