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He seems decent. Except for 2 SC Championship runs he's had limited playoff success at the NHL level. (But did we mention his teams won 2 SC's.) He was a HC in the AHL twice and both times he got promoted to the parent team before the season was completed as his teams were killing it at the AHL level. The fact he's had success at the NHL level and at the AHL level would indicate that he could be the right coach for this team. As the Pens got longer in the tooth, his success dwindled and his Bruin squad coming out of THE lockout was attrocious but that was another one that was old and absolutely not built for the "new" NHL. Of reasonably realistic options, he's probably the best of the experienced coaches that would possibly be willing to come here. (They aren't hiring Gallant and Boudreau was already rebuffed a few years back. And didn't Tocchet tell them to pound salt a long time ago as well?) IMHO TB overperformed this year. They're getting very long in the tooth even with the couple of veteran swapouts they made this year. Can't see any way they'd be dumb enough to cut Cooper loose.

This is lining up as a Friday afternoon news dump isn’t it. I highly doubt Sullivan is coming to Buffalo when Boston and the Rags have a high interest. TB got rolled. Any chance Cooper could shake loose? I know it’s highly unlikely but we need hope of something good happening😁

How good is Sullivan? Honestly curious on ppls take on him. He's had Crosby forever so that helps but also, he seems pretty decent.

And Karmanos could have in person discussions with Sullivan without either of them having to hop on a plane. "Fancy meeting you here at the Steel City Timmy Ho's; care for a cup of joe and a discussion on what would fix the Sabres PP (besides sending Appert into the sun)? So the airport watchers and other tea leaf readers wouldn't even have to have an inkling anything was going on.

Anything, for the love of God just do something to show the status quo isn't acceptable.

Go ahead and shut down until October. Nothing significant is going to happen.

So... any changes today? Or, if you won't be needing me, sir, I'll just shut down for a while.

I kinda suspected CFO was wrong but got lazy. You complete me.

McAvoy/Sergachev and Kyrou/DeBrincat would've given this team a very different look in 2018-19 and 2019-2020 (COVID tourney year).

Well, no, but I do admittedly get a chuckle out of the conversation all arriving back at “the draft is meaningless for improving our hockey team” Ya, we are gonna get a good player no matter who we take! The steal of the draft, I am sure. And so will every other team picking in our vicinity. There’s no relative gain, can only lose ground. Adams has proven drafting isn’t a means to an improvement end, not without other vital components Survey says: the luster on it is lost. Used to be a huge draft guy, planned my lake weekend around it

Florida doesn't have 30% of their cap tied up in 4 lhd, 3 of which we could argue provide a similar style of player. Also Adams sucks at contracts outside of Tages.

Guelli is the COO. But your point still stands. He is clearly the chief business strategy officer of the Sabres and Bills. Interestingly (??), I don't readily see that either the Bills or Sabres have a CFO. I also just noticed that the Bills website now has a very skinny listing of front office people. The webpage lists Terry, Kim, Beane, McDermott, and Guelli. Nobody else. Also, shoutout to Terry who is wearing a Sabres tie in his headshot on the Bills website. https://www.buffalobills.com/team/front-office-roster/

2016 in particular makes me want to throw up. Nylander & Asplund (trade up) were a complete waste of draft capital. Add to that the fact we drafted Hagel and then never signed hm rubs more salt into the wound.

Would you prefer they get bad players in the draft?

Here's the thing with the 2025 draft. Basically everyone available at 8 will have some type of size or high end motor or combination thereof. They'd have to royally screw up to get Nylander 2.0 McQueen is 6'5" Desnoyers is 6'2" Martin and Bear are 6' and will eat your soul. O'Brien is 6'2" Carbonneau is 6'1" I'm probably missing someone but we should be in good shape.

They care about winning. And winning breeds winning (and palm trees). They also have had a hefty albatross of a goalie contract that should’ve been their undoing but is aging just fine. Meanwhile, the Sabres haven’t had a plan for a #1 in net since GMTM traded for Lehner. Can’t even say they had a plan for Ullmark despite trading a 6th to keep him but then never negotiated an even mid-term deal. JBott and Adams both only gave him 1-year deals (before his father’s passing).

I don't even like Sullivan, but after listening to Friedman say the Rangers will not allow anyone else to sign him, this would be very sweet on an emotional level. Don't see it happening even if he would entertain the idea because Lindy ain't going nowhere.

Karamanos joined the Penguins in June of 2014,where he served as vice president of hockey operations for three seasons, Karmanos was promoted to assistant general manager in June 2017. Sullivan was named Pittsburgh AHL head coach a year after Kramanos was hired (June of 2015) and moved up to the Penguins HC in December of the same year. So their paths did cross.

I was already pretty depressed as I spent the morning reading about Canada's reluctance to buy F35's, they have already committed to 16 jets, and that could be the all they get out of the 88 that were planned. In the early part of my career I worked closely with the Canadian Forces. How I loved doing my small part to help them transition to the CF-18 as part of their NATO commitment (this was prior to the Soviet collapse). Today, I am completely down about the situation. I thought this was a forever close relationship, one that is vital to the protection of North America and the free world, and now it is in such distress. I would have never believed it could happen.

They saw my ultimatum

I think the idea that players are intimidating others on the ice is some mythical hold over from decades ago when big goons might jump you. No one is going over the boards like "oh ***** it's Tkachuk, I feel so intimidated" in the modern nhl unless maybe you're some type of fresh faced rookie. That said, if I were Buffalo, I might slide Eklund 1 or 2 spots because he is similar to things you have. Eklund right now for me sits in the 9-12 range.

Show me where I've acted like either of them are incompetent. I'll wait.