Buffalo Sabres fans can finally say they have a coach.
Last Thursday, the Sabres and general manager Tim Murray introduced Dan Bylsma as the 17th head coach in team history, succeeding the recently fired Ted Nolan, via NHL.com.
Bylsma inherits the reigning 30th-place team, the complete opposite of what he walked into when he took over the Pittsburgh Penguins a little over halfway through the 2008-09 season. That team was fresh off a loss to the Detroit Red Wings in the Stanley Cup Final and found themselves beating those Red Wings in for the Cup later that season.
So the test for Bylsma is transitioning from figuring out how to keep a team on top to how to build a team up from the ground.
But Bylsma is an excellent choice for the difficult task that lay ahead.
Bylsma's Penguins were an offensive force, as one would expect when your roster includes Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. Yet Bylsma clearly created a system that allowed Crosby and Malkin to be the offensive dynamos NHL fans know.
So what system will Bylsma be bringing to this young Sabres roster?
In his introductory press co ...
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