I REALLY do not trust Jason Botterill to lead a rebuild after his run in Buffalo where he was fired due to a player revolt, and the botched Ryan O’Reilly trade (pictured winning the Cup with the Blues after he forced a trade).
I REALLY do not trust Jason Botterill to lead a rebuild after his run in Buffalo where he was fired due to a player revolt, and the botched Ryan O’Reilly trade (pictured winning the Cup with the Blues after he forced a trade).
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I’m more concerned that as assistant GM he built the current roster and is first acquisition was Mush.
Botched ROR trade? He wanted out of Buffalo and yet they still got Patrik Berglund, Vladimir Sobotka, Tage Thompson, a first and a 2nd in return.
Berglund and Sobotka are whatever, Tage Thompson is a stud, they used the first on Ryan Johnson who is a solid enough second pairing guy and traded the 2nd for a few seasons of Colin Miller. St. Louis got their Cup and ROR played a big part in that but that shouldn’t have any bearing on the value of the trade itself.
What makes you think he is heading up a rebuild? Other than fan wishes, there isn’t much evidence rebuild is on the minds of this front office.
With any GM that spent time in Buffalo, I’m grading on a curve. That franchise was catastrophic before Botterill got there, and it’s been catastrophic ever since.
Buffalo is such a perpetual shit-show I don’t think it really means much to see a GM fail there. It’s basically the Kobayashi Maru of being a GM.
The ROR trade is one of the rare win-win trades out there. Blues got a top center who helped lead them to a cup, Sabres got a prospect (along other pieces) who blossomed into Tage Thompson, who is an absolute stud. Just cause the Sabres are a tire fire doesn’t mean it was a bad trade.
Yeah I watched the Sabres win against the Islanders yesterday and Thompson was dominant.
You might not trust Botterill. I don’t trust an impatient ownership group in search of quick fixes and shortcuts to green light a total rebuild.
This is hilarious. The worst ownership group in the NHL (Buffalo) fired nearly the entire hockey ops side of the team, including Botterill, assistant GMs, scouts, analytics and more. It was a full reset, not your so-called player revolt.
They did it because they were cheap and stupid. They said Hockey ops had become over-structured and siloed and there was too much reliance on “traditional” front-office hierarchy. Instead of hiring an experienced GM, they promoted Kevyn Adam who was on the business side of the team and reported directly to the owners.
So if you have your own narrative about Botterill, that’s fine, but it’s bullshit.
This is literally the funniest transaction you could have used to make your silly case.
Does it matter whether you trust him or not? I assume you’re not an owner?
I’m with you. The sooner he and Francis are gone, the better the Kraken will be.
He fucked the Eichel situation too