Butler - You Knew This Was Coming

[skudr248]

You really think Butler is an actual NHL player? Yeah right, are we watching the same games? This guy is pathetic excuse for an NHL player

Originally Posted by DOOM

Must feel nice from your throne calling NHL players "losers"

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by dino7c

SOB has been good for my money, he keeps getting lumped in with Butler...who could possibly look good playing with Butler

???? I get the hate for Butler, but saying that he is dragging down SOB is ridiculous.

SOB is worse in his own end than Butler, and can't skate to save his life. The good part about Butler, is that we have him until the end of the year and then he is gone. I wish we could say the same about SOB.

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by skudr248

You really think Butler is an actual NHL player? Yeah right, are we watching the same games? This guy is pathetic excuse for an NHL player

He's playing in the NHL, right? He's an NHL player.

You're not making sense.

[Flash Walken]

I made this point in the game thread.

Butler makes spectacular mistakes, O'Brien makes unspectacular but otherwise crippling errors as well.

O'Brien does one of his characteristically lazy HORRIBLE passes, the kind of pass that requires effort to fata it up so badly, that leads to an icing. After the icing, running around a little, Butler pulls the McGrattan from earlier this season and O'Brien helps everyone out by setting up a fantastic screen-on MacDonald.

Comedy of errors. Goats, both of them.

[getbak]

Originally Posted by DOOM

Ummmm....they didn't get two 2nds ........

Yeah they did: http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/p....php?pid=29154

2013-Apr-01 Traded from Buffalo Sabres to Los Angeles Kings for round 2 pick in the 2014 draft and round 2 pick in the 2015 draft

[Redrum]

I wasn't as down on him as most people here a year or 2 ago. He was still young but he hasn't progressed at all since he got here, in fact he might even be worse now. It's time to move on. I don't see how Smith or even one of our rookies down in the AHL could possibly be worse.

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by DOOM

Ummmm....they didn't get two 2nds ........

You are right they ended up with 3 2nd round picks. 1 from the initial trade and 2 from the trade to LA.

Flames will have nothing after Butler and Byron leave.

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by getbak

Yeah they did: http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/p....php?pid=29154

oh, thought he was referring to the Calgary trade.

Who the hell cares what Buffalo got for him. Typical response from a trade 1.5 years later, who cares, stop crying.

[JoelOtto29]

Originally Posted by getbak

Yeah they did: http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/p....php?pid=29154

all i remember is that the second LA pick was conditional.

anyhow. what a crazy trade:

CGY: Chris Butler, Paul Byron
BUF: Regehr, Kotalik, 2nd round pick 2012

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

Buffalo bent us over hard. The fact they got two 2nds for Regehr makes it sting more.

They also paid over 8M for a player who didn't play well for them at all and ended up as their 5-6th dman

not to say a better deal wasn't out there

[BACKCHECK!!!]

I think both Butler and SOB are NHL-calibre players, but pairing them together is like an Oilers-level of badness.

One of them has to sit, or go to a different line. Or team. Or league.

I think Butler still has time and potential to put it together as a #4 guy.

I don't really know enough about SOB to say if there's any hope of him ever contributing.

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

You are right they ended up with 3 2nd round picks. 1 from the initial trade and 2 from the trade to LA.

Flames will have nothing after Butler and Byron leave.

Who cares about the LA trade?

[Hockey_Ninja]

Originally Posted by DOOM

Ummmm....they didn't get two 2nds ........

Yeah they did. When they dealt him to the Kings.

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by kyuss275

???? I get the hate for Butler, but saying that he is dragging down SOB is ridiculous.

SOB is worse in his own end than Butler, and can't skate to save his life. The good part about Butler, is that we have him until the end of the year and then he is gone. I wish we could say the same about SOB.

SOB has been fine, he is the 6th d-man on a year one rebuild team...I never nominated him for the norris

[DOOM]

Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja

Yeah they did. When they dealt him to the Kings.

Who cares bud.

Not a Flames trade.

[kyuss275]

Originally Posted by DOOM

Who cares about the LA trade?

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You are lucky that you erased that last statement.

[FlamesPuck12]

Originally Posted by DOOM

oh, thought he was referring to the Calgary trade.

Who the hell cares what Buffalo got for him. Typical response from a trade 1.5 years later, who cares, stop crying.

Must feel nice from your throne telling people on a message board to stop crying.

[dino7c]

RR trade was a salary dump and its in the past...no need to even consider it one way or the other. Smith should get a shot

I will say the penalty butler took tonight was BS...there were 100s of tiny hooks like that all night long

[DOOM]

MOD EDIT: No insults, please.

[JoelOtto29]

Originally Posted by DOOM

Who cares about the LA trade?

everyone but you. good job bud.