Ken Sawyer
Ken Sawyer
coin encourage equal great local ownership people step
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.
players team
I would think players would want to come to a team that's going to win.
stood
They stood under it as if it were a shelter.
thoughts
My first thoughts were we need a new arena.
create suits
I want to create an organization that suits the times.
agreed change decision difficult move time
This was a difficult decision we did not take lightly. But we all agreed it was time to make a change and move forward.
absolutely money steadily whether work
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.
assistant former none
You can be an assistant GM, former GM, you could be an agent, you could be none of the above.
board craig decided grateful past respect time tremendous
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.
link
We wanted (the sculpture) to have a link to skiing, but we also wanted to make it spiritual.
cloud greatest period since
We're on Cloud 9. This has probably been the (team's) greatest 24-hour period since 1984.
again alternate blew care caused electrical entirely fire flipped light power reason second source switch taken whatever
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.
active exciting expect free good knew planned sales team
We knew we would have an exciting team because we have some good young players, and we planned to be active in free agency, but we didn't expect sales to be like this,