- Sabres hired Milan Lucic as a pro scout and Derek Dorsett as a development coach
- It’s Lucic’s first NHL job since retiring after the 2025-26 season
- Read below for the Ryan Miller history that makes this a strange fit in Buffalo
Milan Lucic isn’t done with hockey after all.
The Buffalo Sabres have hired the longtime enforcer as a pro scout, and former NHL agitator Derek Dorsett joins the staff as a development coach, per Mike Harrington of Buffalo News.
This is the first job Lucic has taken since he retired this month after 17 NHL seasons.
Sabres fans might need a minute with this one. On November 12, 2011, Lucic came barreling out of the Boston end and flattened Buffalo goalie Ryan Miller on a race to a loose puck. Miller went down hard and ripped Lucic as gutless after the game.
Watch the hit that Buffalo never forgot:
That snapshot is the Lucic the rest of the league remembers. He racked up at least five fights in a season eight separate times. Boston drafted him in the second round in 2006, and he lifted a Stanley Cup with the Bruins in 2011.
Dorsett walks in with a coaching resume already built. He spent three seasons as a development coach with the Columbus Blue Jackets from 2021 to 2024, after a neck injury ended his playing days in 2018.
So two of the more punishing forwards of their generation will help shape Buffalo’s young players. Ryan Miller might get a kick out of where Lucic landed.
