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Sheary Vesey Mittlestadt Thompson. One was drafted; a draft pick has value. One was received for O'Reilly. ROR had value. Two were signed to free agent contracts and they both suck. This does not inspire confidence in his talent evaluation skills. On top of that, crappy players like Erod and Bogo are dissatisfied and their minimal value has decreased even more. A GM is an asset manager and the idea is to increase the value of your assets. If you start out with hundreds or billions you still want the value to increase. Botts simply has not done that.

Unlike McBeane's process of plugging in players that fit a winning system, Botts has plugged in players that are not useful in any system. Ok, maybe a minor league system. Go Amerks. The Sabres aren't going to win consistently until they get a real GM. Unlike Murray, I do hope Botts gets some sort of administrative job somewhere because he seems like a decent guy. I also wouldn't mind seeing him get a head scout role for a division rival.

I saw some highlights of the mascot game on All Star weekend and it looks like even Sabretooth was selected by Botts. He'll be in Rochester soon.

So do you think there will be a lot people making sure their shirts aren't red?

Well, at least we all avoided a thread about your rude neighbor snowblowing in the middle of the night.

Thousandth "slight change" to the timeline since 2017.

This will be ignored because it is Rudy. No amount of evidence would matter. In the mean time Beardy McGee's thumb is still up his ass by design.

Bob Kraft is real a hole

I thought the purse was a forced march from Giselle. This refutes that theory.

Did anyone get a glimpse of who was driving Feinstein's car?

Wait. Some sicko humped a bat?

Maybe he had Patrick Chung's phone number scrawled on his registration or insurance card and the cop pulled a Columbo.

Olympia Dukakis again?

Jeff Beck?

I gave that a thumbs up because I like Risto and agree with the Eichel/Dahlin summary. While Risto has value our GM has also shown a proclivity for useless forwards so I'd just keep the good defenseman rather than add yet another Sheary/Vesey/Thompson/Mittlestadt.

Roy Clark

Olympia Dukakis?

Stephen Hawking

It sort of turned crappy. It had the widest gap I've ever seen in a show between some very interesting premises and the lame way they were delivered. There was some good stuff in the show but it was about a 6. A few changes could have made it much better.

Something like that will happen. Goalie sticks with force fields will be an NHL scandal in the 2249-50 season. Understandable but the punishment could be something unannounced if they were smart. Allowing their entire OL to hold for a decade seems like a weird punishment.

"In this league"

Just wait for Cozens to mature in three years. Then we'll only need five more players to secure the 8.

I like Mahomes fine and some of the rest of the team. I can do without crybaby Kelce. That said, every time Hill does something I get sick to my stomach. I can't root for them at all.

You typed "or" but you meant "and".

Dude do a little math. Although they can play well in brief stretches, the playoff ship has sailed already. They will not be in the playoff running until the end of the season any more than the Detroit Lions were. How many teams would they have to pass to get to 8? They are way, way, out of it. Saying that they can contend until the end, given the numbers, explains the spin you put on other aspects of the team's status. You should just wait the sevens years for Cozens and the goalie with all the k's and hope every viable free agent is signed via text from the 4th green because that is the best that'll happen with Botts. The coaching, effort level in many games....not all, and development of some of the guys are the positives this year, and they are big and important. That is offset by the grind against the backdrop of substandard talent assembled and tolerated by a GM that is in way over his head. Those two factors are opposed. If the former wins out we can be good soon. Unfortunately that is probably not 20-21 without miracles because the GM has been asleep at the switch and we need about 6 new impact guys....too many to be realistic in one offseason. If it is the latter, it will get very ugly within two years and make the tank look like the good old days. From everything I've seen Krueger is the right guy for a turnaround and beyond, but he can't work miracles and paint the Sistine Chapel when Botts keeps giving him .99 c styrofoam brushes and low end paint. We are likely in a period similar to the McDermott/Whaley era. Hopefully Krueger knows someone like Beane. And yes I realize Whaley and Botts are different. Whaley overpaid some actual talents like Dareus who underachieved and held us back whereas Botts thinks Vesey and Sheary and Thompson and Hutton and others are sufficient talent. It's the same end result.