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The Buffalo Sabres began 2018 with an overtime loss to the NY Rangers in the 10th annual Bridgestone Winter Classic at Citi Field. From thence they went on a four-game losing streak and proceeded to drop six of seven. If the dregs of that skid wasn't enough, how they were losing was downright ugly....
The Buffalo Sabres have been simply abysmal at home this season. There's no other way to put it. Not only are they a paltry 6-14-3 so far at KeyBank Center, they've been blown out in four of those games by a combined 24-7 score. The Sabres have lost their last three at home, and are 1-4-0 at KeyBank...
For those of us old enough to remember Schoolhouse Rock, zero "is a wonderful thing" says the voice-over, "in fact, zero is my hero." A zero in sports is good if it represents points against, obviously not so good if it's the number of points you score. Last night the Buffalo Sabres put up the bi...
Buffalo Sabres starting goaltender Robin Lehner has emerged from a deep slump that hit him hard last month. Lehner was yanked after allowing four goals on 19 shots in the 7-1 Dallas Stars rout over the Sabres back on January 20, his fourth poor outing in five appearances, but since then he's been a...
The Anaheim Ducks are going to be in a foul mood when they hit the ice at KeyBank Center tonight. Their matchup with the Buffalo Sabres is the final game of their five-game road trip which started out well, but deteriorated. The Ducks started the trip out with a convincing 3-1 win at Boston against...
If you're a fan of emotional swings, then last night's Anaheim Ducks/Buffalo Sabres game may have suited your fancy. From Buffalo's Zemgus Girgensons scoring a shorthanded goal to open the game to Anaheim's Adam Henrique scoring the winner in overtime, the highs and lows for those in attendance at K...
According to reports from the rink this morning, Buffalo Sabres head coach Phil Housley made some lineup changes after falling to the Anaheim Ducks 4-3 at home in overtime. With that overtime loss the Sabres still have only six wins at KeyBank Center (6-15-4) all season and they're still stuck on 99...
Well, this edition of the Buffalo Sabres finally did it. After losing the first four games (0-3-1) of their five-game homestand, the Sabres 4-3 win over the NY Islanders finally got them to 1000 home wins for the franchise. And they did so while wearing their 2018 Winter Classic sweaters, which brin...
In the clip below, Sabres defenseman Jim Schoenfeld blasts Boston Bruins forward Wayne Cashman through the boards at the old Memorial Auditorium and the two immediately drop the gloves and have at it. Some serious old-time hockey. I've seen that fight isolated before but thanks to werqa123, we get t...
The Buffalo Sabres head into the second game of back-to-backs with a home tilt tonight against the Colorado Avalanche. Buffalo is coming off of a strong performance in a 4-2 win on the road over the Boston Bruins last night but it didn't come without some pain. Center Jack Eichel left the game i...
The score said Colorado Avalanche-5, Buffalo Sabres-4 but the game wasn't as close as the score might indicate. The Sabres managed to get into the third period down 3-2 but allowed two goals against in 7:03 and found themselves down 5-2. Ryan O'Reilly's powerplay goal at the 12:14 mark made it a two...
The Tampa Bay Lightning are presently on a quick two-game jaunt to the shores of Lake Erie where they finish up a back-to-back road trip against the Buffalo Sabres tonight. The Bolts, owners of the best record in the NHL, found themselves in an early hole last night at Toronto against the Maple Leaf...
For those of us who remember, Games 2 & 3 of the Buffalo Sabres season were utter disasters. A new coach with a different philosophy and a remade defense tried to go stride for stride with two fast, talented teams early in the season and it didn't work out very well. In trying to match the pace of...
At some point, I'm of the opinion that the Buffalo Sabres will pass the Ottawa Senators in the standings this season. I know it's not saying much as only three points separate the two teams at this juncture, but it's significant in that these are two teams at the bottom of the Eastern Conference goi...
It's been said hundreds of times since 2007--the Buffalo Sabres look as if they want to put on a show when playing the home crowd. Which is all well and good. Unfortunately, it seems as if they forget how to play winning hockey while inserting (or trying to insert) some flare to their home games and...
The Buffalo Sabres are paying four players not to play hockey for them anymore and by the looks of their last game, are paying some of their roster players to skate in the Blue and Gold but not really play for them either. One player seems to be saving himself for an expected new team via trade a...
There probably was a contingent of USA hockey fans who checked their phones this morning and found out the that Team USA was ousted from the Winter Olympic Men's Hockey Tournament last night. Those fans may have been aware that the U.S. was in the quarterfinals with an opportunity to advance to the...
Who'd have thought Boston Bruins Frank Vatrano was on the block? Vatrano was a bit of a wunderkind as he pumped in 36 goals 36 games for the Providence Bruins, Boston's AHL affiliate, in 2015-16 after signing a free agent contract out of UMass. In two separate stints with the Bruins he did raise som...
The Buffalo Sabres managed to barely beat the clock last night in overtime as they took down the Detroit Red Wings 3-2. Defenseman Marco Scandella buried a feed from Johan Larsson with 0.2 seconds left in overtime for the win. (via NHL.com) It was a great sight to see, one that brought a...
The 2018 Winter Olympics are over and here's a few things I'll walk away with: --I'm not sure who built the Team USA men's hockey team, but whoever did could have done better as there were way too many elder statesmen on the team and not enough young turks. From a Buffalo Sabre perspective one of...
The Boston Bruins are headed to the playoffs this season. The Buffalo Sabres are not. Boston has made three trades to bolster their roster for a playoff run. Buffalo has not made any trades. The two Atlantic Division foes played yesterday evening in the final game of their four-game season s...
Much like the NHL's "free agent frenzy" in July and the NFL's annual October trade deadline, the NHL's own traded deadline came and went with very little going on, relative to past NHL trade deadlines. With the league getting younger, NHL GM's whose team is either in a playoff chase or a Stanley Cup...
The Buffalo Sabres begin their final 19-game post-trade deadline stretch of the 2017-18 season with a 19-33-11 record which is good for an Eastern Conference-worst 49 points. To say it's not been a very good year would be an understatement and to add a little perspective, here was the Sabres record...
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