Lindy Ruff Quotes (186 Quotes)

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.

I thought that chance was going to come back to bite us, but it didn't.

We used him how we want to use him. He's going to run and hit, and we're going to make plays.

We want to go into the playoffs on a little bit of a run. We don't want to be going in playing sloppy hockey, getting careless, and losing games.

He still wasn't feeling well today, from dizziness, generally foggy. He definitely will be in that concussion category, where at least for seven days he's going to have to go symptom free (before he can skate), and it could be longer.

It was a great team effort. Marty made the big saves when we needed them, and I thought we had some great support around him. Overall, that was as good a game as we've played all year long.

Either we get it done or we don't get it done, ... Either we're dead right or we're dead wrong. I don't think there's a halfway point.

I think it's a heck of an accomplishment. It's a mark nobody would have expected at the start of the year. ... It's something they should be proud of.

But it's knowing that we have a job to do every day and this business is all about winning.

That shot stung the nerve on the outside of the knee, which numbs the whole leg. But he's walking fine now and will be able to play.

He scored a great goal at a key time for us.

He finished the game with it, but after the game it started to swell up, and yesterday it got even worse.

That part has got to better. They've had some tough times. We've been able to overcome some of those times. Right now, we haven't been able to, but we got to be able to support them better at times like this too. That's it for me, thanks.

The one thing that's evident is that when some players got elevated in bigger roles, they've played even better. I still think there's players that have more to offer in a bigger role. They're always looking for a bigger role, and now they get their opportunity.

A big trade like that gave them a lot of momentum right off the bat. I thought they were pretty fired up.

Adversity is only going to make you stronger if you can battle through it. I really thought he had a strong game. You got the feeling he was under control.

I think all of a sudden there is some stability. Tom stepped in and said he's going to keep the team in western New York and that he's going to try to make it a viable proposition here. There was a lot of speculation that if there was no ownership the team may leave. And I don't think that's one thing this area can afford.

It still comes down to a speed game. You're not going to have a lot of time, especially on the rush, to stop up and make a lot of plays because that back pressure is going to run you over. So it'll be interesting in that sense. He still has to skate. You can't pull up and stickhandle.

It's part of our culture, and not necessarily hockey. There's nothing wrong with legal gambling . . . as long as it doesn't become a disease.

We've had a great case of ham and egg this year. When the goaltending has given up three or four we've scored the right number to win a game, and when we haven't been able to score too much our goaltenders have kept them down to one or two.

He was noticed. He ran over a few bodies. He knocked Fitzpatrick down a couple times.

We haven't played for a couple years, so there's a couple lines I'd like to play together and see if there's still chemistry.

I thought it was cheap, I thought he went low at the knees. It may not be the dirtiest hit ... but he didn't have to go low. He's known for that. He's a cheap shot artist.

It puts a target on you, but I think I have a great rapport with the players we have here now, ... We as a staff, myself included, we have to silence the critics. That's the way I look at it. If we don't, whatever happens, happens. We have something to prove. If we don't, we should take the blame.

You don't want to dig a hole. We kept it close until late, but our passing was awful, and our shooting was worse.

It is a big game and it would be a big win for us. The message is, we've got to give them the biggest battle we can give them.

It was a heck of a goal. It's part of what the game is about today, and it was tremendous.

It's the same time frame as J.P., the two-month range. We're looking at the same operation and the same length of recovery.

I want him suspended. I want him fined. I'll come to the hearing. I haven't called the league once I'll call them 10 times tomorrow. If you go knee on knee and take a shot at a guy's head at the same time, you don't deserve to be in the game. We're going to the playoffs and you're going to take out of our best players because you couldn't take a hit That's a joke, that's an absolute joke.

You gotta give him a lot of credit for being ready and staying ready.

That flurry he faced, he made the saves. However he made them, he made them at a key time of the game for us.

We want to adapt to the new standards and be on the leading edge of that,

I don't think we're going to blow anyone out of the water, but I think we can hang tough with the best of them.

His mark is he's a hard hitter and runs over people. He's just been out there doing it, and you have to give him credit.

The message this morning was we took a lot of pride in being a very disciplined club, and I thought we were undisciplined. I thought it started with myself behind the bench. We have to get the composure back, stay away from the officials and not worry about the call. We're going to get some, we're not gonna get some. We've taken a lot of pride in that, and I think we started using that as an excuse. We wiped that off the board again.

I think maybe the benefit was him getting the couple weeks off late in the year. He looks as fresh as training camp to me. He's been solid, he's been quick, just very reliable and very few poor decisions.