Lindy Ruff Quotes on Night (9 Quotes)

You really do get that feeling. Those guys in that room deserve a lot of credit. They push each other. They encourage each other. They're hard on each other at times. But they like playing with each other. Those guys are determined to have somebody make a difference every night.

Buffalo players did a hell of a job. From the start of the game to the bitter end, the desperation was there. We come into a building where they don't play the night before and we play our second game in less than 24 hours, I really thought our club did a hell of a job.

We only had two odd-man rushes the whole night.

There's no quit in our team. Check our record, the number of games we've won when we've been down by a goal. You've got to give the guys credit. The number of guys we've had go out of the lineup at key times and the number of guys who have stepped up ... you've got to give every guy in that room credit for battling through adversity and doing it every night.

I thought when the game was on the line we were the better team on a night when a lot of weird things happened.

That's unfortunate, probably the only mistake Miller made all night.

After the second period we talked about that to be a good team we had to find ways to get back into games like this. And at the end of the night we deserved to win.

He's built for the game. He's got good tools at the back end and he's a very good defender. We've never given him a set role. He began to play well on the power play and he gained a lot of confidence from that. That confidence came from him knowing that he would be in the lineup night after night.

It's what our team's been about. It's a willingness for every individual to get dirty, every guy to take it to the hole and not have too many days off. Every guy has a tough night, but don't keep repeating it. He doesn't. He's a scrappy little skater. He's maintained a very high level of skating throughout the year. It's probably been his biggest asset.