Pimlach

If you call Adams President of Hockey Operations, and Jarmo is the General Manager of the same, then Adams outranks Jarmo. What is unclear is who will Jarmo report to? Unless he reports directly to Terry he likely works for KA. I expect that Jarmo would want all the autonomy that he had in Columbus. What is also unclear is how Adams will define his role as POHO. I don't want this to happen, but it is a possibility.

As I said in the GDT, Muel will fight him next year. BTW, a bit of irony. It was Sigenthaler who backed Muel down against retaliation on Noesom last year. Now he elbows him in the face and concusses him. Ref should have called it a 5 first, and then reviewed it. Remember back in the day with teams like the Flyers and Islanders, these player feuds went on for years.

IF KA is retained, and is still a part of Hockey Operations, he will out-rank Jarmo. If KA is promoted and moved to another functional area then you may be correct.

B-b-but Torts has changed now.

OK. We will see what the final score says. I'm sticking with 4-1 North Stars. Duffer, PTR and KA will be happy with 2-1 after 2 periods. Moral victories count in Pegulaville.

First, with Adams as POHO it could limit Jarmo's ability to make moves. Adams will likely side with Terry over Jarmo when they do their consensus building. And then there is Appert at HC. There are more reasons, but these two should be enough. PS - Ruff as an advisor. I have seen nothing so far to think this is going to help.

Paging @JohnC ....

This has been said 100's of times over the past few seasons. KA is going to be promoted, not canned. Meanwhile, Terry is finalizing the Sabres budget for 2026.

Minnesota is on a 9-0-1 streak while averaging just 3 goals per game. What does that say about team defense and goaltending? This is going to be 4-1 loss.

I just had a terrible thought. They finish last in their conference again and Terry follows the rumored plan. Adams to POHO, Jarmo to GM, Karmonos leaves, Ruff to Advisor, Appert to HC, Leone leaves, Prospal leaves.

After tonight it just feels over. They had 41 shots and actually didn’t shoot enough. How does that happen? And the first 2 goals against feature the puck popping from behind the net, to the front of the net, to in the net, with all the Sabres watching.

Kevyn Adams or Mike Milbury. Who is worse?

The irony is that he has the next GM in his organization already. But Terry will still do it wrong and put that GM into a harder position. Terry is the reason I don’t want McDermott and Beane removed. There is just no way he hires the right replacements.