The 10th Anniversary of The Hiring Of Tim Murray
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Sabre the Win
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How are you commemorating? Mushrooms and slappin PPs?
Ace
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I know everyone is still sooo mad he traded away picks. But this overreaction and hoarding of them by the current regime isn’t fairing any better.
Can we have a damned middle ground and just…I don’t know…build a full team?
Can we have a damned middle ground and just…I don’t know…build a full team?
NotABadPeriod
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MOGlLNY
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Zman5778
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Deep Blue Metallic
Bo knows hockey.
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Zman5778
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A 1 minute contract gets him announcing our entire draft
KeyserSoze81
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He brought one of my favorite players of the last 20 years in Ryan O’Reilly. It was great until the Bylsma slowly drained the life from him. That’s all I got. Everything else was terrible, and has somehow continued to be terrible.
SwordsgoneWild
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10 years . 3 different regimes of futility . When will this nightmare end? .. They have killed the hope of an entire fanbase and grounded it into desolate apathy.... I f***ing hate this franchise and that's hard for me to say. They're my #1 team and have been for almost 30 years. f*** you Terry.
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Let's just say I can no longer slap my pee pee without guilt, shame, and ultimately tears.
CaliSabresfan24
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When the Pegulas don't own this team
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Murray's singular achievement was traumatizing the Pegulas, especially Kim. Everything thing they've done since his ouster is to hire people who will never flaunt their authority again, abilities be damned. It's precisely why we're never climbing out of this hole.
SwordsgoneWild
WhenyougazeintotheabysstheBuffaloSabresgazeback
Which isn't going to happen anytime soon so we'll have to hope he hires someone good by sheer luck like he did with the Bills and even that hire has out stayed his welcome .
CaliSabresfan24
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I remember when KA was in the process of hiring Karmanos, Chad D heard that KA wanted to bring in Jim Rutherford to be a "Senior Advisor" but not President.
Apparently Rutherford said he would only take the position if the Pegula's stayed completely out of all hockey decisions and of course the Pegulas said no f***ing way.
Not saying Rutherford would have fixed this mess but just goes to show what people outside the org think of the Pegulas.
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On the one hand, you have a guy like Warren Buffett who interacts with the ceo's of the companies he owns/invests in maybe once a year. The businesses in Berkshire's portfolio tend to thrive with no intervention on his part. One his more famous adages is "I only invest in businesses that an idiot can run, because eventually one will."
On the other hand you have folks like the Pegulas, Tepper, Jones, and a slew of other filthy rich owners of sports franchises that confuse their brilliance in one sphere (capital markets, oil and gas exploration) with a general brilliance in all matters of business. And the more their teams flounder, the more they intervene, which causes their teams to suck even more, ad infinitum. The motto here should be "we only invest in teams that an idiot can run, and that idiot is us."
sabremike
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All these years later and I still can't understand how such a raging sociopath ever got hired in the first place. It should've taken no more than 5 minutes into his first interview to figure that out.
