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Yup. My fears have been alleviated. No more of his hapless "asset management" to worry about. We'll see what comes next. But I feel good about it. Even if "it" is just Ralph telling Kevyn "let's get that guy, Jack says he's hard to play against".

I'm going all in on the Krueger is the actual GM thing. Adams feels like an "in title only" appointment. They've got some time now to set this structure up the way they want it.

Naming Adams as the GM is interesting. Does this mean we're getting that weird "Krueger is technically the GM" setup we were talking about?

NS has The Legend. That'll turn heads.

The only versions for me nowadays are the Harmy's Despecialized Editions. It's a high-quality fan edit that you have to hunt down around the various file sharing websites out there. I know that's not everyone's cup of tea, but they're excellent and worth it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmy's_Despecialized_Edition

It certainly would have been poetic!

I don't really know what to take from it. I think maybe the idea is they might have been more motivated to let him go if they had remembered they owed him a bonus...

I don't know for sure, but I had heard about it a while back from someone here and now it comes up briefly on DBTB this week. About 2:45 mark. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-126-mock-offseason-2-0/id1113848918?i=1000477155077

Did anyone else see the thing about Botterill's contract? Apparently there was a May 15th cutoff date and the Pegulas missed it and ended up having to pay him a performance bonus, so that's why he's still here.

Very excited to see how Botterill somehow screws up being gifted a stagnant salary cap because of a global pandemic.

A lot of people convinced themselves Pilut was better than he really is.

Yeah, and? It appears to be something that would be hard to detect. It's hard to blame anyone for not having diagnosed it right away. The symptoms might not have presented as something obvious. Hutton might have just thought he was fatigued, or maybe not mentally focused. The concern is that after they "discovered" it in January he still played 15 more games and went 6-8-0. Could they not have put him on IR? Is there no way to evaluate this or treat it as an injury where the player shouldn't be playing?

This effing team man

Looks like the certificate for the landing page expired.

I was going to let it renew even if the Sabres weren't playing just because I want good writers to be employed. But if Yerdon isn't going to be there then I don't give a damn.

The Athletic laid off a portion of its writers today, including our very own Joe Yerdon. Needless to say I have canceled my subscription since they no longer offer a product I want to read.

Same. Really good competitive cycling can be very exciting to watch.

I wouldn't Johansson was not good in the NHL last year.

Hogan's Heroes is such a good show though. The humor really holds up, which can't be said for a lot of what came out of that era of comedy. And Klemperer's portrayal of Klink is top notch, which I think does a lot of the heavy lifting for the show.

That was really friggin cool

Yeah, he didn't seem to bring too much before the season went on hold.

It's what he's gonna do though

I don't think there's anything wrong with him. He's just the same inconsistent goalie he's always been. That Botterill thought otherwise isn't really Hutton's fault.

I can't imagine Krueger would stay in the HC position if he were moved up the chain. The only way that would happen is if the hierarchy didn't have an actual GM, just a management board of various people taking care of GM and AGM duties, that he is the head of. I wonder if the whole GM/Coach split in the NHL even needs to exist. Why not just have the coach overseeing a management group. Wouldn't a coach directing the people who build the team make more sense than the people who build the team directing the coach?