Lindy Ruff on performance against Bruins: "Compete was terrible"

[matter2003]

https://buffalonews.com/sports/professional/nhl/sabres/article_2e5fd32e-6e84-4bc0-9c55-ca43645375da.html

 

I mean...no idea what to even say. After you get shutout at home to start the season, how in God's name do you think it's acceptable to have an even worse performance against the Bruins where you only get 1 shot on goal in the 1st period??

The more things change, the more they stay the same.  A team who constantly thinks they are the only team in the NHL entitled to wins instead of having to go earn them.

[sabremike]

Maybe Lindy shouldn't do things like play Mason Geertsten, a guy who has no freaking business being anywhere near an NHL roster.

[GoPuckYourself]

Maybe it stems from the head coach who shows absolutely no emotion. It seems like everyone is just collecting a check on this team with very little effort, no accountability.

[SabreFinn]

Hard to compete if you're not good enough. 

[LGR4GM]

The quote:

Lindy Ruff said: “We have to raise our level of compete. I thought our compete was terrible. Worst level of compete and skating and moving the feet that I’ve seen.”

[Believer]

1 hour ago, LGR4GM said:

The quote:

Lindy Ruff said: “We have to raise our level of compete. I thought our compete was terrible. Worst level of compete and skating and moving the feet that I’ve seen.”

If you asked them to increase their level of compete during and after the 1st Period, they’ve tuned you out Ruff.

You should resign.

[inkman]

50 minutes ago, Believer said:

If you asked them to increase their level of compete during and after the 1st Period, they’ve tuned you out Ruff.

You should resign.

This is the 5th coach under this regime. They’ve been the same under all of them.  What’s been consistent? The owner, the GM and the players.  All of which are culpable in this circumstance.  

[Mango]

3 hours ago, LGR4GM said:

The quote:

Lindy Ruff said: “We have to raise our level of compete. I thought our compete was terrible. Worst level of compete and skating and moving the feet that I’ve seen.”

 

It is two games in and he already sounds super exhausted. 

I just don't get this group. It has to stem from maybe the worst onboarding process in the NHL. And that isn't a knock on Lindy or Donnie. That is on Adams. He just handed the kids the keys to the car. 

[JustOutsideChicago]

32 Thoughts opened with the Sabres today. Nothing good to say at all. They played Lindy’s clip and mentioned the team being on a short leash with Dahlin and Tage.

Fun!

[matter2003]

7 hours ago, SabreFinn said:

Hard to compete if you're not good enough. 

That has ZERO percent to do with it. Effort/compete and talent have no correlation or dependency on each other.  You can still play like you give a f**k even if you aren't necessarily good at it. Also, let's not pretend like this team doesn't have 2 elite players in Thompson and Dahlin who are plenty "good enough".  It's hard to be this bad when you have two elite players along with enough supporting talent around them that seems to play well everywhere else.

Edited 16 minutes ago by matter2003

[inkman]

14 minutes ago, JustOutsideChicago said:

32 Thoughts opened with the Sabres today. Nothing good to say at all. They played Lindy’s clip and mentioned the team being on a short leash with Dahlin and Tage.

Fun!

I might have to give it a listen. I know shadenfreude is taking pleasure in the demise of others, what’s it called when you are taking pleasure in your own demise? Masochism I suppose.  
 

The need to put this sick dog down. Put us out of our misery. I have no idea what that entails but it’s needs to stop.  Fire everyone, trade everyone. Sell the team so they can relocate.  Just get this garbage out of my life. 

[Taro T]

It sure does seem like they've quit on Ruff.  Clean house.  Now.

Letting this fester through the entire season so everybody can be let go with no outstanding money owed will convert this from a single additional lost season into an additional 3-4 lost season affair.