Jsixspd
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This probably needs a bump now that it's official. Time to dump this bum.
What has he done so far? Nothing - just talk. We're focused on tomorrow - we're not gonna even discuss the past. It's about intestinal fortitude. And Character or something. And grilled ham and cheese.
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Lukewarm take alert: If Josh Gorges is skating a regular shift with this team next season, then the team isn't serious about making the playoffs, let alone doing anything once there.
I agree. Why is there even a discussion? Need a faster more effective D-man who can actually get an assist once in awhile - having him on the ice 20 minutes per game was ridiculous.
And Dan Bylsma, late in the season, lauded and praised Gorges as the sort of player Bylsma wanted on his team.... no wonder Bylsma had almost the whole team quit on him.
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Maybe give it more time than pre-7am the next day, ya know?
:lol:
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Ok, Pens won the series - where's the announcement? There's a lot of work to be done by the new GM and time's a wasting.
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He seems kind of slow, and his stats have been in decline. I think we need better.
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Why do they insist on doing this stuff in places where it rains more than it snows during the winter?
Terrible location for a 'winter classic'
Jan 1 2018 - only ~ 7 1/2 months away - we could be a team on the rebound by then..... or mired in the bottom mud and ooze of the Atlantic.
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The new GM will also have to kiss McDermott's wrestling ring (since he doesn't have any for football). I give Pegula a hard time for his Pittsburgh fetish but at least they've won. Now we're trying to emulate a team that's never even won anything. This should end well.
And it's Beane. Astonishing that the Bills' GM search is complete before the Sabres'. And yeah, it's because Pens are still in a series but..... amazing and I want to be peevish about it. So I will be.
The new GM will also have to kiss McDermott's wrestling ring (since he doesn't have any for football). I give Pegula a hard time for his Pittsburgh fetish but at least they've won. Now we're trying to emulate a team that's never even won anything. This should end well.
Yup - we have a novice HC and novice GM - from an organization that I don't find all that impressive and has never won the big dance, and now are the highest ranking management of a team in disarray that could use a seasoned, competent football czar in charge, or at least a seasoned GM or seasoned HC, but instead has on the job training as a core value.
Good things ahead, no doubt, :rolleyes:
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After enduring 2 years of Pittsburgh's "Stanley Cup winning" HC molding the Sabres, I'm so not optimistic about the results of The Pittsburgh Effect on the Sabres.
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Consider there are infinite parallel universes (there are).
In atleast one of those universes game 7 of the WSH/PIT series never ends... ever.
Perhaps we live in that universe.
I wonder if there is a universe where the Bills won even one of those 4 Superbowls? Nah.... can't believe it - in every alternate reality they lose them in unique, and ever more heartbreaking, fashion.
Buffalo is the nexus of the negative realities that binds them all together.
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I think he's done a good job so far. We haven't lost a game yet during his tenure. You can't say that about the last few guys.
We can heap similar praise on McDermott. So far, these most recent picks of Pegula's are full of win..... or least, full of not lose as win is a bit of a stretch at this juncture.
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National sports media has the Bills in a race for the bottom already.
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@AdamSchefterLooks like a favorite has emerged: Panthers asst GM Brandon Beane is headed back to Buffalo for second GM interview with Bills, per source.
Will the Bills be the Panthers-lite, much like Pegula is trying to craft the Sabres as Pens-lite? O
Or is this because McDermott got most of the say in hiring his new 'boss' - who will probably run and fetch the coffee in the office for Sean and T-Pegs? "How much cream would you like, sirs?". lol
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If he's hired, then yes, in a year or two or three this topic will be relevant as his inevitable firing approaches. Maybe less than a year if the Sabres finish 78-82 pts next season.
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LOL!!!
At this point - I could see Pegula making yet another course reversal/hard-about in 6 months and firing him. IF Pegula were a skipper, his nickname would be "Crazy Ivan". -
Missing the playoffs again would be a catastrophic failure.
When you figure that half the teams in the NHL make it to the playoffs, I guess it could be considered a huge failure.
Honestly, I think we'll be doing good to get to .500 - it's been, what, 6 years since we were even there? .500 might be enough to squeak into a playoff berth too, so killing two birds with one stone, perhaps?
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Maybe not yes men, but if he hires Botterill the trend line with both teams seems to be the hiring of young, unproven guys he can "work with" and wouldn't be expected to rock the HMS Flat Management Structure. No emperors, as Terry once said.
A bit of a straw man. I wouldn't go as far as you're suggesting. The core guys around the team? Yes. I mean, even the president gets to fire the black woman White House usher and replace her with an old, white, rich dude.
I have the feeling as the years progress, that the Pegulas will make the ever meddling Ralph Wilson Jr. seem like Mr. "Hands Off" by comparison. With these people, an employee can be dynamite one day, 4 or 5 months later they're handing out pink slips.
They're volatile, impulsive, meddling owners, who don't have a good plan or strategy.
They also don't take much responsibility and aren't terribly honest- I sincerely doubt Pegula was as distanced from the Bylsma hire as he tried to allude, but he basically put it all on Murray.
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I think he said "as involved". I'm sure he signed off on it, and probably interviewed Dan. I'd guess XGMTM said something like, "Well, Babcock screwed us. I like DB as my next choice." TP: "OK, go get him."
