‘”Jochen won’t be ready for this weekend,” Ruff said after practice Thursday in First Niagara Center. “We gave him a little extra today, but we need to be sure this time around. We need to pound him physically and take him to the limit, which we haven’t taken him to the limit yet. We’re getting close, but it’s not a case where we’re going to put him in and guess or put him in because we’re close.”‘
Hecht to sit until he passes team 'physical'
Source: Buffalo News