Who was in charge of this? The person has to be totally clueless. There wasn't one person in the chain of command that didn't notice that one alumni who has been consistently involved with the orgnization for the last 50 years and another who was one of the most recognizable faces and names of the late 80's early 90's, names were spelled wrong on the jerseys? Is there anyone within the managment of the team that was actually a Sabres fan growing up? How long were they preparing for this? These kind of things, just like the concession problems make it clear that the on ice wows are a systemic problem coming from the top down.
This organization desperatley needs someone with experience to step in and take the reigns. The Sabes are like a restaurant, where the owner is totally hands off but also totally oblivious that the management does not have the experience and organization to make things run smoothly. Terrible managers that don't lay out a clear directive to their employees and then you end up with chaos.
I hate to say this, but this team could use Larry Quinn right now to run the non on ice related business aspects of the organization. Then they need a President of Hockey Operations that has final say on all draft picks and trades. They aren't there to do the grunt work but if the GM comes and says I'm trading O'Reilly for 2 cap dumps, a 1st and a C+ prospect, he can be overruled.
Thank God Pegula stumbled into McDerrmott and Beane because they know what they are doing. We as fans need to give them all the slack in the world, because if they stumble for a couple years and were to get fired, who knows what buffoons the Pegula's will bring in next.