GENERAL EMBARRASSMENTLet's imagine for one moment that you are sitting in front of your boss at your very normal job at your very normal office. This meeting is taking place just weeks after you receive a raise and an extension for your services.
Your boss has in his or her hand a list of what has taken place since your recent re-signing and goes over the list to discuss successes and failures. The list goes something like this:
Your boss has in his or her hand a list of what has taken place since your recent re-signing and goes over the list to discuss successes and failures. The list goes something like this:
- You are given a commitment by upper management for more budget to build your division. You fail to use this budget and lose two of your most talented employees to other companies in the same industry.
- You then publicly give excuses about the marketplace being too unfair to the organizations of the same size as yours.
- You then publicly admit that your organization is not going to be as productive as it was, but you assure that all is not lost and that your misguided philosophies are, in fact, the correct way to run things despite the recent personnel disaster.
Well, I'm about 99% sure that if it was me with that sheet sitting in front of the CEO of my company, she would most likely rid herself of one personnel problem by kicking my ass to the curb.
The problem here is that it is not me, it's Darcy Regier and he is not fired, but actually re-signed for two more years.
The only word to describe this is embarrassing.
He is correct though. The team will not be as talented on paper and the sky is not falling. The Sabres are still a team with a lot of good players and should be able to hold their own next year. That is not the point. The point is that his flawed negotiation policies are what got us in this mess in the first place. This was a preventable disaster had he planned for it and given the players the common courtesy of a timely phone call or two.
The Sabres could be even better had Darcy stuffed his half-assed philosophies in the drawer and got these deals done before the past season even started. Oh and we probably could have signed Vanek for half the money as well.
But once again, here we are. Larry Quinn and Darcy Regier thinking that they are smarter than everyone else and that they won't be bullied. Well, their logic is about as sharp as their public speaking skills and they did get bullied, like underwear-over-the-head bullied.
Hey guys, guess what? They are not laughing with you.
But like Darcy said, "We'll find a way". Ha, ten years as a GM and all we can get out of him is "We'll find a way". I sure hope so.
The problem here is that it is not me, it's Darcy Regier and he is not fired, but actually re-signed for two more years.
The only word to describe this is embarrassing.
He is correct though. The team will not be as talented on paper and the sky is not falling. The Sabres are still a team with a lot of good players and should be able to hold their own next year. That is not the point. The point is that his flawed negotiation policies are what got us in this mess in the first place. This was a preventable disaster had he planned for it and given the players the common courtesy of a timely phone call or two.
The Sabres could be even better had Darcy stuffed his half-assed philosophies in the drawer and got these deals done before the past season even started. Oh and we probably could have signed Vanek for half the money as well.
But once again, here we are. Larry Quinn and Darcy Regier thinking that they are smarter than everyone else and that they won't be bullied. Well, their logic is about as sharp as their public speaking skills and they did get bullied, like underwear-over-the-head bullied.
Hey guys, guess what? They are not laughing with you.
But like Darcy said, "We'll find a way". Ha, ten years as a GM and all we can get out of him is "We'll find a way". I sure hope so.
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