Lindy Ruff on Sabres Intense Morning Skate

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Lindy Ruff talks about his decision to hold an intense morning skate ahead of their matchup against the Vancouver Canucks, and why it helped them win.

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00:00Lindy, you got a win last night, and one thing that's noteworthy about the last 24, 48 hours

00:05maybe is that in between games you did have a little bit of a morning skate, maybe more

00:09so than you would, I mean, most of the time.

00:13Felt a need for that after the game before.

00:16Yeah, I really felt, it was disappointing, you know, we lost the 50-50 puck battles,

00:25the puck battles around the net, cost us dearly in the Seattle game, and really felt

00:33as a group that we wanted to go out and compete in a morning skate, put in a couple drills

00:40that one-on-one compete, two-on-two compete, get to the net, and at the same time have

00:46defensive boxing players out, get some physicality, and it was the focus of the morning skate,

00:53it was the focus of the game, was win your battles and skate, and I thought on a whole

01:00our club skated well, compete around the net was good, the type of goals that we gave up

01:07in the Seattle game we basically eliminated, and I thought, it was a tough hockey game,

01:15it was too good, it was two teams that were playing well, we fought through a little adversity

01:21with, you know, you look at their first goal, takes a crazy bounce off the stanchion in

01:26the glass, comes back net front, another goal, we go down, we should be getting a scoring

01:33opportunity, we break a stick, we come back to our end, we've got a guy with a broken

01:37stick, so to fight through that, play a real sound third period, and score a couple goals

01:45to end up winning the hockey game, a big step in the right direction.

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