Confirmed with Link: Lindy Ruff named Head Coach, Press Conference at 1:00 PM EDT

[ValJamesDuex]

Lindy, I think the fan base would not hold it against you if you quit this sh*t show organization at the end of the year. Go enjoy fishing in Montana!

 

[Zman5778]

Lindy, I think the fan base would not hold it against you if you quit this sh*t show organization at the end of the year. Go enjoy fishing in Montana!

I wouldn't blame him if he quit NOW.

 

[sabres4ever]

This was a desperation hire.

 

[Jimmybarndoor2]

Accountability

 

[Zman5778]

This was a desperation hire.

I don't think it was "desperation". It was lazy and safe.

 

[Zman5778]

Exactly where I am.

I get why we made the hire.

Just please bring in good assistants.

Was curious what I posted when this hire was made.

.......yup. I still get why we made the hire. But not allowing Lindy to bring in his own assistants is inexcusable.

 

[Tatanka]

That KA wasn’t shown the door along with Granato was a portend to this hire. Firing Granato was a knee jerk PR move. It didn’t come from a lucid examination of the organization. Of those available he checks a lot of boxes. I guess it could be worse. Besides KA avoided embarrassing Terry having other candidates say “Thanks, but no thanks.”

My initial opinion still holds. Lindy hasn’t lost the room, he never had it in the first place. The players know he was lipstick on a pig and nothing else changed. Without a full on restructuring of the front office and hockey ops I see no reason to believe anything will change.

 

[Archie Lee]

Was curious what I posted when this hire was made.

.......yup. I still get why we made the hire. But not allowing Lindy to bring in his own assistants is inexcusable.

The thing is, Ruff is complicit in this. Adams has stated it was Ruff’s choice. So, either Adams is lying or Ruff was not only willing to take the job under absurd conditions (2 yr deal, no picking his own staff), but he is also willing to let his GM lay the blame for the assistants at his feet. Either way, both need to go. If I had my choice between Adams and Ruff returning or running the roster back with a new GM and HC (and coaching staff), I would take the latter and it’s not close. I have seen two years of what Adams thinks smart off-season moves are. It’s a disaster. I would bet on these players turning it around with a new GM and HC before I would bet on Adams and Ruff.

 

[Ehran]

The thing is, Ruff is complicit in this. Adams has stated it was Ruff’s choice. So, either Adams is lying or Ruff was not only willing to take the job under absurd conditions (2 yr deal, no picking his own staff), but he is also willing to let his GM lay the blame for the assistants at his feet. Either way, both need to go. If I had my choice between Adams and Ruff returning or running the roster back with a new GM and HC (and coaching staff), I would take the latter and it’s not close. I have seen two years of what Adams thinks smart off-season moves are. It’s a disaster. I would bet on these players turning it around with a new GM and HC before I would bet on Adams and Ruff.

Adams is lying. Fini.

 

[Archie Lee]

Adams is lying. Fini.

Then Ruff is pathetic, agreeing to coach a team with no control over who the assistants are AND allowing the GM to lie and claim that he actually had a choice.

 

[Ehran]

Then Ruff is pathetic, agreeing to coach a team with no control over who the assistants are AND allowing the GM to lie and claim that he actually had a choice.

You really think Ruff "allows" Adams to lie?

Or do you think its just as likely, if not more so, that Adams LIED to Ruff about how things would work out to get him here once he found out there was interest?

Ruff, if nothing else, was a low cost, easy, hire with "NHL bona fides" to placate the fanbase after the Krueger / Granato coaching messes. I have zero doubt that Adams would have lied his ass off to get Ruff here, as a CYA move.