50:50

on both fronts
- homiedclown

Jbotts likes sam. He likes him more for a reasonable salary. Jbotts is a very patient professional. The 15-23 combo is still the plan, from what I hear.

Jbotts likes sam. He likes him more for a reasonable salary. Jbotts is a very patient professional. The 15-23 combo is still the plan, from what I hear.
- Boss34

Does the Botts think highly of the coveted Nylander?

Getting the same special teams play in Rochester, given up 2 short handed goals

True but the good news is he's spent many years in Buffalo visiting his uncle and going to championship games I'm sure his uncle is whispering in his ear

And him visiting all the time he knows how Buffalo fans are etc
- GERBE!!!75PTS

I think the 2 main reasons why people stay or live I'm buffalo:

Family - parents, grandparents and babysitting

Job- you find a good job here, the cost of living and housing prices are great.

How close is Jt with uncle Jt?
How close do his parents live? Ontario?

He's getting paid regardless of location.

Imagine JT signing with tampa. The cap would be a problem, but they would be even more unstoppable

Les miserables below the sabres bench. think it was planned that way ?

nice read

nice read
- Sabresfan-365

I have that on Jordan Nolan.

nice read
- Sabresfan-365

Les miserables was easy.

Montreal blows
We should be able to beat this team
Ugh

I have that on Jordan Nolan.
- Der Kaiser

Bad pinch read by scandella?

I have that on Jordan Nolan.
- Der Kaiser

Don’t tell that to Beady

Don’t tell that to Beady
- jdfitz77

Snicker snicker snicker

Montreal blows
We should be able to beat this team
Ugh
- jdfitz77

i mean not to state the obvious but so do we. And they have price in net

Don’t tell that to Beady
- jdfitz77

Are u implying a “tank” of some sort by J Botts?

That’s a reach imo

Good news on Olofsson
Looks like he may be in that group with Bailey, Baptiste, etc etc etc
I wonder if he’ll come over to Rochester next year
Asplund will most likely
- jdfitz77

Why wouldn't jbotts want a top 5 pick this year?
This is a tank season, just a classier version.
Similar to their public personas

Tmgm - loud, says what's on his mind, and to the point

Jbotts - professional, well spoken and hard to read

lol good to see Risto's stick still breaks

Why wouldn't jbotts want a top 5 pick this year?
This is a tank season, just a classier version.
Similar to their public personas

Tmgm - loud, says what's on his mind, and to the point

Jbotts - professional, well spoken and hard to read
- Boss34

It's not professional, he has had so many concussions his demeanor is stuck like that. Definitely hard to read

Opening night lineup next year,
assuming no major changes...

Kane-Eichel-Reinhart
Bailey-O’Reilly-Okposo
Nylander-????-Pominville
Girgensons-Larsson-????
Moulson?
Pouliot?

3rd line center options:
-Mittelstadt, unless they want him to “develop” in Rochester
-Asplund, see above
-move down Reinhart, although that didn’t look good this year
-move up Larsson or Girgensons, meh
-give Rodrigues a shot, could be our best bet if Mittelstadt isn’t ready
-UFA, not too many quality Center options out there

4th line winger:
-Nolan, or similar UFA
-young guy currently in Rochester:
Baptiste, Rodrigues, Cj Smith, Fasching

And this is IF we keep Kane
We really need some of the kids to be able to come up & help us score some goals

Why wouldn't jbotts want a top 5 pick this year?
This is a tank season, just a classier version.
Similar to their public personas

Tmgm - loud, says what's on his mind, and to the point

Jbotts - professional, well spoken and hard to read
- Boss34

Idk...
u think he could’ve predicted all the injuries to the defense, bad goalie play, and disappearance of PP goals?

We should be closer to a borderline playoff team than a top5 draft pick

Idk...
u think he could’ve predicted all the injuries to the defense, bad goalie play, and disappearance of PP goals?

We should be closer to a borderline playoff team than a top5 draft pick
- jdfitz77

I think he predicted a bottom 10 team and didnt really try his best to avoid that

I think he predicted a bottom 10 team and didnt really try his best to avoid that
- Sabresfan-365

I guess I could see that if he thought the defense would be bad again

Maybe we had our hopes up that Antipin & Beaulieu would make a difference?

They look lethargic....in before Paul Hamilton makes the "back to backs" excuse

Idk...
u think he could’ve predicted all the injuries to the defense, bad goalie play, and disappearance of PP goals?

We should be closer to a borderline playoff team than a top5 draft pick
- jdfitz77

Our defense is predictably terrible.

I doubt he depended on bogo to be good or play a healthy season. History doesn't lie.
He traded a 3rd in the division for belivue. He's serviceable at best. Who trades a good d to a rival for a 3rd?
Tennyson- tank guy, he's brutal
Antipin - growing pains as expected. Rookie
Scandella and mccabe - Perfect bottom pair , on an average team. Not 3/4
Falk - good 7th or 8th d
Gorges - 7 th or 8th d

Risto - probably suprised by his injury

Pretty obvious our goaltending tandem is week. Bad d makes average goaltending = below average goaltending
The pp - that's on the coaches. Hard to predict a drop of 25 plus spots.

I think he predicted a bottom 10 team and didnt really try his best to avoid that
- Sabresfan-365

Good post

Jesus. Christ. it was essentially a 4 on 2 and (frank)ing Okposo shoots it right into the gut of Price