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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Sure. But they traded for Thompson in the first place. They targeted him because people in their organization saw something in him. That’s not fluke. They also turned the huge problem of an unhappy Eichel into Tuch, Krebs, and Ostlund. Their recent picks outside the top 10 have been strong (Peterka @34, Kulich @28). They’ve locked down much of their core at good cap hits and avoided shortcutting the rebuild with anchor veteran signings. They haven’t just fallen into the roster they’ve built. Sabres management has been doing a lot of things right in recent years.
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That doesn’t really change a whole lot. Botterill is the one who wanted Thompson in the deal, he got fired. And whether it was Botterill or Adams, one of them were trying to trade Thompson for a 5th round pick but the other team wouldn’t do it, so that’s the only reason Thompson is still a Sabre today.
That’s pretty lucky, to me. You could argue pretty easily the only reason they have a star like Thompson is because another GM saved them from themselves.