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Lindy Ruff fired in Buffalo


hockeyville88

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I don't think now is the time. The season is too short to be messing around like that.

Gillis can talk to Ruff behind the scenes and see if he'd be interested in the job after the season since I can't picture us getting through Chicago this year (they just have an insane amount of speed all throughout that lineup). Bring Ruff in before the draft. That way he gets an entire summer to prepare and a full training camp + preseason.

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That team completely lacked offense and, overall, was comprised of very average players aside from Dominik Hasek. They were heavy underdogs throughout the playoffs, and their Stanley Cup run could be attributed to two things: goaltending and coaching. The team's greatest offensive player was Miroslav Satan, who only scored 66 points that year. Behind him -- Mike Peca (56 points), Michal Grosek (50 points) and Curtis Brown (47 points). The team was average, and only made the Finals because of Ruff and Hasek. In the playoffs, no player scored over 15 points in their 21 playoff games. Despite the lack of scoring, the team went 37-28-17 that year in the regular season. The year before that, the team reached theEasternConference Finals with a similarly mediocre roster. That year, 1997-98, the team's top scorer, Satan, led the team in scoring with 46 points.

AV has the luxury of coaching one of the most gifted, complete rosters this franchise has ever had.

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