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May 6 2007 (Official "Fire Ruff" thread)
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I get it, they suck at them and should know how to react afterwards...but wouldn't "they're taking faceoffs until they can't lift their arms anymore" be better at this point?
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My biggest worry is that we can Ruff and the next guy gets worse or more of the same results-wise. I don't want the Sabres to end up like the Bills and be a revolving door of coaches. That seems like it would be even worse for developing prospects, every year (or multiple time a year) you have a new guy trying to tell you how to do things differently. I guess we address that if/when the time comes and not worry about what ifs. We really have nothing to lose at this point.
Wow I can't believe I just said that publicly. I'm the guy that wears a Ruff jersey. Sigh.
Wow I can't believe I just said that publicly. I'm the guy that wears a Ruff jersey. Sigh.
McCauleyChirps
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Fire Lindy
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McCauleyChirps
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The Sabres have been the exact polar opposite of the Bills. The Sabres won't be a revolving door until they've changed coaches every 2 years for 10 years. And even then they won't approach the Bills "revolving door".
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http://wgr550.com/pages/14291590.php poll up on WGR
37% want Ruff fired
50% want Ruff and Regier fired
2% want Regier fired
11% no - not yet
37% want Ruff fired
50% want Ruff and Regier fired
2% want Regier fired
11% no - not yet
Fire Ruff but keep Regier?
Isn't that like hanging Himmler but allowing Hitler to remain president of West Germany?
Uhm.. no? Regier has done a good job managing the assets, you can't deny that. He isn't the coach.
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Regier sucks at managing assets. He's always in the top in spending/salary but the results are mediocre.
Oh, and another thing, you don't tackle a dearth of pivots on the roster by trading away the few centers you have an not replacing them. There's a word for that -- it's called ****ing Pejorative Slured.
sba
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While it's easy to laugh at this move, the Sabres won't get better at faceoffs over night, so it behooves them to recognize their weakness and cover it the best they can in the interim. I'm reasonably sure they aren't ignoring the core issue, and are drilling faceoffs much harder than anything else.
At least, I hope that is the case.
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So now you are mad we traded Gaustad and Roy?
I did say "...and not replacing them"
McCauleyChirps
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Ruff knows what's going on. He's no dummy. He is the one who called for the practice on the day off (today). He's making sure to dot his i's and cross his t's, for when that time comes it wasn't because "I" gave them the day off.
Ruff is a better coach than he's let on the last several years...but the guy just looks run down and complacent. And I can't necessarily blame him. Watching Buffalo sports for 15 years is difficult enough, I can't even begin to imagine what it's like to coach in the same environment. Either way, his time here ran out a few years ago, and it's time for a change.
It wouldn't even be a messy separation at this point. People from Buffalo would still love the guy and cheer him like crazy when he inevitably rolls into town coaching a different team. The standing ovation he'd get would be insane.
It's just the right thing to do. Let him go.
Random aside: where do people think everything went wrong for him? Was it the two colossal let-downs in 05/06 and 06/07? Shattered confidence maybe?
It wouldn't even be a messy separation at this point. People from Buffalo would still love the guy and cheer him like crazy when he inevitably rolls into town coaching a different team. The standing ovation he'd get would be insane.
It's just the right thing to do. Let him go.
Random aside: where do people think everything went wrong for him? Was it the two colossal let-downs in 05/06 and 06/07? Shattered confidence maybe?
So now you are mad we traded Gaustad and Roy?
You skipped the "without replacing them" part.
Crazy Tasty
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I bet it was when the report came out that Brad Boyes was mad because Lindy didn't ask him how his days were going.
This.
You can rage on Ruff all you want (at this point, it might be time to move on, yes, for both sides), but the truth is, ever since Drury and Briere left, the teams he got were simply lacking and were -at best - middle of the pack.
The only real abberation was Miller's monster season when they won the Division.
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