Sure, but we don’t wanna GMTM this thing all over again... do we?

There are certain guys we should stay away from bc of age, contract, or they just aren’t that good

Let’s just be smart about it
- jdfitz77

Smart about what, we need a 2nd line center and he's that, he' s young. I'm missing something here. It's always excuse after excuse as to why we can't move forward, and people wonder why players won't come here and if they do we are paying above market value.

Enough acid or mushrooms and you definitely see the future.
- dadeadhead

Or spider monkeys.

Or radio waves.

Smart about what, we need a 2nd line center and he's that, he' s young. I'm missing something here. It's always excuse after excuse as to why we can't move forward, and people wonder why players won't come here and if they do we are paying above market value.
- SABRES 89

1) Mitts will be our 2C sooner than later
2) Duchene is overrated
But even if he wasn’t...
3) he will be extremely overpaid
4) not good in his own zone
Your top3 centers can’t ALL be just offensive
***That’s how we end up playing Larsson & Girgs 14min a night
And no one wants that again... RIGHT???

Anyone hear that financial advisement commercial that constantly runs on the Radio.com (WGR) app? The guy talking in the commercial claims a random 11 year old girl will beat the winner of the Tour De France in a 3 mile race EVERY TIME if both are racing on a tricycle. I'd like to see the supporting data for that. Sounds like something Botterill would say. Dude must've got his MBA from Michigan. The Wharton of the Big Ten. What a putz of a GM we have.
- Hatboro_Swords

Ever seen a grown man try to ride a kids tricycle? Thats your supporting data.

1) Mitts will be our 2C sooner than later
2) Duchene is overrated
But even if he wasn’t...
3) he will be extremely overpaid
4) not good in his own zone
Your top3 centers can’t ALL be just offensive
***That’s how we end up playing Larsson & Girgs 14min a night
And no one wants that again... RIGHT???
- jdfitz77

Is their a 2nd line two way canter available, maybe oreilly is on the block.

Is their a 2nd line two way canter available, maybe oreilly is on the block.
- Carubba-Kaleta

Imo...
we either need to acquire a top9 center that can actually play some defense
OR
Wait for Mitts to be a legit 2C
*could happen this year
Wait for Asplund to be a 3C
*later this year? Next?
AND
*add Cozens to the top9 next year most likely

I know it’s not what ppl wanna hear
But just bc a player is good, doesn’t mean he’s a good fit

That’s why even though NyR & Philly are always making the BIG MOVES (that it seems like ppl here want), they still fall short all the time

1) Mitts will be our 2C sooner than later
2) Duchene is overrated
But even if he wasn’t...
3) he will be extremely overpaid
4) not good in his own zone
Your top3 centers can’t ALL be just offensive
***That’s how we end up playing Larsson & Girgs 14min a night
And no one wants that again... RIGHT???
- jdfitz77

Is their a 2nd line two way canter available, maybe oreilly is on the block.
- Carubba-Kaleta

Don’t give fitz a boner

Smart to wait until July 3rd when many teams have over paid for top UFA’s and will be looking to make deals to move some labor out
- lulags

I agree. People want Botts to do something. Murray did lots of things. The hope is he does the right things. I'll judge his offseason when the offseason is over.

I agree. People want Botts to do something. Murray did lots of things. The hope is he does the right things. I'll judge his offseason when the offseason is over.
- Frizzlefry

Whoa now...
stop being so reasonable

We suck at drafting. If we waited for that, we'll all be dead before it happens.

I am so sick of the pipeline
- jcragcrumple

Link?

Smart about what, we need a 2nd line center and he's that, he' s young. I'm missing something here. It's always excuse after excuse as to why we can't move forward, and people wonder why players won't come here and if they do we are paying above market value.
- SABRES 89

Who's excuses, though?

No one on this board is running the Sabres and preventing us from moving forward and no one on here w an opinion is making players stay away.

I don't get where you're going w this?

Imo...
we either need to acquire a top9 center that can actually play some defense
OR
Wait for Mitts to be a legit 2C
*could happen this year
Wait for Asplund to be a 3C
*later this year? Next?
AND
*add Cozens to the top9 next year most likely

I know it’s not what ppl wanna hear
But just bc a player is good, doesn’t mean he’s a good fit

That’s why even though NyR & Philly are always making the BIG MOVES (that it seems like ppl here want), they still fall short all the time
- jdfitz77

Count this as one of those times we're on the same page. Makes no sense to sign Duchene and play him like Larsson.

Count this as one of those times we're on the same page. Makes no sense to sign Duchene and play him like Larsson.
- Lunaion

Miracles do happen 😂😂😂

Ryan Hartman was not tendered a qualifying offer from Dallas.
Dallas still intends to negotiate with him on a contract, but he can become an unrestricted free agent on July 1. Hartman was acquired from Philadelphia on Monday in exchange for Tyler Pitlick.
- SABRES 89

Sign him for the 4th

Holy twizzlers batman Vegas is 7.5 over the cap.
- mhp

They can LTIR Clarkson though, so they arent as bad as it looks. Having said that, we need to be on the phone with them.

I think we could get Stasny from Vegas fairly cheap they are over the cap 2 years good bridge for 2nd line center let Middlestad move to 3rd line center. Probably a 2nd and a middling prospect he would also allow us a unprotected center for Seattle draft

They can LTIR Clarkson though, so they arent as bad as it looks. Having said that, we need to be on the phone with them.
- Mentalorgasm5

Doesn’t that affect their Cap for next year though?

They won’t have room for that
I think that’s why there are reports they wanna move Clarkson
If they was no penalty, then why give up an asset to move him???

Respectfully, the "jump from the bridge" cliche is tired and nauseously over used.

That said, no I wouldn't do that.
And I believe that this GM has an actual plan unlike the drunken beady eyed douche bag before him that I said from day one was in fact, a beady eyed douche bag right from the word go while so many of you self professed know it alls, licked his nut sack.

I'm out.
I've provided my one post for the month.
- Over50

I think you posted one a couple weeks ago but I could be wrong. I'll make a chart to keep track.

Doesn’t that affect their Cap for next year though?

They won’t have room for that
I think that’s why there are reports they wanna move Clarkson
If they was no penalty, then why give up an asset to move him???
- jdfitz77

Yeah, I dont believe there is a penalty.

I dont think Clarkson will be in a move. It will be someone like Miller, or maybe Miller and Eakin/Haula.

Horton, Dats and company never gave their respected teams any penalty

Ok... have fun hypothetically overreacting
Makes sense
- jdfitz77

it's a practice run.

How do you know botts is doing nothing, there is no evidence to say he hasn’t called teams on players, attempted to make deals? Is it frustrating to not have change sure, but holy hell its not even July yet.
I wouldn’t have wanted to give a first round pick to tbay for Miller.
- Sabres1523

Jcrags perception is his reality.

Link?
- Frizzlefry

Everything after pick 15 from 2019-2008. With a few outliers

Jcrags perception is his reality.
- Frizzlefry

Ok, again, I was responding to the premise of the blog. All I want is Botterill to do something to improve the roster. We all should

How do you know botts is doing nothing, there is no evidence to say he hasn’t called teams on players, attempted to make deals? Is it frustrating to not have change sure, but holy hell its not even July yet.
I wouldn’t have wanted to give a first round pick to tbay for Miller.
- Sabres1523

My, my, my how some of you miss the point but come so close. Tage Thompsons all over this board.

It's not that anyone thinks he has done "nothing", it's that, well, he has in fact, done nothing. And that's just it. Free agency is going to severely disappoint the lot of you, I'm afraid.