Lindy Ruff

[TIME TO MAKE $$$]

What's the deal Buffalo fans? Is Lindy running out of clock with that team? He's another fairly successful coach who's been around a while, except, unlike Hitch****, he has no rings. As a matter of fact, that ring will always be tainted thanks to Brett Hull's foot in the crease. What an officiating disaster that series turned out to be.The Sabres shouldn't be running out of patience with Ruff it should be the other way around as they are a small market team and continually have to let their top players go.

Anyone know anything about their farm team? Any future stars?

 

[TexasBC6]

Re: Lindy Ruff

What's the deal Buffalo fans? Is Lindy running out of clock with that team? He's another fairly successful coach who's been around a while, except, unlike Hitch****, he has no rings. As a matter of fact, that ring will always be tainted thanks to Brett Hull's foot in the crease. What an officiating disaster that series turned out to be.

The only reason there is any "taint" to it is because people keep bringing it up and making comments like that. We could debate the intricacies of the foot in the crease rule for days and the Dallas fans will still say it was a goal and the Buffalo fans will still say it was not. If you will recall, that goal came in game 6 at Buffalo and there was still one more game to be played (no chance Dallas would have won the cup in game 7 even if Buffalo wins game 6??)

Excerpts from an article written by a sportswriter in Buffalo, NY:

The way it ended was on a controversial goal by Brett Hull, whose left skate was in the crease before he maneuvered the puck onto his stick and swiped it past Buffalo goalie Dominik Hasek. Hull, however, never interfered with Hasek, which is the reason officials ruled it a valid goal. The Sabres goalie had a clear chance to stop the shot but simply couldn't.

SUPERVISOR OF OFFICIALS BRYAN LEWIS tried to explain it to Ruff and anybody else who cared to listen during a postgame press conference.

"Can he have a foot in (the crease) and the goal count? Yes." Lewis said. "He played the puck from his foot to his stick and shot and scored. He was deemed to be in control and possession of the puck even if a skate was in the crease."

Lewis went on to say this very scenario -- a skate being in the crease but a goal being counted -- was contained in a March 25 memorandum to officials.

Too many times since its institution, perfectly good goals such as Hull's have been disallowed because the tip of a player's skate had moved into the blue paint a split second before the puck. No goalie interference had occurred; just an arbitrary two inches of steel blade was caught in the crease -- and often on the side opposite the play.

The Stars deserved it, I'm tired of people taking pot shots at them because they don't know the rules.

 

[the mugs]

Texas...I hear what your saying with Hull's goal but Tim Taylor had less than a toe in the crease in Game 3/Round 1 of the '98 playoffs at home vs. Washington. When the B's got screwed in OT. Ended up loosing in 2OT. If that one was called back, then there was no way in the world Hull's should have counted.

I know this is off the original topic that TTM$$ brought up but I had to throw my 2 cents in.

Jim

 

[vindy]

oh man, there is no way to win this one.

If the goal had been disallowed and buffalo went on to win the series, everyone would be saying dallas deserved it.

All I know, ws the toe in the crease rule was an embarressment to hockey and the way the nhl handle it was even more disgusting. I remember hnic interviewing the nhl supervisor after the game and he had the nerve to sit there and say the rules were applied correctly. If that was true the goal wouldn't have counted. thanks to that tainted series we were able to ditch that senseless rule and royal waste of instant replay. No matter who would've won, an asterisk will always be on that win.