Don’t You Dare Give Me Hope Dreger

[Flashsabre]

I don’t need Terry to sell. I need him to stop Jerry Jonesing the team. Step back and let a qualified hockey guy make the decisions on building the front office

[Taro T]

11 hours ago, Brawndo said:

There is a rumor that TP continues to blame the NHL for Botterill and therefore is reluctant (or refuses more accurately) to listen to them on other personnel decisions. 
 

On the other hand, JW mentioned events at KBC are starting to offset some of the Sabres loss of revenue. Plus Highmark Stadium and its associated revenue will start flowing in the Fall of 2026 and maybe the Sabres purse strings are loosened.
 

A consistently full building and playoff dates will help that. Moving on from the existing regime would be a help with ticket sales and considering there is hardly anyone in the organization from coaching staff or hockey ops who is still under contract after this year,

 

Therefore changes probably come. 
 

Hopium is a hell of a drug 

Yes, the league suggested Botterill; but the other finalist to replace Murray was Zito.  It's no different than when the Bills were looking for a new coach and it came down to Ryan and McDermott; Pegula (at the suggestion of Brandon) chose Ryan.  The parallel goes so far as to Zito sitll being available when Botterill was canned, just like McDermott was.

Unfortunately, that's where the parallel ends.  But still, he has options to rectify the current mistake, and one of them is already in the buidling.

[Mango]

19 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

But there is always the pesky issue of choosing the RIGHT person.

Right, and people who think they have all/most of the answers are generally the ones who make the worst hiring decisions. I have found that people who have an honest inventory of their own strengths/weaknesses generally do a better job solving problems than those that don't. 

Terry considers himself a "hockey man". I would much rather any organization (professional sports or otherwise) be run by somebody who is wildly successful in a different industry to come in and go "holy shnykies, I don't know anything about this, let me assemble a group of qualified people who do". 

[Mango]

12 hours ago, Brawndo said:

There is a rumor that TP continues to blame the NHL for Botterill and therefore is reluctant (or refuses more accurately) to listen to them on other personnel decisions. 
 

On the other hand, JW mentioned events at KBC are starting to offset some of the Sabres loss of revenue. Plus Highmark Stadium and its associated revenue will start flowing in the Fall of 2026 and maybe the Sabres purse strings are loosened.
 

A consistently full building and playoff dates will help that. Moving on from the existing regime would be a help with ticket sales and considering there is hardly anyone in the organization from coaching staff or hockey ops who is still under contract after this year,

 

Therefore changes probably come. 
 

Hopium is a hell of a drug 

I will believe it as soon as Terry Pegula sits in front of a podium and says "Jerry Forton and Kevyn Adams no longer have any job in any capacity with the Bills, Sabres, Harbor Center, etc. Him nor Adams are on my payroll in any capacity."

[xzy89c1]

far more often than not, the unknown is worse than the known. Local buyers are nonexistent. The Rink needs hundreds of millions in renovations. A person buying the team would be more likely to do so to move the team.