What More Did Lindy Ruff Have To Do?
Lindy Ruff guided Buffalo out of a 14-year playoff drought and to an Atlantic Division title, yet still fell just short in the Jack Adams voting in a result that has many questioning what more he could have possibly done.
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And, let's shift over to the Sabres here, Mike.
Tage Thompson said, "We started off really good.
There were spurts throughout the game where I thought we got to our game and played to our standard, but just not consistent enough, and we gave them life."
So in your mind, who needs to step up for the Sabres in game four if they're gonna turn this series back around?
Yeah, it'd be easy to say that Alex Lyon has to kinda match what we're seeing out of Jakub Dobes.
And I, I actually think, you know, Alex Lyon's been pretty good in this series.
Like, I wouldn't necessarily say he's, he's been the reason why, you know, Buffalo's now trailing 2-1.
I just, you know, to Devon's point, you know, we saw Dobes outplay Vasilevskiy in game, in series, in the first series and, you know, Vasilevskiy was on fire in that series.
Like, you know, he shut them out in game six.
But, you know, similar to Alex Lyon, like, no matter what he's doing, the guy on the other side is just playing a little bit better.
I would like to see Buffalo, and we saw spurts of it, like, get a little grimy and get a little bit more physical.
You know, I think their trademark this year, aside from playing river, kind of riverboat hockey, that back-and-forth style, was they had guys like Josh Doan, Alex Tuch, and even Zach Benson just kinda play kind of a, a greasy, grimy game.
I think they need to kinda get back to that and, you know, not make it so easy for Montreal's skilled players to find some open space.
