Botterill's mismanagement of young players like Thompson and Mittelstadt who both should have been sent to Rochester nearly a season or more prior to their actual assignment. Botterill's constant inability to find depth pieces despite draining draft capital. Botterill's consistent loss of value in very nearly every trade he brokered. Then he brokers the second of two terrible HC's on his watch in Kreuger? He's been an AGM in Seattle which was the position he was supposedly good at in Pittsburgh. If teams are interviewing him, I'm sure stories that he was somehow not responsible for all the stupidity he perpetrated on the Sabres are going to flow from those who like him - Lebrun comes to mind, so too Dreger. It's like listening to Eich change his stories after he left to make him sound less like the entitled prick he is.
Thompson working out was a once in a lifetime save that still doesn't look good in retrospect with how Big Head handled Thompson's development.
