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Sabres fire GM Botterill in series of cost-cutting moves

by AP Hockey Writer
| June 17, 2020 12:03 AM

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula reversed course by firing general manager Jason Botterill on Tuesday as part of a drastic cost-cutting purge of front-office staff and scouts on a team preparing to sit idle for what could be the remainder of the calendar year.

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