Jason Strudwick

But do you think that he prepared?

I think he'd want to come out prepared and ready to manage your comments and kind of get your message out there.

And I think it's more scrambling now than it was before when you hear about the reasons why he let the coach go.

This is why the Sabres have been the Sabres.

But the problem is this, is that everyone else in that room is listening to this.

Every player would watch this press conference, or at least any that are interested in remaining and being a...

So you hear that comment.

You're like, is this guy serious?

He just threw him under the bus right away.

So you're like, does he have my back?

What's going to happen next?

Do we want to be a part of this?

So I think, to me, it just complicated things for the owner, for the management staff, not to mention getting a new coach, trying to find more talent to surround arguably one of the best players in the league, in the world right now.

And it's like they lost the other day, but I think they lost more with this press conference almost than they did at that game.

Harry Pagula's got economy.

You're trying to, as a manager or coach in the NFL, you're trying to help your owner make the best decisions.

So if he has a bad idea, you're trying to stop those.

And we hear about that in sport all the time.

You know, this owner wanted to do this or this owner wanted to do that.

So you're trying to manage up.