pegula quotes from the presser yesterday

quick note...for chrissakes, bettman, rick jeanneret is the voice of the buffalo sabres and has been with this team almost since its inception...ya think that maybe, you could've used his name?



http://www.wgr550.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=5179829


terry pegula quotes:

--i wanna thank tom golisano, larry quinn and dan dipofi for rescuing my hockey team
--i don't use computers...

where's perreault? you're my hero...

--i had season tickets for 18 years and to show you what kind of timing i had, i gave them up in 1999

--so, what about the future? starting today, the buffalo sabres reason for existence will be to win a stanley cup
--we will aim high. winning is not a goal, it is a belief
--starting today, there will be no financial mandates on the buffalo sabres hockey department. there is no salary cap in the nhl on scouting budgets and player development budgets. i plan on increasing...our scouting budgets
--starting today we will bring in more player development coaches
we will aspire to be the best in the league and finding, developing and keeping our players

--gm. darcy regier will remain as our gm. darcy will run a hockey department that, as i previously said, will have no financial mandates. we're cuttin' the chains off and he's free to run with whatever he wants to do with the scouting, player development, working with lindy and the coaches and we're gonna pour some resources into that area of the team

--coaches. lindy ruff. i can state, and i think it's been previously published that i'm a lindy ruff fan, and have been for a while...lindy and i have talked, and, pardon my french, but lindy ain't goin' nowhere

--i'll betcha gil perreault didn't know he could make a grown man cry

the q&a session:

on retaining darcy regier--i have not heard one bad word uttered about darcy regier. that means he deserves to stay here. i know i can work with him

on the trade deadline approaching--we wanna build for the future. (self-depricatingly) me, mr. gm terry pegula...i don't know what's in the mill along those lines...i'll tell you one thing, i'm a fan, you won't find a bigger fan than me 'cause i just bought a hockey team

http://wgr550.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=5179880

are you prepared to lose money--i wanna run the team to win the stanley cup...if i wanna make some money i'll go dig a gas well, i don't need to make it in the hockey business

how hand's on--...i'm going to be in and out...as much as i can without losing my family

on lindy ruff--i've had several people of authority say, 'if you're gonna get rid of lindy ruff, talk to us first'

are you gonna spend to the salary cap--we'll put the pedal to the metal as capably as we can. i don't know if it's wise to spend to the cap every year...but we're not in this to save money

on the sabres recent play--some of these teams that were left for dead...aren't gimmes anymore

will you be involved in a player move--[darcy's] got freedom...

balancing emotions of a fan and rational of an owner--that's a tough one...i don't get too high or too low...we're not gonna panic if we're on a losing streak

the rochester americans--the fan in me said 'why did they pull out of rochester?"...then i start hearing about portland...what a beautiful minor league city it was...maybe i was a little bit hard on the rochester/portland move, the fan in me...

--when [i] was losing interest in the sport, jesse got me back into hockey

on a buffalo bills purchase--i haven't thought about it...i haven't given it any thought

on players leaving--yes, i wanna keep not only statistically good players, but winners gritty players.

what was it about perreault that first made you a fan?--did you ever watch him skate? that's my hockey genesis right there