You know, if Bylsma was the best available at the time (especially since we'd put a lot of eggs in the Babcock courting basket) then it wouldn't be reasonable to fault Murray for hiring Bylsma
However, if Murray refused to face reality, and continued to support keeping Bylsma as HC at the end of this disastrous season, then he certainly deserved to be fired.
Murray seemed more pragmatic than that; and his end of year presser certainly provided no real endorsement of Bylsma; some outright criticism in fact of Bylsma's methods. For him to dig his heels in, and support Bylsma.... I have trouble believing that. But all we know is what Pegula told us.
I hope we learn the true story someday - I would love to know the details.
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Guys.... Clearly we're upgrading our sugar packets, to the fancy sugar in the raw for new GMJB.
I can't recall - did the forum refer to Regier as GMDR? I don't remember seeing it.
Or did it start with Murray because it had a nice ring to it?
GMJB.... meh - just seems flat.
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I think we're starting to forget how bad this team was when he took over. Take a look at this thing:
72 Luke Adam
37 Matt Ellis
63 Tyler Ennis
P 1 Jhonas Enroth
65 Brian Flynn
31 Matt Hackett
19 Cody Hodgson
49 Connor Knapp
23 Ville Leino
29 Jake McCabe
30 Ryan Miller
26 Matt Moulson
57 Tyler Myers
17 Linus Omark
9 Steve Ott ©
12 Kevin Porter
5 Chad Ruhwedel
32 John Scott
78 Corey Tropp
26 Thomas Vanek ©
84 Phil Varone
61 Nikita Zadorov ru D 18 6-5 230 L/- R April 15, 1995 1 G, 0 A, 1 P
Several of those players were gone already, including Vanek. I mean, jesus, there is almost nothing there.
EDIT: Oh god, that looked so much better when I pasted it, give me a minute to edit it into something readable.
EDIT#2: Fixed. Also, I counted, there are 6 players on that team that still play for them now. 6. Out of 46. Thats an 87% overhaul of the roster, and thats not including the fact that at least one of those players Murray brought in.
That's a wonderful perspective - this was a horrifyingly bad team when Murray took over. 87% is a tremendous change.
On the negative side, he'd saddled the team with some bad contracts - but I didn't think that was enough to fire him so soon.
The only thing - if MURRAY were behind the hiring of Bylsma, and supporting Bylsma at the end of the season, then he should have been fired.
Pegula tried to shuffle Bylsma's hire onto Murray's desk in the post-Murray presser. But consider the Bills - Pegula was involved in the hire of Ryan AND McDermott. Rather odd to think him staying out of the coach hiring at his beloved pet Sabres.
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The prevailing theory (to which I do not subscribe) is that, as a high-level executive with both the Bills and the Sabres, he is involved with player / personnel decisions despite a lack of qualifications with respect to either team.
Although you don't subscribe to it, it's well stated.
I might add - not just lacking in qualifications for such advice and consul, but with a clear marketing-centric SLANT.
I.E., Brandon's player advice (and coaching - remember a guy named Ryan?) rests on putting people in stadium seats in the short term - as opposed to putting a championship trophy in the showcase long term!
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Ribald Murray
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That was a poorly sentence by freeman.
Yes, but OTOH Graham doesn't rate a properly constructed sentence either.
Nice read, thanks. Hey PA, did you see this part? Might want to put a tarp down before your head explodes. :) (I kid, I kid)
So we're to believe that Pegula had nothing to do with the hiring of Bylsma, then, although the Pegulas were clearly involved in the hiring of Ryan and McDermott? That's what Pegula implied in the post Bylsma presser - that he wasn't involved in the Bylsma hire.
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Well, none of these people are Jason Botterill or any Sabres candidate, unless they're going really outside the box with an unknown.
It's Russ Brandon's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. Which makes him absolutely nothing.
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Whaley received his extension in January 2016 -- a solid 16 months ago. He was entering the final year of his deal, so the extension prevented him from being a lame duck. An extension in these circumstances is very common.
Here is what TP said at the time:
That is hardly high praise -- and really could be characterized as muted.
As I and many others -- including many professional NFL writers -- have said, keeping DW and the scouting staff until after the draft was the logical move for the franchise.
I agree that DW (and RB, IMHO) should've been fired as soon as TP bought the team, just like he should've fired Darcy. But TP doesn't believe in buying something and then firing everyone. He believes in giving people a chance to prove themselves. That doesn't make him a bad guy, or fickle, or lacking in character.
Similarly, giving DW an extension entering his lame-duck year, praising him fairly moderately at the time and then firing him 16 months later (after 16 months of continued terrible performance) doesn't make him a bad guy, or fickle or lacking in character, nor does it mean the extension was an embarrassment. It just means DW didn't do a good job, TP decided he'd given DW enough rope, and it was time to cut his losses and move on.
I think TP will have plenty of high-quality applicants for the GM job -- just as he's had for the Sabres' GM job.
I was referring actually to the public support Pegula extended to Whaley after his totally embarrassing presser post-Ryan where Whaley wasn't 'privy' to anything. Not the contract extension.
And yeah, we can hope his words and actions regarding both Murray and Whaley were part of some incredible strategery and cunning on Pegula's part . I have my doubts. You see planning - I see no real method at all.
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That sort of move would mean Russ Brandon had more control of the Sabres than we would think possible. LOL It would probably be a good short term buzz/pop for ticket sales, but a poor long term decision.
I think keeping Linus is a smart move. Team needs a good solid backup.
Not sure it has much connection, one way or another, to Lehner's status.