Rumor: Tim Graham “Sources He has are strongly hinting this is the end for Kevyn Adams”

[JohnC]

2 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Thinking small?   You don’t want a proven coach that has been knocking on the door of the Stanley Cup.  You want a first time AHL coach.   
 

The problem is that a proven coach who has been involved in a serious Stanley Cup pursuit, is aware of what it takes to get to that lofty level. And that caliber of coach would not want to put himself in such a poorly structured situation with an owner like Terry P. whose reputation and competency is well known in the hockey business. 

[Pimlach]

25 minutes ago, Archie Lee said:

I would guess the coaching staff are not a part of this. It will simply be Adams reassigned and Jarmo to GM. It makes sense to do this soon as if Adams is essentially a lame duck, regardless of how many years he has on his contract, then it is time to move on as there are important decisions to be made (Tuch, RFAs). Jarumo will hire a new coach in the off-season. 

Yup.   They will most likely hire a new coach in the off season.    Jarmo, or whoever the GM is, should run the coach search, and the coach should report to him.  
 

[PASabreFan]

2 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Yup.   They will most likely hire a new coach in the off season.    Jarmo, or whoever the GM is, should run the coach search, and the coach should report to him.  
 

But Chad's article hints that JR would be inheriting Ruff, who reports to...?

[PASabreFan]

1 hour ago, JohnC said:

You may not be aware of it but the mushrooms you are consuming are hallucinogenic. Your level of fantasy is beyond imagination. 

What will the owner do? I don't know what this aloof owner will do. What I do know is that a tail end three game winning streak against lesser opponents will not come close to offsetting KA's six-year dismal record. 

I know, right? I was on shrooms when I imagined one day in February 2011 that Terry was a numbskull. The rest of you didn't stop licking his boots for 10 years.

Just a wrinkle. Just for fun. The timing of all this will be interesting if the Sabres keep winning. Not likely, but it's sports, and strange things happen. Terry doesn't seem like someone who would fire a guy right before xmas.

[JohnC]

Just now, PASabreFan said:

I know, right? I was on shrooms when I imagined one day in February 2011 that Terry was a numbskull. The rest of you didn't stop licking his boots for 10 years.

Just a wrinkle. Just for fun. The timing of all this will be interesting if the Sabres keep winning. Not likely, but it's sports, and strange things happen. Terry doesn't seem like someone who would fire a guy right before xmas.

Any non-sober person who followed the Sabres recognized early on that Terry P was a virus that was infecting this plagued franchise. It didn't take much talent to come to that obvious conclusion early on. It's like saying that crap stinks. You may not be aware of it but most of us were aware of it as soon as he started acting like a drunken fool once he took over. 

[Pimlach]

16 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

But Chad's article hints that JR would be inheriting Ruff, who reports to...?

There is no JR.  Jarmo last name is Kekalainen, not Routsaleinen.  

I don’t know who Ruff reports to.  No one does apparently.  It almost like Adams announced a coach search for an experienced NHL coach and Ruff just showed up so they hired him.   Makes a great sit com skit. 

Adams interviewed him and it went kind of like the Costanza job interview … “ Lindy, I want you to have this job, of course… oh wait, I’ve got to take this call now,   good seeing you Lindy.  … “. 

So Lindy just shows up and both Terry and Kevyn think the other person hired him.  Lindy takes the small office, he gets the Cozens  file, and he is off and running.  
 

 

[Two or less]

27 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

But Chad's article hints that JR would be inheriting Ruff, who reports to...?

Who ?

[Thorny]

Won’t be over until it’s over 

Madness 

[JohnC]

6 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

There is no JR.  Jarmo last name is Kekalainen, not Routsaleinen.  

I don’t know who Ruff reports to.  No one does apparently.  It almost like Adams announced a coach search for an experienced NHL coach and Ruff just showed up so they hired him.   Makes a great sit com skit. 

Adams interviewed him and it went kind of like the Costanza job interview … “ Lindy, I want you to have this job, of course… oh wait, I’ve got to take this call now,   good seeing you Lindy.  … “. 

So Lindy just shows up and both Terry and Kevyn think the other person hired him.  Lindy takes the small office, he gets the Cozens  file, and he is off and running.  
 

 

The Pegula organization represents institutional fraud. It never ends!

[Pimlach]

21 minutes ago, Thorny said:

Won’t be over until it’s over 

Madness 

A clandestine contract extension would make this saga even better.    Ican’t wait to hear what Adams new job is.  I’m gonna bet he gets promoted.  

