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Coaches with multiple stints as head coach only count once in the official count of head coaches. Joe Crozier coached the Sabres from 1972 to 1974. Scotty Bowman was the sixth coach for the Sabres and coached the team from 1979 to 1980, and later from 1982 to 1985. Ted Nolan coached the team from 1995 to 1997, and again from 2013 to 2015.
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, United States. The Sabres are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League (NHL). Founded as an expansion franchise in 1970, the Sabres have had nine general managers since the team's inception. [1]
The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice hockey league composed of 32 teams, founded in 1917. Each team is entitled to one head coach who handles the directing of games and team practices, while providing direction and strategy for their players and deciding which players will play in games and the lines they will play on.
Ruff, 64, played for the Sabres and became the longest tenured head coach in Buffalo history with 15 seasons at the helm from 1997-2013. He’s the last head coach to lead the team to the playoffs.
Jason Christie raised the Kelly Cup at Carver Arena after leading the Peoria Rivermen to a championship in 1999-2000. Now he's reached the NHL after 17 years of coaching in the minors, hired as an ...
The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. The Sabres compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Atlantic Division in the Eastern Conference. The team was established in 1970, along with the Vancouver Canucks, when the league expanded to 14 teams.
Lindy Cameron Ruff (born February 17, 1960) is a Canadian professional ice hockey coach and former player who is the head coach for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Ruff was previously the head coach of the Sabres from 1997 to 2013, winning the Jack Adams Award in 2006, and has also served as head coach of the Dallas ...
USA TODAY Sports grades all 32 NHL teams on the moves that they made during the offseason. ... Buffalo Sabres: C+. Bringing back coach Lindy Ruff was their best move. He was the Sabres' coach the ...