{"id":358444,"date":"2025-12-20T21:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358444\/"},"modified":"2025-12-20T21:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T21:44:08","slug":"sabres-fire-associate-gm-jason-karmanos-as-jarmo-kekalainen-makes-first-significant-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/358444\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabres fire associate GM Jason Karmanos as Jarmo Kekalainen makes first significant change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jarmo-kekalainen\/8448422\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jarmo-kekalainen\/8448422\" target=\"_blank\">Jarmo Kekalainen<\/a> is already making his presence felt as general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/buffalo-sabres\/7\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo Sabres<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sabres announced Saturday that they\u2019ve fired associate general manager Jason Karmanos, just days after Kekalainen took over for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevyn-adams\/8459446\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/kevyn-adams\/8459446\" target=\"_blank\">Kevyn Adams<\/a> in the top GM role.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Karmanos also served as general manager of the American Hockey League\u2019s Rochester Americans. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 59-year-old Kekalainen had previously worked as the general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> before he was fired in February of 2024. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He joined the Sabres in May as a senior advisor. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Winners of four straight games, the Sabres are looking to turn their 2025-26 season around as they sit in last place in the Atlantic Division with a 15-14-4 record. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Buffalo hasn\u2019t made the playoffs in an NHL record 14 seasons. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Sabres host the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/new-york-islanders\/2\" target=\"_blank\">New York Islanders<\/a> on Saturday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jarmo Kekalainen is already making his presence felt as general manager of the Buffalo Sabres. The Sabres announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349644,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,96397,49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-358444","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-buffalo-sabres-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-7","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}