TBN: Sabres appoint Charlie Mendola as director of hockey strategy
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OkimLom
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Teams have got to be envious of the sheer amount of homegrown workers the Pegulas have been able to develop since they came here. You just know they are in preparations of creating their own team structure thanks to the inspiration of the winning ways of the Pegulas.
Hopefully the crux of it will be something like “score more goals than our opponent, win games”.
Buffaloed
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I think it has something to do with reassigning parking spaces after the layoffs. There's so many open spaces now employees are parking wherever they want and they just can't have that.
Kublakhan
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I am just imagining a guy who sits through all the meetings, head down playing a game on his phone.
A few months in, someone says "Lets see what the director of strategy says"
Without looking up, he says "Score more goals than the other team"
A few months in, someone says "Lets see what the director of strategy says"
Without looking up, he says "Score more goals than the other team"
Der Jaeger
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Edit: I wonder if he’s looking at league trends, player trends, and advising Krueger and Adams?
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jc17
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Like game planning vs specific teams, or staying on top of all playing styles and general changes within the game?
All joking aside, the idea that "we know better than everyone" that this hire (and the Adams hire) projects is very much a boom or bust proposition.
An inexperienced GM surrounded by people he came up professionally with might be a tight knit group that works well together, but it's also a group that hasn't been in a ton of high level situations and knows how to deal with them. And this is true of Krueger, who has limited NHL coaching experience.
Given, bad GMs who, over time, are proven to be awful, get short term success all the time. Look at Rutherford in Pittsburgh. The longer he's been there, the worse the team has gotten. But they also won 2 cups under his watch.
Time will tell whether this approach works or not.
An inexperienced GM surrounded by people he came up professionally with might be a tight knit group that works well together, but it's also a group that hasn't been in a ton of high level situations and knows how to deal with them. And this is true of Krueger, who has limited NHL coaching experience.
Given, bad GMs who, over time, are proven to be awful, get short term success all the time. Look at Rutherford in Pittsburgh. The longer he's been there, the worse the team has gotten. But they also won 2 cups under his watch.
Time will tell whether this approach works or not.
Buffaloed
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He's a friend of Adams. They've known each for over 30 years. They're the same age and came up through the same hockey programs as kids. They probably played on some of same teams. Mendola was working in banking until Adams brought him into the HarborCenter operation.
Buffaloed
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I think his role is advise Adams on building an efficient front office structure.
Der Jaeger
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This thread is hilarious.
No idea what a Director of Hockey Strategy does. Apparently he's not allowed to dabble in Hockey Operations though.......
No idea what a Director of Hockey Strategy does. Apparently he's not allowed to dabble in Hockey Operations though.......
Herman Hessian
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I don't like to pick at typos, but I presume you meant 'playoffs' - as in dealing with the scrum of media and out of town sorts who grabbed previously unallocated parking spaces as interest soared during the latter stages of next season's Stanley Cup run and are unwilling to give them up when the frenzy begins to subside...
If anyone is curious what a Director of Hockey Strategy does, check this out:
https://recruiting.ultipro.com/HOC1...ostingId=5dd34d6b-7146-465f-a8e2-df573ce20a82
https://recruiting.ultipro.com/HOC1...ostingId=5dd34d6b-7146-465f-a8e2-df573ce20a82
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