That Aud Smell

So Golisano’s bag man and water carrier is also on record. No one’s on record with the story that there was a deal in principle in the fall, that Golisano balked because of the price, and then the price went up because Drury lit it up and there was an infusion of money. In terms of known facts: Do we accept as fact that Golisano demanded the team operate in the black, that he was extremely cost conscious, and that he was at times a cruel as1hole to his direct reports? (The latter assertion is my inference from his own story about an unaccounted for bonus (250K?!) and a 45 minute silent treatment in his warm sunroom that didn’t end until Darcy said he’d pay the bonus back to his boss. (Btw - query whether that’d even be legal - to have an employee pay the company back for an error/omission in the course of their duties. The analysis might be peculiar when it’s a key employee with a detailed contract. Whatever. What an as1hole that guy is.)

Also - who else is likely to go on record about this? Sourced information is in play, imo.

Larry Quinn, possibly?

I’ve read PA’s suggestions that the franchise should jettison a long-tenured equipment manager and a longtime anthem singer — in the interest of purging bad juju (?) — maybe PA sees our continued discussion of 7/1/07 as being bad karma (?).

Daddy issues?

Lots of people care. This is our team. This is its history. 7/1/07 is a day that lives in infamy. This will always be discussed and debated among those who remember and care. I just can’t sort out your “nothing to see here, folks — move along — better yet, stop caring” take on this.

Desire is beside the point. Why not just be analytical and make reasonable inferences from facts or putative facts?

Because you’re generally an iconoclast around here, who, among other things, consistently unloads on the bullsh-t and hypocrisy of the team’s current owners. Such BS and hypocrisy being largely part and parcel of belonging to the billionaire class. And yet with Tom G … . Like I said: Baffling.

The visual is funny. Your desire to prop up Golisano’s version of events is baffling.

I do peddle in the truth, and how it gets shaded, massaged, enhanced … okay, I’ll stop. Golisano doesn’t need a reason to lie in order to remember things in a self-serving way. He just needs to be human. And the tendency to self-serve with memory is stronger when you’re a rich as*hole. Also, you argue at cross purposes when you say Golisano would have no clear memory of the fallout of 7/1/07. It’s even more difficult to be truthful when you don’t have a clear memory — some would say damn near impossible. Fair! Sometimes better to be lucky than good.

You evidently have a bizarre (or maybe no) understanding of how "the truth" works when pushed through the sausage grinder of an individual's ego and subjectivity. Even wonkier still when we add in the passage of time.

By all accounts and by his own words, Golisano is/was a monstrous as*hole. He was also an enormously effective and successful (and, yes, imperfect) owner of my favourite hockey team.

How’d you get the strike through text? I’d thought it was gone.

Pipeline needs.

The 2nd round goalie thread gets more chatter than the threads for each of the 3 1st rounders. This team needs a 1A goalie.

You say that because of all the film you’ve watched in the kid? Who pissed in your cheerios? I’ll take that action.

per @inkman, Hamilton said we need size. j/k - i like the sound of the pick.

That OTT-CHI trade somehow seems bad for both clubs ... unless the player is extending his contract with OTT.

How's that not being nice? I agree with what you've said. As a cis normative heterosexual fella, I also dig how they dress in leather (?) pants and bras for their shows. Also, the sister who plays bass makes the best bass faces I've ever seen.

They were great - lots of fun. You are unlikely to get a Jerry Korab reference, though. But I'm betting they'll be prepared with some local in-jokes. EXTREME BASS FACE! Ngl - I have been digging the footage of those girls in their matching leather concert costumes.

nah man - this ain't it.

I am confusion.

that letang deal seems ... like a lot. isn't he old?