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Forums :: Blog World :: Michael Pachla: What would you do if Sabres GM Jason Botterill made minimal (or no) moves?
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dadeadhead
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I don't want to say Greztky was a dude when I was watching. Mentalorgasm5 , NY
Joined: 07.16.2006

Jun 25 @ 4:49 PM ET
I get it

but..... AM and PT should get in over some of these guys

- homiedclown



He’s been waiting 20 yrs.......
Mentalorgasm5
Buffalo Sabres
Location: "F-" Robert, NY
Joined: 06.29.2007

Jun 25 @ 4:49 PM ET
I know it’s early still and we are not at freak out stage yet but this team reeks of same as last year.

They also do not get the benefit of the doubt either from me.

Remi freaking Ellie, why. WHY?

Kruger better be a damn godsend for this team.

- ImThatGuy

How dare you sir. Matt Ellis is not happy.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 25 @ 4:49 PM ET
I liked him a few years ago (rookie year) but I guess he had a bad year? Is that the reason they're letting him go?
- mhp


He’s been straight awful.

But unlike Buffalo normal team see bad players and say yea we don’t want ya bad.

Buffalo sees Remi Ellie and others and says oh we need to keep that.
mhp
Buffalo Sabres
Location: PROUD MEMBER OF RED SOX NATION SINCE 1975!!!! , SD
Joined: 01.14.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:49 PM ET
Vladimir Sobotka
Zemgus Girgensons
Johan Larsson
Kyle Okposo
Marco Scandella
Matt Hunwick
Scott Wilson
Casey Nelson
Remi Elie


get your 2019-20 buffalo sabres season tickets now before they sell out

callers standing by

jesus (frank)ing christ

- homiedclown


Sobotka will be in the beer leaue in Bratislava.

Elie- Rochester

Larsson- SHL

Girgensons- Avangard KHL

Feel better? If not, Al has some leftover tea.
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

Jun 25 @ 4:50 PM ET
I can get behind the Dahlin partner issue. We found Jack his scoring winger, next up our franchise defenseman. I get that completely.

So swap Risto for a more defensively sounds RHD. Flip McCabe for Vesey. Sign Marcus Johansson. We're good?

The only issue I have in the plan is trading next year's 1st. We could very well be picking top5. If we are, you don't want to be in Ottawa's situation watching Byram go to Colorado...

- RhinoFan


This cuts to the heart of the matter. Why on Earth is this GM getting a 3rd year if we're expecting him to finish bottom-5.

I feel like I'm living in crazy land
dadeadhead
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I don't want to say Greztky was a dude when I was watching. Mentalorgasm5 , NY
Joined: 07.16.2006

Jun 25 @ 4:51 PM ET
Can we talk about Keith Thachuk not being in yet?

500 goals

1000 points

- Stripes77



He’s going to going to be like Andreychuk.

Gonna be a while
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

Jun 25 @ 4:51 PM ET
Nothing about this roster makes sense. He traded for Montour who is basically Risto with a better outlet pass, but there's still no plan for who is going to play with Dahlin.

Is Risto there? Montour? Bogo? None of those make sense. The d is completely unbalanced. We don't have a capable defensive defenseman. So someone has to go there.

Up front, it's looking like Erod at 2b center, which is not good enough.

So who/what to trade?

Risto, next year's 1st or any pick, the first the year after that, McCabe, Nylander, Samuelsson, Asplund, idk anything.

A GM can't simply sit on his hands and wait to be good

- jcragcrumple


Everything all right at home, brother??

You seem a bit on edge. Tense, even.

Perhaps the sweet kiss of the brown liquor....
mhp
Buffalo Sabres
Location: PROUD MEMBER OF RED SOX NATION SINCE 1975!!!! , SD
Joined: 01.14.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:52 PM ET
He’s been straight awful.

But unlike Buffalo normal team see bad players and say yea we don’t want ya bad.

Buffalo sees Remi Ellie and others and says oh we need to keep that.

- ImThatGuy


You realize Elie will be going back to Rochester, right?
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

Jun 25 @ 4:53 PM ET
Everything all right at home, brother??

You seem a bit on edge. Tense, even.

Perhaps the sweet kiss of the brown liquor....

