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Also confirms my feeling that he didn't like anything that came from that process.

Well I would have hope he learned from that but I still think he is a fan and I don't have faith right now in this organization. 

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Well I would have hope he learned from that but I still think he is a fan and I don't have faith right now in this organization.

Maybe he doesn't either...

 

He didn't sound super happy with things in general. I suspect that PSE on the whole is going to be getting evaluated. Those buzz words aren't intended just for the Sabres...

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Maybe he doesn't either...

 

He didn't sound super happy with things in general. I suspect that PSE on the whole is going to be getting evaluated. Those buzz words aren't intended just for the Sabres...

Sounded like a management meeting. 

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That's what I heard.

Well, I was responding to Eleven hinting that Kane won't be kept in Buffalo because of character.  So Bylsma and Murray were 'bad characters'?  Really?   Pegula just gave, less than a year ago, a big fat juicy new contract to Murray -  what surfaced in these past few months that made Murray such a 'bad hombre'?  LOL

 

Or did Pegula think the team itself didn't have enough 'good character' with bad actors like that incredibly talented Kane,  and he put that on Murray?  

 

He started out by saying they did a 'good job' too - yeah, generally people doing a 'good job' aren't abruptly and (in Murray's case) unexpectedly FIRED, Terry!    Y'know, Terry?

 

Hard to put much stock in anything this Pegula guy says.  Lots of contradictions and illogic brought to the podium 

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i Think after going thru McD process TPegs has a better sense of how he wants to proceed and what he is looking for. Could all be for naught... hockey is a little different deal but I do sense Murray was over his head. And DD is who Cindy said he was a system guy not able to adjust to talent while sticking to discipline.

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Well, I was responding to Eleven hinting that Kane won't be kept in Buffalo because of character.  So Bylsma and Murray were 'bad characters'?  Really?   Pegula just gave, less than a year ago, a big fat juicy new contract to Murray -  what surfaced in these past few months that made Murray such a 'bad hombre'?  LOL

 

Or did Pegula think the team itself didn't have enough 'good character' with bad actors like that incredibly talented Kane,  and he put that on Murray?  

 

He started out by saying they did a 'good job' too - yeah, generally people doing a 'good job' aren't abruptly and (in Murray's case) unexpectedly FIRED, Terry!    Y'know, Terry?

 

Hard to put much stock in anything this Pegula guy says.  Lots of contradictions and illogic brought to the podium 

 

Not just character.  He's not disciplined, either.  And he doesn't really respect structure.  Whether he communicates well, I don't know.

 

But evaluating Pegula's four factors against Kane, well, I think he's gone.

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I think Kane is as good as gone, now

Unless it's Lombardi. Making player decisions on character is just so...dumb IMO. 

 

Voynov fiasco. If character has meaning, and not just a buzzword, it won't be Lombardi.

Excellent point though

 

The leadership needs to possess those qualities, not necessarily all thr players.... thats the way it sounded to me.

I hope so. I don't care if my players are degenerate, man gamblers. As long as they win, idgaf

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Yes -- it sounds like the team just seemed like a train wreck to him and that FGMTM and DDB were not keeping things shipshape.

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Not sure what the basis for this is.

I think the first answers the second.

Tim Murray is a rumpled, foul-mouth, blunt-spoken, beer-swilling, just win baby kinda guy.

 

When Terry says discipline and character, I think his definition is "the type of behaviour suited for church."

 

Or as LGR succinctly put it: Sean McDermott.

 

Tim Murray is the antithesis

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Not just character.  He's not disciplined, either.  And he doesn't really respect structure.  Whether he communicates well, I don't know.

 

But evaluating Pegula's four factors against Kane, well, I think he's gone.

I think he is traded as well. My guess is to a team with deep defensive depth. Carolina needs forwards (rw's though), Anaheim could use him, a couple other teams have some defensive depth.

I think the first answers the second.

