BUFFALO, N.Y. – It’s been nine years since Larry Quinn was minority owner of the Sabres. He’s made a point not to talk about the organization he sold to Terry and Kim Pegula. As recently as February, when the Sabres celebrated 2000s Night and welcomed Quinn back to KeyBank Center, he declined to answer a question about improvements he’d make to the arena he developed, saying it wasn’t his place.



But Quinn can stay silent no longer. The mass firings this week by Pegula Sports and Entertainment were unbearable, unfathomable and unacceptable to him.



“As you’ve noticed, I have not made a single comment about the Sabres since we left. I have practiced that religiously,” Quinn told The Athletic by phone Friday. “But this is – I just don’t understand. It’s just wrong.”



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