Archives for August 18, 2011

‘ The Sabres don’t have to get below the cap until the season opener and can easily do it by stashing the $5 million-plus combined of Ales Kotalik and Shaone Morrisonn in Rochester, where their figures would not count against it.’

‘Ehrhoff spent a few days in Buffalo house-hunting with his wife and plans to return home today. He’ll be back in Germany again in October, when the Sabres play an exhibition contest in Adler and then a regular-season game in Berlin against Los Angeles, something he wasn’t aware of when he signed. “That was another bonus,” Ehrhoff said. “I’m definitely very excited about that.”‘

‘In addition to their regular Monday and Tuesday night national broadcasts, VERSUS has added a “Game of the Week” telecast on Wednesday nights. Buffalo appears in the VERSUS “Game of the Week” a league-high seven times, two more than any other team. These games will be shown exclusively on VERSUS throughout the United States and will not be aired on MSG.’

‘”It doesn’t really put that much more pressure on me,” Ehrhoff insisted after he was introduced to the media Wednesday in HSBC Arena’s Harbour Club. “I put enough pressure on myself. I want to be a big part of this franchise for many years to come.”‘

‘Black also announced that single-game sales will begin on Sept. 17 and added this caveat – “We anticipate those will be sold out well before the start of the season.”‘

‘Ehrhoff said he was impressed with the Sabres while playing against them. “They got a great group of young players, 1 of the best goalies in the league for sure. We saw in the Cup Finals you need great goaltending to win and new ownership is committed.”‘

‘Team President Ted Black said, “We’ve already doubled the amount of mini packs we sold all of last year and we anticipate being sold out within the next couple weeks. We put 3500 mini packs on sale.’