‘“We weren’t playing well enough in front of (Miller),” a disgruntled Ruff said after the Sabres laid a giant egg and fell 3-0 to the Carolina Hurricanes, leaving the capacity crowd of 18,690 fans at HSBC Arena howling throughout. “I said, ‘We’re going to put Patty in and maybe we can play better in front of him … because Ryan can’t skate up the ice and compete from the blue line down.’”’