Hey Terry, Do Us A Favor and SELL

[Chainshot]

Here is a part of the McDermott hire that gives more fuel to the "Pegula got lucky" theory:

There are reports that they hired a search firm when they hired Rex Ryan and they suggested that they hire McDermott. Pegula was entranced by Rex Ryan in his face to face interview and hired him.

When Rex didn't work out, they hired the same search firm, they once again suggested McDermott, and the Pegulas listened that time.

If that is how it played out...

So a dufus who is easily bamboozled by blather, bluster and bullshit.

 

[Fjordy]

Here is a part of the McDermott hire that gives more fuel to the "Pegula got lucky" theory:

There are reports that they hired a search firm when they hired Rex Ryan and they suggested that they hire McDermott. Pegula was entranced by Rex Ryan in his face to face interview and hired him.

When Rex didn't work out, they hired the same search firm, they once again suggested McDermott, and the Pegulas listened that time.

If that is how it played out...

Can they hire the same firm to search for GM/POHO? I would work for this firm, I wouldn't take much money, for Buffalo I can for free.

 

[Beerz]

I can't believe they have to hire Zip Recruiter to find football coaches/GMs and Hockey Coaches/GMs.

 

[Steddy33]

I can't believe they have to hire Zip Recruiter to find football coaches/GMs and Hockey Coaches/GMs.

I do

 

[joshjull]

Here is a part of the McDermott hire that gives more fuel to the "Pegula got lucky" theory:

There are reports that they hired a search firm when they hired Rex Ryan and they suggested that they hire McDermott. Pegula was entranced by Rex Ryan in his face to face interview and hired him.

When Rex didn't work out, they hired the same search firm, they once again suggested McDermott, and the Pegulas listened that time.

If that is how it played out...

If they used a consulting firm that would be widely reported, not some whisper. Why would it be hidden?

All the reporting on the search that led to Rex Ryan’s hiring was that Kim and Terry Pegula headed up the coaching search with Whaley/Brandon doing the leg work (making call/set up the interviews).

Pegulas set promising course for team’s future

All of Terry’s quotes are about the process and how the 4 of them (Kim/Terry/WHaley/Brandon) worked through it to end up with Ryan.

 

[Deevo]

I can't believe they have to hire Zip Recruiter to find football coaches/GMs and Hockey Coaches/GMs.

This is actually fairly standard practice in the NFL

 

[Beerz]

This is actually fairly standard practice in the NFL

I can understand for something like a tight ends coach .. you definitely should have people in the organization already who are up to speed on the games head coaches, offensive and defensive coordinators

 

[TehDoak]

HE wasn't a local buyer. Move easily off that idea. We're talking about a guy from Pennsylvania who lives in Miami.

Well, someone with local ties at least

I’d like to think Pegula hasn’t pulled the trigger yet because he’s doing a clandestine search for a legitimate President for his team to let run the franchise.

But I know better.

I doubt we see much before the NFL season is over.

Very easy just to put Kevyn's calls to voicemail and watch more Josh Allen highlights

 

[ValJamesDuex]

This is actually fairly standard practice in the NFL

at least in Chicago

 

[Jim Bob]

If they used a consulting firm that would be widely reported, not some whisper. Why would it be hidden?

All the reporting on the search that led to Rex Ryan’s hiring was that Kim and Terry Pegula headed up the coaching search with Whaley/Brandon doing the leg work (making call/set up the interviews).

Pegulas set promising course for team’s future

All of Terry’s quotes are about the process and how the 4 of them (Kim/Terry/WHaley/Brandon) worked through it to end up with Ryan.

I have no idea. I am going off of what I heard on a Sabres podcast this past week about the state of the team.

Bills turn to McDermott to end playoff drought

The Bills have chosen Panthers defensive coordinator Sean McDermott as their next head coach, replacing the fired Rex Ryan. He becomes the 20th coach in Buffalo's 57-year history.

www.espn.com

McDermott, 42, was one of four coaches to interview for the Bills' vacancy, along with interim coach Anthony Lynn, Arizona Cardinals offensive coordinator Harold Goodwin and Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Kris Richard.

I'm glad they landed on McDermott with those final four candidates.

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

I hate Sean Avery but just another voice calling for Terry's head.

Whitney's wrong about 3 coaches with 10 game losing streak. Donny only had a 8 game losing streak

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

"But lets not change anything and keep doing what we're doing... because we know what we're doing."- Terry Pegula... probably

 

[HaNotsri]

Anyone who wants to watch Sabres in the playoffs will have to outlive the whole Pegula bloodline.

 

[debaser66]

He just wants control. Maybe it's even hubris that he thinks he knows what he is doing.
He installed the 3rd rookie GM in a row whiile the last one is completly inexperienced, Pegula groomed.
No one to mentor him or give him any help like other teams provide.
There is no structure in place except Pegulas nepotistic narcissism.

 

[HogtownSabresfan]

Nobody outside of Buffalo pays any attention to the Sabres.

And I’m talking about people who cover the team and follow the team. Pretty much everyone has been excited about the Sabres every single season since they drafted Eichel.

Why have all these teams failed? Worse rosters have made the playoffs.

The apologists at the Buffalo News do not count for much at all. If you follow the Athletic main writers, TSN, Sportsnet, Elliott Friedman ... none of them thought Buffalo was a playoff team. You have some columnist in the local town going on and on about changes in Buffalo because of the so-called bottom six. Seriously? A bunch of fourth-liners who don't even play 10 minutes a game and McLeod (an okay extra piece) and Jason Zucker (who they had to overpay to get him to come) were changing the team. The D was the same unless you count Dennis Gilbert who excites no one in the NHL beyond Buffalo. Then you have Devon Levi, who is anointed future superstar when analysts outside of Buffalo peg him as mostly a 1B or even a backup.

