Heartbreaking: Lindy Ruff Buffalo Sabres Head Coach Just Passed Away At the Aged of 65..,.see….more…..

Heartbreaking: Lindy Ruff Buffalo Sabres Head Coach Just Passed Away At the Aged of 65..,.see….more…..

The Buffalo Sabres concluded their 2024-25 campaign with Thursday’s 5-4 win over Philadelphia. After missing the playoffs for a 14th consecutive year, the Sabres’ leadership group made clear their primary takeaway from the 36-39-7 season.

 

“Ultimately, we failed,” said forward Jason Zucker. “We didn’t accomplish our goals of getting into the playoffs and becoming a playoff team, and I think that’s a big piece of what we need to take into the offseason.

 

“There’s things we can look positively on – guys having career years and guys playing well and a lot of little things that I think we can take as positives – but we ultimately need to look at it as we weren’t good enough.”

 

 

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Buffalo’s leadership analyzed the team’s shortcomings this season and looked ahead to the offseason.

 

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The Buffalo Sabres concluded their 2024-25 campaign with Thursday’s 5-4 win over Philadelphia. After missing the playoffs for a 14th consecutive year, the Sabres’ leadership group made clear their primary takeaway from the 36-39-7 season.

 

“Ultimately, we failed,” said forward Jason Zucker. “We didn’t accomplish our goals of getting into the playoffs and becoming a playoff team, and I think that’s a big piece of what we need to take into the offseason.

 

“There’s things we can look positively on – guys having career years and guys playing well and a lot of little things that I think we can take as positives – but we ultimately need to look at it as we weren’t good enough.”

 

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Jason Zucker addresses the media

 

Zucker, followed by Alex Tuch, Jordan Greenway, Rasmus Dahlin, Ryan McLeod and Tage Thompson, held their end-of-season media availabilities Friday at KeyBank Center. The group addressed several topics including individual performances, leadership tactics and the ongoing development of a team culture to lift the Sabres back into contention.

 

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In diagnosing where things went wrong, the Sabres first point to the 13-game winless streak from Nov. 27 to Dec. 21, and rightfully so. Those 13 games could’ve gone Buffalo’s way if not for some bad bounces, unfavorable calls and blown leads, but the cumulative result – three of a possible 26 standings points, from a playoff position to last place – looms largest.

 

“You can go back 82 games, you can look at all of them and say, ‘Oh, if we did this, this would have happened,’” Tuch said. “You can nitpick all you want, but over the course of a 82-game season, we just weren’t good enough.”