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It widely know he was being shopped by Botts in the middle of the season which probably affected him. Basically they created a self fulfilling prophecy.

You think when we reach the historic Ten In A Row after another season of being a league punching bad it's going to help that bottom line? And the Pegulas aren't like freaking Karmanos or something, they are like the 5th wealthiest owners in the league. I'm sick of the neverending failure.

How does that explain them failing harder than any owners in modern NHL history the past 9 seasons? They literally did a powerpoint presentation telling their own freaking employees that a pillar of their organization was maintaining their lifestyles. Talk to anyone who has ever had the misfortune to work for them, there's a reason PSE has a higher turnover than a McDonalds.

Me at the thought of a Tampa-Dallas final:

Unless you are just waking up from a coma you have been in since 2011 you are probably aware of the fact they are just about the least successful NHL owners of the modern era and that this is just the latest strike against them. "Nine Years, ***** All!!!" #PegulasOut

I wish someone would have the stones to walk up to Terry and tell him "Do you realize that if you were to tragically pass away and they did a moment of silence for you before the next home game it would get the Old Man Wirtz treatment?" Maybe that would end up being a moment of clarity and cause him to pull his head straight out of his ass and start behaving like a serious and credible owner

But don't worry: We've got a goalie who needs a seeing eye dog so we're good 👍

"Evaluation Year". You just know it's coming...

The Sabres players and coaching staff seeing Dahlin laying in a pool of his own blood after being hit with an elbow by some troglodyte punk that would've been illegal in MMA and doing ***** all about it was just about the single most shameful moment in franchise history. That was the point where I really turned on Kreuger and want him to piss off back to that third rate league in Europe where he belongs.

Correct. They NEVER learn...

Giving Hart a warning for a blatant violation of the rules was just about the most Calvinball thing ever.

NO!

Other than the Skinner unicorn I can't think of any since we became the undisputed laughingstock of the entire sport. Remember how Berglund had to get sharked by Armstrong for him to get traded here? Simmonds, who is so washed up they may as well pulled Rayzor out from his announcing gig and used him instead.

Cap space isn't nearly as useful to have when you are on every single no trade/no move list in the entire league.

The only positive thing he did was put together a team so putrid they won Dahlin. He is on the list of all time worst GM's with Ed Johnston (The undisputed worst of all time, only GM in history to literally kill a team through his idiocy), Milbury and Chia. If there was a grade lower than F that is what Botts deserved. Came into a bad situation and managed to somehow make it ten times worse. Put together a team that failed to qualify for a 24 team playoff despite Jack having just about the greatest season in team history. A chimp throwing darts at random names on a dartbord would've produced better drafts. Left us with a shockingly poor prospect pool and a terrible NHL roster that requires a coach who is a magician to get something out of them. Hired a coach who is anything but a magician, an improvement on his previous hire who was among the worst and most inept coaches in league history who was comically out of his depth. After lucking into playoff contention but falling apart at warp speed refused to fire said incompetent coach, let a once promising season go down the toilet and belatedly fired him the day the season ended. And of course the strong contender for worst trade in league history, that too.

Why don't people understand that Dahlin looks bad in comparison right now because those other guys play for credible NHL organizations with NHL quality coaching and NHL quality rosters while he has the misfortune of playing for what is an NHL organization in name only?

They are going to trade Sam and it will end up another ROR level disaster because this organization and it's rancid and inept ownership never learn from their own mistakes, they NEVER NEVER learn.

Stop and think: Do you realize just how crazy of an overpay we would have to make to land Pieterangelo? If the dog somehow caught the car it is all but certain we would be regretting it very soon thereafter.

I am of the belief that this whole rumored trade goes belly up because the other team has playoff success and backs out.

The problem with Casey: The embarrassingly incompetent GM and Coaches decided to keep the poor kid on the NHL roster when it should've been painfully obvious he didn't belong in the NHL. Instead of sending him to Rochester to work on his game so that he could get to the level expected they basically exposed what was wrong with him by keeping him up for a year and a half. Now there's a great chance they have already wrecked his career before it even began through stupidity. Basically the organizational incompetence destroyed his value.

The problem isn't firing all the people who were failing: it's eliminating most of the positions in the scouting department entirely. Video scouting can be useful but there are things you can see live that you might not notice on tape.

All I can think of is the story of how Punch picked the teams colors as the blue and white of the Leafs while adding gold to signify that unlike the Leafs the Sabres would be a class organization. Welp...

Hockey Gods- No. Giraffe Gods- Yes.

If Adams wants to win me over he will find a way to acquire Tyce The Baby Giraffe from the Devils.

Just a hunch: Having the greatest basketball player ever fall straight into their laps probably helped. So if Jack ends up being the undisputed greatest player of all time Adams will probably work out. Unfortunately the odds of just about the most incompetent owners of all time who have done nothing but step on rakes being able to see that a guy who no other team had ever even though of as being a GM candidate is the real deal when nobody else in the sport sees it seems awfully remote.