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The Buffalo Sabres are in unfamiliar territory this season. They are riding a three game losing streak, and not showing any signs of urgency. Buffalo traveled up to Ottawa to take on a senators team that was on a roll winning their last three games.On the other end of the spectrum Buffalo had lost their last two games and not looked good in doing so. Ottawa came out and dominated play ...

The Buffalo Sabres tried to continue the winning streak tonight as they hosted the Florida Panthers at the HSBC arena. Unfortunately for Buffalo the third period would prove to be their sticking point tonight as the Panthers rolled to a 6-2 victory.Though a bit on the boring side, the first 40 minutes of play was tightly contested as Florida was hanging on to the 2-1 lead. But in the third period the ...

At the beginning of this hockey season, the talk was not who was going to be the net minders for Team USA in the upcoming Olympics, but rather who would be the starter. Goaltender Ryan Miller has answered that question for everyone. At the end of the 2008-2009 season, questions started to surface about just how "great" Miller could be. Or even if he was a franchise goaltender. But those questions have ...

When the Buffalo Sabres this past offseason announced that they had signed defense men Steve Montador, I thought to myselfùOkay, not a bad seventh D-man; maybe sixth, if injuries happen. Probably see 10 minutes a night in ice time . I can't think that anyone even the Buffalo Sabres thought any different. But what a pleasant surprise Montador has been to the Buffalo Sabres blue line. Not only is he logging a ...

The Minnesota Wild came into to Tampa desperate to get onto the winning track that their players and fans alike expect from them. Through two periods of play, that seemed like a very good possibility for Minnesota, but there are three periods in hockey and The Lightning would strike twice to force an overtime and an eventual shootout. The first period saw Minnesota grab the 1-0 lead late in the period as ...

The Philadlephia Flyers came into Buffalo Thursday night with a severely injury depleted line up, and many players suffering the effects of the flu. Tonight in their game versus Buffalo it looked like Buffalo was the team struggling with sickness the Flyers dominated the entire game on route to a 5-2 thrashing of the Sabres. The first period was played somewhat competitively by both teams.Then with less than two minutes ...

Ryan Miller wanted nothing more then to put last Saturday night's 5-0 drubbing at the hands of the New York Islanders behind him. Tonight as the scene shifted back to Western New York, Miller and company came out and played with a purpose for 60 minutes.á The result: a 3-0 beat down of the Islanders and former Buffalo goaltender Martin Biron. Since leaving the Sabres, Biron has virtually owned the Buffalo Sabres, ...

In my earlier article today I had made mention of the flu affecting certain players of the Buffalo Sabres team. Never did I know that the entire team must have been going through sympathy illness for their ill comrades. Tonight the Buffalo Sabres went into the island to collect what some would consider an easy two points. Problem was no one told the Buffalo Sabres about how easy those two ...

The Atlanta Thrashers have been lost since losing their leader Illya Kovalchuk over a week ago, and their play has resembled a team in total disarray. But today in Ottawa, net minder Ondrej Pavelec stepped to the forefront and took over for the slumping Thrashers stopping 50 of 51 shots thrown at him, in a 3-1 win. In a game where head coach John Anderson seemed far too comfortable allowing his ...

As I got ready Saturday night to sit down and watch two teams that I like, the Buffalo Sabers and Tampa Bay Lightning, I had only two questions. Could Buffalo came away from a team-building resort retreat in Florida and actually play a full 60-minute effort? And could this be as entertaining game as I hoped for in my mind? The answer to both questions was a resounding "no." As I sat in ...