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...
until
He just doesn't feel right. Until we get him through that, he won't be skating.
bit determined developing extremely leadership ok pay players size type
He was determined to make players pay the price. He used his size extremely well. We look for that type of leadership from him. ... It's developing into a little bit of a war, which is OK with our team.
goal great key time
He scored a great goal at a key time for us.
decided hard mentality needed playing tested work year
He had a whole year that tested his mentality playing the game. He decided he needed to work out hard and become stronger.
man satisfied stopping
I can tell you to a man nobody's satisfied with stopping there. We want to keep this thing rolling.
given indication nobody team
From my understanding, nobody in our organization is involved. I haven't been given a lot of information, but there has been no indication that someone on our team is involved.
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.
bit losing playing playoffs sloppy
We want to go into the playoffs on a little bit of a run. We don't want to be going in playing sloppy hockey, getting careless, and losing games.
bit special task teams
We weren't up to the task on the special teams. Their special teams were a little bit better than ours.
against chances dominated few gave maybe third won
We got scored against on the few chances we gave up. We only got scored against because maybe we were too aggressive. That same aggressiveness won us the game. We dominated the third period, gave up one shot, and we didn't look back.
expected expects good nobody
We expected to be a good team, but nobody expects something like this.
acted word
Use a different word if you want, but I thought they did. The more they acted like idiots, the more we wanted to play.
We know that he can be a game-breaker.
credit gotta ready staying
You gotta give him a lot of credit for being ready and staying ready.