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...
serious
He's not well. I'd put him in the serious category. He wasn't doing well, even at the end of the game.
angry good guys
He's got a lot of guys angry at him, and that's a good thing,
chances five four himself odds pressure
He's in on four or five chances every night. The odds right there aren't where they should be because he doesn't need that many chances. I think he's put a little pressure on himself to get the first marker on the board.
case extra hard himself time trying
He's in a battle. But in Tim's case he's really matured. He put the extra time in to get himself bigger, stronger. It really is about his career, and I think he's trying real hard to resurrect it.
blow last minutes suffer
In the last two minutes of the first period, that's as big of a blow that you can suffer when you are in your building.
build people players rank top year
I rank him right up there with the top all-around performers. People build up names. But I think he's having a better year than some players on the team.
decided four games guys handle hurt minute playoff series three wear
In a long series, they're going to wear down all our old guys. I think our young guys can handle a long series. You look around at every playoff series, they're not decided in three games and they're usually not decided in four games. Not for a minute do I think a long series will hurt our team.
looking
I'm not a doctor, but he's looking at 20 to 30 stitches,
game happy liked played sound
I liked the way he played the game. He really had a sound game. I'm getting happy with where the team's at right now.
deserved execution minutes passing poorly seen seven
The first seven minutes was as poorly as I've seen us play in a while. Our execution, our passing . . . we weren't crisp. We weren't alert. We deserved what we got.
frustrated great line lines pick three
The great thing about our team, and has been all year, is that when one line is getting frustrated there's two or three other lines there to pick us up.
dad fact game remind skates smart thinks
A lot of mannerisms remind me of his dad, kind of the way he skates and the fact he's a real smart player. He really thinks the game well.
consider game goal won
The game was won on the power-play goal when you consider the way the game was going, with not a lot of chances.
believe guys quit
These guys just believe in themselves. There's no quit in them.