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"Who's the right people?" Lord. As for Mike's question, it was fine. I was expecting so much worse. Criticism of the question is based in chauvinism and sexism.

There's not a good "you get a cookie" GIF.

Go on. You're almost there.

Enjoy your youth. Wait til you're in your 50s. So I guess no one got around to asking Kevyn why he didn't get to hire his own coach? I see little Jack back in Boston, firing pucks against the basement wall, dreaming of playing just one game for the Bruins. Older Jack knew getting there was closer to reality and dreamed of winning a Cup, even if it was a losing franchise when he got there. He didn't sign up for any of this. I truly feel bad for the guy. It gives me the shivers when Taro is bummed. It's like a movie where all the birds fly out of a city center moments before something unearthly busts out of the pavement. And yet we were told Terry talked to Jason up to three times a day.

It's not a terrible idea. I've wondered for years how the trainers, equipment managers, medical staff, media relations people etc. survive regime after regime. When these people are in the players' ears on the daily. Same goes for the alumni relations crew and broadcasters. Which makes me wonder how all of Rick, Dan, Marty, Brian and Rob survive this. Rick gets a pretty penny, I'm sure. I hate to say it, but have we heard the last or Rick?

I might be out in left field on this one — but are today's events more evidence of meddling in hockey ops? It's fine for ownership to say we need to tighten belts, reduce staff, consolidate things, spend less money, for financial and philosophical reasons. So why not have Adams, who knows what's up in the organ-eye-zation, come in and put together a plan to do all that in the most hockey-sensical way? Instead, two civilians put together a plan, hired a guy who would accept it and enacted the plan. Adams comes in looking very toothless. Here's your coach. Here's your organization, or lack thereof. Holy, good luck Kevyn.

First of all, Smell, NOT COOL. Incoming M*A*S*H comment. @New Scotland (NS) Alan Alda has a podcast and has had some of the few surviving castmates on it. On one of the podcasts, they recollected how terrible the conditions were on the studio and location sets. Barely working bathrooms, conditions that were either too hot or to cold, a restriction on how much peanut butter they could eat (at some kind of peanut butter station — hey, it was the 70s). They concluded that the conditions made them better actors and fired up their creativity — especially given that they were trying to depict people working in terrible conditions during wartime. It's a huge stretch to say the same effect will be seen in the Sabres, but let's remember that some of the best hockey we've seen in recent decades was done very much on a shoestring. One espresso and that's it, boys. Take it out on the puck, Dahlin.

If so, then none of this is the general manager's doing. He's just the guy who agreed to take the job and let it happen. Which might explain why they didn't/couldn't do a proper job search.

Jeanneret's pillow just got Febrezed and escorted out by one of the Pegula kids in a SECURITY t-shirt. That or I ate one too many edible brownies last hour.

Steve Carell says there's ONE AMAZING THING Kevyn cannot do.

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But when the failure rate of so many good choices is 100%, it has to point to some other factor than, "It's tough to win in the NHL." Respected, recommended, solid hockey people don't have success with the Sabres. It's like an experiment where 100 healthy rats are sent through a maze with cheese stations to see how many make it out. You expect 25 to make it out. In this experiment, they all die. There must be something in the maze or in the cheese. (Hey, don't knock my hobby. It got me through the lockdown.)

No, and I actually give them credit in that regard. It would be easy to make a traditional hire of a known entity, in part because it would get the fan base somewhat re-engaged. God bless them, they honestly think is finally going to be the answer.

My memory, which might very well be faulty, is that when he gets a mention, he drops by to defend himself. Which is fine. But I don't remember him adding value to the board. I would go back through his posts, but with the restraining order and all, that's a no go.

If the Sabres would just stop announcing firings, they would haven't have any firings.

I'm as good once, as I ever was.

That would be great. Did you find evidence he has ever done that?

It's just how Terry and now Kerry make decisions. They play small ball. Pittsburgh people (Black, Sawyer, Patrick, Bylsma, Botterill), former Sabre "greats" (Nolan, LaFontaine, Housley), inexperienced people (Murray and almost all of the above), and now an administrative type in the organization with no GM experience, but they know him and they like his jib. All that money, and no guts. The glaring exception and possibly their ultimate savior could be RaKru.

More what I was getting to with my "command of thoughts" comment post. She knows all the buzzwords, but do they mean anything in reality? "Philosophical differences" is something we've all kind of cruised past on this highway. I hope someone asks what that boiled down to. If they won't explain what Botterill's philosophy was, I sure hope they will explain theirs going forward. Dang. I've been calling him Adam. Uh, oh. Heads-up son, though I'm happy to be out of the line of fire. What if Adams, like LaLa, finds out a few months down the road he doesn't have much power? So Adams was Deep Throat, under the Skyway.

I wasn't suggesting dementia. More like she's an empty suit.

My inkling is that hockey is old school and that the GM almost always gets to hire his own coach.

OK, but Adam's hockey experience is not unsurpassed. I know it's just a throwaway word, but it's used carelessly. Is Kim in command of her thoughts? More words. “He exemplifies our company values of teamwork, respect, accountability, integrity, trust and success; and will further our company mission in this role.”‘ Can you imagine the Knoxes being worried about that stuff when they hired Punch? They wanted to be the first expansion team to win the Cup, and they hired a winner.

Don't get Wilbur excited.

Harrington's the man for this question: "Kevyn, were you told Ralph is your coach? Are you free to choose your own coach?" It would go the heart of whether Kevyn is really the GM.