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Regier & Ruff Returning
by Paul on 04/17/09 at 03:08 PM ET
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via BuffaloSabres.com,
Tom Golisano and Larry Quinn today announced that General Manager Darcy Regier and head coach Lindy Ruff will return next season in their current roles with the organization. Ownership is very excited to have these two individuals return to help lead the organization back to the playoffs next season.
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Will Sabres Go In Another Direction?
by Paul on 03/21/09 at 03:02 PM ET
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from Bucky Gleason of the Buffalo News,
You can’t help but wonder if Regier and Ruff are inching closer to the door with every loss the Sabres suffer down the stretch. Something needs to give. That much was obvious after watching the Sabres mope through the final 25 minutes Friday night in a 6-4 loss to the Philadelphia Flyers.
Have the players quit on their coach?…
Regier has two seasons remaining on his contract. Ruff is signed through next season. They are the longest-tenured GM-coach combination in the NHL. Quinn reiterated Friday night that his first instinct is to keep both, but he wanted to wait until the offseason. He’ll huddle with Golisano before making a final decision.
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Sabres GM Regier Talks About Fighting
by Alanah McGinley on 02/06/09 at 01:29 PM ET
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From Eric Duhatschek in the Globe & Mail:
“People ask me about fighting and I really don’t know sometimes what I want,” said Regier. “I believe that things are going to happen over time, where I don’t think society is always going to accept (fighting).
“I see it in Canada now. There was a poll about fighting (conducted by the Harris-Decima firm, in which 54 per cent of Canadians surveyed favoured a unilateral ban on fighting, while 40 per cent wanted to retain the status quo). If you go back 10 years, I don’t think those numbers would be anywhere close to where they are right now.
“So I think it’s going to be more of a statement of the position of society – and I’m talking about true hockey fans, and their culture.”
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Sabres Extend Regier
by Paul on 09/20/08 at 02:59 PM ET
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via WHAM,
The General Manager of the Buffalo Sabres, Darcy Regier has signed a two-year contract extension. The announcement was made Saturday at HSBC Arena by manager partner Larry Quinn and team owner Tom Golisano.
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Hello Darcy
by Paul on 07/02/08 at 09:02 PM ET
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from the CP,
We’re still working and have been on the phone this morning and will continue to work,” Regier said Wednesday, a day after signing Patrick Lalime to a two-year, US$2-million contract to back up starter Ryan Miller. “We’re still exploring, really looking for a defenceman, so I remain hopeful.”
What encourages Regier is that rather than reaching out to players’ agents, as he did Tuesday when the NHL’s free agency period opened, agents are now calling him.
“That for me is positive news,” Regier said. “It tells me that players are looking at it and saying, ‘Hey, Buffalo would be a nice place to play.’ It tells me that it’s a possibility.”
more on the Sabres…
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Don’t Blame Regier
by Paul on 01/06/08 at 10:57 AM ET
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from Bucky Gleason of the Buffalo News,
Sources across the gabby NHL contend that Regier isn’t the primary reason the Sabres have lost so many players in recent years. Add up all the talk behind the scenes, and you see a pattern that suggests his own bosses are his biggest obstruction. Basically, he’s made the right call on players, only to have his decisions vetoed.
Understandably, Regier wouldn’t touch the subject with surgical gloves when reached last week. There was a sense he had become so accustomed to accepting blame that he didn’t know how to react when it was directed toward owner Tom Golisano, managing partner Larry Quinn and, to a much lesser degree, chief bean counter Dan DiPofi.
“I’m the general manager,” Regier said. “It’s my job. You can put it all on me. It’s OK.”
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Can We Give The “Bigger Nets” Debate A Rest?
by George James Malik on 11/20/07 at 05:07 PM ET
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Jason Kay of The Hockey News is banging the drum of what seems to be hockey journalists’ favourite pet project--proving that the hockey media “knows what the fans want” by convincing the NHL, through the sheer will of proffering a stance, and bolstering it through endless iterations of the same damn column, to make bigger nets a reality, given the collective theory that more goals = a more entertaining product.
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More Scoring Needed
by Paul on 11/16/07 at 06:56 AM ET
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from the Buffalo News,
“Goalies have to get smaller or the nets have to get larger,” Regier said. “That goalie has to get significantly smaller for the likelihood of an outside shot to go in. If we can’t make the goalies smaller, then I don’t know what other options we have but to consider making the nets larger.”
He added that if the nets get bigger, it must be a significant increase. He argued that just a small bump would put teams into a bigger defensive shell. That’s the leading cause of the scoring dip. Coaches have begun crowding their five skaters near the net, which rids the shooters of their open lanes.
“Most goals are probably scored within 30 feet,” Regier said. “So it argues that if you can defend that area and protect that area, then you’re less likely to get scored against.”
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Can Sabres Adapt
by Paul on 11/14/07 at 08:08 AM ET
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from the Buffalo News,
Is the Sabres personnel that was so successful in the wideopen NHL still suitable in a league that features tighter games?
“We ask ourselves that question,” Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier said Tuesday. “I think it is.
“We can [adapt]. That doesn’t mean we don’t learn as we go and maybe make some minor personnel changes down the road or stay the way we are, but yeah, we can be all right. We’re heading in the right direction now. We’re not getting the results, but we’re moving in the right direction.”
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