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flashsabre said:
But Dudley wouldn’t have to interact with the Pegulas. Put him in charge of scouting. Adams is the point person to talk to the Pegulas.
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Terry Pegula cited Botterill trying to deny him access to the scouting dept as one of the reasons for firing him.
What the Sabres' decision-makers said this week and what it...
Terry Pegula: We believe in a flat organization where we can all talk to each other and communicate, not only the head coach, the GM and the owners, but strength and conditioning, the players, everybody.
Adams: Without getting overly specific, philosophically I really believe in flat organizations.
 
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Buffaloed said:
Terry Pegula cited Botterill trying to deny him access to the scouting dept as one of the reasons for firing him.
What the Sabres' decision-makers said this week and what it...
Terry Pegula: We believe in a flat organization where we can all talk to each other and communicate, not only the head coach, the GM and the owners, but strength and conditioning, the players, everybody.
Adams: Without getting overly specific, philosophically I really believe in flat organizations.
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I stand corrected.:D
 
If they could put up with Murray for multiple years I'm sure Dudley is fine.

He did specify that he thinks they did more, with less expenditures. That might make the pegulas ears perk up. Hopefully now that video scouting has the Dudley seal of approval, people will stop acting like its the worst thing ever.
 
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Buffaloed said:
Terry Pegula cited Botterill trying to deny him access to the scouting dept as one of the reasons for firing him.
What the Sabres' decision-makers said this week and what it...
Terry Pegula: We believe in a flat organization where we can all talk to each other and communicate, not only the head coach, the GM and the owners, but strength and conditioning, the players, everybody.
Adams: Without getting overly specific, philosophically I really believe in flat organizations.
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does anyone think Terry realized the scouting was sub-par and wanted to challenge them on it, and Botterill balked?
 
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brian_griffin said:
does anyone think Terry realized the scouting was sub-par and wanted to challenge them on it, and Botterill balked?
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I don't think it was something as specific as "the scouting" or "the cap" or anything like that. By the end of his tenure, Botterill was tending a garden of people who wanted his ass gone. Key hockey ops personnel were getting left out of the decision making process, and players were pissed about playing time and general roster management.

Then, when the season postmortems kept kicking blame up to ownership despite their support of the toxic GM, the Pegulas probably doubled back to re-consult some of those critical voices. Especially when the costs of this season became more apparent, with things like the cap overage, guaranteed contract $$$, Pilut leaving, plus Botts' possible resistance to cost-cutting measures.
 
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When it all went down someone did report that the pegulas inquired on scouting schedules and were unhappy with the volume of work. They obviously wouldn't know what's an appropriate volume, so it could have been someone in the inside saying they weren't worth keeping
 
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When it all went down someone did report that the pegulas inquired on scouting schedules and were unhappy with the volume of work. They obviously wouldn't know what's an appropriate volume, so it could have been someone in the inside saying they weren't worth keeping
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I'm going to say Kevin Devine. He survives mass exodus over mass exodus.
 
Devine has been here since the cup run, Darcys 2nd season. Our drafting has been subpar for decades now. Why is he still here? I would love a huge fresh start.
 
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I’m hoping beyond hope that it will be a similar situation as the Whaley if we’re mirroring Sabres to Bills. Let him control the draft since he has overseen many in the past since you completely gutted everything. Then let him go once Adams can have the time to find his guy for drafting.
 
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Gabrielor said:
When the purge was announced, he was the first name I thought of who'd seen too many bad draft/develop phases.

Honestly shocked he survived.
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To me, it feels like Devine has stuck around because he’s almost purely been an administrative guy since Murray. He might have piled on when the outcome was obvious, but I don’t think he was the PSE source who was bitching about the Cap overage that really set things in motion.
 
Devine's drafting record as director of amateur scouting was also pretty average. Not great, but not as bad as he's typically blamed for.
 
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