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...
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J.P.'s looking real good. I like the way he's skating. We're going to start pushing him harder and harder, get him involved in more stuff.
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You don't want to create undue pressure, but the pressure's coming from the guys that are playing around him, ... I don't think if you were sitting there staring at the stats you would feel comfortable.
explain free ride
He just got a free ride on the whole play. I can't explain it and nobody's going to be able to explain it to me.
call owner somewhere
I think in the end, the right owner got the team. Somewhere in there, you've got to call it lucky.
improved throughout year
He improved throughout the whole year and was a gamebreaker for them.
bitter game hell start
I thought we did a hell of a job. From the start of the game to the bitter end, the desperation was there.
compared danny faster game happening ways
I thought Danny was OK. Compared to practice, things are happening faster out there. As the game went on he got better, but he still has a ways to go.
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Just to go in there and hack away at it is the key to that goal. And we stayed with it. It was easy to get frustrated after missing the amount of chances we missed. ... Just keep grinding, keep working.
believed form good league true
We gambled, ... We believed the league is going to be true to form on this one and that we'll be in good shape.
dominated period totally
We totally dominated the game. If it wasn't for their goaltending in the first period they should have been down 5-0.
developing good players teams
We may be developing some players that end up being good players on other teams because we just have too many right now.
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.
We're concerned. The first thing is his health.
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We've warned our guys. He's a guy that you can burn, but he can hurt you if you don't have your wits about you when he's on the ice because he's going to come running, and if you're not ready for it . . . I've seen some tremendous hits out of him this year.