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The day after his dismissal from Buffalo Sivers, the group was led for 16 years, drove his car around Lindsay Raf suburbs, passing from one another donut shop, trying to gather his thoughts. When he got home, wearing shorts bearing the symbol Sivers. He tried to watch the game against gic gradnje the Buffalo Toronto Maple Leafs, gic gradnje but he had no patience for it.
"I saw one quarter," he said Friday gic gradnje in his first appearance in public after the dismissal, "I found it strange act unusually, I had to turn off the TV. It was something - I wanted to, but I could not."
Professional gic gradnje sports gic gradnje teams coaches lose their jobs all the time, but only a chosen few are staying long enough in the same city to see their children born and raised there. Fewer still remain throughout their career single group. Raf press conference. "I've missed" AP
Rapp, 53, has spent half of his life his ranks Buffalo Sabres. He was elected by her as a player in the draft of 1979, the 19 year old tough boy from Alberta has overcome a hip fracture. He played in the club for a decade and served as captain three seasons. In July 1997, four years after he retired from playing, was appointed coach.
During his dismissal, was the second coach Ruff oldest professional gic gradnje sports in the United States, with only Greg Popitz, San Antonio gic gradnje Spurs, eight in 1996, promoting him. Ruff coached 1,165 games in the NHL regular season, second only to Al Arbour New York Islanders, whose credit enrolls about 1,500 games.
Rapp did not want to elaborate on Friday, but agreed to hold a press conference after many requests from the media. He still Sivers referred to in the first. He admitted four group owners the time, the player, his team over the years, gic gradnje and to General Manager Darcy Rg'ir, Buffalo began his term shortly before the arrival of Raf team. "In the last 16 years, probably 99 percent at General Managers in the league have replaced their coaches," he said, "We went a long way together and he always believed in me. Good friend."
Rapp described how his friend told him to cease his work: "I'm gic gradnje sorry, he said, but I told him he should gic gradnje not apologize, he was my biggest supporter." The coach also thanked fans west of the State of New York, in 2006 stood at his side as his daughter underwent surgery gic gradnje to remove a tumor from her brain. "This is a place that always call it home," he concluded, his eyes moist.
Buffalo is similar to a busy hive when dealing with Sivers and Bills, it trained eight different coaches in parallel Raph. This small city concentrates so much attention and energies around two groups within the local discourse Christians soon views and attitudes that can not be challenged on them. Raph separation consensus began to take shape a year ago. Sivers gic gradnje missed the playoffs for the fourth time in six seasons, and also years in which qualified gic gradnje him, failed to cross the first round. The discussions on the necessary dismissal of the older artist have become an item regularly interviewed on a local radio.
On Thursday, a day after the end of his tenure, gic gradnje called listening to one of these programs. Despite the dismissal of Raf were expected for some time, their message was "like a punch in the stomach". Immediately a new consensus: Yes, Rapp had to leave, but is a good man who gave his all for the team.
David Bellissimo, 55, attended last Thursday gic gradnje in a 3-1 loss to Toronto Buffalo, under the guidance gic gradnje of interim coach Ron Rolson. Sivers stayed bad as they were at the time of Raf. "We had a love-hate relationship with him," said Bellissimo. Charged feelings about the coach added: "The fault, gic gradnje or whether it was not his fault. He had to go, but it's hard for us to see him leave." "He had to go, but it's hard for us to see him go," AP
Bellissimo old enough to remember the young Raph Stanley Cup semifinal of 1980, who fought on the ice until the blood with Billy Smith Mhaiinlndrs. Raging side emerged League final again in 1999, when Buffalo surrendered to Dallas in the sixth game after three overtimes and scored a controversial Star player, Brett Hull. Rapp went crazy after the game, protested the judge's ruling. Two days later, led 20 thousand fans Sivers the streets of their city, winning the Song "was not a goal!".
He said that it would be interesting to return to coach one day. "I've missed," he admitted, but for now he just wants to "clear your head". "I cleared my office and all my notes of the games," he said at the press conference, "I went to all the games, I checked all the results. It's as if I pull myself to my mind intentionally, but when I finished I came to the conclusion that just lost three games. We could be right now the balance of 7-9 and a better location. Too bad, but it's my fault. "
Scotty Bowman, who guided the Sivers in the eighties, advising Raph go out on a long vacation, travel, away from the hustle and bustle. "I did when I was fired, I just wanted to break away & quo