The burying of the lede on this story is mindblowing: This organization is going to pay a terrible price for their stupidity because if you are a European UFA the first team you are going to cross off your list are the Sabres. This organization's name is worse than mud.
And the Pilut signing is the kind of found money this franchise or any struggling franchise desperately needs. Pro-ready from day 1 of being on the team, could've been at worst a cheap 3rd pairing PMD that we acquired for free.
But we had to keep a bunch of extra dmen because dumbass Big Head said so. Results of that:
Bogo the pylon probably costing us a playoff spot and causing issues with being unhappy.
Selling Scandella off for cheap.
Alienating Miller by promising him a bigger role and then scratching him regularly.
Alienating and potentially losing Pilut because Botts doesn't understand how player development works.
Just waiting for Botts to top this mess off by giving Montour $5M per for 4 years.
Not that Botts made the coaching decisions but he could've prevented most of them from happening by fixing the logjam on defense.