Ken Sawyer
Ken Sawyer
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I think the Super Bowl actually helps people understand what a sports team can do for a community in terms of coalescing that community. We hope to be back in your championship in a very short time. So, I think it's helpful.
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I would think players would want to come to a team that's going to win.
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You can be an assistant GM, former GM, you could be an agent, you could be none of the above.
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With others firms, there's lots of pressure because they need to show returns to raise another fund.
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We have tremendous respect for Craig and are very grateful for his many contributions to this organization over the past 17 years. However, I and our board have decided that it is time for a change.
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We started again -- we have an alternate source of power -- but then Duquesne Light flipped the switch for whatever reason a second time, and that blew the first source, and that's what caused the problem. At the same time, probably a surge here caused a little fire in an electrical panel. That's been entirely taken care of.
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If anyone looks at this at all, they'll see this is about an illegal activity and not a legalized slots parlor. And the NHL's position is very clear. The league is against gambling on hockey. A slots parlor is about a gaming operation involving slots.
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We're on Cloud 9. This has probably been the (team's) greatest 24-hour period since 1984.
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Having local ownership is a great asset, and we would look very favorably on that. All things equal and if it's a coin toss, we encourage local people to step up and be a part of this.
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This was a difficult decision we did not take lightly. But we all agreed it was time to make a change and move forward.
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This was a difficult decision that we did not take lightly. It involved all the members of our board and after much discussion we all came to the same conclusion: it was time to make a change and move forward with the next generation team under new leadership.
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We've been making payments steadily whether there was a work stoppage or not or whether we made money or not. That's just the way we do business. There's absolutely a sense of pride.
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We wanted (the sculpture) to have a link to skiing, but we also wanted to make it spiritual.
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We have done this in the backdrop of knowing and hearing that no one has any money from the public sector for an arena. That is no small challenge. But we have come up with a way to pay for the entire cost of building a new arena with not a nickel of taxpayer money.