NHL: The Buffalo Sabres have fired head coach Ralph Krueger and assistant coach Steve Smith. Assistant coach Don Granato will take over head coaching duties on an interim basis.
“It felt right that it needed to be done now,” Adams said Wednesday. “I think we could talk about … could have been done before. For me, this is about results that haven’t been good enough and I look and evaluate everything and I was trying to take a real, honest, fair evaluation, understanding the adversity and the situation our team was in, taking it all into account … I do believe every crisis is an opportunity for positive chance and this is a chance for us to move forward and to begin to get this thing pointed in the right direction.