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The Florida teams are a better match-up that I anticipated.

4 and out for Toronto? Boston looks good.

Wait til the Sabres get in.

What do you think he'd cost. Looking at his contract I'd say he'd want 5x$7.5M or so at least.

Definitely tonight. Do we have a comparable player?

Is DeBrusk going to be one of those guys we try and acquire this summer?

Leafs-Bruins were letting it all hang out in the first. It'll be interesting if that's how the second will play out.

You just need to find yourself a Knighthawks fan.

I am getting the sense from across the interwebz that the bias amongst the fans is against making Lindy HC again. Which most certainly means Adams will...

I remember that user. Never would admit it but I think he was connected to WGR in some way.

Let's add to the calculus: Perhaps the only way Pegula would sign-off on dumping Meatballs and paying off the contract is if Adams hired Ruff back.

At least we now know who it is holding the pictures.

Which is why all of the praise Adams is getting for yesterday's press conference is misplaced. Adams put on his "angry, fired-up GM" mask and deceived a lot of people. Krebs shouldn't have been on the roster this past season if their goal was to make the playoffs. Same with Jost, Okposo, etc. etc. Krebs is a waste of a slot - @LGR4GM's assessment of Krebs is dead on and I agree that he's the kind of player Adams would hold onto for unknown reasons.

It's a Franco-Russian bot.

Offer that man a 3 year, $7M/yr contract. Highest paid NHL coach as far as we know. https://www.capfriendly.com/coaches

Not for nothing, Lindy's w/l percentage looks far better than his win percentage: https://www.hockey-reference.com/coaches/NHL_stats.html

That's points percentage. His win percentage is much lower. https://www.hockey-reference.com/coaches/berubcr01c.html https://records.nhl.com/coaches/craig-berube-146

Jay McKee

Data is here. God speed. https://records.nhl.com/records/coach-records/wins/coach-most-wins-career

Agreed they need to get the fans excited. It's at that point where seats need to be filled and the wrong choice here will just further alienate the fans and, of course, their money. On Ruff, I always thought his firing was a scapegoat for Golisano-era penny-pinching muddled with a naive, first-time sports franchise owner eager to get his hands dirty. He's not what I would call a beast coach, but he's not bad. I know his record. Let's compare win percentages to some coaches we know: Montgomery .623 Brind'Amour .616 Keefe .611 Cooper .597 Bylsma .566 Bednar .551 Quenneville .548 Laviolette .534 Hitchcock .531 Berube .517 Ruff .487 Tortorella .480 Maurice .470 Tocchet .446 Bowness .384 I dunno. The sentimental idealist in me would like to see Ruff. But I would consider his return as experimental as hiring a rookie coach. Peca could get the fans excited just as much as Ruff would (if you think Ruff would get the fans excited), would be just as risky and may have the potential to be our version of Brind'Amour. At least that's how I'd sell it if Sabres Inc. consulted me. Could Sabres fans get into the idea of Quenneville? What about if that means Patty Kane signs a 1 year with us at the same time?

I had a similar thought, but not that Adams is relieved, but more that he's lucky (and therefore may be relieved). Imagine if they did eek into a playoff spot this year - we'd be stuck with Meatballs for far too long after that. Maybe Donny did do the gentlemanly thing, as you were pondering somewhere else, and held the team back just enough to make them fire him. He keeps the contact, the team gets a new coach.

BTW, props to our man @tom webster who said in a now-closed thread: "I think those that want change may be happy before Friday." Dude, would you now share winning lotto numbers?

Maybe. If so, he sucks at that, too.