The date Lindy gets fired

[trapezeus]

Go ahead and make a guess on the date that lindy gets fired. Rumor has it from low level sabre employees that pegula is getting very frustrated with the whole thing. his new toy isn't so shiny anymore. That was the first i heard that the sabres are even watching the same pathetic hockey as me.

I'm going with Feb 28th.

but look forward to the july statute of lindy being erected outside the stadium.

[OpIv37]

Well lets see, he's 52, the average American male lives to be 75-

I'll go with February 28th as well. February 28, 2036. Approximately 3 days AFTER Lindy dies.

[Skooby]

Anytime past now is too long.

[OpIv37]

And btw trap, you mentioned Lindy getting fired and the word "erected" in the same post.

How Freudian.

[YankeeInRaleigh]

For some reason I think it wouldn't happen until after the season. I mean, we're already working with only half a season, my guess is he'd give him this short year to try and get things going in the right direction.

[PTI]

Hate it, but I think it will be off season

[Mski]

i dont know the date off the top of my head, but i would pick the trade deadline... if we're still a bottom deweller then, i think he gets the axe

[trapezeus]

as i've said several times, i think this season, as lost as it is, requires a bold move to see your players as they are. There is enough time for them to get the message. they can undo some of their poor work and possibly sneak into the playoffs, right now. the longer they hold lindy, the more impossible this gets. this way you can judge the talent on its own with ruff gone.

if by trade deadline, they aren't up to snuff, sell the big name players for picks and prospects and start over and let the new coach in on getting some of those players.

by waiting until the trade deadline or off season, you potentially postpone a potentially needed rebuild another season. you'll still carry the wrong roster because you still haven't addressed the question "is it lindy or is it the players." As a result, you have to do the above in the 2013-14 season. this is very buffalo bills of the sabres to do. take an extra year to figure out what everyone else already knows.

Pegula was a fan who essentially had a 3 year plan to get to a cup. Now at the start of year 3, he's finding himself still at square 1. realizing you've got a problem is the biggest part of problem solving.

I want the fan experience to improve. And it doesn't require any more gimicks like stadium adjustments and big sales days. it requires winning.

[SkateZilla]

The date Lindy gets fired
... has long since come and gone.

[YankeeInRaleigh]

... has long since come and gone.


Really? So he's like that guy from office space, who's desk has been transferred to the basement, and who's paychecks have stopped showing up?

I bet he's got a nice stapler though.

[PTI]

http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/blog/eye-on-hockey/21663512/dont-expect-sabres-gm-darcy-regier-to-fire-coach-lindy-ruff

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Ruff's Sabres are 3-6-1 to open the season with a minus-7 goal differential. (Getty Images)

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Lindy Ruff is the longest-tenured coach in the National Hockey League. And though the Buffalo Sabres (http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/teams/page/BUF/buffalo-sabres) are slow out of the gate again, Ruff's job seems safe for now.
There have been some increasingly loud calls coming out of Buffalo for GM Darcy Regier to finally part ways with his good friend as the team could use a jolt. Regier has heard these calls, but that doesn't mean he's listening to them.

[OpIv37]

Remember how excited all of us were when Pegula bought the team? How we were all hoping he'g buy the Bills too?

*sigh.

[Skooby]

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Lindy Ruff is the longest-tenured coach in the National Hockey League. And though the Buffalo Sabres (http://www.cbssports.com/nhl/teams/page/BUF/buffalo-sabres) are slow out of the gate again, Ruff's job seems safe for now.
There have been some increasingly loud calls coming out of Buffalo for GM Darcy Regier to finally part ways with his good friend as the team could use a jolt. Regier has heard these calls, but that doesn't mean he's listening to them.

Dammit.

[PTI]

Dammit.

Well, it was a blog now that I notice it.

[Night Train]

July 27,2026

[Crisis]

After the season.

[chernobylwraiths]

December 13th

[don137]

I don't see Ruff going anywhere. If Ruff is fired Pegula respects him too much to do it in during the season.

[trapezeus]

i actually am convinced that pegula and inner staff took the bucky article to heart. i think they hate losing regardless of what hte press is saying. but i think it was a wake-up call to be more results oriented. as a result, i could see another 2-5 games of chaos on the bench and lack of scoring being the impetus to make the change.

