The Buffalo Sabres have announced the following promotions and new hires within their front office:<\/p>\n
Stacy Roest has been promoted to director of player personnel and general manager of the Rochester Americans. Roest joined the Sabres in January as a pro scout after spending more than a decade with the Tampa Bay Lightning, where he served as director of player development and assistant general manager.<\/p>\n
Tim Kennedy has been promoted to director of player development. Kennedy, a Buffalo native and former Sabres player, has spent the past five seasons as a development coach with the organization.<\/p>\n
Neil Komadoski has joined the team as assistant director of pro scouting. Komadoski has spent the last 16 seasons as a pro scout for the Vancouver Canucks.<\/p>\n
Milan Lucic has been hired as a pro scout. Lucic played 1,177 games in the NHL and was a Stanley Cup champion with the Boston Bruins in 2011.<\/p>\n
Derek Dorsett has joined as a forward development coach. Dorsett played 10 NHL seasons and has spent the last three years as a development coach for the Columbus Blue Jackets.<\/p>\n
Jarkko Ruutu has been hired as a European development coach. Ruutu played 652 games in the NHL and has spent the last 10 years working for the Columbus Blue Jackets \u2013 one as pro scout and the last nine as a development coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Buffalo Sabres have announced the following promotions and new hires within their front office: Stacy Roest has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":736883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-736882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/736883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}