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This is never going to happen. TP is never going to hire a defense first guy like DeBoer and he is most definitely not spending big coin on a high profile coaching hire.

I hate to say it but this narrative makes it even worse than if they didn't let him pick his own assistants. This tells me his day was truly done and he was no longer connected the way he used to be. A has been and people didn't want to come to the Sabres or work with him and he knew it.

I dont care about any of it, get rid of KA!

lol, please, don't do that internet tough guy garbage. We all know you're in your mom's basement. Let's be real about hockey. Marchand will be in the hall of fame one day. If he was a Sabre he'd an all time fan favorite. All we can hope for is 20 years from now we will look at Benson or somebody else on this roster in a similar way. Right now? We got nothing comparable.

Some folks look in the mirror and hate what they see so much they have to lash out at the people like them.

I have no idea of what really happened, but lets assume for a moment that there was no option for change and it was a take it or leave it scenario for Ruff. This notion is typically presented in defense of Ruff: "What's Lindy supposed to do, he didn't even get to choose his own coaches". If true, I see it as an indictment of Ruff, and not a defense. It's pathetic.

How the hell did that show up as a quote of mine?

FFS! Kevyn: “We got our guy right here Terry. Thinking Penn State you know that means he’ll want to be a Sabre with you leading the charge Terry.” Trade the pick for a real piece now. If they keep it, please not Jackson Smith. Nice player but an LHD that will see the league in 3 years time, God No.

Ugh. He apparently isn’t aware that Lake Ontario has good populations of both salmon and walleye. We’re doomed.

I’m not going to get into details, but “allegedly” Ruff would go into the office of a colleague of his and vent about how he hated being “stuck” with his assistants.

This is probably in the not worth our time category. Marjala is likely, at best, to reach the level of Lawrence Pilut or Artuu Ruostalainan as a North American prospect. It does reflect a little bit though, of how playoff and championship calibre teams operate v. teams like the Sabres. The Oilers have 3 picks in the forthcoming draft (rd 3, 6, 7). The Sabres currently have 10 picks (choose your metaphor: hamster wheel? treadmill? merry go-round?). If you are the Oilers, why hold mid-round picks when you can just wait for a team like the Sabres to pass on signing a 5th rd pick who, by any reasonable measure, has significantly outperformed their draft position.

If into the security press conference recordings you go, only pain will you find.

I, as most everyone, am sympathetic to his tough family situation. But it should be acknowledged that right from the start of his ownership he has made a lot of perplexing decisions that has anchored this franchise to the bottom of the heap. Being preoccupied with a serious family situation should have been a greater reason to find competent staff to guide the franchise. He did the opposite. Not trying to be mean-spirited but I wish he would sell.

And it is easy for us to forget Kim’s situation and the emotional toll and time that takes on him.

yup, and a team that wants to win right now will make a move to get him.

I have no doubt Pegula has Appert penciled in as next HC. He seems to fall for charismatic people. He hired Lafontaine based on one chance meeting where he was blown away by his charisma. I’m sure he sees the same in Seth. Just hire DeBoer and get serious about being a serious organization.

Thanks @Archie Lee, upon further review Adams does indeed indicate that Lindy wanted to "get to know" the staff and he could have made changes. Given that no changes have been made so far we can assume Lindy is on board with this group. I should have taken your advice and not re-watched the rest of it.

On the other hand, he's unemployed right now in a field that has exactly 32 such positions.

Terrific analysis that is fair and objective and corresponds to what most of us believe to be the case. I will drink an extra glass of vino to salute you.

Would love to hire DeBoer but they won't for many reasons and money is just one. DeBoer would want to run things his way, he will not like the roster as constructed, he would not like the layers you describe (Jarmo/Lindy/Kevyn/Terry) to have to navigate through just to make roster moves.

Maybe Lindy reached out and couldn’t get any takers? Or, was part of his job to evaluate the coaches in our system? Or…..were they dictated to him as he really had no other options?

Weird. The Vancouver Canucks GM and President of Hockey Ops did not come for the combine. They sent the director of scouting and AGM. I understand there's a lot of talk about them trading that 1st rounder but that's just lazy and you aren't doing due diligence.