Harrington is back to stirring up shit.. Pulled over the important parts to save you a click.
> Pegula is taking over as Bills president and announced that John Roth will take Raccuia’s titles of executive vice president and COO of the Bills. In this view, that’s problematic.
> Hockey operations finally are in good hands with general manager Kevyn Adams, assistant GM Jason Karmanos and coach Don Granato. But the Sabres have a long way to go off the ice, and the newbie essentially brought in to replace Kim Pegula is now taking on added workload from the other side of the company.
> The Sabres need a front-facing president who is fan – and media-friendly – and working full time on hockey. Perhaps Roth could have fit that role, but it is going to be impossible for him to do it with the amount of time he is going to have to spend in Orchard Park.
> But with this move, Terry Pegula has now circled back and created the same problem for Roth that his wife dealt with in her roles: It’s daunting for anyone to serve in a major role such as COO for two professional sports franchises, especially someone with no experience in the matter.
> But as a business, the Sabres need far more help than the Bills. This move shows the trust Pegula has in his longtime business associate, but it still doesn’t seem like much of a positive for the hockey team.
What Mikey doesn’t seem to grasp is that for the first time in a very long time both the Bills and Sabres have a productive GM/Head Coach + Front Office for both teams and that gives Terry some room to run operations as he wants….provided operations stays the fuck out of the front office. The results of this move are to be determined.
I don’t have an opinion on Roth at the moment because he hasn’t done anything to form an opinion on. He’s just been there. The Sabres still do have a long road ahead of them in terms of the fan experience but that’s more organizational than the person at the very top. Roth isn’t the person who is ordering the Andreychuk jersey for a special event. But Roth is now the person who needs to fire whomever makes mistakes like that going forward.
As for being media-friendly…fuck Harrington. He is a dinosaur writing for a paper with about as much modern day relevance as the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is also a known asshole so making his job easier should be of zero concern.
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Harrington is back to stirring up shit.. Pulled over the important parts to save you a click.
> Pegula is taking over as Bills president and announced that John Roth will take Raccuia’s titles of executive vice president and COO of the Bills. In this view, that’s problematic.
> Hockey operations finally are in good hands with general manager Kevyn Adams, assistant GM Jason Karmanos and coach Don Granato. But the Sabres have a long way to go off the ice, and the newbie essentially brought in to replace Kim Pegula is now taking on added workload from the other side of the company.
> The Sabres need a front-facing president who is fan – and media-friendly – and working full time on hockey. Perhaps Roth could have fit that role, but it is going to be impossible for him to do it with the amount of time he is going to have to spend in Orchard Park.
> But with this move, Terry Pegula has now circled back and created the same problem for Roth that his wife dealt with in her roles: It’s daunting for anyone to serve in a major role such as COO for two professional sports franchises, especially someone with no experience in the matter.
> But as a business, the Sabres need far more help than the Bills. This move shows the trust Pegula has in his longtime business associate, but it still doesn’t seem like much of a positive for the hockey team.
What Mikey doesn’t seem to grasp is that for the first time in a very long time both the Bills and Sabres have a productive GM/Head Coach + Front Office for both teams and that gives Terry some room to run operations as he wants….provided operations stays the fuck out of the front office. The results of this move are to be determined.
I don’t have an opinion on Roth at the moment because he hasn’t done anything to form an opinion on. He’s just been there. The Sabres still do have a long road ahead of them in terms of the fan experience but that’s more organizational than the person at the very top. Roth isn’t the person who is ordering the Andreychuk jersey for a special event. But Roth is now the person who needs to fire whomever makes mistakes like that going forward.
As for being media-friendly…fuck Harrington. He is a dinosaur writing for a paper with about as much modern day relevance as the Dead Sea Scrolls. He is also a known asshole so making his job easier should be of zero concern.
All my homies hate Mike Harrington.