Adams Chosen as New GM of Buffalo Sabres

Kevyn Adams (Miami) was named the new general manager of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres on Tuesday. A product of Clarence, N.Y., Adams has worked in various roles within the Sabres organization since 2009 after retiring as an active NHL player. He won the Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006.

After two season of junior hockey with Niagara (NAHL), where he averaged a point per game in 95 outings, Adams, a center, skated four collegiate seasons with Miami (Ohio). He collected 69 goals and 102 assists for 171 points in 151 appearances with the then-Redskins, while also helping them to their first-ever NCAA tournament appearance as a freshman in 1993.

Drafted 25th overall by the Boston Bruins in 1993, Adams turned pro in 1996-97 with the expansion Grand Rapids Griffins, then of the International Hockey League, where he scored a career-high 22 goals. He split the next three seasons between the NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs and their American Hockey League affiliate in St. John's. He recorded a career-high 35 assists and 50 points with St. John's in 1998-99, and in 161 career AHL regular season games registered 38-67—150 points .

Adams played a total of 540 NHL regular-season games with Toronto, Columbus, Florida, Carolina, Phoenix and Chicago, from 1997 to 2008, and notched 59-77—136 points before retiring as a player following the 2007-08 campaign. He twice helped Carolina to the Stanley Cup final, in 2002 and 2006, and scored 16 goals in the regular season and postseason combined in 2005-06 as the Hurricanes claimed their first-ever Stanley Cup championship.

Adams, 45, joined the Sabres organization in 2009 as a development coach. After two seasons in that capacity, he served the next two years as an assistant coach with the NHL team before spending the following six seasons as Buffalo's director and youth hockey supervisor. He was then named Senior Vice President of Business Administration in 2019, and was working in that role when he was tabbed as general manager.

Adams also served the last seven years with the Buffalo Junior Sabres (OJHL) as that club's president. In addition, he coached their entry in the 2019-20 Quebec PeeWee Tournament.