His arena is falling apart. He laid off people making peanuts during a pandemic to save himself pennies. He’s decimates the front office and scouting department. He has the lowest payroll in the league.
f*** man, the burden of proof is on his cheap ass.
You want people to believe they’ll spend money? f***ing spend money. Sitting around here calling people out for observing actual things that have happened with beliefs you can’t show a damn thing for. Come on. He’s cheap as f***.
I mean it was during the heart of the pandemic. Many businesses were absolutely crushed by this. Hockey is a gate driven sport. Also, the front office had so little success why not change it over? The guys Adam’s has brought in since have seemed to have a good eye for development and they’ve definitely added to their analytics dept. since all of that went down.
Was it a bad look? Absolutely. But to an extent they had so little success for so long and were going to be losing so much money that they had to do something.
And people will say “but they make SOOO much money, why don’t they cut from their own pockets”. While that’s true to an extent, imagine the Sabres are about 20% of their revenue and the Bills are closer to 75% and the rest is random PSE stuff (Bandits, music, etc)…
What would you do if 20% of your revenue was potentially thrown out the window? As a company officer it’s your duty to put the company in good financial standing, not just sit there and take a hit for however many years (especially at that time not knowing how the pandemic would fully impact the sport or revenue therefrom).
So while I get the idea that they’re cheap, there were reasons, and their past history (Ehrhoff buyout, how many coaches on the payroll continually for years, wasted money on front office staffs who couldn’t draft or develop), I understand the need to tear down and rebuild, basically from the top down, and the pandemic was the “perfect”reason to do so.
