Sinden says he wants to model himself after Bill Torrey, president of the Florida Panthers, who allows GM Bryan Murray to run the show. He doesn't make the final decisions, but he's in the loop. I'd like to emulate that if I could. He will continue to make all the moves, just from another office. Ice time can predicate a lot of things for a player.
Ice time leads to production, and that means money.
The coach can still control that. Feeling the heat. Terry Murray is feeling some heat in Florida, where the Panthers have won just once in 14 games and are dead last in the Eastern Conference. Speculation has risen that Murray and his brother Bryan, the GM, could both be fired if things don't turn around. Terry Murray took exception with a Miami Herald reporter who suggested last week that since his older brother was GM, he has a certain level of protection.