Edited 2 hours ago by Pimlach

[Thorny]

Just now, Pimlach said:

A clandestine contract extension would make this saga even better.    I can’t wait to hear what Adams new job is.  I gonna bet he gets promoted.  

I find it absolutely hilarious they may have snuck in an extension and not announced it out of fear. Would explain why this leaked, people in the org itself are done with this weasel 

[Big Guava]

[Thorny]

14 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

A clandestine contract extension would make this saga even better.    I can’t wait to hear what Adams new job is.  I gonna bet he gets promoted.  

I’m not even holding out hope for an outright firing. My top hope right now is:

”relieved of GM duties, reassigned to another spot in the organization (ie the old future considerations)”. Failing that it’s:

”relieved of GM duties, reassigned to an advisor/senior advisor role within the organization.” After that is:

”Adams promoted to POHO, so and so takes over as GM.” …which, yes, I’ll still accept as a win because it’s a made up title and aside from the owner things clearly run through the GM, here.

Edited 2 hours ago by Thorny

[Pimlach]

4 minutes ago, Thorny said:

I’m not even holding out hope for an outright firing. My top hope right now is:

”relieved of GM duties, reassigned to another spot in the organization (ie the old future considerations”. Failing that it’s:

”relieved of GM duties, reassigned to an advisor/senior advisor role within the organization.” After that is:

”Adams promoted to POHO, so and so takes over as GM.” …which, yes, I’ll still accept as a win because it’s a made up title and aside from the owner things clearly run through the GM, here.

The POHO option bothers me because Adams can and will influence Terry.  If he can do it from his Business Admin job, he can do it as a fake POHO.   He needs to go.   

[pastajoe]

If they wanted to hire younger up-and-coming coaches, my choices would be Michale Peca and Jay McKee.

[PASabreFan]

31 minutes ago, Two or less said:

Who ?

It's happening. Don't resist.

[K012010]

31 minutes ago, pastajoe said:

If they wanted to hire younger up-and-coming coaches, my choices would be Michale Peca and Jay McKee.

Adams has a younger cousin who supposedly won 3 cups in a row with the Sabres in franchise mode in NHL 2025. Could be a dark horse pick. 

That’s the rumor anyway

[PASabreFan]

49 minutes ago, pastajoe said:

If they wanted to hire younger up-and-coming coaches, my choices would be Michale Peca and Jay McKee.

If you'd hire them if they weren't former Sabres, fine.

[Broken Ankles]

1 hour ago, Pimlach said:

A clandestine contract extension would make this saga even better.    Ican’t wait to hear what Adams new job is.  I’m gonna bet he gets promoted.  

I‘ll take that action. 

[Doohickie]

9 hours ago, WatchedrookieGilP said:

Weird stuff alert…

At the 11min 45sec mark in the postgame show, Paul Hamilton (not on this road trip) says when the tv cameras focused on Sabs bench, that to him at least, it appears Seth Appert is actually coaching the team, with Lindy standing behind him…these last 2 games.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sabres-hockey/id1142057803?i=1000740961549

It's been like that a lot this season.  I think for a lot of games it's been Lindy as "executive" coach and Appert as "operations" coach.

[Doohickie]

3 hours ago, Mr. MVP said:

Kevyn did recently sell his Clarence house and moved.  Don’t think that has anything to do with anything, but it’s semi surprising.  

Moved to wear?  Elma?

[Carmel Corn]

3 hours ago, Mr. MVP said:

Kevyn did recently sell his Clarence house and moved.  Don’t think that has anything to do with anything, but it’s semi surprising.  

 

3 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Moved to wear?  Elma?

Maybe somewhere that has low taxes and palm trees?

[DarthEbriate]

One more game to go….

[Carmel Corn]

I still have little hope of any substantive change coming.  Even “if” Adams is promoted to POHO, it doesn’t help much because he will still have too much influence on hockey roster decisions, which means more of the same crap.  Jarmo as a GM will be powerless because he will still have limited ability to make coaching and player decisions.  If Appert ends up the next HC in this scenario, then you know Jarmo has no autonomy to make his own decisions.  Pegula has broken me and my belief that this team will ever a contender.

[pastajoe]

1 hour ago, PASabreFan said:

If you'd hire them if they weren't former Sabres, fine.

I would. The fact that they are familiar with the legacy and are respected by the fans is gravy.