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Umm, that coach is Wilford. The guy that is also responsible for the 5v5 defensive zone coverage. Maybe keep him, but make him a PK coaching specialist?

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Not necessarily. If the Bills win out, a single Cheats loss, provided it isn't to the Crows, gives the Bills the tie-breaker edge. IF the Bills lose to the J-E-S-T jest Jest JEST then the Cheats would need to lose to both Miami and NY to give the Bills the tie-breaker edge.

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We shall see. Again, personally believe this team's PP should be top 10 consistently. (Am still pleasantly surprised that the PK has been as good as it has. That's the unit that seems to be middle of the pack quality when looking at it on paper.)

FTFY. And both Lyon and Ellis have had at least 1 stinker this year of the own too.

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The reporting makes it sound like Adams did go on the trip. @Brawndo, can we get a confirmation either way on whether Kevyn did get to enjoy his last hurrah in person?

15th in PP with a Norris caliber D-man QBing it, and player with 1 of the 5 best 1 timers in the league. 2 guys that are very good near the net. And now a guy that can win faceoffs and has a pretty good 1 timer from the other side. And that 15th rank AFTER going on a 8 PPG in 6 games heater. There is too much talent for this PP to NOT go on a run here or there. That unit scores despite coaching, not because of it. And they oftentimes don't even bother putting 1 of those 2 good net front guys on that top unit. This team's PP SHOULD be top 10 every year. It isn't and usually doesn't come close to that because the coaching - entries, lack of movement, etc. is brutally bad. People still think that '23 PP was all that. It truly was for 6-7 weeks. It was awesome. And then opponents figured it out and it went back to being middling at best the rest of that season, though not quite as horrible as it had been to start that year. And, have said several times this year that Wilford is doing a very good job with the PK. Significantly better than expected he'd be able to get them playing. Good on him. But, Appert hasn't earned any kudos yet. They still do a lot of dumb things consistently. And that consistency is on coaching.

Really hate the idea of giving anyone that is more likely to be a bad coach than not the reigns as an interim coach. Midseason coaching changes USUALLY work just by giving the players a different voice to be following even when the tactics don't change significantly. And sometimes those coaching changes that work ONLY work because of that - see Ron Rolston as the poster boy of that situation. And IMHO Appert is more likely to be a bad coach than a successful one when he's implementing everything from scratch the way he wants it. Should he be named the HC, truly hope that expectation is wrong. But would rather they give DeBoer, Leone, or even Prospal or Peca the reigns than Appert. Heck, would rather have Tortorella as the HC than Appert even though expect that would have a fairly short window of working. Know Pegula would never hire him, but is Gallant still available and willing?

Eh, he lived to tell about it. How many others could've made that claim? 😉

Hopefully the Clarkson RPI animosity holds. If so, bye bye Appert.

Where he ends up in hockey or in other fields. Pretty sure his time in THIS organization is at an end.

Not sure it's the correct time. Expect that was actually either when Granato got relieved of his duties or this past off-season. BUT today is the closest day of all those remaining to either of those 2 days; so, in that respect yes, correct time it is.

Guess that 3 game win streak came just a smidge too late from Adams' perspective. Wonder where he ends up next season, if anywhere.