LGR4GM

I just hope Kevyn isn't Gm after Monday.

No, no it wouldn't. It would say "we give up"

So this is a nothing burger.

Ruff needs to go.

Lol sure, and we'd play who in their place?

If they lose tonight, I think that is the inflection point. Whether they move slow or fast from there, hard to say with how disinterested Terry seems in the day to day.

The learning part is really important. Understanding how to use your skills within the next level of competition but also to develop them further and gain new ones. McKenna has a great base, he's under the microscope though and that won't change.

Sorry, Michigan State.

and one of those games was Michigan and Penn State basically got owned with McKenna the only one doing much of anything.

He's got better hands than Mitts but... I could see some similarities. Again, I have seen like 2 games so idk if I have a good feel for McKenna yet.

Projected lines: Artturi Lehkonen — Nathan MacKinnon — Martin Necas Ross Colton — Brock Nelson — Victor Olofsson (Valeri Nichushkin) Gabe Landeskog — Jack Drury — Gavin Brindley Parker Kelly — Zakhar Bardakov — Tristen Nielsen Devon Toews — Cale Makar Josh Manson — Brent Burns Jack Ahcan — Sam Malinski MacKenzie Blackwood Scott Wedgewood -------------- Alex Tuch — Ryan McLeod — Tage Thompson Isak Rosen — Noah Östlund — Jack Quinn Jordan Greenway — Tyson Kozak — Josh Doan Josh Dunne — Peyton Krebs — Beck Malenstyn Mattias Samuelsson — Owen Power Bowen Byram — Conor Timmins Jacob Bryson — Michael Kesselring Alex Lyon Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen

WGR mentioned McKenna a bit this morning and they did say something I like. McKenna has some of the best hands/handling ability ever. He can do that in stride and at speed but he can also do it to take pucks away from the walls. The issue is that some of his ideas and execution is not there and wont work in the NHL. You can use your hands to go around a guy or to open up space, but you can't use it to deke an entire team. He also isn't strong enough which is a major issue right now. ALL that said, McKenna in November is not going to be McKenna in April. Same thing applies to Stenberg and Belchetz and Lawrence, and Verhoeff.

Unless it goes further south, I don't see a in season change. Not publicly. I could see Kekäläinen making the moves at the deadline with Adams as the figurehead but I don't think we get an in season firing.

Seems fairly obvious that Analytics is not used for every pick. Bedowski shows us that. Kleber shows us that. If you want to know what drafting using analytics looks like, look at Carolina. Jerry Forton might listen to analytics for the 1st round but he's clearly looking for "player types" after that. It is why all the RHD we draft later seem to have the exact same profile. My point is the scouting system in Buffalo is brutally flawed. Doesn't help that Adams gives 2nd round picks away for Malenstyn and so he can get Josh Norris and Bernard-Docker who he didn't even sign.

Him and Vinny seem to get it. Prospal last year basically said that if Kisakov didn't work hard on the ice he wasn't going to get any ice. The Sabres let the kid go this summer.

Josh Doan was not a throw-in and fans and the coaching staff should stop acting like he was. The fact he isn't getting more ice time is another nail in a coffin that is so filled with them it is just metal for this coaching staff.

There's only 1 way to fix this and Pegula doesn't have the balls to do it. You go through this list and fire 75% of these people. You fire everyone who's been here for 10+ years. Some won't deserve it, you are right, but at this point it is about a hard reset. Senior Advisor Jarmo Kekalainen Special Asst. to General Manager Eric Staal Associate General Manager Jason Karmanos Assistant General Manager Mark Jakubowski Assistant General Manager Jerry Forton VP of Hockey Strategy and Research Sam Ventura Director of Pro Scouting Jeremiah Crowe Assistant Director of Amateur Scouting Jason Nightingale Scout Craig Anderson Scout Graham Beamish Scout Kevin Devine Scout Brad Dexter Scout Austin Dunne Scout Justin Falk Scout Anders Forsberg Scout Frank Musil Scout Tristan Musser Scout Ruslan Pechonkin Scout Marty Stein Scout Lukas Sutter Scout Tommi Vesanen Data Engineer Matt Barlowe Data Scientist Domenic Galamini, Jr. Manager of Hockey Technology/Team Operations Kyle Kiebzak Coordinator of Team Operations Hunter Kelly Manager of Hockey Administration Brett Ruff Executive Assistant Terri O'Brien COACHING STAFF Head Coach Lindy Ruff Assistant Coach Seth Appert Assistant Coach Mike Bales Assistant Coach Matt Ellis Assistant Coach Marty Wilford Video Coach Justin White Video Coordinator Amir Gulati Skating and Skills Instructor Mike Ansell

They have 100% agreed internally to play this season out and then go from there. I would bet money that Pegula was like "fine you are under contract, go try to make the playoffs and if not Kevyn, I will move you up and we can bring in a new GM" I'd bet Ruff knows this is his last year as well, hell he might want it to be. Just sad really how this is clearly a year with no expectations because everyone from the GM down to the Assistant Coaches are placeholders.

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Who? Where? Quote them.

Who cares? No seriously, who tf cares?