Nyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna 2000, Milstein naGluckstern vakatengesa chikwata kuComputer Associates vatungamiriri Charles Wang naSanjay Kumar. Kutengeswa kwacho kwakabhadhara $187.5 miriyoni ($ miriyoni mumadhora) uye kwakapa vateveri tariro yokuti chikwata chacho chichachinja kusava kubudirira kwacho. Varidzi vatsva vakabvumira Milbury kushandisa mari uye kuisa mari muvashandi vakasununguka. Kuedza kwake kwokutanga kwakaratidza kusingafarirwi nevateveri, sezvo akatengesa vatambi venguva yemberi Roberto Luongo naOlli Jokinen kuFlorida Panthers yeOleg Kvasha naMark Parrish. Milbury akabva ashamisazve nyika yehockey paakatora Rick DiPietro nesarudzo yokutanga mu2000 draft
, pamberi pechibvumirano vanosarudza Dany Heatley naMarian Gaborik. Vanyori venhau nevatsigiri vaivhiringidzika uye vakatsamwa nokufamba kwacho, uko Milbury akabvuma, achiti, "Kunyange zvazvo izvi zvingava nengozi, tinofunga kuti Mad Mike zvimwe ane chimwe chinhu chiri kuitika kwaari". Achigadzira chinyorwa chezvisarudzo zvine nharo, Milbury akabata zita remadunhurirwa rokuti "Mad Mike" kwemakore akatevera. Akaramba akasimba kuti zvaaiita zvaifanira kukurumidza kuvandudza chikwata, icho chaiva nemapesenti mashoma okukunda gore iroro chaiva pamberi pemwaka wokutanga chete wechikwata chacho. Mutambo wechikwata usina kufemerwa wakatungamirira Milbury kudzinga murairidzi mukuru uye mutambi wekare Butch Goring. Vateveri vakaratidza kusada kwavo Goring kutora kudonha pane Milbury, iyo yakawedzera kuipa apo Milbury akapfuurira kuhaya Ted Nolan semutsivi waGoring; panzvimbo pezvo, mubatsiri weBoston Bruins murairidzi Peter Laviolette akabhadharwa.