I also think the coach walking in has the ultimate motivational tool. "They kicked out the guy they loved because you weren't very good. but they couldn't get rid of all you in one motion, so they canned their favorite guy. So now, you have about 30 games to prove that they shouldn't part with you. and to be honest, except for about 5 of you, most of you won't be seeing this ice time when you sign smaller contracts on other teams. so either kick it up and start winning, or let this town keep me coach for 15 years by doing very little. your call, your career."

[PTI]

Hate it, but I think it will be off season

Just actually have a date, I will say April 29, 2013

[SkateZilla]

Tomorrow Night after we lose 10-0 to boston.

[Mski]

Tomorrow Night after we lose 10-0 to boston.
if thats the case, he shouldnt make it out of the building with his job tonight

[sukie]

You guys... Comon. The team will go on a late season tear and eek into the playoffs with lotsa help and a few tie breakers... BAM extension!!!!! This is how the cycle works. Then they draft a couple of euros and a short guy and WHAM... Everyone is all jacked about the upcoming seaon...

I have grown so weary of all of this.

[coastal]

Why is it Ruff's fault?

the team he's been handed is absolute crap.

[rbochan]

Why is it Ruff's fault?

the team he's been handed is absolute crap.

It's Ruff's fault. This team has changed a lot over the last couple of years and yet they look exactly the same on the ice.

Lindy plays favorites - and his favorites are the good-little-soldier types like Jochen Hecht and Drew Stafford. The guys who don't make waves and at least try to adhere to Lindy's system. Every other natural leader this team has ever had has been pushed out of town if they started to cast a larger shadow than Lindy.

Lindy was a quitter as a player, and is a coward as a coach. The problem ISN'T Lindy Ruff in Lindy's eyes. It's things he can't control, like bad bounces and injuries. It's not his wretched, useless system. It's not his mismanagement of his goaltenders. It's not his bungling of lines every night. It's not his misuse of offensively talented players and it's definitely NOT his stifling, belittling nature to rookie and young players who do not thrive in Buffalo under Lindy Ruff.

Last season, Kevin Dineen took a motley crew of nobodies and castoffs and molded a playoff team.
Lindy Ruff took the highest salaried group of talented veterans and went home to golf yet again.

[Skooby]

It's Ruff's fault. This team has changed a lot over the last couple of years and yet they look exactly the same on the ice.

Lindy plays favorites - and his favorites are the good-little-soldier types like Jochen Hecht and Drew Stafford. The guys who don't make waves and at least try to adhere to Lindy's system. Every other natural leader this team has ever had has been pushed out of town if they started to cast a larger shadow than Lindy.

Lindy was a quitter as a player, and is a coward as a coach. The problem ISN'T Lindy Ruff in Lindy's eyes. It's things he can't control, like bad bounces and injuries. It's not his wretched, useless system. It's not his mismanagement of his goaltenders. It's not his bungling of lines every night. It's not his misuse of offensively talented players and it's definitely NOT his stifling, belittling nature to rookie and young players who do not thrive in Buffalo under Lindy Ruff.

Last season, Kevin Dineen took a motley crew of nobodies and castoffs and molded a playoff team.
Lindy Ruff took the highest salaried group of talented veterans and went home to golf yet again.

Radical but some good point brought up here.

[trapezeus]

Why is it Ruff's fault?

the team he's been handed is absolute crap.

I was watching the youtube clip of the rangers sabres game in 2007. He had zubrus, briere, drury, connolly (who was still productive at the time) and vanek on the ice. that's a stacked team. And he got beat by ottawa. barely squeaked by the isle and rangers. and he had one of the hottest young goalies. stunning that he could not get them to the cup.

[Typ0]

I think the irony is the time Ruff will be let go will be after a failed deep playoff run. If he gets to the third round or the finals and does not win that is when he will be fired and not until. Of course there is the exception is the team sucks for the next three years but I really doubt that will happen too. This team is not bad. They do need some help but you never know where the help is going to come for and how well it's really going to Gel.

[Mski]

Why is it Ruff's fault?

the team he's been handed is absolute crap.This team IS talented, Vanek, CoHo, Pomminville, Foligno, Girgorenko, Myers, Erhof. All talented players being wasted by the coach

[SabreEleven]

this game was the worst kind for the Sabres. they played ok and gave everyone hope but still lost...Hope means changes are even farther away.

[Skooby]

this game was the worst kind for the Sabres. they played ok and gave everyone hope but still lost...Hope means changes are even farther away.

We still have hope for a change, fleeting as it is.

[PTI]

Lindy will never be a good coach for another team once he is gone.

