An article is making the Twitter rounds off some guy's blog. It's about Pegula becoming the "Steinbrenner of hockey". A bullshit premise if nothing else, but the following passage caught my eye. Complete and total failure. Look at the bolded portion:
http://sportsthenandnow.com/2011/01/12/ ... of-hockey/Quote:
That said, Golisano’s relationship with the city and the fans seems to be that of transition boyfriend. As Bucky Gleason observed in his column this morning in The Buffalo News, Golisano was “more of an investor than a savior.” When it came to paying and managing talent, Golisano was responsible for developing then dispatching several key players who almost brought the Sabres a Stanley Cup, and might have yet, had their owner been willing to keep the team that came within a non-goal in triple overtime of staying alive for a game seven in the finals versus Dallas in 2006, together.
Really? How the fuck are you going to profess to be a fan of the Sabres and not even know what year they were last in the cup finals?
How different the Sabres might be if they still had the services of Daniel Briere, Chris Drury, Jay McKee, J.P. Dumont, and Michael Peca, to name a few. All of these, it could be argued, could have and should have been paid to stay in Buffalo, and would have been, had Golisano been more of a fan than an investor.
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