After reading a few things on this, this is pretty much were I shake out on these things.
Me too
Lafontaine comes out of this looking like a big stupid baby
After reading a few things on this, this is pretty much were I shake out on these things.
This pretty much sums it up for me too. I'll always love Pat for what he did as a player and for the community, but other than the people he brought in (which he should get credit for) he has not exactly demonstrated sterling judgment here.This gives me a very low opinion of Pat LaFontaine.
You're not happy with the role you have in the organization now? Fine, but you know it looks bad if you resign right after trading the franchise player and days before the trading deadline. For the sake of the organization that put so much faith in you wait until the summer and then resign saying you did what you had to do to put the Sabres on the right track and are now handing things over to Tim Murray.
How can you have a ****ing power struggle with a GM you yourself hired a month ago. Who does that??? And of course it's the Sabres who come out looking like ****. Sigh.
Not necessarily. In saying he wasn't ready to be a GM, that means handling all the ins and outs of NHL operations. That doesn't mean he didn't feel capable of overseeing a GM and overruling him as necessary, which is apparently what LaFontaine was lead to believe or at least thought he was getting.
This gives me a very low opinion of Pat LaFontaine.
You're not happy with the role you have in the organization now? Fine, but you know it looks bad if you resign right after trading the franchise player and days before the trading deadline. For the sake of the organization that put so much faith in you wait until the summer and then resign saying you did what you had to do to put the Sabres on the right track and are now handing things over to Tim Murray.
How can you have a ****ing power struggle with a GM you yourself hired a month ago. Who does that??? And of course it's the Sabres who come out looking like ****. Sigh.
WGR has Bulldog, Jeremy White, and Paul Hamilton on from 9 AM to 11 AM this morning to discuss the LaFontaine resignation matter.
This is the part that bothers me. If Lafontaine's preference was to re-sign Miller, and Murray's was to trade him, why would he even hire Tim Murray? But the timing of this makes it seem like it had to be about the trade.How can you have a ****ing power struggle with a GM you yourself hired a month ago. Who does that??? And of course it's the Sabres who come out looking like ****. Sigh.
I suspect that all of us, at some point, have thought, "this job isn't what I signed up for. I should tell the boss what I think, and that I don't need this job.". And then we realize that we like living in a house and being able to send our kids to college, take a deep breath, and go back to work. The difference with Pat is the second part is probably not a consideration.
That's very true. It seems like LaFontaine didn't like how his position was evolving after he hired Murray, and decided he didn't want to spend his time doing something he didn't enjoy. I don't fault him a lick for that... I do wish he and the Sabres could have waited until after the deadline or even until the end of the season.
This is the part that bothers me. If Lafontaine's preference was to re-sign Miller, and Murray's was to trade him, why would he even hire Tim Murray? But the timing of this makes it seem like it had to be about the trade.
This gives me a very low opinion of Pat LaFontaine.
You're not happy with the role you have in the organization now? Fine, but you know it looks bad if you resign right after trading the franchise player and days before the trading deadline. For the sake of the organization that put so much faith in you wait until the summer and then resign saying you did what you had to do to put the Sabres on the right track and are now handing things over to Tim Murray.
How can you have a ****ing power struggle with a GM you yourself hired a month ago. Who does that??? And of course it's the Sabres who come out looking like ****. Sigh.
http://www.wgrz.com/videos/news/2014/03/01/3498599/
Nolan is about to address the media. It's streaming live.
Why delve into the arena of character assassination? So far we've had people bagging on both upper management and LaFontaine when none of us are privy to the details. Could be as simple as GMTiMu wanted to proceed in one direction, while PLF saw things different. We've all been in situations where a decision being made put us in an uncomfortable place- one we couldn't pursue.
Murray was hired to be a businessman. If someone tried to get in his way and impede his vision of what this club needs then more power to him for steamrolling over them. He's paid to make the tough decisions and trust has been placed in him to run the Sabres how he sees fit.
LaFontaine has quit a job before over issues that impugned his integrity. It's his right to do what he deems fitting regarding his sense of ethics and boundaries. If it was a power struggle and he walked or was let go, kudos to him for sticking to his guns.
Just like trades don't have to have clearly defined winners and losers, neither do business dealings. Personally I don't see a bad guy here. Just a poor fit and a club looking to move forward.