Tim Murray is a rumpled, foul-mouth, blunt-spoken, beer-swilling, just win baby kinda guy.

 

When Terry says discipline and character, I think his definition is "the type of behaviour suited for church."

 

Or as LGR succinctly put it: Sean McDermott.

 

Tim Murray is the antithesis

 

Who is the Sean McDermott coach and GM of the NHL?

Posted (edited)

Unless it's Lombardi. Making player decisions on character is just so...dumb IMO. 

 

 

 

I should have been clearer in my first post.  It's not just character, it's also discipline and structure.  

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Character means having integrity

 

Please stop the about TPegs wanting people who attend church, that's a leftist slam against Christians as though going to church is somehow a bad thing

 

The fact is character, integrity, honesty are essential qualities to leaders in every industry and business

 

Read some leadership books people

 

Jeez

Posted

Name brought up on WGR, Sean Burke. He was with Arizona and works with Team Canada currently.

Goalie coach and director of player personnel for them. Mehhhhhhhh

Posted

Character means having integrity

 

Please stop the ###### about TPegs wanting people who attend church, that's a leftist slam against Christians as though going to church is somehow a bad thing

 

The fact is character, integrity, honesty are essential qualities to leaders in every industry and business

 

Read some leadership books people

 

Jeez

Agreed. I think people are taking this stuff all wrong.

Posted

The character thing (I gather it was reiterated lot) may be a cumulation of ROR and Kane arrests, but not neseccarily. If tpegs wants us to be more like Notre Dame fbs and less like a SEC team then fine. But I doubt he was talking about the players. Maybe he thought there was some shady stuff going on behind his back. That strengthens the theory of the Eichel story being leaked for leverage.

Character means having integrity

 

Please stop the ###### about TPegs wanting people who attend church, that's a leftist slam against Christians as though going to church is somehow a bad thing

 

The fact is character, integrity, honesty are essential qualities to leaders in every industry and business

 

Read some leadership books people

 

Jeez

Agreed, there is a lot of that on here.

Posted

PA was correct, my quibble with the concepts of 'earn' and 'right' notwithstanding.

 

Dudacek's original post is succinct summary insight.

 

Dudacek's usage and spelling of 'milquetoast' gives me hope that civilization's trajectory is not irreversibly down.

Posted (edited)

Character means having integrity

 

Please stop the ###### about TPegs wanting people who attend church, that's a leftist slam against Christians as though going to church is somehow a bad thing

 

The fact is character, integrity, honesty are essential qualities to leaders in every industry and business

 

Read some leadership books people

 

Jeez

Do you think Murray had no integrity?

Because I think Pegula's issue was more style than substance.

And how that laissez-faire style was permeating the organization.

 

As for the anti-Christian thing, I think you are reading some political baggage from elsewhere into my comment.

I didn't say bad, or good. Just that Pegula has a "type" in mind and that was a good way of illustrating the type.

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The character thing (I gather it was reiterated lot) may be a cumulation of ROR and Kane arrests, but not neseccarily. If tpegs wants us to be more like Notre Dame fbs and less like a SEC team then fine. But I doubt he was talking about the players. Maybe he thought there was some shady stuff going on behind his back. That strengthens the theory of the Eichel story being leaked for leverage.

SEC teams win

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I might as well chime in on this character thing.  I think it's 100% on the front office and not about the players one bit.  A pretty clear picture has been painted of a lack of communication from the coach and GM.  That's very easy to picture with the persona Murray presents.  The whole thing clearly went off the rails in the last couple months and they need to go in a much different direction.

Posted (edited)

I might as well chime in on this character thing. I think it's 100% on the front office and not about the players one bit. A pretty clear picture has been painted of a lack of communication from the coach and GM. That's very easy to picture with the persona Murray presents. The whole thing clearly went off the rails in the last couple months and they need to go in a much different direction.

:o

 

I agree with you and am happy to see you. 

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