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If Jarmo is hired to be the GM, the KA influence issue fades away. If Jarmo becomes the GM, he would be acting as the GM. When KA whispers his thoughts to him, Jarmo out of politeness nods his head, and then ignores him.

First, with Adams as POHO it could limit Jarmo's ability to make moves. Adams will likely side with Terry over Jarmo when the do their consensus building. And then there is Appert at HC. There are more reasons, but these two should be enough. PS - Ruff as an advisor. I have seen nothing so far to think this is going to help.

Don't make me do it. See, I don't get this. The Sabres are a functioning team capable of winning any game. Likely to win tonight? No. But there should be no certitude of losing. The Sabres win games like this. They keep the likes of Duffer, PTR and KA going. Did you never see a cat toying with a mouse?

As you well know, I'm certainly advocating to fire Ka. However, the notion of the smirking and insufferable (to me) being the HC is not an option I would consider. He's had a good run as a coach. But there is a reason why he has had so many different coaching positions: his harsh totalitarian act has a short life span that results in him soon moving on. Looking to the past is not a solution for the present and future.

Promoting someone and saddling him with KA, Ruff and Appert is not a serious move. TP of course would remain as the real POHO.

welp ...

Why is this such a terrible thought? The key staffing change would be Jarmo moving up to the GM position, the most influential position for a franchise. That singular change would be the most impactful change that can be made. Would Jarmo automatically move Appert to HC? That's an open question. If he is given the authority to act mostly in an unfettered way, I would suspect that he would bring in his own preferred HC. And if Ruff is moved up to a more advisor role, that isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't want to demonize KA as the sole source of what plagues this flailing organization. Because in my view, the main culprit for crippling this franchise is the quiet and stubborn owner. I'm not a fan in utter despair because I don't believe another tear down is required to become a respectable team and franchise. With a new GM who has some fresh ideas and is willing to make some judicious moves, this franchise can at least become respectable instead of being the laughingstock of the league. What needs to happen to get back on track is for this ridiculously stubborn owner to wake up and get serious.

Paging @JohnC ....

This has been said 100's of times over the past few seasons. KA is going to be promoted, not canned. Meanwhile, Terry is finalizing the Sabres budget for 2026.

Minnesota is on a 9-0-1 streak while averaging just 3 goals per game. What does that say about team defense and goaltending? This is going to be 4-1 loss.

Yes but referees with even a bit of a brain call it a major so they can review it and than reduce it to a minor if warranted

And the band plays on...

Right, those are the current rules. But since they allow for reviews of other non consequential crap, why stop there? If a player is injured cleary by a missed call that could be a major (or even jsut head contact) why not look at it.... College has targeting rules. Just seems weird that a league that is pretending to care about player safety allows a foe a review of 1mm of ice but this is a big Oh well, we didn't see it, carry on

It's a win win. The Sabres win, yay. Sabres loose, one game closer to ka getting canned, right? Right????

You're going to be disappointed when Adams is made POHO, Jarmo becomes GM and Appert is named HC. We'll give Tuch an 8 year deal and make no other changes. The year will be 2055 and UPL will still be our starter. The misery with this team is unending.

Apparently it bears repeating. It never matters what the other team has done previously while playing the Sabres. They are the antidote for teams playing the night before or mired in a losing slump. No worries, your Buffalo Sabres are here to make sure everyone’s favorite team get a leisurely game to play where only a modicum of effort can propel you to the W column. Who the hell knows if or when that’s gonna happen but probably not on a road trip.

Who's the forechecker with anger management issues in this draft?

Can someone fire Adams and replace the coaching staff please???? At this point even Torts would have an improvement.

Both teams are coming off a game last night and are playing their third game in 4 days. Sluggish pace expected. Wallstedt played last night, so the Sabres don't have to play a goalie whose numbers look like this: 7-0-2 1.93 GAA .938 sv%. They can't possibly get goalied tonight by a backup, right? (I still was certain that they were going to take Wallstedt with the Rosen pick since they hadn't given Ullmark a multiyear extension.) How is Gustavsson against the Sabres? A career sv% of... .938. Well, #####. This is either a game the Sabres magically show up for and net 7+, or they get 0 or maybe 1 really early -- tell themselves good job, and get shutdown the rest of the way.

Depends on how long he wants to sign for. If he hits FA, he's probably going to sign for 5 years max. With the Sabres, he probably could sign for 8 years. But if both parties know that he's definitely not signing with Buffalo, the Sabres should be working on moving him NOW. And a competent owner would not want Adams to have anything to do with that deal. Too bad the Sabres don't have a competent owner.

I don’t see the game, but they only review if it has already been called a major.