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Trade! ROR wouldn’t have turned his attitude around without being dealt. Reinhart was always his entitled disciple.

Disaaaaster

The article is ambiguous and says it was both. I’m saying good goaltending may also lead to better play from the exact same players. dunno how many interviews with Sabre’s players you need for them to admit they play bad when they don’t trust their goalie.

Chicken egg

Not according to Armstrong or the players themselves. Relevant quotes in the article: https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/st-louis-blues-2019-turnaround-playoffs-big-read/

I think the outrage is an overreaction to bad goaltending. That was literally the difference between last place St Louis and Stanley Cup St Louis last season. Ullmark has had a bumpy road and Hutton has been absolutely horrid. No team can do anything with the goaltending they’ve had this year. No team. Now at the end of the season the injuries is topping the league in man games lost against on an already thin forward corp. He got D depth and gave two goaltenders a shot, but even with a bonafide 2C this team was an injury away from problems, and that’s with their roster having to overcome the goaltending. Yes we need more forwards, but to say Botts failed, etc. what do you want? What other goalie was this team getting that’s changing their performance? Who was predicting Button turning into an absolute turd. It’s also not like we don’t have goalie options in the future-6K is in the system and is as good as goalie prospects can be at this stage. Teams aren’t giving away good goaltenders either.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=349LLDpOtyE

no, the point is that there’s zero evidence that GMs were hopping for joy because Botterill didn’t pick a CHL player. Otherwise you would see a much higher number.

The GMs who picked immediately after Botterill in those 3 drafts picked a CHL player 3/18 times. You're just angry to be angry.

Peters gets ejected, suspended, and fined for making a silent golf swing on a face off. Kadri swears up a storm in personal attacks and that's ok? lolol

Sabres lost their half decent goalie and the team looks like crap. 5 goals on 13 shots... Remember, the Stanley cup champions were LAST PLACE HALFWAY THROUGH THE SEASON LAST YEAR when they switched away from the goalie who was BETTER than Hutton to someone else, and a coaching change. To go further than the goalie is grasping at straws. Hutton has completely laid an egg this season, and so has any hope of playoffs as soon as Ullmark hurt himself. Find me one team who goes far with a sketchy goaltender. No team does!

Ooh straw man, thanks

Lazar goes down, so does the team! Girgensons is not a physical player. Just because he throws his back into every player and tries to pin the puck on every forecheck and backcheck doesn’t mean he’s physical.

Missing the process Krueger needed a season to expose all the non process guys Tho honestly when a team has no confidence in their goalie it all falls apart. And nobody has confidence in Hutton. Goalies problems are hard to fix mid season

Sell sell sell

You’d think they could prevent staph infections but NOPE

Isn’t that the guy HFboards was fawning over nonstop? Oops, maybe they don’t know everything

Dahlin, our future 2C

I think it is silly and stupid, but I lose all respect for anyone who thinks this is evidence that the organization is 'doomed', 'awful', etc. Outrage is in and it is sad so many people think that's how you win arguments now. It's like I'm in Russia

OUTRAGE CULTURE AHHHH

Receivers were rarely even contested. Why don’t we have Sammy Watkins again?

We don’t let in many 5v5 goals

he almost LTIRed. woo

Botterill is well liked across the league. if the league advised Terry of anything it was to can Murray

rofl 2019. So you know SO much better than all these GMs I want to know your 2017 picks. No 2019 picks matter for the next three years and have no impact on the team.