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He’s definitely my top choice. I wouldn’t mind Berube, but I’m hopeful we can nab Gallant. Wanted him years ago too when we had one of our numerous openings.

Dahlin, Thompson and Tuch all mentioned the players needed to be pushed more, more accountability etc. Those are three of the biggest “leaders” on this team now and going forward all admitting motivation and accountability wasn’t there this year. Something a lot of posters all mentioned and complained about frequently. Quite an indictment of the players and coaching staff indeed. Certainly sounds like a disciplinarian coach is incoming and is sorely needed.

Agreed. I like Berube and what he would bring, but kind of a small sample size with his coaching career. I’d put him in my top 5-6 for head coach wish list, but definitely there are others I’d prefer. If we are going experienced, I’d like to see a coach who has won in multiple organizations, that way you know it wasn’t a fluke.

Hoppe was right!! He must have had a good secret source he didn’t want to name.

You know what, you’re absolutely right. Good call. Major brain fart on my part.

Don’t know how much it’ll mean, but Hoppe goes WAY back with Pegula. Knew him decades ago and has kept close with Terry over the years. He doesn’t trumpet it often, but he’s mentioned it before. So the article could be conjecture on his part, but he also may have spoken to Pegula and Pegula asked him not to attribute anything to him directly. We will all know soon enough if this article is accurate or not.

Funnier still the ones that brag about it here

lol excellent use of a timeout here meathead

A lot of the forwards on this team had career years last year and now this year regressed to the mean. Everybody thought the offense was figured out. It wasn’t. Now this year people think the goaltending problem is solved because UPL has had half a great season. He absolutely could regress back to the mean. There is no guarantee this is who he is going forward consistently. In fact, I’d highly bet against that. Would love to be wrong. Lesson to be learned is there was pretty much zero carry over from last years team to this years team, even though it was essentially the same group of players. All they have proven is they are inconsistent. Adams, if he’s still in charge in a few weeks, should not remotely think about standing pat. Always look to improve the roster. Hopefully there will be at least 3-4 new faces in the lineup next year, and preferably 5-6.

You can pronounce them dead every Thanksgiving and you won’t be wrong. I know I did.

If Adams accomplishes 10% of your list, I’ll be SHOCKED.

There will still be a couple stragglers guaranteed.

My guess is UPL will want 5x5 Sabres would prefer 3x3 Most likely it’ll end up somewhere in the middle. I’ll say 4x4.25

They will miss by 3 points

Yep hence my good win statement for the reading comprehension impaired amongst us.