The painfully obvious point I was making is that this team has (through it's own incompetence and stupidity) churned through an insane number of players who have gone on to great success elsewhere. The only other organization I can recall squandering that volume and level of talent is another all time laughingstock: The Milbury Error Islanders.
Exactly. Crazy to claim someone's value was low and the guy wasn't moved as evidence of it
Back issues compounded with his mental state we're huge red flags
He also interviewed with Carolina, NJ, Minnesota x2, Philly and Edmonton. Pegula and his team passed on him for Botterill, what is your point?Bill Zito interviewed for the GM position here and Pegs passed. Sigh
Report: Blue Jackets Assistant GM Bill Zito Has Interviewed for the Buffalo Sabres GM Job
According to a report from ESPN's John Buccigross, Blue Jackets assistant GM Bill Zito has interviewed with the Buffalo Sabres for their open GM job.www.google.com
Boeser bounced back because they hired the perfect coach to jolt his career back. If we traded for him who knows if he spirals worse.
I think it was more just a unsustainable streak with Boeser this season.
I think the point is Pegula passed on hiring a guy who went on to build a cup winning powerhouse to instead hire a guy who would be high on any list of worst GM's of the past 25 years and it's a great example of why we are a historically bad laughingstock under his incompetent ownership.
But you can't predict at that time an ex agent would be better than one of the top young candidates. To correlate that Zito would have been as successful or successful here is irresponsible.
His point is that Pegula had sole control and messed it up. When in actuality a bunch of teams passed on the risky candidate, one team twice, that have ideal team structures and still came to the same conclusion. It's a total crapshoot and shouldn't have a singular failure pointing
You mean you don't know the point of people posting on message board?
At the time Bill Zito was being touted as an up and coming great mind for GM.
On top of that every GM and coach hired here has yet to get another shot somewhere else at the same level.
It was 2017 and Zito would have accepted as he never was a GM before but to your first point we will never know but there is a good chance you are right which just means this team is doomed until Pegula is gone.
The fact his first big hire was Rex Ryan has somehow been memory holed.
I believe McDermott was brought in by a consulting firm hired by Pegula to do the head coaching search after the Rex Ryan debacle. And McDermott brought in Beane. I don’t think it’s a huge coincidence that the couple of hires that have worked out Pegula had limited involvement with.
I don't understand how you can walk into the point and still continue down your path ...
What does that have to do with this thread?
Where you had retention and return backwards? The "wut" comment was in jest.
It all depends on how much risk a GM is willing to take.
