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Could be that Gallant/Berube and others did not want it, or didn’t want to talk, or they like Lindy better based on interviews. I hope it’s the later.

There may be a place that he fits. He was a 7th rounder that could score some goals. He had 20 three times, one in only 56 games. Not a two way player but this year he tightened up his game to match the “defensively responsible “ system that Granato said he put in, that Adams emphatically said “never changed”.

Ruff it is. Not surprising.

The Sabres need an experienced coach for many reasons. They also need the results McD got. All your caveats on McDermotts accomplishments are immaterial.

Gallant is known as a hard ass and as a players coach.

On further review, it's 3. And there were 4 penalties committed to Benson that were not called, they were called on him.

Agree. And I like white jerseys better anyway.

Still too early to make that determination.

Most of them were fabricated crap calls. Maybe 2 were legit.

It was so “thin” he made the playoffs the first year, while starting a rebuild, and with Tyrod Taylor at QB. You could easily put a positive spin on his work. He ended a 17 year drought and helped turn Buffalo into a perennial contender and a place where players want to play.

Yes. If Adams was going to tell them anything, it should have been that they were partly responsible and they need to learn from this and get more serious about practice and pre game preparation.

just watched the Avs - Peg highlights. Well executed white out, but they wore road team colors. Mitts with a dirty goal. I honestly cannot see our team not being embarrassed in a game like this one. These games are at a level our boys have not seen yet, even our veteran players.

So you’re the reason @Taro Tis gone ?

Chicoutimi?

I wonder if he talked to Adams and decided to not be interviewed. I am ready to move on from #28.

I sure hope not. Bring in a McDermott kind of Coach/Leader. I know McD is not a perfect coach, and I don't need a litany of responses on his game day errors, but he did fix a bad culture and a bad perception throughout the league. That is not an easy task as we are PAINFULLY aware.

Clearly the group lacks maturity and does not get the right leadership. We can only hope a few of them actually know better and will take over. On the fans booing and calling for DG to be fired - they should have been told to simmer down and do better. Fans pay the bills. Coaches get fired. Life is not fair either. On DG's firing - the only help Adams should have provided was for to tell them to take responsibility for their part in the firing, otherwise say little or nothing. The stuff about harder practices and needing to be pushed all sounds like whinny excuses, even if they are true. I blame Adams for their robotic and scripted comments.

Not to single out Samuelsson but his quote, like many of the the others, is a big part of Adams talking points. Why didn't Adams step in? He is learning his job on the fly too. Practice harder? That is on the coaches first and foremost, but this is why you need those guys that never want to leave the ice after practice. Need a few that call out the one that are not getting it. Until the right leadership emerges within the players, the coach has to do more to instill leadership.

I can tell you some of his top players are very young and they cried in the locker room interviews when he was fired. They knew they let him down but the reality is they lost a lot of really good players (and leadership) from the Cup team and they need to rebuild. Young guys like Thomas and Kyrou are very good, but they cannot carry the team like the veterans did without some help. Which is why I am concerned about Adams' rebuild from within using his prospects almost exclusively. They could get in, but will not have a playoff team makeup to go very far in the playoffs. When that finally happens Adams will have to do what Yzerman is trying to do right now, mix your home grown talent with the right vets. Yzerman is now one point closer than we were last year, but still not there.

Yes. Terry needs to change AND get out of the way. Maybe the change is coming now? He agreed to fire DG and eat the contract extension. Now he has to allow Adams to increase his cap position and break away from the EEE policies. They need fans in the seats that root for the home team.

Really? The Devils were a playoff team and set a team record for points two season ago. They just need a goalie The Blues have a winning tradition and sell out every game. Ottawa and Buffalo are about the same. Buffalo has the Pegula factor which is not good.

Pretty much every coach gets fired. Berube wins a cup, eventually they can’t sign everyone, they make moves but the team weakens. Coach gets fired to wake up the players. Happens all the time.

Frank Christie and Rip Simoniak would disagree. Medical people knowing the players is a good thing. Could you imaging replacing Ted Darling and RJ because they fired Punch or Scotty Bowman?

That is why I asked about Kucherov vs Robinson as shooters. There is a case to not consider shooting ability and call it an expected goal for all. Then you compare xgf and actual goals to find who gets chances but does not finish and work on that. You can get this information other ways, but plotting it on a map of the ice surface give the coaches and players hard data to work with. Way back in the 70’s, I did shot charts for our school basketball team. I marked who shot and from where on pages with the court layout on it, I circled the ones that went in. The coach used the data and kept the sheets in a big binder. Of course, was at the mercy of the charters for accuracy. No PCs and spreadsheets to compile the data, no statistical analysis tools at that time, but he figured out what he wanted from it. He had students tracking and charting assists and rebounds too. He was a fantastic history teacher and our basketball coach. Great guy. He recruited the charters from his classes. This conversation takes me back to a good place.