- Der Kaiser


My truck left me and my wife broke down
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:53 PM ET
He’s been waiting 20 yrs.......
- dadeadhead

patience is a good thing

according to our gm and owners
Hatboro_Swords
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Next year is gonna be 05/06 all over again, PA
Joined: 07.30.2010

Jun 25 @ 4:54 PM ET
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.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:54 PM ET
You realize Elie will be going back to Rochester, right?
- mhp




he is anchoring the 4th line with wilson and sobotka
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 25 @ 4:55 PM ET
This cuts to the heart of the matter. Why on Earth is this GM getting a 3rd year if we're expecting him to finish bottom-5.

I feel like I'm living in crazy land

- jcragcrumple


The crazy part is, after signing all the RFAs the Sabres don’t have a lot of cap space left to make moves.

Figure McCabe 3.5
Larsson and Girgs 2-2.5
Erod - 1.5-2

so you are looking at having roughly 9 mil in space to improve this team.

How is that possible.
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

Jun 25 @ 4:55 PM ET



he is anchoring the 4th line with wilson and sobotka

- homiedclown


Sobotka is 3c, Larsson is 4C and mitts is riding shotgun with Erod at 2c currently
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:56 PM ET
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

skinner-eichel-reinhart
sheary-casey-e-rod
girgens-larsson-okposo
wilson-sobotka-elie


I will hang up and listen

Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

Jun 25 @ 4:56 PM ET
My truck left me and my wife broke down
- jcragcrumple


I find a long soak in an hot tub can do wonders.
Der Kaiser
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I Know Nothink ... NOTHINK!
Joined: 07.27.2007

Jun 25 @ 4:57 PM ET
skinner-eichel-reinhart
sheary-casey-e-rod
girgens-larsson-okposo
wilson-sobotka-elie


I will hang up and listen

- homiedclown


Dude is a total greaser.
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 25 @ 4:57 PM ET
You realize Elie will be going back to Rochester, right?
- mhp


I wouldn’t put it past this team to have him in The 4th line.

There is no point to even have him here.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:57 PM ET
The crazy part is, after signing all the RFAs the Sabres don’t have a lot of cap space left to make moves.

Figure McCabe 3.5
Larsson and Girgs 2-2.5
Erod - 1.5-2

so you are looking at having roughly 9 mil in space to improve this team.

How is that possible.

- ImThatGuy

Hatboro_Swords
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Next year is gonna be 05/06 all over again, PA
Joined: 07.30.2010

Jun 25 @ 4:58 PM ET
skinner-eichel-reinhart
sheary-casey-e-rod
girgens-larsson-okposo
wilson-sobotka-elie


I will hang up and listen

- homiedclown

Sweet! It's like deja vu all over again.
mhp
Buffalo Sabres
Location: PROUD MEMBER OF RED SOX NATION SINCE 1975!!!! , SD
Joined: 01.14.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:58 PM ET



he is anchoring the 4th line in Rochester

- homiedclown


Fixed
ImThatGuy
Buffalo Sabres
Location: I AM MY OWN DAMN SOURCE!, NY
Joined: 11.04.2010

Jun 25 @ 4:59 PM ET

- homiedclown


He makes me hate puppies.
homiedclown
Buffalo Sabres
Location: We want 1, FL
Joined: 02.24.2008

Jun 25 @ 4:59 PM ET
Sobotka is 3c, Larsson is 4C and mitts is riding shotgun with Erod at 2c currently
- jcragcrumple

larsson got promoted to the 3rd line
jcragcrumple
Buffalo Sabres
Location: Reluctant bridge jumper; 6th round OHL draft pick, YT
Joined: 04.04.2016

Jun 25 @ 5:00 PM ET
I find a long soak in an hot tub can do wonders.
- Der Kaiser




Just do something to help the top 6. I really don't care what. (frank)ing okposo and Nylander are currently neck-and-neck at 2RW
mhp
Buffalo Sabres
Location: PROUD MEMBER OF RED SOX NATION SINCE 1975!!!! , SD
Joined: 01.14.2008

Jun 25 @ 5:00 PM ET
I wouldn’t put it past this team to have him in The 4th line.

There is no point to even have him here.

- ImThatGuy


I hope we see CJ Smith and Asplund before Elie in Buff.
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