Needed to happen (prolly sooner realistically speaking), but I am at least glad to see there appears to be some sort of standard in the organization. Curious to see if any player usage goes up or down by a noticeable amount under Green. And yeah hopefully interim really means only interim. As far as lindy goes, the time to dump on the guy has passed. He deserves some praise for his tenure, helping to foster some of the younger kids during over that time and the biggest clearly being last season as a whole. By all accounts a great human being as well.
Confirmed with Link: Devils Fire Lindy Ruff - Travis Green is an Interim
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SteveCangialosi123
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Lindy did a hell of a job developing the young players, set the franchise record for points in a season, and beat our biggest rival in a playoff series. It went bad at the end, but I’ll remember him fondly still.
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And not for nothing but the worst case scenario is in play - make a run to come up just short of the playoffs and hire Green as a result…another reason I’m not popping champagne
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It almost never happens without a head coaching change. It HAS happened without a head coaching change, but not at all often.
Though it has been known to happen midseason when there's a head coaching change. The Sharks got rid of DeBoer, Spott and Hedberg when he was fired in 2019. Nabokov took over for Hedberg as goalie coach and kept that position for several years. He's no longer the day to day goalie coach, but has since been promoted to director of goaltending or whatever the title is.
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Hopefully we will find out about him once and for all…of course the possibility exists he gets traded before he can prove himself here post Lindy
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I take no pleasure in Ruff being fired since he seems like a good guy and it’s almost deflating that they finally did it when it should have been done 15-30 games ago.
Better Call Sal
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I legitimately feel bad. Lindy is an awesome guy by all accounts. This had to be done. Fans would’ve been calling for his head all game long had he gone behind the bench at the Rock. The team was not playing good hockey for far too long.
I find no joy in seeing him lose his job, and possibly his last shot at being a head coach in this league. Thanks for unleashing our young guys a bit, and for last year Lindy. It’s been real.
I find no joy in seeing him lose his job, and possibly his last shot at being a head coach in this league. Thanks for unleashing our young guys a bit, and for last year Lindy. It’s been real.
Emperoreddy
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Worst case scenario was not doing it at all. Second was doing it in the offseason and Green getting the job to start next year.
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I'm not really happy because I don't really expect things to get better with Greene and it's just another shitty thing to happen in a disappointing season. But at least we can move on to talking about something else now
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I feel like I'm one of the few who doesn't want Sullivan. My only reasoning is we keep hiring guys with the Pittsburgh connections. I want a clean slate of that.
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Do you count Naz? Making it THREE coaches the Hughes have fired?
This is looking more Sabres-Eichel-ish every day.
So Travis Green is the solution?
This is looking more Sabres-Eichel-ish every day.
So Travis Green is the solution?
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I've been saying forever that Ruff is the much lesser of two evils.
Green is one of the worst head coaches the league has seen in the last decade. Down there with Doug Weight, Freddy's cousing Ralph and maybe one or two other guys I'm forgetting even existed. Mike Yeo was pretty bad, and he's the only one that got multiple head coaching gigs in the league, then one interim job out of that bunch. Technically Ralph got two, but they came years and years between.
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Pretty much my sentiments. He should get a lot of credit for developing the offensive talents of a lot of our young players. Now granted some of them were naturally getting older but we saw the offensive limitations of players like Hischier, Bratt, Hughes under Hynes and Ruff should get a lot of credit for helping with their development
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As much as I screamed for Lindy to be fired I do feel for the guy. It sucks to have to go out like this. At the end of the day the best move would of been to promote him to upper management after last season and make Brunette full time head coach. It would of worked out good for everyone.
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The Hughes are the only reason Lindy had a job this long lmao. That is a ridiculous comment. Jack was like his biggest advocat
Emperoreddy
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There are 6 weeks left. They simply could not continue on as they have with Ruff at the helm.
You risk there being serious negative carry over into next season.
It needed to be done now, well it needed to be done months ago, but that doesn't change that it would have been malpractice to let Ruff finish the year.
You risk there being serious negative carry over into next season.
It needed to be done now, well it needed to be done months ago, but that doesn't change that it would have been malpractice to let Ruff finish the year.
