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On Goalies --- He also drafted UPL, so far, looks like a very promising prospect and WAIVED Lehner (addition by subtraction) On Defense -- He also added Hickey (remember GMTM lost a 3rd in failed attempt at Vesey) and drafted Samuelsson --- in addition to resigning Borgen and Nelson --- again, creating organizational depth at the position As for signing GMTM's guys --- I get that he didn't draft them, but, he kept the ones that mattered, isn't that a sign that he knows what he's doing ? As for the trades of Kane and ROR -- he got value back, you can argue he should have gotten more, but, they have to run their course Right now, it looks good for him on the Scandella trade and the Sheary trade --- Again, YOU said he can't evaluate talent -- what in all that he's done implies that ?

He inherited a roster that was void of any goalie, defense or winger depth, several bloated contracts and no organizational commitment to pipeline development. He also might have inherited a toxic locker room. Since he's taken over: He's addressed goalie, defense depth -- has a start on forward depth, created winning culture as a priority in minors, has instilled a development mindset with prospects Signed who needed to be signed, i.e. Hickey, Pilut, Asplund, UPL, Olofsson, Pu, Borgen

Talk about a "jumping the shark" thread, whew ?! EVERY GM deserves 3 years. EVERY HC at least 2 years. Judge prematurely at your peril. Just ask the Browns.

If you're not sure, watch locker clean out interviews ---

Let's face it. GMTM's blueprint was to accelerate the rebuild and in essence, he only delayed it further. If J Bot was making these kind of moves 3 years ago, we'd all be applauding. He inherited a mess and is cleaning it up

Happened under Bylsma, too -- and Roy 1st and 4th for expiring contract, getting fleeced, how so ? and, in the spirit of secondary benefits for those tank lovers . . . . made the team worse in short term to secure last place and win lottery and get Dahlin

Not every move is a HR for a GM -- as for J Bot, I've liked besides the Mittlestadt and Dahlin pick: Prospect depth that was added on D (Pilut, Hickey and Samuelsson) Undid the Goalie mistake GMTM made (Lehner), signed Hutton to give Ullmark right NHL development path and added depth in prospect pool with UPL Scandella trade Adding Sheary for a conditonal 4th Strengthening Rochester to create winning culture in AHL and proper development time for prospects Not crazy about . . . you can fill in the blanks

Maybe they are justified. But, if the so-called "culture" is an issue between 2 of your best players and you need to pick one, you pick Eichel every day and twice on Sunday over ROR. Pham talked about on-ice observations, not sure anyone noticed the same (i.e. celebrations, body language etc.) Either way, it's clear that J Bot is ALL IN on Eichel, an up tempo style and building through winning at all levels, oh yes, and he loves Swedes and Americans

PHam said ROR would ignore Eichel during on-ice celebrations and even said that he was told to "cut it out" -- he also said that he thought ROR had a problem with Eichel, but Eichel didn't have any issues with ROR The Pham interview places more blame on ROR than Eichel and goes far enough to sound like ROR was petty and even jealous

True -- but, Strickland said past veterans who played with Jack had issues -- well, that number is pretty small, so, it would have been easy to press and say, Forward, Defense or Goalie ? --- etc. My guess is it was second hand -- Strickland heard from one of the Blues that heard it from an ex-Sabre

Listened to the interview --unfortunately, Jeremy White, never followed up on the bombshell that he dropped surrounding Eichel -- talk about BAD journalism -- ugh

Wow, that's quite a stretch to make, and I liked the trade !

What does Nylander blooming have to do with ROR leaving ?

I don't understand all the outrage at JBot ? GMTM created a mess when he tried to short cut the rebuild and placed all his chips on ROR, Kane and Lehner to drive the ship It clearly hit an iceberg It takes time to undo the damage --- J bot has gone a long way at achieving that and setting franchise up for long term success, which was the goal from the beginning Create a winning culture, build through draft and develop players

+1 I stopped listening to Pham several years ago. Not only does the guy have an agenda, he is generally ill-informed As for ROR, I doubt he has a bad rep within the league, he wouldn't be a Team Canada regular if that were the case

I would think ROR's value goes up significantly once Sabres pay the $7.5M bonus. A team, essentially gets ROR for 5 years and $25M cash, with cap hit of $7.5M/season --- with cap at $80M, that is very doable I'd like Sabres to keep ROR for another year to allow Casey to develop playing 3rd line minutes and allows our other centers to get better at FO's --- we reassess next off season where post-July 1, the numbers again get even better

I'm more and more comfortable with Eichel as our 1, ROR as our 2 and Mittlestadt as our 3 this year. ROR is going anywhere, if Casey emerges, trade ROR at deadline or next off season. In the meantime, we try and create 3 effective lines.

Amen

So the levels are Generational Franchise Top Pair / 1st Line Second Pair / 2nd line Any others ? With Generational and Franchise translating to HoF

Let me ask a similar question: "Who WOULD YOU trade the 1st overall pick in this year's draft for ?" 1. McDavid 2. Matthews ? 3.

You nailed it, just multiple that rant by 10X and you'll have the Bills' fan perspective, since he had a couple decades to that fanbase over, literally !

+1 That would be sad state

I think some on this board fail to realize why a relationship between the PRESIDENT of the team and virtually any subordinate is never simply "unprofessional" it is always a form or harassment because of the power dynamic. Educate yourselves, listen to women who have been through this before, read the accounts of others who kept silent about behavior out of fear. Calling this unprofessional is guy code for "it's no big deal" that's why Joise left.

Time will prove me right, i.e. this is much more than a consensual affair with one subordinate The sources on here and on TBD who are actually pro-Brandon say as much But, go ahead and ignore the reality and defend As for modern org, read my previous posts, OF COURSE it wouldn't be tolerated, my point was there is more to it than a consensual relationship

Are you Harvey Weinstein's lawyer ?