Saullie: As clueless as you can be, as persistent as you are, with this effort you seem to have something there sport. The MLSE board, ever since Punch was fired the first time , always refuse to consolidate the hockey operations to a hockey person. Then after Ballard got did of Red Kelly and the Sittler group he went purely for the entertainment factor in all levels of the organization. He, as you have pointed out went for the sizzle not the substance factor. Players who could keep the media and fans entertained, but with little else to show for it, were preferred. Subsequent management couldn't shake that mystic nor would they dare to. The book is still out there, even for you, since you have some of the song and dance symptoms as Harold and the boys loved to hang onto.