Lindy Ruff fired

I dunno what to say, I dunno what to think. The Buffalo Sabres have fired Lindy Ruff. 562-452-84-78. Those numbers will be Lindy Ruff’s final numbers as a coach of the Buffalo Sabres. You always knew, that one day, he will not be the coach of the Sabres, but now that the day has come you are still stunned.

I could use this moment to say that the Sabres have been an up and down team for the past few years. That they have played terrible this year and that Ruff is the one to blame for it. I am not going to do that.  I wanna use this post to say thanks to Lindy Ruff.

Many of you wanted to see him gone as of late and if the step they made today is the right one, will be shown in the future. However there is 1 thing you can say about Lindy Ruff. Lindy Ruff is bleeding blue and gold. With every fiber of his body he is suffering if the team plays bad. He wanted to win the Stanley Cup. Now you can say that everyone in the NHL wants that, but if you look at Lindy Ruff, he wanted to win it with Buffalo. You could have told him. Lindy go to Pittsburgh or Detroit and win a Cup and still he would have said: “I wanna win it in Buffalo”.

Lindy Ruff would always defend his team and take the blame first. If one of his players would go down after a dirty play like Drury back when he got hit Neil, Ruff wouldn’t just shut up and let the league handle it. When Miller got ran over by Lucic and Tootoo, Ruff addressed the media and found strong words to address the situation.

Fans from other teams would always say Ruff is always whining while we in Buffalo knew, he is fighting for the team he loves, for the team he wants to be successful with. This success was not there in the past few years and that lead to the step the Sabres made today.

Ruff is no longer the coach, but I will have mixed feelings. It’s said to see him go as I always thought he loves my team as much as I do, while it’s exciting to look down the road and what future might have in store for the Sabres.

The Sabres didn’t only lose a coach today, they lost an icon. Maybe one day Lindy will be back in the #Sabres family in a different position. I would welcome him with a smile.