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Lindy Ruff was is the current head coach for the Buffalo Sabres and has been coaching the team since 1997.

The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York. They are members of the Northeast Division in the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). There have been 14 head coaches of the Buffalo Sabres since the team's debut in the 1970–71 NHL season.

Only three coaches in the Sabres have made it into the Hockey Hall of Fame: Punch Imlach, Scotty Bowman and Roger Neilson. Bowman is the only Sabres coach to have won the Jack Adams Award[1], an honor given annually to the National Hockey League coach "adjudged to have contributed the most to his team's success".[1] The first head coach, Hall of Famer Punch Imlach, has the lowest winning percentage of any Sabres coach, with .370 during his 120-game tenure.[2] He is followed by Craig Ramsay who coached the team to a .412 record from 1986 to 1987. Floyd Smith has the best coaching record, during his term from 1974 to 1977. He is followed by his successor, Hall of Famer Marcel Pronovost, who coached the Sabres to a .611 record from 1977 to 1978.

The Sabres have made two appearances in the Stanley Cup Finals, losing four games to two against the Philadelphia Flyers in 1975 and again four to two against the Dallas Stars in 1999. The current head coach, Lindy Ruff, has led the Sabres into the playoffs from 1997 to 2001 and again from 2005 to 2007. The Sabres did not make it into the playoffs in the 2008 season.

Key

  Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame

# Number of coaches[3]
GC Games Coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
W – L % Win – Loss percentage
* Elected to the Hockey Hall of Fame


Coaches

Scotty Bowman was the 6th coach for the Sabres and coached the team from 1979 to 1980, and later from 1982 to 1985
Ted Nolan was the 13th coach for the Sabres and coached the team from 1995 to 1997, coaching 164 games.
# Name Term Games Record (W–L–T) W – L %[4] Playoffs (W–L) Achievements Reference
1 Punch Imlach 1970 – 1972 120 32–63–25 .370 — [2]
2 Joe Crozier 1972 – 1974 192 77–80–35 .492 2–4 MJHL Second All-Star Team (1948)
MJHL First All-Star Team (1949)
QHL Second All-Star Team (1954)
QHL First All-Star Team (1957)
Manitoba Hockey Hall of Fame		 [5]
3 Floyd Smith 1974 – 1977 240 143–61–36 .671 16–16 [6]
4 Marcel Pronovost 1977 – 1978 104 52–29–23 .611 3–5 [7]
5 Billy Inglis 1978 – 1979 56 28–18–10 .589 1–2 First All-Star Team Defense (1960, 1961)
Second All-Star Team Defense (1958, 1959)		 [8][9]
6 Scotty Bowman 1979 – 1980 80 47–17–16 .688 8–5 Jack Adams Award [10]
7 Roger Neilson 1980 – 1982 125 60–36–29 .596 4–4 Roger Neilson Memorial Award [11]
— Scotty Bowman 1982 – 1985 240 124–82–34 .588 9–13 Jack Adams Award [10]
8 Jim Schoenfeld 1985 – 1986 43 19–19–5 .500 — [12]
— Scotty Bowman 1986 – 1986 49 21–25–3 .459 — [10]
9 Craig Ramsay 1986 – 1987 68 25–37–6 .412 — [13]
10 Ted Sator 1987 – 1989 160 75–67–18 .525 3–8 [14]
11 Rick Dudley 1989 – 1991 188 85–82–31 .535 4–8 [15]
12 John Muckler 1991 – 1995 268 125–109–34 .530 11–16 [16]
13 Ted Nolan 1995 – 1997 164 73–72–19 .503 5–7 [17]
14 Lindy Ruff 1997 – present 656 305–249–78–24 .524 43–29 [18]

References

  1. ^ a b "Jack Adams Award". NHL. Retrieved 2007-09-09.
  2. ^ a b "Punch Imlach". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Sabres. Thus any coach who has two separate terms as head coach is only counted once.
  4. ^ The Win-Loss percentage is calculated using the formula (0.5*Ties + Wins)/Games coached
  5. ^ "Joe Crozier". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  6. ^ "Floyd Smith". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  7. ^ "Marcel Pronovost". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  8. ^ Billy Inglis took over as an interim coach for the rest of the 1978-1979 season
  9. ^ "Billy Inglis". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  10. ^ a b c "Scotty Bowman". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  11. ^ "Roger Neilson". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  12. ^ "Jim Schoenfeld". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  13. ^ "Jim Schoenfeld". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  14. ^ "Ted Sator". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  15. ^ "Rick Dudley". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  16. ^ "John Muckler". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  17. ^ "Ted Nolan". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  18. ^ "Lindy Ruff". Hockey-Reference.com. Retrieved 2008-05-13. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)

See also

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