It’s not too early to fire Kevyn Adams and Lindy Ruff

[Devilsfan118]

The Lindy Ruff experience, everyone.

Cannot believe they hired this dinosaur to bring them out of their rebuild.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

Kinda hard to blame Lindy for this.

The shit runs deep and strong in this organization.

 

[All Mod Cons]

What's the point?

 

[Gregor Samsa]

It’s crazy they’ve gone as long as they have without making the playoffs. That seems to point to ownership as there have been multiple eras during their drought.

 

[MessierII]

Kinda hard to blame Lindy for this.

The shit runs deep and strong in this organization.

Yeah like another new coach is the answer lol

 

[Mosby]

Kevyn Adams' resume before being named GM was two years as assistant coach like a decade prior to his hire and head of the Junior Sabres program. He has/had no business being named GM.

 

[sabremike]

The only thing that will save the Sabres is what saved the Blackhawks years back. Not nice to say but sadly it's true.

 

[McDuffz88]

Kinda hard to blame Lindy for this.

The shit runs deep and strong in this organization.

Yup. All the higher ups need to be fired. A full cleaning of house. When you have your captain fist fighting players in practice they isn't good either. People tried to spin it on how wow he really cares. But that's cope. A team should be in unison with each other. They clearly aren't. At some point it's not the coach. It's the higher ups.

 

[tsujimoto74]

This had disaster written all over it. Was confused why Sabres fans seemed to be excited about the hire.

Because he’s easily the best coach we’ve hired since Lindy Ruff.

 

[Goptor]

Adams should have been fired right after the 22-23 trade deadline. Losing culture permeates when the GM doesn't support the players when they do well.

That team makes the playoffs if Adams gave them better RHD depth than Jokiharju - Lyubushkin - Casey Fitzgerald.

 

[Soundwave]

Kinda hard to put this all at Ruff's feet. The forward corps just doesn't have enough game breakers and their D has some real talent on it but it's still probably at an age range where they can't really control a game.

Goaltending wise they made a big mistake in ever letting Ullmark go.

It's not like they have no talent, but this is a tough league and there's a bunch of other teams that just have probably more firepower than them upfront.

 

[Sidney the Kidney]

So what's the deal with the Pegulas? Do they meddle? Are they cheap? Do they keep hiring buddies rather than qualified personnel?

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Oh my god Sabres are such a trainwreck it's painful as an outsider watching

 

[CaptainShark]

Clearly OP is trying to recreate what happened last time fans called for Lindy‘s head…

 

[Iggys Dome]

Jesus f*** man buffalo just be good for once your jerseys are sick and I like your goal horn

 

[LongWayDown37]

Kevyn Adams has not had a cohesive vision for this team since day one. Every time he speaks, its meaningless platitudes. The Lindy move wreaked of a franchise that literally had no idea what else to do.

Imagine - they scapegoated Jeff Skinner for their defensive woes that all remain there today, except now we have a player in Edmonton that is now on our cap for 6 (SIX!!!!) more years. They did nothing with the cap space that they created from his buyout. Was he a perfect player, definitely not. But he was consistently a good goal scorer.

Adams has been a yes-man to the incompetent owner that came up through other parts of the organization. If he gets fired, it be like getting fired from your parents from the family business. But it has to happen at some point - he is not capable of building a team.

 

[Dirty Dog]

Why does everyone keep saying the pegulas? Plural?

 

[wunderpanda]

Why does everyone keep saying the pegulas? Plural?

kim pegula was president of pegula sports & entertainment and co-owner of the bills, sabres and whatever else terry bought

 

[KCC]

The amount of high picks this team has had for years and the fact that they still can't get it together is laughable.

 

[Devilsfan2326]

Completely serious, they should poach Shanny from Toronto. He is likely out soon anyways, and he did change the culture. Leafs were the same unable to make playoffs and being pathetic every year then giving us up in garbage time.

He will clean up the org and replace almost everyone from scouts to trainers to anything associated with the suck.

Entertaining thought: Coach Phil Kessel.

 

[JianYang]

In Punjabi, lindy translates to turd.

So you have a rough turd.

 

[HaNotsri]

I had this feeling that Lindy could be the GM and replace Adams as early as this coming offseason.

Maybe he'd do the dual HC/GM role, which we haven't seen in a very long time, outside of when a GM came down to be the interim head coach for the rest of the season after firing the previous head coach.

But now I'm wondering if Lindy Ruff in Buffalo is just gonna wind up being a reunion/retirement tour. Similar to when Hitchcock came back to Dallas for one more year (he replaced Ruff) at the end of his career. Finishing where it all started (he did wind up becoming interim head coach for the Oilers the next season) for him in the NHL. Or even how Jacques Martin came back to Ottawa last year, even though he was just an interim and Ottawa wasn't actually his first head coaching job in the league.

If this saves Pegula-bucks it's 100% what's going to happen.

 

[Jeune Poulet]

Kinda hard to blame Lindy for this.

The shit runs deep and strong in this organization.

Yes, but hiring a fossil like Ruff was more evidence of that.

 

[HaNotsri]

So what's the deal with the Pegulas? Do they meddle? Are they cheap? Do they keep hiring buddies rather than qualified personnel?

Yes, yes and yes.

 

[Luigi Lemieux]

Kinda hard to put this all at Ruff's feet. The forward corps just doesn't have enough game breakers and their D has some real talent on it but it's still probably at an age range where they can't really control a game.

Goaltending wise they made a big mistake in ever letting Ullmark go.

It's not like they have no talent, but this is a tough league and there's a bunch of other teams that just have probably more firepower than them upfront.

And Reinhart and Montour. Something is wrong when players keep blossoming after they leave your team. They had all the pieces to be elite.