Charts - 2018-19 Edition

[SwampD]

32 minutes ago, Taro T said:

 

Correct.  Also, those of us that considered his leaving a good thing were looking at it from the perspective of the LT gain of cap space as outweighing the ST hit to talent.  Further, he watched several games of the winning streak from the press box & had participated in a few of the following losses prior to walking away.

His leaving had less of an effect than Hutton's & Eichel's injuries had.  And, his cap hit SHOULD have been replaced.

I am honestly baffled that any Sabres fan could give a flyin' crap about any LT benefit of anything, given the decade long "ST" hit to talent that we've experienced.

[Drunkard]

23 hours ago, SwampD said:

Who says we didn’t need Berglund?

Berglund was overpaid trash earning almost $4 million to play on the 4th line. He can be replaced by someone for much less than he was earning. We were fortunate he quit, regardless of the fact that future ex GMJB should have picked some plug off the waiver wire to replace him in the lineup.

[SwampD]

40 minutes ago, Drunkard said:

Berglund was overpaid trash earning almost $4 million to play on the 4th line. He can be replaced by someone for much less than he was earning. We were fortunate he quit, regardless of the fact that future ex GMJB should have picked some plug off the waiver wire to replace him in the lineup.

I have never cared about how much a player makes, but 4 mil is not that much for a veteran Swede at a position of need on this team. And he wasn't replaced. Even removing the win streak, the slope on that chart is steeper with him on the team than without him.

[Drunkard]

6 minutes ago, SwampD said:

I have never cared about how much a player makes, but 4 mil is not that much for a veteran Swede at a position of need on this team. And he wasn't replaced. Even removing the win streak, the slope on that chart is steeper with him on the team than without him.

4th line anything isn't a position of need and I'm pretty sure even when he was here, Larsson was the one playing center on that line. 4th line winger is even less important.

Botterill may have thought of him (or Sobotka) as 2nd line center insurance for Mittelstadt but it didn't play out that way for either of them and it's not like Mittelstadt played so well that there wasn't ample opportunity to supplant him.

[carpandean]

They are now below 2016-17 and are projecting to be below 2015-16.  It's likely that this will be the 4th worst season since the 2004-05 lockout (and probably before that), ahead of only the two tank years and last year. ?

[Stoner]

55 minutes ago, carpandean said:

They are now below 2016-17 and are projecting to be below 2015-16.  It's likely that this will be the 4th worst season since the 2004-05 lockout (and probably before that), ahead of only the two tank years and last year. ?

So, progress.

[dudacek]

2 hours ago, PASabreFan said:

So, progress.

Sports is always a moving target. It was two months ago when calls for Phil's head started surfacing.

Back then, it was pretty easy for Botterill to point to our play as a slump and look at the big picture of a 20-pointplus improvement.

We've regressed since then and 80 points looks like a pipe dream.

Be tough not to shake things up.

[TrueBlueGED]

2 hours ago, dudacek said:

Sports is always a moving target. It was two months ago when calls for Phil's head started surfacing.

Back then, it was pretty easy for Botterill to point to our play as a slump and look at the big picture of a 20-pointplus improvement.

We've regressed since then and 80 points looks like a pipe dream.

Be tough not to shake things up.

So, he's he going to scapegoat for problems in the room this offseason for 10 cents on the dollar? ?

[carpandean]

The Sabres in November ...