Lindy Ruff
Lindy Ruff
Lindy Cameron Ruffis a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player. Ruff is the current head coach for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League. During his playing career, Ruff played in the NHL for the Buffalo Sabres and New York Rangers. Ruff was previously the head coach of the Sabres from 1997 to 2013 and won the Jack Adams Award as Coach of the Year in 2006...
endure gonna hurry pain sacrifice work
We're in no hurry to get them in the lineup to sacrifice their health. We're gonna work our way through this, and if we have to endure a little more pain we'll endure a little more pain.
best good indication player plays role seen small start wonder work
When you take what was your best player out of the lineup for a long time, you start to wonder how it's going to work when he comes back. I think we've seen a good indication what it's done for our team, offensively ... He's small in stature, but big when it comes to the role he plays on the team.
difference guys
We're not going to play out of fear. Those guys can make a difference, and they've made a difference all year.
grind rules stronger team
With the new rules he's going to score. Still, I'll take some of the grind and some of the front-of-the-net play that we have in our guys, and I think it's just made us a deeper, stronger team in that sense.
run
We used him how we want to use him. He's going to run and hit, and we're going to make plays.
game line night team weird
I thought when the game was on the line we were the better team on a night when a lot of weird things happened.
battle biggest game message win
It is a big game and it would be a big win for us. The message is, we've got to give them the biggest battle we can give them.
defend goes team
We're a team that goes after it. We're going to play our style. It's all about what we want to do and get them to try to defend us.
front intense looking spots three
Up front you're looking at two or three spots up for grabs. There should be some pretty intense battles.
burned mistakes
You make mistakes and you're going to get burned - and we got burned.
definitely execution
We are definitely disappointed. Our execution wasn't very good.
contact ran situation strength tampa until
When we put him in contact situation and we ran him through some drills in Tampa Bay, he didn't do so well. The strength isn't there yet. We're not going to put him in until he's in a situation where he doesn't feel like he's handicapped.
chances five good great played six third
We played a good third period. We probably had five or six real good chances when we had them on their heels, we had some great opportunities.
composure handle minutes played pressure strong
We played 40 real strong minutes then didn't show a lot of composure in the third. We didn't handle the pressure very well.