‘That doesn’t mean you have to love this choice. It’s just important to point out that if you’re going to denigrate soccer as some way to be down on this hire, I believe you’re badly missing the mark. There are many reasons why any coach might not succeed. In the case of Krueger being hired by the Buffalo Sabres, his having been in charge of Southampton Football Club the past five years is not going to be one of them. What that means to me, mostly, is that Krueger is an impressive enough individual that the owners of a soccer club with billions of dollars at their disposal turned over their operation to him despite a sports background spent almost entirely in hockey.’