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Adams talked a ton about it after the firing and a bunch of players came out and were like "yeah, nobody held me accountable". Then when asked about it Ruff went 180 degrees the other way and said "Woah accountability starters with the individual, then his teammates and the locker room. I am the last one who should be holding anybody accountable". (Paraphrasing) I am keeping an eye on how the players who were vocal about "needing more accountability" perform under Ruff. I tend to agree with Lindy. If I need to teach you how to hold yourself accountable this team has a "you" problem. And if you aren't picking it up from your peers we have a locker room/roster problem.

I think the ineptitude of Terry Pegula makes Lindy a good candidate for this team. This team is dysfunctional at the owner and GM level. More than a coach we need somebody with the trust of the owner to separate him from hockey meetings. Berube and Gallant may be better coaches, but they would but heads with the organization dysfunction just like every other person who has come into the KBC. I am not psyched about Lindy the coach. I am psyched because he might literally be the only person on the planet to provide a long term solution to the biggest plague for the Sabres and that is Pegula. EDIT: Other orgs don't have to save the on ice product from ownership. The Sabres do. So while this may not solve coaching, it could very well solve for ownership.

I wish somebody would be blunt about asking about team spending. "Kevyn, you mention you have the resources. This team has been bottom half of the league in roster spend 7 of the last 9 years. You have 60% of the scouts and 50% of the analytics and player development personnel compared to the top teams in the league. When you say you "have the resources" to win are you saying that having half the support staff compared to other is by your own design? That this is the ideal set up to win the most hockey games possible" Kevyn has a new boss.

Somehow George Costanza's clothes fit better here in 1989 than Kevyn Adams suit fits at a planned press conference to introduce a hire he made. Everytime I see Adams in the teams Embedded videos he reminds me of a kid pretending to be an adult in his dads suite.

Adams looks rough. Just like...dude, you make a lot of money, get a shirt that fits properly. The Seinfeld second button episode comes to mind.

Shots fired at the locker room by Lindy. "The first part of accountability is holding yourself accountable. Did you show up to training camp in shape. Did you do everything you could to make sure you were prepared. The last person to hold somebody accountable is the coach". (Paraphrasing)*

Despite the Appert succession plan rumors I really believe that Adams just hired his new boss. Because if this goes exceedingly well Lindy will still be employed by the org in some senior advisor/POHO role. And if this thing fails, Lindy will be leading the search for a new GM and Adams is out the door.

I would assume W% is just straight win/loss otherwise it just becomes a weird variation of P% For reference here is the P% of the same guys plus a few some wanted: Craig Berube .584 Gerard Gallant .576 Pat Burns .573 Darryl Sutter .570 Al Arbour .564 Jacques Lemaire .563 Dick Irvin .557 Pat Quinn .556 Lindy Ruff .552 Mike Keenan .551 John Tortorella .542 Paul Maurice ..536

I would be shocked if ti wasn't live on Twitter and FB too.

I think the short answer is “it depends”. The long answer is that if somebody is getting fired it will 100% be Adams first. And Lindy will likely either hire his own GM or move to some POHO or Senior Advisor role. And if this is successful Lindy likely eventually moves into a POHO or Senior Advisor role and picks his replacement. I think Adams neutered himself.

This is a "fine" hire. I am not super excited and not unhappy with it. I think we definitely could have done worse. Outside of actual coaching I like this because I hope it sets the tone for a POH and push Pegula a little further away from hockey meetings. Either everything works great, Adams completes this roster, we are competitors, and Lindy eventually retires in some senior advisor role. OR the roster crashes and burns, Adams is fired and Lindy is moved to President of Hockey Ops and hires a real life NHL GM and runs the org. Both of scenarios are upgrades to the current. I will say it for the 100th time, but any hire for HC has to meet the center of a venn diagram between 1. Best candidate 2. Willing to take the job 3. Terry is willing to offer the job. And under that criteria I think Lindy is likely in the top tier of candidates available. What I am upset about is that there seemed to be no legitimate coaching search. Granato was fired 6 days ago. It feels like Adams didn't even effing try and put together a stack of candidates. Either that or nobody wants to work here. Probably a little bit of both.

I haven’t looked into for the NHL. But the threshold for a positive test for USATF is literally “Don’t be high at the event”. I would imagine the NHL is similar at this point.

Nothing says "I don't care" like bringing up a conversation you aren't having just to tell everybody it is a topic you don't care about.

In the last 7.5 moths Pegula told Rochester that - Dissolving PSE would be a change in name only and wouldn't effect the operation of BCA. (August 28,2023) - Backing out of the lease didn't have anything to do with his commitment to Rochester. Both teams would be staying. (April 2, 2023) - He is selling the Knighthawks but only because he doesn't want 2 NLL teams so close to each other (April 18, 2024) Based on that it seems like the Buffalo Sabres are very likely open to hearing offers.