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When you look at the case of Russ Brandon, we will never know whether there was workplace coercion or if it was a consensual extramarital affair with an office worker unless we see a lawsuit later. It's a topic that was covered in the best-selling book/movie 50 Shades of Grey. There's not much new under the sun here. But there might be hypocrisy in action here. A similar thing may have happened between Terry and Kim, when she was his employee between '91-92. Terry may have already been married at the time of the budding relationship, but information about his first wife has been completely scrubbed off the internet "for some reason." One clue is what Kim once said about Pegula's children with his first wife. “Obviously divorce on kids is always hard – especially when you’re in those teen years, and you’re going through a bunch of other things,” said Kim.... So the kids were in their teen years when Pegula got a divorce. Well in 1991, his son Michael was 13-14 and his sister Laura was 5 years younger.

Eleven, on 02 May 2018 - 09:35 AM, said: Sounds like trolls for the Pegula organizaiton; a slave mentality. Why wouldn't anyone want a person with a major background in sports management to be in the top job as president of two losing sports teams instead of a toy for wifey?

So Kim is dictator for life? What if she sucks? People should be put into positions because of their merits and accomplishments, not because they're related to the owner. Buffalo deserves better!

I think beyond assembling competent hockey players who can follow a blueprint, you need players who have unquestioned loyalty to the city of Buffalo. This is an ingrediant that has been missing from many Sabre players, who are in reality mercenaries. (A mercenary or soldier of fortune. One is a soldier who can be hired and will fight if the money paid is high enough.) Look at the loyalty of the Maple Leafs. I know they haven't won a playoff series since 2003 and haven't been to the Stanley Cup Finals since 1967 but check out their response to yesterday's van attack in TO. https://www.tsn.ca/maple-leafs-force-game-7-with-emotional-win-for-city-1.1066030. The Leafs are being led by a 20 year old native Torontonian, the diabolically clever Mitchell Marner. You NEED more Buffalonians on this roster. There is much talent in Buffalo. I'd like to stack the lineup with area players. Buffalonians are the only ones who really stick up for Buffalo. Despite the lip service, Buffalo means nothing but a fat paycheck to most of these hired guns, who'd just assume play somewhere else for probably less money.

Sorry, I'm through being outraged for this year. The book is closed.

Yes...Terry/Kim obviously don't know what they're doing and only make things worse, but no owner in his right mind would keep the team in Buffalo.

I get hockey related emails and one of them was from hockeyperformance.com where they were talking about a summer program for bantams and juniors. They wrote about how unique the program was and mentioned that the strength coach is the winningest strength coach in hockey history, Mike Vasalani, having been part of 3 Stanley Cups. They went on about how important it is to have "hockey-specific strength"as the crucial underlying physical foundation to truly be able to play the game. I looked at the Sabres strength and conditioning coaches and their experience: http://strengthperformance.com/profile/JohnJTAllaire https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-gannon-phd-14560a29 John Allaire's previous experience was as a strength and conditioning assistant with the Sabres since 2012 and before that with the Bills and several college football teams. Ed Gannon's previous experience is with rugby in England. So Bantams and Juniors get a chance to work with a three-time Stanley Cup strength coach and the Sabres...? They get to work with two men who have no hockey-specific strength and conditioning background. No wonder several of the players have hired their own strength coaches. Seems odd at the professional level that they don't have coaches in these crucial strength positions with any NHL hockey experience whatsoever, unseasoned at the specific types of strength and conditioning it takes to win at the NHL level. It makes me think that the organization (which may be changing under Botterill, we'll see) has been behind the eight ball in strength and conditioning for many years. Who knows how many other hockey departments feature people who don't have experience at their jobs at an NHL level. GM and Coach for one and the GM before that too...Chris Hajt...Maybe I've just scratched the surface. I wonder who hired these people and what the criteria was. ALSO, sorry about this and don't mean to offend but...Rip Simonick should retire. We have a $10 million locker room -- but the arena is falling apart. Crucial people in charge are inexperienced at their jobs. There's a good-ole boy network firmly in place. And the owner is a half-wit who's losing interest in the team. This is probably just the beginning of what has been ailing the amateur organization known as the Buffalo Sabres.

Don't agree. I've heard really good things about O'Regan from a former NHL scout I was speaking to...fast with a shot etc. No one's talking about him. I think he will be a pleasant surprise.

I found this, wanted to post it to the beer leagues thread but couldn't find it... Here's something that analyzes the genius of these two brothers, as well as how to work as a team.

After changing the horses in midstream last summer, I didn't want assistants, guys who were newbies at their NHL promotion. I wanted guys who had lots of experience at their jobs. Guys who knew the ropes already, not someone being given a chance at getting a promotion. This has been a last place team for years. They needed crisis managers, guys in the top positions who could withstand a lot of pressure, accurately assess the problems and act on it, despite opposition. You notice that it doesn't look like Nashville and the Penguins missed these two guys at all, mainly because they have good organizations. I don't have answers. This long-time chaotic situation in Buffalo is so perplexing.

I agree, we are not getting any better, just sinking to the bottom time after time.

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I do it for you.

There have been times in the Sabres history that they have had a GM, mainly Muckler, who put together a bunch of Sabres who had stones. But on on the most part, if you had been watching from the beginning, the Sabres have had a bunch of gutless wonders who have been exposed as toast in the playoffs because the aggression factor did not come from the leaders and it was an unnatural emotion for the organization. Watch the Philadelphia Flyers docu "The Broad Street Bullies." They were afraid of nothing. And that became their identity. Buffalo has never had an identity. They always tried to copy other teams' success. In its early years Buffalo was trying to be Montreal, and who could blame them? The Habs had all the cups back then. But for some reason they the Sabres were soft and the owners/GM did not put the team over the top with acquistions at the right time. The weakest links -- Desjardins and Crozier -- were never upgraded and were eventually outclassed. They could have won the cup with a great goalie and one-two players in 74-75, probably their best opportunity. Desjardins in particular was pathetic. To address Schoenfeld and Korab they were not complete players and not leaders. Schoenfeld had a great start like Myers, but after a couple years, gave up fighting for his teammates. (look it up in the Punch Imlach book) In my opinion, Schoenfeld was no hero, he was mediocre. He is mainly defined by the fight with Cashman. Korab was a simply dumb brute. After the Sabres first great run of 74-75, they went on cruise control until the mid-80s when they crashed. Even Bowman couldn't do anything with them. Punch had a stat where in the teams best times from 75-79, they did not once come back from a third period deficit. It was essentially a team of front-runners. Perreault, although beautiful to watch, was a tap dancer for the Buffalo Sabres whose career could have been better, as he has said. Watch Bobby Clarke damn him with faint praise and Gil's historical significance is clearly shown. The early 90s was the Sabres heyday but again, no cash at the end. They were talented again but the window was short. In 99 and 05, they put together impressive runs, but again predictably, no hero stepped up to the forefront. The Sabres have never had a leader with stones, who had high-level production on the ice and also fought for his team, like a Bobby Clarke. The era of Ray-May-Barnaby was the time when GM Muckler got the closest to reflecting the team with its hardcore blue collar fans. They fought and the fans loved it. But never before and never since. It has always been score with no fight or fight with no score. Now, it's no score, no fight. It's significant that the greatest game this team ever played was an exhibition game against the Russians. (12-6)