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All right, all right; I will change the title if someone tells me how to do that.
Here, Eleven. This'll be the first and last time you can learn something from me. You should say:
Listen, douchebags, it's not my fault you can't understand a simple concept. I could change the title, but I'm not going to. #zero######sgiven
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How about some of us meet every four weeks and another committee meets monthly. Some can just randomly drop in whenever they feel like it.
If meetings get canceled, should we worry?
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Thanks. I'm part of the Tamp-in coalition now.
Let's meet monthly?
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....I love Mozart! He was Austrian, you know. But for this kind of work, I find him a little bit light. So I tend to go with the heavier guys. Check out Brahms, he's good too.
Did Mozart have a Vanek Face?
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very nice.
They both toitled.
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I happened to be in Cleveland today. When I got to the Cleveland Clinic, I overheard someone say they had made an announcement about LeBron over the P.A. system, and people cheered. Pretty cool. That's what it will be like when Patrick Kane returns to Buffalo. Right?
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Oh, it's a Friday night throwdown! Crusader looking to make a name for him/herself against one of the true titans of SabreSpace! Imma make popcorn.
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You remember correctly. Those 59 seconds took about five minutes.
One of the best rule changes ever, IMO, was getting rid of that ability to freeze the puck and stop play.
Whatever happened to the quick faceoff deal they tried a few seasons ago? It seems to have gone away.
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I'm with nfreeman and Smell. This isn't working as a "I don't care about this or that" thread.
Sue Ellen MIschke. She gave no ######.
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Hey, at least I can catch the final 59 seconds--thanks!
IIRC, there were quite a few stoppages in the last minute. If the puck was anywhere near skates along the boards in those days and wasn't moving, whistle. I distinctly recall thinking it wasn't too late for a comeback. Just get one, and with 11 seconds left... plenty of time. That little kid is still waiting to have his faith rewarded.
7-11-14.
Have a good one.
Brilliant!
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Sabres trade conditional 7th for prospect: ennui ensues.
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I'm actually enraged that Jordan Samuels-Thomas is only one guy.
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I'm not sure I get this reference at all.
It's OK. It's not me, it's you.
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.67 PPG in the ECAC is not inspiring. This guy maxes out as a fourth liner in the NHL and is more likely destined for the same role in the AHL. So good use of a contingent 7th round pick, but it's tough to get too excited over this prospect.
I'll see you at the meeting. Don't forget — we'd like the sheets starched this time. Thanks.
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Tim Murray is awesome.
Jordan Thompson-Samuels is awesome.
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"Long before?" It's 2014. The next cup will be 2015. Eight years isn't very long considering how low the team currently is.
You're not going to give them that much rope, are you? The tank could work, they could win a Cup, tank again, and win another one before 2023!
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I can't wait till Jessie Pegula gets a business degree.
So, no Laura?
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I've wondered the same myself. Pat hires Tim - and then finds that he made himself irrelevant and obsolete. Has a Sith-like quality to it, like Darth Plaugeis and how his own apprentice, Darth Sidious, killed him in his sleep.
Darth Murray? Or an "Et Tu, Timmay?" moment? LaFontaine didn't even make it to the Ides of March, however.
It's also very House of Cards-ish.
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I've said at other times in my life that so the Sabres go, I go as well. With some help I believe I've made it out of my personal Regier era and am now entering my full rebuild as well. Stanley Cup champions 2017, you heard it here first.
That's so poignant. But remember that Darcy almost won two Cups. Think of the two cups you won when you met Josie. OK, that sounds wrong.
You'll do and be fine.
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Do you see the hockey side as a totally separate entity from the business side? One with complete autonomy from the rest of the corporation? If the hockey department needs resources to accomplish goals, do they just get them from itself? I'm honestly trying to understand your broader point here. If your expectation is that the hockey department exists in a vacuum that should just be left alone, I don't see how that's sustainable in the business model.
And I'll ask one more time: what hockey decision to you feel wasn't made by the hockey department?
GO SABRES!!!
I think it's sustainable in the business model Terry seemed to lay out at the beginning. ("If I want to make money, I"ll go drill a well"; "there's no salary cap on scouting and player development.") What a great advantage this can be (and maybe already has been). The hockey side can make "pure" hockey decisions without consideration of how it'll play with the fan base, how it will affect marketing, what moves will mean for the bottom line.
As for proof of Terry's meddling, I'll refer you to the Trial of Terry Pegula thread. A lot of inferences, assumptions, suppositions and downright facts (facts!) are presented there. I will respect the mood of the thread, for once, that it all doesn't have to be hashed again.
There's a new sheriff in town, though.
I am cautiously optimistic that things have changed. I haven't been able to fully reconcile what happened with Pat. Hopefully it was Tim ruthlessly consolidating power. But it also could have been Pat losing a power struggle with the cronies, who now lord themselves over Tim, who is, after all, still a pup in this business. I love the public personna of Murray, and I am really enjoying the myth-making that's going on in the fan base. I just have to see a bit more from Murray to make sure he's the real deal. Would he really quit, #no######sgiven, if Terry made some of the pushes he made with Darcy?
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The tank being over does not mark the end of losing, just the end of trying to lose. I also can envision the disappointment when don't get McDavid.
In two years, McDavid will be a villain. All the superstars get booed in Buffalo.
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The Pegulas are the board. Tim Murray is the CEO of the Buffalo Sabres Hockey Team.
You could also view the Pegulas as the CEOs, the cronies (Benson, Sawyer, Black, Battista) as the board and Murray as, uh, general manager.
Or we could take Terry at his word that it's a flat structure where Terry is part-GM and Tim is part-owner.
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Boards tend to be more involved in personnel decisions than any other kind of decision.
Again, it's a good idea (creates more vetted decisions before presenting to the board) unless the board doesn't trust the CEO's judgement and forces a bad decision. In which case the CEO should resign. I think this is the dynamic in place now that was always missing under Darcy.
Darcy seemed like a "Mother May I?" type when talking to Ownership.
Murray is certainly a "Oh, it's you. I'm doing this." type.
I'm lost. Who's the board? Who's the CEO?
I can't believe you would compare Kim Pegula to a deceased kangarorse. Aud oughta sock you right on the chin.
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Yep.
You still go to board before implementing big decisions and that's a good thing. When you have to explain 'why' to someone, you necessarily gets your ducks in a row better.
This essentially is no different.
On the business side, fine. If TB's negotiating a new broadcast deal, or they're changing concession companies (yeah, right) or whatever, sure, he and his people present it to the Pegs. I have never liked the analogy that the hockey side is a business like any other, and of course the owner should be involved.
Trade with the Jets:LW Jordan Samuels-Thomas Acquired
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