These guys just aren't listening to Ruff. Time for a new coach. At the end of last season I was all for keeping him and letting Darcy walk. Now I'm reversing my opinion and saying that Ruff needs to be replaced with new blood but I can't complain with too much that Darcy did int he off season. The guys we got were pretty smart additions, they just haven't produced like they should have. I think the relationship between Ruff and his players has gotten to the point that they just tune him out. Even a great coach is useless if the team don't listen to him, or even resent him. Time for someone new to come in and look at the roster with fresh eyes and new approaches.

They need a kick in the ass. Send one of the players to Phoenix and they'll all be scared.

From my years of living in Germany I actually know this one. It's kind of like when someone gets in a rut or being bogged down in whatever you're doing. Basically they are so used to Lindy yelling at them that they are in the "Yeah yeah yeah" phase like how a teenager thinks of their parents. They need a kick in the ass but not the same kick in the ass. They have become numb to Lindy's message.

Ick. I hate it when letting Lindy go starts to make sense. Hush! you silly monkey!
Stafford needs to go though. If he thinks he doesn't have to listen to the coach, I'd get rid of his butt.

What do you think of moving Lindy up to the press box for a while? That way he's still the brains, but the bench coaches are the hammers.

And I still think that the players are duty-bound to listen to their coach respectfully & do things his way. Because they are supposed to be professionals. It pisses me off when people believe that they are too good to listen to their boss. It's a work ethic thing to me. I don't understand why Lindy DOESN'T bench Stafford for being an idiot. I really don't.

Ick. I hate it when letting Lindy go starts to make sense. Hush! you silly monkey!
Stafford needs to go though. If he thinks he doesn't have to listen to the coach, I'd get rid of his butt.

What do you think of moving Lindy up to the press box for a while? That way he's still the brains, but the bench coaches are the hammers.

And I still think that the players are duty-bound to listen to their coach respectfully & do things his way. Because they are supposed to be professionals. It pisses me off when people believe that they are too good to listen to their boss. It's a work ethic thing to me. I don't understand why Lindy DOESN'T bench Stafford for being an idiot. I really don't.

They put the roster together hand-in-hand.

Likely amplified by the soreness of this loss, but listening to Lindy's presser, no wonder the players have tuned him out, never mind his line decisions.

Besides the money coming off the books this offseason, I think the biggest change that could have a bigger impact, would be behind the bench. I'm not just talking Lindy; I mean the whole coaching staff.

These next two years will determine whether or not Lindy will be with us for any part of the near future. We have given him a free pass because "he has done the best he can with what he had to work with." There are no more "If we resigned him, if we signed him, etc" We have the pieces and the depth in the minors that leaves Lindy with no one really to blame but himself. Don't get me wrong I hope he pulls through. I believe he has what it takes to make this thing turn out some winners for a long time. I feel as though we may take him for granted a lot of the time. There are a lot of organizations that would shell out serious cash to get someone like Lindy behind the bench. The pressure for this team to succeed falls almost entirely on his shoulders at this point.

That being said I think we will gel fine and Ruff will batter teams with a reckless abandon on the blueline and grind them down with 4 solid lines that no team can compete with day in and day out for the duration of the season, and hopefully the post season.

Cheers mates.

Well I was mocked and ridiculed for my early season assessment. There are no excuses anymore. His ass is grass.
I am just upset that the last part did not come true. This really hurts. We got money to play with for once and we torched it for all of Buffalo the hockey world to watch.