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The problem with "learning the sports ownership business" is that it really isn't analog. There are these large jumps in real world experience when personnel change followed by long bouts of observation of the current structure. There is no cookbook to all this despite fan pontificatation. If there was a right way everyone would just buy Sports Ownership for Dummies and follow the helpful tips. There's about 25 key personalities that all have to come together, along with a lot of luck (Carolina). In all of this, it is also good to remind oneself that winning a championship in a parity league is hard. 30+ teams search the answer every year. If it were easy, then no one would care. We are all frustrated with the lack of results but never pretend that this is easy.

Well, that assumes his "sense" is true. I don't know why he would know what the plan is.

How much of that Rochester help is sitting in juniors or in college right now?

Kevin Sylvester: For what it's worth: I'm told the decision to fire Murray and Bylsma was made before the meeting with the Pegulas yesterday.

I would be more inclined to believe they are watching Toronto, Edmonton and Calgary in the playoffs and said we aren't good enough under GMTM.

Perhaps I have mistakenly placed more faith in GMTM than he deserves, but I don't see him falling on his sword for Bylsma. He knew there were issues and said as much. He's a smart hockey man. I'm waiting for an alternative explanation.

Honestly, I had a hard time disagreeing with almost anything he said. He was refreshingly honest, direct and informative.

Ugh. Tim Murray was the one thing I liked most about the Sabres.

For those of you heating up an oven, a pan or a grill to reheat a slice of pizza, I have a question… What temperature do you set your toilet seat to when you sit down to take a piss in the morning?

He has 38 NHL goals since he was drafted in 2009. Its 2017. I'm not losing sleep. He obviously had talent, it's always been on him.

The Sabres traded with Vancouver. The Oilers picked up a player 2x discarded.

The 3.X series of this board software is officially end of lifed as of 4/1/17 and there will be no more updates to it from the developers. So, the Facebook login is most likely dead until I either upgrade to the new 4.X version or move to xenforo or another platform.

The board uses an old piece of Facebook code that Facebook no longer accepts.

This is an audio only suggestion. You can make a new anonymous account for it.

Any particular reason why?

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I wish there was another way, but my wife commutes 40 min the opposite way. It's the hand I'm dealt, so it's the hand I play.

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I would be happy to host a Skype audio only chat for anyone who would like to talk. Please indicate your willingness to get a skype account and join in. As it stands now, there is no amount of productive time that could possibly be devoted to informing, correcting and persuading people via the forum format. Too many posters, too many opinions, too many issues to address and too many people posting more and reading less. The only way to actually make progress is a real voice conversation. FTR, my days are full. I commute 2-3 hours round trip every day and I have a 12 and 16 year old playing soccer year round. I coach one and I am the manager for the other. I also train both of them at the gym, while I try to maintain some semblance of my own health. Whatever posts I make on my phone are usually during water breaks at some activity or during a small break at work. I apologize for not responding to certain issues in a more timely way, but there literally is no time for me to address the scope of this situation, particularly since some posters wake up every day hell bent on making everything worse. I have but a bucket of water, but if the town people insist on lighting the entire village on fire then there is nothing I can do about it. Civilization hinges civility...

It appears to be the case.

Are you sure they didn't mean - at the time, one game over the course of the games already played?

When? I'm not saying you're lying but I don't believe either would have said that.

I barely know where to put the gas in and I've done a dozen brake jobs. It's probably the easiest thing you can do other than changing routine filters.

I have not made any substantive changes in a very long time to the software on my side, so any abnormalities are due to the user configuration. It could be that bugs in the older version of the message board are starting to be surfaced through updates in browsers.

Randall, I implore you to make this thread great by implementing an open/lock system. You should be the only one posting in it. If not, then a scrapbook of memories will be devolve into more scraps than memories.