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Murray was hired by LaFontaine and Murray was supposed to report to LaFontaine, but that is not what happened and that is what led to his abrupt resignation. Both were very bad choices IMO. Botterill was pushed by the Pittsburgh connection that Terry trusted, and Botterill is a bright guy. He was chosen over Bill Zito, who is now a Cup winner in Florida. Just because you interview a few people and you apparently pick the wrong guy doesn't mean that you completely change your processes and the very next time you go out and hire an inexperienced person for the most important job in the organization simply because you know him and like him. But that is what happened. As several here are alluding, there is an element of luck at play, and I agree there is no magic formula, but you still need sound logic and discipline in how decisions are made. So the logical move after Botterill was fired is to ask yourself what were the key factors that led me to pick this person over the other? Was my criteria wrong, or was the weighting used on my criteria wrong? What should change? You have to be brutally honest with yourself. But at that time Terry was not interested in finding the best GM. He was interested in preservation of the family wealth. PSE was scaled back, One Buffalo ended, the Bills were spared, the Sabres were not. So when Botterill left he simply hired the guy he knew, and liked, and was comfortable with. In this case Terry must have known it would be hard to find an outside "hockey guy" that would agree with EEE, or with trading Eichel (using the injury as a fulcrum) and driving another full scale rebuild. You say the Sabres haven't sucked for a long time due to any one thing. I say they have. They have sucked for a long time due to poor decisions made by the owners. Terry, Kim, and back to Terry. That is the constant that everybody sees. That is were the buck stops - and in the Sabres case the bucks have stopped for a long time. So the pandemic is over and 5 years of losing is the aftermath. Terry is now at a fork in the road - make a change now, or wait one more year since Adams and Ruff are on contract. He knows them and he likes them and he has very few reliable connections in the league. Ruff really deserves better than one year. Adams does not, but it is easy to see where this is going. I am bracing myself for another year of Adams and Ruff. Best case is that they do add a legit Senior Advisor.

Uh, Bennett won a Cup with Florida last season.

The Leaves are gonna stay alive.

Wow. The Captain leaks one past Bob. 1-0 Leaves.

I am surprised at 0-0 with 4:00 mins left in the 2nd.

Caps gone. Peg is next.

No one mentioned Karmanos yet. He is the Rochester GM, his team is playing a home playoff game. The Owner and his top staff are there. He had to be there somewhere.

Ok, we all know that Marner is very good in the regular season. How much are you going to pay him? Where does he fit? How many actual GWG or GTG does he have in the playoffs. He is a near PPG playoff scorer and yet I never hear the guys name in the playoffs and his team loses, many times in the first round. Last night was a critical home game for him and he was -2 with no points. So yeah, 62 points is great, but is he leading his team to victory? Doesn't seem like it to me. On top of all this he will not play for the Sabres.

Gerry Meehan - Ambassador to Russia Alexander Mogilny - Russian Hockey Scout, Siberia Region

Larry Playfair - Rules committee

I think of the bold and why each guy left and the root cause of every move was Terry. If he doesn't let a competent person run his team soon it won't be long before Dahlin and Tage will be next. Just by saying ...

I had a group of friends that played that and pinochle. It was fun and it was a long, long, time ago.

It doesn’t look that bad to me, meaning no wind up or follow through motions, but he definitely put his elbow in a bad place and skated through to make contact.

This group and what goalie?

So five more years then?

Yeah. Bring in Ekblad and McKinnon and Oettinger. That will help a lot.

OK @JohnC, you have to admit that (Adams + Lou) > (Adams + nothing). You cannot just discount Lou's record because he is 82, even his last stop at Long Island was far more successful than that of Kevyn Adams. I am not sold on Lou necessarily, but I think they need more and better leadership experience in the FO. And no way is Terry Pegula a crook like Dan Snyder. A bad hockey owner, yes, but not a Dan Snyder type.

I don't think I have ever seen a team playing at home, with the series even at 2-2, and the game still close, just quit like the Toronto Maple Leaves did last night. The players quit, the fans quit, the organ player quit, the people generating noise/music quit, I'll bet the beer sales guys quit too. As soon as they fell two goals behind they quit playing and the fans stopped cheering and that was that.

I remember watching games when helmets were rare. They only wore them after serious injuries. Seems crazy in today’s world.

89 on Toronto turtled unlike any I have ever seen.

OMG. 6-0

His mustache never improves with age. It’s not right.

Toronto fans filing out quietly - “Leaves are falling all around, it’s time I was on my way, …” No. He will be very expensive and his track record is to disappear in the playoffs.

The team, the fans, the production in the arena, they all quit. Unbelievable.