It was high time for Jon Cooper to win the Jack Adams Award as the best coach in the NHL. Yet Dan Muse and Lindy Ruff both deserve stick taps for the seasons they put together with the Penguins and Sabres.

Buffalo Sabres coach Lindy Ruff is returning for another two years after leading his team to one of the most impressive midseason turnarounds in NHL history.

Lindy Ruff signed a two-year contract to remain coach of the Buffalo Sabres on Wednesday. The 66-year-old, whose contract was to expire, is signed through the 2027-28 season.

PRAGUE — Lindy Ruff walked into the visitors’ locker room at SAP Garden in Munich before the Buffalo Sabres’ exhibition game against Red Bull Munich last week and casually strode to the whiteboard to write out some talking points. But Mattias ...

On December 8, the Buffalo Sabres sat 30th in the NHL in points percentage and dead last in the Eastern Conference at 11-14-4. The playoff drought that had defined the franchise for more than a decade looked like it would stretch to a fifteenth year.

Ruff certainly hasn’t lost his touch behind the bench. A Jack Adams Award finalist as one of the NHL’s top three coaches, he lifted the Sabres out of last place in December to snap the 14-year playoff drought. And they were one shot away from a trip to the Eastern Conference Final.

Less than a year after leading the New Jersey Devils to their best regular season, coach Lindy Ruff has been signed to a multi-year contract extension. General manager Tom Fitzgerald announced the signing on Wednesday, a day before the Devils open the 2023 ...

Lindy Ruff guided Buffalo out of a 14-year playoff drought and to an Atlantic Division title, yet still fell just short in the Jack Adams voting in a result that has many questioning what more he could have possibly done.