Doubtful, the guy is a dinosaur. Time to retire
The 1st episode of our new series showcases Ruff’s first weeks back in Buffalo.
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If this crusty old wanker can get a gig as a coach again when he really shouldn't, Bruce should have at least gotten a few calls. Ruff is a terrible coach.
He’s not a good coach (anymore).
Funny Canucks fans say this, he never coached an actual full season in Vancouver. He came over after Green was fired, had a .649 win percentage, then had a rough half season the next year and was canned.
Edit: Bruce is 69yrs old, even at 64 for Ruff that's pretty up there in age and Hitchcock knew when he needed to call it quits so for Bruce's sake at his age, the travel, stress, etc he should be looking at a head office job somewhere really. I know a lot of his ex players love the bloke, he's a very well liked coach so I am shocked he hasn't gotten a job somewhere in a different capacity. Even Jacques Martin didn't really want to coach, he is 71, the last thing he wanted was to be thrown back into coaching.
Coaches are being hired younger with "older coaches" now being in their early 50's. It's funny when Bylsma was hired he was very young and now he's returning at 53. Carbery, a fantastic coach imo, spent over a decade learning as a coach before he got his head coaching job at 42 and blokes think he's young (Dan was 38 with less experience, which is crazy to think about now).