If the $8 million a year report is accurate, could it be possible that Pegula closed up the checkbook?
- Pierceme69

Cheap (frank)!

If the $8 million a year report is accurate, could it be possible that Pegula closed up the checkbook?
- Pierceme69

It's all speculation at this point. The costs, the reasons. Maybe it just came down to preferring the city of Toronto over Buffalo for his Canadian family. Hell, if I was him, being American, I'd choose Buffalo 10/10 times. Preference.

This sucks
- gerbe75pts

Sure, but we move on.

Go get Bylsma.

He can coach young superstars, he has proven that.....

if he goes to the leafs, this is truly worst case for sabre fans IMO
- homiedclown

Not at all. He's a great coach, sure. Now you have two amateurs running the team and making personnel decisions. After all, this is the guy that lobbied hard to get Weise and another scrub.

Maybe Babcock Pissed off Pegula..
- Therat36

Maybe he pissed on Pegula, and that was a deal breaker?

If the $8 million a year report is accurate, could it be possible that Pegula closed up the checkbook?
- Pierceme69

Could be .
Closest salary of a coach so far is 2.9m

Leafs can keep BaChing at 8m.

Sure, but we move on.

Go get Bylsma.

He can coach young superstars, he has proven that.....
- ImThatGuy

Right? Move on. This is a slap in the face, not a shot through the heart like losing out on McEichel would have been. I just hope, whoever we get, knows how to teach puck possession.

Sure, but we move on.

Go get Bylsma.

He can coach young superstars, he has proven that.....
- ImThatGuy

NOOOOOOO

I agree, but not going after the top guy like Babcock, however, just to for a better shot at a consolation prize isn't worth it.
- buffalofan19

I would have been more upset if the price was attainable and the Sabres didn't try for Babcock. It's a nature of the business that you can't always get the guy you want, and if Babcock really wanted full control then so be it. It's rather difficult to be a coach and GM, one would suspect. Unless he's giving more power to Dubas or whatever that guy's name is.

Katie Strang
Flight plan reported by @Jeffler has MLSE plane landing in DET's DTW airport, departing from Coleman A Young Municipal airport 3 mins later

I'm dizzy!!!



Get it? DIzzy?

I agree, but not going after the top guy like Babcock, however, just to for a better shot at a consolation prize isn't worth it.
- buffalofan19

Except how much of a gap is there and ultimately how much of difference will at actually make.

That team is built to win, so as long as the coach is at least good they should be fine. I hope the same is true for us.

Not at all. He's a great coach, sure. Now you have two amateurs running the team and making personnel decisions. After all, this is the guy that lobbied hard to get Weise and another scrub.
- Slump Buster

Murray looked at his history of lobbying for players to trade/sign, and told him.. "...yeah, I think I'll make the decisions here..."

Go ahead and (frank) up the Leafs.

Darren Dreger ‏@DarrenDreger 26m26 minutes ago
Source says Babcock told Blues 2 days ago he was out. Things change? If not, the Leafs may have won the sweepstakes

Maybe he pissed on Pegula, and that was a deal breaker?
- Pierceme69

I think so too. Like Lafontaine. Pegula is a very generous man and I think he gets pissed when people insult him and what he's trying to accomplish.

NOOOOOOO
- Buffalo--Sabres

Tell us why you don't want Bylsma

LOL at the league for being worried about buffalo raising the salary bar for coaches, then have their most prized organization (frank) everyone by giving him 5 million more than the next highest paid coach

Tell us why you don't want Bylsma
- TheSabresTaco

His inability, or, if you believe certain sources, outright refusal, to make in-game adjustments is the main reason I sour on him.

losing this to the leafs is a big kick in the nuts

gotta call it like it is

Mike Babcock is a world class MORON if it is in fact Toronto. Have fun rotting away the rest of your career in that blackhole of a sports franchise I wish him nothing but professional failure

Katie Strang
Flight plan reported by @Jeffler has MLSE plane landing in DET's DTW airport, departing from Coleman A Young Municipal airport 3 mins later


- stashu

Down Goes Brown ‏@DownGoesBrown 20s21 seconds ago

I hope Babcock enjoys his time on that plane, since it's the last time for a while he'll see two wings with Leaf logos doing their job.

NOOOOOOO
- Buffalo--Sabres

It wasn't his fault Shero Depleted Pittsburgh's roster and never built the pipeline.

Tell us why you don't want Bylsma
- TheSabresTaco

He was an AHL coach that was arbitrarily promoted over Therrien(the other most overrated coach in the NHL). The best team in the league fell in his lap with along with a Stanley cup. I watched the Pens games in the following years and the guy just doesn't get it. He can't put players in the best place to succeed.

LOL at the league for being worried about buffalo raising the salary bar for coaches, then have their most prized organization fuvk everyone by giving him 5 million more than the next highest paid coach
- ieetbred

Why'd you choose the Leafs, Mike?

"Tradition(money), Culture(money), Amazing fans(money), Great Canadian city (money) and money (lots of money)

Mike Babcock is a world class MORON if it is in fact Toronto. Have fun rotting away the rest of your career in that blackhole of a sports franchise I wish him nothing but professional failure
- bluengold12

He's not going to. He's good enough to be successful no matter where he goes.