I know very little about it.
"Harry James Sinden" was the long-time general manager, coach, and president for the Boston Bruins National Hockey League/NHL hockey team, and was the coach of Canadian national men's hockey team/Team Canada during the 1972 Summit Series. He is a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders category.
More Harry Sinden on Wikipedia.We'll probably address that at some later date.
Boy, can he skate. For a big guy, look at him go.
When you think something has to be done ... you have to do it. It was not proper to let him keep doing what he was doing -- signing players, making plans for the future -- when we knew that at the end of the year we were going to relieve him of his job.
When you think something has to be done, and you believe it has to be done and the consensus is that it has to be done, you have to do it. And Mike, in some of the things he did when he was here, believed in the same principle.
Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. What if they decided to improve scoring in the NBA and made the hoop 4 inches bigger in diameter? You don't want to artificially improve scoring. What if the NBA developed a half-court shot that was worth 5 points? You can't do things like that.
He was a gentleman as he's always been. He said it was not unexpected and he felt no animosity at that time.
We ran a few focus groups to see what people thought. I don't believe it was too well-received. I'd hate to see us do that [use replacements]. I don't know how all the other owners feel, but it may be our only business alternative. I hate it. I really do. From almost every standpoint, it stinks.
We fell out of it pretty substantially.
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