He sure does. But its hard to watch him fail every night and not get sent down especially in January and and mid- february when there was still some chance to make the playoffs...
Tage needs to play lower and learn how to use his size better especially in certain situations. Its more about technique and body positioning than his actual lack of being physical.
Weird you don't want to mention the one decision that impacts ALL the players, and that's the hiring of Housley who has been a horrible hire in every sense, since the day the opened camp.
Seeing as Botts is a "Draft and Develop" guy, it's kind of interesting that Botts would make such a move that would be instrumental in actually developing players seeing as he that would be so against that idea. We don't need to see the player that we draft with the pick coming back, we don't need to see Tage developing further, to see trading ROR away was a huge mistake that impacts many areas.
Cool, he drafted all these guys, can't wait to see how he develops these players. Mittelstadt is surely being developed well playing for Housley and same goes for Dahlin
. The others, way too soon to see say they are wins if they don't crack the Sabres roster.With the help of Murray's prospects.
Weird you don't want to mention the one decision that impacts ALL the players, and that's the hiring of Housley who has been a horrible hire in every sense, since the day the opened camp.
Seeing as Botts is a "Draft and Develop" guy, it's kind of interesting that Botts would make such a move that would be instrumental in actually developing players seeing as he that would be so against that idea. We don't need to see the player that we draft with the pick coming back, we don't need to see Tage developing further, to see trading ROR away was a huge mistake that impacts many areas.
Cool, he drafted all these guys, can't wait to see how he develops these players. Mittelstadt is surely being developed well playing for Housley and same goes for Dahlin
With the help of Murray's prospects.
Getting rid of O’Reilly and trading for Skinner was an ego thing in my opinion and a way to put his stamp on the team.
Which ones? Olofsson and Pilut, who are like 23-24 years old, are having nice almost-PPG seasons in the AHL, which is good, but doesn't tell us as much as it would if they were younger than that without years of pro experience under their belts. Casey is completely overmatched as an NHL center and just spent a full season in the wrong league, and Tage is even worse, with the same situation, and it's a tough sell right now that they're better off long-term for what has happened to them over the last 5 months. Nylander is still incredibly disappointing, and there aren't many other notable prospects doing anything worth talking about. We have to remember that every organization has some degree of competency in that they have some prospects not drowning. I see no evidence that we compare favorably to franchises that rapidly and regularly pump 20 goal scorers into the NHL every year like Tampa does, when I haven't seen us get an honest-to-goodness high end NHL player outside of three picks that were utterly obvious slam dunks in the last decade.
But I'm outlining how, with respect to teams taht actually develop well and have prospects that play outstanding, we're behind the ball. You claimed it was outstanding and an A, I don't see that at all.
Are you f***ing for real? Scandella came with the dump of Pomminville, Sheary Hunwick and Montour cost us a 1st. ROR for Berglund Thompson, Vlad should of cost him his job. josephson, nolan and keeping TT in the nhl are as stupid as any in recent memory including Ottawa trading away the first overall. He didn’t draft Dahlin it was a gift. A reward for taking a team backwards. Skinner orchestrated his own trade to the only team within geographic proximity to Toronto. Botterill is indefensible. Period. Stop trying to say his chickenshit is chicken salad.
He was much better away from the Puck early on...I’m thinking the season has taken a toll on him.
