This will never change until Pegula sells the team. He took a once proud franchise and ran it into the ground. He could have hired any of us, ANY OF US, to be the GM of this team for the last 15 years and done no worse. In fact, he'd have saved some money. At this point, what the hell? Why not? Make a fan the GM, make it a reality show on Netflix. It cannot be any worse.
The taint on this franchise right now is so bad that there is no way to remove it with current ownership. There is no person or group of people they can hire that could restore the credibility that has been lost and if there were Terry wouldn't hire them anyway. They have botched and destroyed so many relationships in hockey that it is not recoverable.
If Lindy retires, so what? They'll just elevate the disaster that is Seth Appert. Great. Grand. Wonderful.