This Team is a Joke

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Created by: mikeyscav

Team: 2019-20 Buffalo Sabres

Initial Creation Date: Jan. 30, 2020

Published: Jan. 30, 2020

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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First the Sabres ownership is a joke. They have continuously botched bringing in the right personnel, for some reason refuse to seek help by hiring a president of hockey operations, spit in the faces of old Sabres legends by giving them fake Chinese jerseys and SPELLING THEIR NAME WRONG on said jerseys, show they don’t care about the fan base by refusing to upgrade the stadium and charging ridiculously prices for subpar food.

Second, Botterill is a joke. The man has become gun shy from botching the Ryan O’Reilly trade and has decided to never take another risk again, has failed to give this team any sort of offensive presence whatsoever, has shown horrible asset management on multiple occasions, and has built a horrendous team overall around a Hart-caliber captain in Jack Eichel. Unfortunately, Botterill is functioning like his job is secure next year like he has already sold the horrible ownership that he “has a plan.” Honestly, not that I trust ownership to make the right decision on Botterill’s heir anyways.

Basically, the future is ridiculously bleak in buffalo with such a poor top of the hierarchy and no evidence anything will ever get better. And ownership knows that they can get away with this horrible management of the franchise because they have market in Buffalo that has a massive love for the sport and for their team so they will keep paying while ownership keeps spitting in their face.

Okay, end rant. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

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Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

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LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$74,555,834	$0	$3,965,000	$6,944,166

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Girgensons, Zemgus $1,600,000$1,600,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Eichel, Jack $10,000,000$10,000,000 C UFA - 7	Reinhart, Sam $3,650,000$3,650,000 RW UFA - 1
Skinner, Jeff $9,000,000$9,000,000 LW, RW NMC UFA - 8	Johansson, Marcus $4,500,000$4,500,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 2	Frolík, Michael $4,300,000$4,300,000 LW, RW M-NTC UFA - 1
Sheary, Conor $3,000,000$3,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Rodrigues, Evan $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, C UFA - 1	Lazar, Curtis $700,000$700,000 RW, C UFA - 1
Vesey, Jimmy $2,275,000$2,275,000 RW, LW UFA - 1	Larsson, Johan $1,550,000$1,550,000 C, LW UFA - 1	Okposo, Kyle $6,000,000$6,000,000 RW M-NTC UFA - 4

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Pilut, Lawrence $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) LD UFA - 1	Ristolainen, Rasmus $5,400,000$5,400,000 RD UFA - 3	Hutton, Carter $2,750,000$2,750,000 G UFA - 2
Dahlin, Rasmus $925,000$925,000 ($2,850,000$3M) LD/RD UFA - 2	Montour, Brandon $3,387,500$3,387,500 RD UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,850,000$2,850,000 LD/RD UFA - 2	Jokiharju, Henri $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) RD RFA - 2	Johansson, Jonas $759,167$759,167 ($132,500$132K) G UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Miller, Colin $3,875,000$3,875,000 RD UFA - 3	Olofsson, Victor $767,500$767,500 ($132,500$132K) RW, LW UFA - 1	Thompson, Tage $925,000$925,000 ($425,000$425K) C UFA - 1
Bogosian, Zach $1,300,000$1,300,000 RD UFA - 1	Ullmark, Linus $1,325,000$1,325,000 G UFA - 1	Sobotka, Vladimír $3,500,000$3,500,000 LW, C UFA - 1
		Hunwick, Matt $2,250,000$2,250,000 LD UFA - 1

Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:09 p.m.

KakkoForMauriceRichardAward

Brace for the Storm

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Agreed

Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:16 p.m.

DPuppa31HOF

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Welcome to Cap Friendly Duane

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Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:20 p.m.

Weezley

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Edited Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:31 p.m.. Reason: Found it.

I don’t blame you one bit for the frustration. It seems like they take 1 step forward by acquiring a great player through the draft, then 10 steps back by idiotic decisions.

I actually read about the Chinese jerseys today. Also about the ownership group being critical of the media. I forget what it was exactly, but I’ll find it. Gimme a sec.

https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/ew9cda/the_sabres_are_struggling_to_keep_a_lid_on_fans/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Reddit may not be the best source but yeah. Lol.

Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:30 p.m.

ChiHawk

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At least your 2nd favorite team is the Blackhawks

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Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:32 p.m.

Weezley

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Quoting: DPuppa31HOF

Welcome to Cap Friendly Duane

? At first I was like who the heck is Duane but while searching for the Reddit thread I found other articles on Duane and got a good chuckle.

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Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:33 p.m.

pharrow

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Honestly, the GM is doing the right things currently.
Look at the roster, he almost has a completely clean slate to work with.
I don't believe he did do the horrible Okposo deal. He got stuck with that.
But for the most part, it's not all that bad. He's cleared people out to rebuild the roster.
Which is exactly what a GM should do when he takes over a bad team instead of trying to constantly try in vain to salvage it.
So he's just getting started. You'll know if he's any good based on how they draft and how they refill that roster.
But the drafting isn't just on him. There is a whole staff and department for that.

Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:47 p.m.

TheGuyInTheChair

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You guys just suck at drafting and developing players. I'd say that's your biggest problem and its been that way for 2 GMs now. I mean other than Oloffson what player have they gotten outside of the 1st round with all those draft picks Tim Murray and Botterill accumulated that have made an impact? And even their first round picks are hit or miss. Reinhart's starting to come out of it but Mittelstadt has just been a disaster so far. They've drafted in the top 10 the past 7 drafts and drafted Ristolainen instead of Morrissey or Horvat, Reinhart instead of Draisaitl, Eichel, Nylander over Sergachev, Mittelstadt instead of anyone else, and Dahlin. That's more than half of their 1st round picks that they for the most part missed on.

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Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:50 p.m.

Blazingbat11

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Quoting: pharrow

*clears throat*......the Skinner contract.......

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Jan. 30, 2020 at 11:54 p.m.

Bluejackets2000

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So why did the scarecrow win an award?

Because he was out-standing in his field.

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Jan. 31, 2020 at 12:00 a.m.

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pharrow

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Quoting: Blazingbat11

*clears throat*......the Skinner contract.......

I think Skinner is capable of being a 30+ goal scorer on Buffalo. I think he's proved that, and done it multiple times in his career. He can't do it all alone though.
I don't see that as being a bad contract yet. He's still under 30, he's got a lot left in the tank.

Jan. 31, 2020 at 10:49 a.m.

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mikeyscav

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I like Eich

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Quoting: pharrow

I’m not scared about skinner yet... his analytic numbers are actually pretty identical to last season; he just isn’t playing with eichel this season, playing with 2 bottom-6 players instead, and isn’t playing on the PP like he was last year

Jan. 31, 2020 at 10:52 a.m.

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mikeyscav

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I like Eich

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Quoting: Weezley

Yeah things started boiling over yesterday with this ownership just looking to have 0 accountability the horrible show they are running in Buffalo. I get that Botterill May need some patience from us fans, but honestly why do they deserve that from us? We’ve been patient for the past 9 seasons and have seen nothing get better.

Watching Eichel, who has been a fantastic positive attitude all year in buffalo, lose his crap and shatter his stick while denying interviews after the game last night is a perfect icon of Buffalo rn. They have 0 going their way

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