Lindy Ruff officially hired as Sabres HC

[Pimlach]

5 hours ago, shrader said:

Mogilny said that?

[French Collection]

I just read a story on Sportsnet about how Tocchet got the Canucks players to get ready in the summer for a challenging training camp.

This is another thing where Lindy will change things up. Camp should be tougher and get the team culture changed to where they will be ready to come out of gate ready to win some games. The country club atmosphere is over.

Edited June 21 by French Collection

[PerreaultForever]

I imagine most of you have already seen this, but I thought I'd post it for the few that haven't because he says all the right things and it gives me hope. 

 

[kas23]

23 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

I imagine most of you have already seen this, but I thought I'd post it for the few that haven't because he says all the right things and it gives me hope. 

 

Thank you for posting this. It was new to me. Must’ve missed it with all the traveling I have been doing. I think this is the closest reason we’re going to get on why the assistant coaches were retained. Ruff preaches that you need to know the player nowadays, know what makes the tick, and know what turns them off. They his is what he said on the question of how he evolved over the years. The current assistants get him this info immediately. He couldn’t come in here barking with new people. He knew that would fail. 

[PerreaultForever]

41 minutes ago, kas23 said:

Thank you for posting this. It was new to me. Must’ve missed it with all the traveling I have been doing. I think this is the closest reason we’re going to get on why the assistant coaches were retained. Ruff preaches that you need to know the player nowadays, know what makes the tick, and know what turns them off. They his is what he said on the question of how he evolved over the years. The current assistants get him this info immediately. He couldn’t come in here barking with new people. He knew that would fail. 

I agree with you in part, and that certainly explains Appert with the prospects and younger guys but it could still have been a mix. I still firmly believe Matt Ellis is Adam's eyes and ears in the locker room. Ruff knows him from before so I guess he's okay with him being around but I'd rather they have brought in a defensive specialist to join the staff. I suppose Lindy will take that on himself. 

[kas23]

1 hour ago, PerreaultForever said:

I agree with you in part, and that certainly explains Appert with the prospects and younger guys but it could still have been a mix. I still firmly believe Matt Ellis is Adam's eyes and ears in the locker room. Ruff knows him from before so I guess he's okay with him being around but I'd rather they have brought in a defensive specialist to join the staff. I suppose Lindy will take that on himself. 

Yeah, Appert’s there to give the coddling as the youngsters grow accustomed to a real NHL coach’s expectations and demands. Don’t know why Ellis is still around. Wilford had the boys playing some good defense down the stretch, but I’m sure Ruff will be hovering and work with him. Bales is a given. 

[PerreaultForever]

16 minutes ago, kas23 said:

Yeah, Appert’s there to give the coddling as the youngsters grow accustomed to a real NHL coach’s expectations and demands. Don’t know why Ellis is still around. Wilford had the boys playing some good defense down the stretch, but I’m sure Ruff will be hovering and work with him. Bales is a given. 

I suspect Ruff will try to make this team as a whole more defensively responsible and the hardest change will be for the forwards to learn his team systems and structure. This would also explain why he would want Skinner gone, if that is in fact true. 

At least I hope so. 

[SJSabres Fan]

Watching Paul Maurice interviewed after the win tonight got me thinking about Lindy.  Much like Paul he’s been around the league a long time,  has a lot of respect and has skippered some pretty good teams.  The first thing Maurice said is that these guys all love each other.  Hopefully we’re building the right culture here because I really think Lindy is the right guy for the job. 

[Taro T]

1 minute ago, SJSabres Fan said:

Watching Paul Maurice interviewed after the win tonight got me thinking about Lindy.  Much like Paul he’s been around the league a long time,  has a lot of respect and has skippered some pretty good teams.  The first thing Maurice said is that these guys all love each other.  Hopefully we’re building the right culture here because I really think Lindy is the right guy for the job. 

Really hope you're right.

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, SJSabres Fan said:

Watching Paul Maurice interviewed after the win tonight got me thinking about Lindy.  Much like Paul he’s been around the league a long time,  has a lot of respect and has skippered some pretty good teams.  The first thing Maurice said is that these guys all love each other.  Hopefully we’re building the right culture here because I really think Lindy is the right guy for the job. 

Are we building the right culture? Maybe Ruff will, but we haven't built anything of the sort yet. 

Maurice did say that, but if you noticed Reinhart and Okposo both said words along the same lines about it being the best group they've ever played with and you know where they both spent time before there. 

[kas23]

13 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Are we building the right culture? Maybe Ruff will, but we haven't built anything of the sort yet. 

Maurice did say that, but if you noticed Reinhart and Okposo both said words along the same lines about it being the best group they've ever played with and you know where they both spent time before there. 

And they wouldn’t be wrong. They just won a Cup together. 

[Doohicksie]

13 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

Reinhart and Okposo both said words along the same lines about it being the best group they've ever played with and you know where they both spent time before there. 

I knew someone would bring this up.  I just knew it. 

[Scottysabres]

Anyone ask Lindy about all these ex-Sabres shi tting on their former team? The Alumni meetings must be interesting.

[Doohicksie]

Did they?  I mean, any player is going to be very complimentary about their current team unless they absolutely want out.  Just because they say they loved playing a team that WON THE STANLEY CUP doesn't mean they're sh!tting on their former team.

