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Kim Pegula places high value on 'authenticity' in coach hires
I feel so bad for anyone who's a Sabres fan who's not a Bills fan.
I feel so bad for anyone who's a Sabres fan who's not a Bills fan.
Aka “be a yes person”? I can’t read Buffalo News anymore.
It's not BN's fault the team has bad owners.
Kim Pegula places high value on 'authenticity' in coach hires
I feel so bad for anyone who's a Sabres fan who's not a Bills fan.
To be balanced, other than the ROR trade and the Skinner contract (no issue with actually retaining Skinner, the contract was too rich for the full term and NMC), are Kim and Terry to blame for all the remaining bad and dumb-shit decisions Botterill made?
Johikaru and Skinner were dropped in his lap. He made no other beneficial acquisitions (with the book still open on Kahun), and made numerous bad and/or bad value deals. Let’s not blame that on Pegulas. Plenty of other GMs have succeeded - or at least not regressed - in all major sports despite inept, disinterested, or meddling owners.
Johikaru and Skinner were dropped in his lap.
This is a bad take.
Boterill didnt do a good job as GM, but saying every bad move he made was poor ability and every good move was luck is just so biased.
The reason she says stupid things is because she is stupid. Stupid and arrogant is losing combination. It's time we accepted that she's as dumb as a rock and isn't learning anything from being on the job. We can only hope that Kevyn Adams can find a way to manage her stupidity so it doesn't do harm. This women isn't even fit to manage the Healthy Scratch.
“No one has ever taken me up on this, but I think there should be a trial period, right?” the co-owner and president of the Buffalo Bills and Sabres said during a Zoom call Tuesday that was part of the two-day NFL Quarterback Coach Summit, geared toward helping minority candidates move up the professional ladder.
I wish there was one for owners. Nine years? They bought a team that went to the playoffs.
List of NHL franchise owners - Wikipedia
Let's take a look at how other people have done after purchasing a team.
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“We want to win,” Pegula said. “Owners want to win, they want to bring a championship to their city. And I think that’s the key thing that drives them consistently. Now, not everyone may agree on how that happens. But I will say I don’t know any owner that doesn’t have that as their No. 1 priority.
“And, so, when you feel like there’s a disconnect with the people that you have in charge, it’s hard to sit by and just let it continue, knowing that you so desperately want to win and you so desperately want to succeed for your fans and your staff and your community.
“It’s not easy, because you know you’re talking about people’s lives, you know you’re talking about an onslaught of media and fans and things like that. But at the end of the day, it’s hard to sit by and feel that you’re not going towards that goal with that person for whatever reason. You try your best at the beginning, so you want have to deal with that, but things happen. Players come and go, seasons happen, this pandemic happens. So it’s not something you can foretell all the time. You try to do your best at the beginning, but no guarantees.”
Strengthen their authority?We are so doomed forever as fans of this nhl team.
It is going to get worse and worse. What they did last week was strengthen their authority.
I'm authentically pissed about the Sabres performance the past near-decade, and I'll let you know it as much as you care to listen.
Can I have a job?
Ok. Sorry. Authority was the wrong word to use. Of course owners own.Strengthen their authority?
They own the team and have ultimate authority over all aspects of the team. It doesn’t get any stronger than that and that’s been the case since they bought the team.
I’ve never understood the idea some have that we could hire an executive who would be able to overrule the owners. It’s part of what drove the desire for a President of Hockey Ops.
What do you mean by that? Did your quoted portion imply Kim felt Botterill didn't have sufficient passion and/or effort for winning? Or that he was too complacent / accepting of losing? If that is what either you, or the quoted text meant, then I agree with your hopeful reason he was fired.“The focus rarely is on the strategic aspects of the game. She considers a deep understanding of Xs and Os to be a given.”
I truly hope that was the reason why botterill was fired.
Fair enough and I can’t really disagree with you there.Ok. Sorry. Authority was the wrong word to use. Of course owners own.
A better description is an increased influence and involvement into areas that they have no expertise in. Typically owners delegate that stuff to managers who know what they are doing and how a professional program is structured. Kevyn Adams has that position because he is a willing and eager pass-through who will always be "open to ideas" (the awesome organizational mantra). He will make moves he disagrees with if the rest of the think tank on the "flat management team" wants it. Try getting lamoriello to sign up for that.
What do you mean by that? Did your quoted portion imply Kim felt Botterill didn't have sufficient passion and/or effort for winning? Or that he was too complacent / accepting of losing? If that is what either you, or the quoted text meant, then I agree with your hopeful reason he was fired.
Yes the 2nd part I quoted I was saying that I hope the Pegulas wanting to win (& not thinking Botterill was the right guy to get that done) was the #1 reason he was fired, and not for monetary reasons first.
If they fired botterill because they didn’t think he was the right guy to get the Sabres back to winning and Kevyn Adams was, I can live with that even though I wish they would have done a GM search.
If they did it because they wanted to save money + run with a much smaller staff and Botterill wasn’t willing to (and Adams was) then it’s worrying to say the least.