Buffalo is a tiny little echo chamber where people tell each other every year the team will be better because they love the Sabres so much. Me included. Then the season starts, and reality sinks that Pegula has hired incompetent people to run the team and is now penny-pinching everywhere.

If you want to win -- and it likely will never happen -- bring in a senior president of hockey OPs who will blow up this backwater country club and deal with the reality of being in a second-tier market. Sure Buffalo has a disadvantage beyond its control but competent management will get the team into the playoffs and then anything can happen.

He just wants control. Maybe it's even hubris that he thinks he knows what he is doing.
He installed the 3rd rookie GM in a row whiile the last one is completly inexperienced, Pegula groomed.
No one to mentor him or give him any help like other teams provide.
There is no structure in place except Pegulas nepotistic narcissism.

All true

 

[Jim Bob]

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6016588/2024/12/26/rangers-sabres-who-has-it-worse-nhl/

Faith in ownership​

It all starts at the top. Sometimes, it all ends there too.

Rangers: James Dolan has had a reputation as one of the worst owners in pro sports for a while now, although the Knicks have been less of a mess lately. He’s constantly winding up in controversies, feuds with popular former players, and thinks he can sing. Honestly, that last one might be the worst of them all.

Sabres: Terry Pegula is a weird one, in that Sabres fans have completely lost all faith in him while Bills fans still have his back. As a Puck Soup listener pointed out this week, if Pegula only owned the football team, Buffalo fans would be begging him to buy the Sabres too. But as it stands now, the fan base seems to have zero faith in the guy.

Edge: I’m going to go with the Sabres because of a key difference we haven’t mentioned yet: For all his faults, Dolan is at least willing to spend to the cap.

 

[slip]

So spending to the cap is the edge breaker, and not failing to make the playoffs every single year he’s owned the team? I mean, right answer, but wrong path.

 

[TheMistyStranger]

So spending to the cap is the edge breaker, and not failing to make the playoffs every single year he’s owned the team? I mean, right answer, but wrong path.

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[ValJamesDuex]

The owner doesn't like to be embarrassed so I wish he would stop doing it to the fans. We do not deserve this.

 

[CaliSabresfan24]

It's truly amazing how one man can own one of the most successful sports teams and quite literally one of the worst ran sports teams at the same time...

In fact, here's Terry's replacement

 

[tsujimoto74]

In any other professional sports organization, there would be consequences for someone for how this season is going. Not here apparently.

 

[May Day 10]

It really feels like pegula has given up. I know everyone always says that he is present and it means a lot to him, but it doesn't make sense.
Literally every other professional sports organization would have done something by now (and very few would even undertake a stunt like hiring someone of kevyn adams' credentials)

Adams has proven he can't do the job. In his 5th season, they are in worse shape than when he took over. He also managed to embarrass the organization and the city with his awful disposition at his pc.
They continue to employ a pile of nobodies with little experience below adams.

Pegula just doesn't care how the team performs, as long as it's done his way.

There is almost no reason to buy tickets unless you want to see someone from the opposing team

 

[5 Minute Major]

Terry Pegula took a hockey crazed town and destroyed it in a matter of a decade and a half. He destroyed the love the area has had for the Buffalo Sabres for over 40 years until he showed up. Even at the beginning of his reign of terror we were all hopeful. That seems like a lifetime ago.

Congrats, Terry. You killed us.

 

[sabremike]

Terry Pegula took a hockey crazed town and destroyed it in a matter of a decade and a half. He destroyed the love the area has had for the Buffalo Sabres for over 40 years until he showed up. Even at the beginning of his reign of terror we were all hopeful. That seems like a lifetime ago.

Congrats, Terry. You killed us.

Terry Pegula can go straight to Hell. He somehow ended up being a bigger fraud and bullshit artist than the Rigas crooks.

 

[May Day 10]

Terry Pegula took a hockey crazed town and destroyed it in a matter of a decade and a half. He destroyed the love the area has had for the Buffalo Sabres for over 40 years until he showed up. Even at the beginning of his reign of terror we were all hopeful. That seems like a lifetime ago.

Congrats, Terry. You killed us.

It is remarkable at how efficiently this clown has killed this hockey market. They were in pretty good shape overall when he took over. There was a STH wait list. They were coming off a Division title and made the playoffs when he walked in the door. The arena had decent atmosphere. Golisano, for his warts, had made them financially solvent, while being (somewhat) competitive (even in 2007-2011) they were waaaaay better than any point since Pegula took over.

This has got to be the worst entertainment product there is. The team is boring, not really likeable. They hired a stale coach that we were sick of and done with a decade ago, after watching him here since the 1970s. Even if they win 3 straight, you can't even get any degree of excited as everyone knows the slide-back is inevitable as they are too poorly constructed, not good enough, too young to be consistent.

The arena is drab. In-game is miserable (loud shrill electronic music invading your brain). Telecasts are bare-bones and paint by the numbers and the hosts/announcers are forced to be 100% positive which makes for an awful drab product (I don't need them to tear the team apart... it just comes across as deceptive, fake, and repetitive).

Nobody anywhere cares or talks about the Sabres anymore. You don't see people wearing gear much on the streets. All the conversation I hear is just how bad they are and how poorly managed they are.