[trapezeus]

it's too bad that lindy is winning the boston games because that is keeping him in these. if they would just finally implode, pegula could write him off and can him. but since ruff has these wins, it's like pegula is a degenerate gambler and is like, "oh, here we go, NOW this table is going to get hot."

just sickening. i heard people talking after the pitt game that "at least we didn't look dead all three periods, we really had fight."

that'd be great if we were a young team trying to figure out which pieces we need. But we are a veteran team with 2 stars in vanek and miller. They need to be winning, or they need to be starting over. this group has had 4-6 years depending on how you look at it, to put it together. and we're not even graced with the excellence of routine first round exits, which most teams would find unacceptable and fire. We are waiting to maybe get into the playoffs. and then hope from our 6-8 seed go on a magical run since that's how we did it in 98 and 99 and in 2006

how does an owner not put this together as unacceptable. the start of this season should have started with a very strict guideline of what was acceptable. "you have to be in the playoffs from day 1 and you can't fall out of the playoff race for more than 2 weeks."

[Skooby]

it's too bad that lindy is winning the boston games because that is keeping him in these. if they would just finally implode, pegula could write him off and can him. but since ruff has these wins, it's like pegula is a degenerate gambler and is like, "oh, here we go, NOW this table is going to get hot."

just sickening. i heard people talking after the pitt game that "at least we didn't look dead all three periods, we really had fight."

that'd be great if we were a young team trying to figure out which pieces we need. But we are a veteran team with 2 stars in vanek and miller. They need to be winning, or they need to be starting over. this group has had 4-6 years depending on how you look at it, to put it together. and we're not even graced with the excellence of routine first round exits, which most teams would find unacceptable and fire. We are waiting to maybe get into the playoffs. and then hope from our 6-8 seed go on a magical run since that's how we did it in 98 and 99 and in 2006

how does an owner not put this together as unacceptable. the start of this season should have started with a very strict guideline of what was acceptable. "you have to be in the playoffs from day 1 and you can't fall out of the playoff race for more than 2 weeks."

You're a hard man to please, LOL.

[SabreEleven]

Lindy will never be a good coach for another team once he is gone.

Actually I think he will, if he gets players that actually wan't to listen to him and play his system, he'll win.

[PTI]

Actually I think he will, if he gets players that actually wan't to listen to him and play his system, he'll win.

Please describe his system. He is a poor motivator, how can never get guys to play his system( a system that is hard to actually describe to me)! I know his system sure does not have puck control as a top priority. I only see him as coach of a Canadian team and he will be fired tout de suit for whomever that will be for.

[sukie]

There is no system

[PTI]

If Ruff does have a system, and you watch tonight against the Jets, you would say he should should already have been fired during the game. Poor positioning and tons of giveaways.

Enroth needs to play some of these home games, I said before, he is 1.92 in Buffalo and like 3.50 on the road, Miller is the same home and the road.

Ruff sucks as a HC. Always has.

[Skooby]

If Ruff does have a system, and you watch tonight against the Jets, you would say he should should already have been fired during the game. Poor positioning and tons of giveaways.

Enroth needs to play some of these home games, I said before, he is 1.92 in Buffalo and like 3.50 on the road, Miller is the same home and the road.

Ruff sucks as a HC. Always has.

Hard to argue with much of this, we look brutal tonight.

[trapezeus]

Please describe his system. He is a poor motivator, how can never get guys to play his system( a system that is hard to actually describe to me)! I know his system sure does not have puck control as a top priority. I only see him as coach of a Canadian team and he will be fired tout de suit for whomever that will be for.

a system in which curtis brown is an all star, but actual all-stars never grasp. It's essentially the hockey version of chan gailey's "let's sit spiller and have fitz throw alot" system. which was idiotic.

[SkateZilla]

TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!

[trapezeus]

well i guess i was the closest one to it since i picked Feb 28th....and no one else really played.

[SkateZilla]

well i guess i was the closest one to it since i picked Feb 28th....and no one else really played.


Tomorrow Night after we lose 10-0 to boston.


2-15 is closer to 2-20 than 2-28 is

[Skooby]

well i guess i was the closest one to it since i picked Feb 28th....and no one else really played.

i said anytime past now, which automatically made me the closest.

[trapezeus]

2-15 is closer to 2-20 than 2-28 is

price is right rules... you went over your bid!

[Skooby]

price is right rules... you went over your bid!

LOL, not in the clock game.

[PTI]

We are all winners! Even Lindy!