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  Dan Byslma, former Pittsburgh Penguins and Buffalo Sabres head coach has joined the Detroit Red Wings. His addition as an assistant bolsters the Wings coaching staff and adds much needed experience to a team looking to halt the decline. It feels like Byslma has been brought in so that Detroit has an immediate replacement should current head coach Jeff Blashill be fired. Let’s face it, there’s a pretty solid chance of that happening if things don’t improve. The appointment of Byslma makes sense, he and Blashill worked together on Team USA’s coaching staff during the IIHF Championship earlier this year. Embed from Getty ImagesRead More →

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A day after putting the kibosh on the alleged conflict between Jack Eichel and head coach Dan Byslma, the Buffalo Sabres have terminated the contracts of Byslma and general manager Tim Murray. Whether or not the Eichel/Bylsma rift was a real thing, have the Sabres made the right decision by enforcing these changes? Embed from Getty Images Any head coach that takes a role with a struggling team knows that they’ll be on borrowed time unless they can produce a monumental turn-around. When Byslma was hired by the Sabres in 2015, the team had just finished last in the league. Buffalo very publicly tanked thatRead More →