Modifié 21 nov. 2020 à 13 h 28
Quoting: Shibbal18
I agree with most of this except for blaming Krueger. Rodrigues, Sheary, Vesey, Okposo are not good.
Rodrigues and Sheary were both moved and were just as bad or worse. Vesey played with Eichel and did nothing.
Okposo had 30 points and was on the sabres 2nd best line.
Miller was benched so they could shop Scandella and Bogosian, both who Botterill waited way to long to move and got nothing in return,
Montour was in the top 2 pairs, his offensive numbers were stymied by a pathetic offense.
Pilut was another Botterill blunder, similar to Miller, Krueger isnt to blame there. Hutton had health issues and couldnt see the puck.
While you are correct the team had an too many RHD, please remember at the beginning of the season, Gilmour was in the press box due to injuries.
So at the beginning of the season they actually did not have enough NHL quality defensemen
Quite simply, Krueger had a better team than Housley and did no better, in fact worse.
You and others blame Botterill for how Krueger handled the team.
I guess it was Botterill:
who caused Pilut to score no points and be minus 4 in 13 games.
that Rodrigues and Sheary performed much better under Housley.
While Vesey played with Jack, the CF% was 55.56 with out Jimmy, Jack's CF% was 49.91. I would say, Jimmy did very well with Jack.
That was still Okposo worse season of his career, even the season while he was recovering from a concussion was better.
You say Okposo was not good, well only Olofsson, Reinhart and Eichel had more pts/min than he.
If that is not proof that he should have been on the second line at least with Skinner and Johansson,
or move Reinhart to the second line and Okposo to the top line, to balance the scoring.
There was no excuse to play Skinner with Sobotka and not with Jack.
Botterill's biggest mistake was hiring Krueger.
After adding Vesey who should have been a 17 goal performer, Miller, yes his poor performance was partially due to circumstance, but was still terrible, Jokiharju, solid performer and Johansson who had a decent season, the team did terrible even with the added talent.
Let me close, ANY coach that let's the GM tell him how to run the team should be fired.
The coach tells the GM what sort of player he wants and the GM gets them.
Then the coach puts together a team, Sobotka on the second line, really?
Regardless, the team had more talent in 2019-20 than 2018-19 and could not get into the preliminaries.
Let's agree to disagree, because you will not ever convince me nor I you..