Archives for February 12, 2001

With five goals in his last four games, two of which have won games, one can see Patrick Poulin's name popping up more often as one of the stars in the spotlight.

'The Sabres knew they put two points in a box, wrapped them and sealed them with a bow.'

'Maybe, like the rest of us, he's beginning to wonder just how good they really are.'

'The Sabres scored all their goals in the first 10 minutes of the second period. Dmitri Kalinin, Dave Andreychuk and Vaclav Varada scored the Buffalo goals.'

'"We had something pretty good going here," defenseman Rhett Warrener said. "We lost two points that are going to be real important. … This time of year, if we have the lead in the third, it should be a guaranteed win."'

'"We'll talk about that some other time," Gilmour said. "We learned a valuable lesson tonight. We made a lot of mistakes and we just have to make sure that never happens the rest of the year."'

Despite being 13 points back in the playoff race going into tonight's game, the Canadiens showed great team character battling back in a game where they very easily could [have] quit.'