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  1. How's that sort of thing worked out for the Bruins? The Avalanche? Not for nothing: JBOT is not in the same stratum as any of those former players. The fact that he's a former Sabre is really just happenstance, IMO. It's far, far more significant that he spent time with the Penguins.
  2. I think it was McKenzie who I saw Tweet to the effect that Holland was the person who made this happen, that he's happy to take a step back and act more as a consultant, but that he could potentially listen to GM position offers from organizations like Seattle and one other (was it Vancouver?!).
  3. It was pretty good! Same. I thought it was just me. That's an odd choice. Just overlay some Barry White or whatever. Eesh. This is a thing isn't it? The football-centered Thanksgiving Day. My mother only recently began permitting football to be on as sort of background fodder (the event's at my house now, anyways), but it's never a focus of the day's ongoings. Your poor Ma.
  4. Okay - he was still an NHL ambassador as of 2017. https://www.nhl.com/news/my-hockey-life-pat-lafontaine/c-290865690
  5. I remember hearing that as well - that he basically returned whence he came. But one Googling came up fairly empty.
  6. Right. I was imprecise. I more meant: I haven’t seen or heard from him at all. Pegula hired him as president of hockey operations. Has he not surfaced somewhere else in the league in some prominent position? Why not? That’s more on the hiring angle, I guess. The demise of the club as a competitive enterprise seems to make his departure more and more ominous. That actually is not really tied to his post-termination silence (which was likely purchased). It’s more just a sense — maybe he objected strenuously to anti-competitive choices, maybe he was right to do so. And/or, given that he’s not been doing much since then, maybe he’s a guy who struggles with anger arising from some sort of post-concussion syndrome.
  7. The more time passes without hearing “boo” from Lafontaine, the more his hiring *and* firing seem strange.
  8. Is this anything more than message board speculation? It’s fine, if not. I can’t recall having heard this theory.
  9. Well, you'd have to ask @PASabreFan why he found the number remarkable. For my part, I thought it was remarkable for being so low -- I'd thought the number would be closer to 50%
  10. Good for/on Jack.
  11. This confused/confuses me. Indubitably. He called it remarkable. For my part, I didn't take that as declaring a win. (I also disagreed with his view of the matter.)
  12. That's as clear a "huh?!/WTF" gif as I've seen in a while. Well put. Someone posted a link to a national guy (Ferraro?) talking about how the locker room clean-out remarks were why JBOT felt his hand was forced with ROR. I never saw it that way. I thought the take was misplaced. I've really come to rue the apparent need to trade such a high quality top-6 NHL forward.
  13. Appreciated. Pish posh, I say, to those who simply claim "narrative" (or crusade) on this front. I remain skeptical, as always. To a fault probably. But I'm listening and reading carefully (or trying to), and watching warily as well.
  14. IIRC, the Pegulas sold gas and oil rights in PA and OH (mostly) in order to buy the Bills. I think they still have a lotta NY land rights. Thanks. Link?
  15. Also: Maintaining a healthy distrust of the super wealthy is a well advised approach to dealing with the world. I seem to recall @PASabreFan theorizing about Terry’s potential ulterior motives for wooing upstate/western NY. Political aims? Freeing up the frackelage? It’s all still in play, imo.
  16. There definitely seems to be some interest from PSE in having Russ Brandon and other separated execs be the scapegoats for why attendance was poor. But by how much could Buffalo have outbid the other contenders? How much more were the Buffalo ticket packages when compared with the 2018 event? The 2020 event? I keep coming back to the idea that most of the (over)pricing blame belongs to the NCAA. And I also think that there was a peculiar storm of hockey fatigue/hockey malaise that afflicted this market at this time.
  17. I can’t create an inventory right now. I did recently create a short list of Terry’s bad decisions/bad decision making instances — in another thread, I think. For present purposes: I think Terry is susceptible to being bamboozled — both by sycophants (Brandon) and bullsh1t artists (Ryan).
  18. Yeah, yeah.
  19. I have no issue with any owner tinkering, or meddling, for that matter. It's their team. The decisions just better be good ones, more times than not. I'm not sure what you're asking in terms of the type of owner that I (but not me personally?) would prefer to have. If I do have a preference, it's for the sort of owner who's mostly hands-off on the sports personnel side of things. With that said, I understand the need and desire for an owner to have a hand in making decisions such as a decision to draft a franchise QB. The decisions just better be good ones, more times than not. I also tend to agree that Terry operates in good faith, with good intentions. Increasingly, that's not enough for me to say that I support him.
  20. I tend to agree with @PASabreFan that this is regularly stated as a proposition that tends to insulate Terry Pegula from criticism. And I also tend to agree that it's, at best, a questionable proposition, and, at worst, a fallacious one. Hehe. I said fallacious. Also, I think I may now understand what PA was getting at with Terry being insulated.
  21. I will continue to disagree with the 8-season sample size being too small. And will again not touch the tank issue. I'm not sure where the "I don't trust the rich DBs" stuff is coming from. I know I've grown to distrust or mistrust (?) Terry Pegula as a pro sports owner. But it's not because he's rich.** It's because he makes bad decisions. ** Being absurdly rich is a prerequisite for the role he occupies, after all.
  22. This was outstanding work.
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