Edited June 26 by Doohickie

[PerreaultForever]

3 hours ago, Doohickie said:

Did they?  I mean, any player is going to be very complimentary about their current team unless they absolutely want out.  Just because they say they loved playing a team that WON THE STANLEY CUP doesn't mean they're sh!tting on their former team.

idk, Kyle, for example, could have thanked Adams for giving him this opportunity. When's the last time you ever heard a former Buffalo player say good things about Buffalo? I don't remember it. 

On another note I did not realize Dudley as a senior advisor also gets a ring. According to 32 Thoughts he's been employed in the NHL for 45 years and this is his first ring. This makes me even happier than for ERod. 

[Pimlach]

6 minutes ago, PerreaultForever said:

idk, Kyle, for example, could have thanked Adams for giving him this opportunity. When's the last time you ever heard a former Buffalo player say good things about Buffalo? I don't remember it. 

On another note I did not realize Dudley as a senior advisor also gets a ring. According to 32 Thoughts he's been employed in the NHL for 45 years and this is his first ring. This makes me even happier than for ERod. 

A team can put up to 52 names on the Cup for winning it. There are guidelines for this.  I believe that Florida’s GM intends on putting Rick Dudley on from his administrative entries.  He was allowed on the ice to hold the Cup.  

[Brawndo]

Culture starts at the very top of the organization.

Friedman has said multiple times that hockey executives and coaches when researching potential job opportunities will look at whether or not they feel they can win under ownership. 
 

He specifically mentioned the Devils as an example of this. 

[LGR4GM]

14 hours ago, Doohickie said:

I knew someone would bring this up.  I just knew it. 

"Yea these guys are okay, ik we just won the Cup and all but like the Sabres... let me talk about them and how much I love them. I haven't played there in 2 years but let me randomly talk about the Sabres. They were better than this cup winning group, bunch of losers in this locker room let me tell you, but the Sabres under Ralph Krueger, what a team!" - Kylsom Reinhardt-Poso

[Flashsabre]

Some of you are so emotionally damaged by this team. No one expected them to mention the Sabres in their post Cup win. And no by not mentioning them it doesn’t mean they are 💩 on them. Wow

[LGR4GM]

25 minutes ago, Flashsabre said:

Some of you are so emotionally damaged by this team. No one expected them to mention the Sabres in their post Cup win. And no by not mentioning them it doesn’t mean they are 💩 on them. Wow

Fans of the Sabres think the most irrelevant team in the league still matters. We're an AHL team masquerading as an NHL team and until the front office grows up, we're just going to develop players and send them off to winners. The Sabres don't matter. It's positively bananas to think Reinhart would have mentioned Buffalo in his cup win or honestly even Okposo. They ain't thinking about Buffalo, they are thinking about who they won with. Buffalo is not relevant. 

[Thorner]

51 minutes ago, LGR4GM said:

Fans of the Sabres think the most irrelevant team in the league still matters. We're an AHL team masquerading as an NHL team and until the front office grows up, we're just going to develop players and send them off to winners. The Sabres don't matter. It's positively bananas to think Reinhart would have mentioned Buffalo in his cup win or honestly even Okposo. They ain't thinking about Buffalo, they are thinking about who they won with. Buffalo is not relevant. 

Everyone except Maurice apparently lol 

Edited June 26 by Thorny

[triumph_communes]

10 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

Some of you are so emotionally damaged by this team. No one expected them to mention the Sabres in their post Cup win. And no by not mentioning them it doesn’t mean they are 💩 on them. Wow

Calgary and Winnipeg got their mentions lol

10 hours ago, Flashsabre said:

Some of you are so emotionally damaged by this team. No one expected them to mention the Sabres in their post Cup win. And no by not mentioning them it doesn’t mean they are 💩 on them. Wow

Calgary and Winnipeg got their mentions lol

[Gatorman0519]

10 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

Fans of the Sabres think the most irrelevant team in the league still matters. We're an AHL team masquerading as an NHL team and until the front office grows up, we're just going to develop players and send them off to winners. The Sabres don't matter. It's positively bananas to think Reinhart would have mentioned Buffalo in his cup win or honestly even Okposo. They ain't thinking about Buffalo, they are thinking about who they won with. Buffalo is not relevant. 

Facts brother. I’m glad to of lived down here and be a part of the Cup run. Fort Lauderdale has been party central for 2 days. Even got to see a few playoff games. It really solidifies just how unbelievably terrible the Sabres are on every level. Watching all these ex Sabres winning it just about yearly now just takes the cake. 

[TRIP65]

On 4/22/2024 at 11:16 PM, nfreeman said:

 

Both of these are obnoxious.

Do not communicate like this here.  

So you are a Communist controlling ones response with no swearing, no name calling and just pointing out another persons extreme point of view. There is nothing obnoxious with my Comments, you just don't agree with them. I simply pointed things out and asked a question.

[TRIP65]

On 4/22/2024 at 10:13 PM, GoPuckYourself said:

This makes no sense, because he doesn't want Lindy Ruff who just got fired from a young team like ours he doesn't want the team to win? There were 2 Stanley Cup winning coaches out there and we pick the worst of those 3. Are you sure you dont want to see the Bills record broken?

So you are saying Ruff's hiring will lead to 17 years or more of losing, you a Bruins Fan?

One of the most Winning Coaches ever, Top 5.

Best Coach Sabres ever had and damn good player who played both sides of the Line.

Every Vet Coach available got fired from LAST Team.

 

The HC that just Won the Cup never did for 28 years previous!