Bylsma Relieved of Coaching Duties by the Kraken

[DarthEbriate]

One random thought:

If JBott is planning to Be a Sella for this McKenna Fella....    (It's what he learned in Buffalo, after all)

Maybe you could get Adam Larsson to waive his NTC. Just enough tread left on the tires, leader, shot-blocker, and on a nice contract.

If Seattle is on the McKenna timeline then Larsson is not part of it. And he'd help them win too many games in 2025-26 anyway. Byram the piece going back.

[dudacek]

It is hard to believe that as bad as Kevyn Adams tenure as GM has been, that Seattle has managed to hire someone with an even worse record.

Adams record as Sabres GM translates to 78 points per 82 games

Jason Botterill’s record over three seasons translates to 72 points per 82 games.

His best season falls kinda in between the two slogs we just finished and it took him 3 years to match the 78-point team that got the abysmal Tim Murray fired.

His team-building vision consisted almost entirely of trading draft picks for bottom-six wingers and right-handed defencemen while avoiding long-term contracts unless Terry forced one on him.

This was a guy who once traded Marco Scandella for a 4th round pick only to see Scandella flipped for a 2nd, not even 2 months later.

Is this what happens when it has to be “someone with GM experience”?

Poor Seattle.

Edited 6 hours ago by dudacek

[Thorny]

3 minutes ago, dudacek said:

It is hard to believe that as bad as Kevyn Adams tenure as GM has been, the Seattle has managed to hire someone with an even worse record.

Adams record as Sabres GM translates to 78 points per 82 games

Jason Botterill’s record over three seasons translates to 72 points.

His best season falls kinda in between the last two slogs and his team-building vision consisted almost entirely of trading draft picks for bottom-six wingers and right-handed defencemen.

This was a guy who once traded Marco Scandella for a 4th round pick only to see Scandella flipped for a 2nd, not even 2 months later.

Is this what happens when it has to be “someone with GM experience”?

Poor Seattle.

The difference essentially being that Botterill punted ROR’s value into a trust fund to be utilized at a later date waiting for Adams, for reasons best known to himself 

[dudacek]

1 minute ago, Thorny said:

The difference essentially being that Botterill punted ROR’s value into a trust fund to be utilized at a later date waiting for Adams, for reasons best known to himself 

From all the reading I’ve done, I blame that more on Pegula than Botterill.

But one thing that doesn’t ever get talked about is how Eichel’s dissatisfaction with the franchise was allowed to fester during Jason’s reign of “building” by plodding along and adding all the Wayne Simmonds and Jimmy Vesey’s he could find.

Or how he set the table for the great free agent exodus of 2021 by failing to tie up any of the worthwhile pieces he had like Reinhart, Montour, McCabe and Ullmark. I mean Adams shares the blame on that fully, and COVID and Pegula played a role for both, but I’ve always wondered, did Botterill even care about having a core?

[Thorny]

17 minutes ago, dudacek said:

From all the reading I’ve done, I blame that more on Pegula than Botterill.

But one thing that doesn’t ever get talked about is how Eichel’s dissatisfaction with the franchise was allowed to fester during Jason’s reign of “building” by plodding along and adding all the Wayne Simmonds and Jimmy Vesey’s he could find.

Or how he set the table for the great free agent exodus of 2021 by failing to tie up any of the worthwhile pieces he had like Reinhart, Montour, McCabe and Ullmark. I mean Adams shares the blame on that fully, and COVID and Pegula played a role for both, but I’ve always wondered, did Botterill even care about having a core?

Maybe it’s against his MO. He disliked the CHL so because he was enamoured with the idea of “extra years of control” with college players. Extra years to wait before making a decision, really. (It’s not like there’s no merit in the theory, Botterill’s issue was the nearly full-stop implementation).