For the first time since the end of football jersey the 1996-97 season, someone other than Lindy Ruff will be coaching the Buffalo Sabres when they play the Toronto Maple Leafs on Thursday night.
Ruff, the football jerseys longest-tenured coach in the NHL and a fixture in Buffalo for 25 years as a player and bench boss, was fired Wednesday, one day after a 2-1 home loss to the Winnipeg Jets dropped the Sabres to 6-10-1, leaving them 13th in the Eastern Conference and in danger of missing the Stanley Cup Playoffs for a second straight season.
Ruff’s 15 seasons in Buffalo yielded a trip to the cheap nfl jerseys 1999 Stanley Cup Final, a Presidents’ Trophy in 2006-07, and back-to-back trips to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2006 and ’07.
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