Quoting: SalamiCheese
I'm not sure if Krueger was a big influence on trades and signings last season. Therefore, it seems to me it's all on Botterill. It was Botterill who, for some reason, traded so many RDs for the team and completed the attack absolutely horribly, but Adams had already done much more for the attacking potential of the team than Botterill over these three years. Pilut left because idiot Botterill did not want to give him a one-sided contract and Botterill thought that Pilut was bluffing and would not go anywhere. As a result, Adams is now in a rather difficult position due to an overabundance of RDs and a lack of LDs, Hutton also needs to be replaced, but probably we will have too little space in the cap and you see what market is now? What can we even get for a guy like Montour or Miller? Considering the trades of Murray, Nutivaara and Schmidt. At the same time, it is still necessary to somehow replace Hutton. I quite believe that one of Lazar, Asplund and Ruotsalainen could well replace Larsson. I do not see how Mittelstadt will take the place of 3C next season, maybe he will be LW instead of Kahun, and that is unlikely. So far, I do not believe in him at all until he proves otherwise.
Vesey, Skinner, Johansson, Kahun were all added by Botterill at almost no cost.
Their goal total of 2018-'19 was 83, is it Botterill's fault that Krueger only got 34 goals out of the group last year.
How is that not addressing the offense?
I guess you missed the memo that Hall said he signed here because of Krueger, I wonder who hired him.
Did you see the defense Botterill inherited:
2016-17 Buffalo Sabres:
34 Casey Nelson D 11 Rochester Americans
67 Brady Austin D 5 Kladno
45 Brendan Guhle D 3 San Diego Gulls
46 Erik BurgdoerferD 2 Hershey Bears
77 Dmitri Kulikov D 47 Winnipeg Jets
4 Josh Gorges D 66 Out of hockey
38 Taylor Fedun D 27 Texas Stars
41 Justin Falk D 52 Belleville Senators
47 Zach Bogosian D 56 Tampa Bay Lightning
6 Cody Franson D 68 Omsk Avangard
29 Jake McCabe D 76 Buffalo Sabres
55 Rasmus RistolainenD 79 Buffalo Sabres
Even if one takes out Dahin, Jokiharju, Miller and Montour were great additions.
I have seem many trades trading Roslovic for Ristolainen, I laugh at those as jack is Mittelstadt.
So yes, IMO he should be in the line up most likely as third line center
BTW, in one comment you say Krueger will decide the line up, then when you want to lambast Botterill, you say Jason made all of the decisions.
If Krueger was hired to make the team better, that is all on Botterill, because Krueger was nothing less then terrible.
If Krueger was hired with the plan to entice Hall, who knows.