Archives for October 19, 2011

‘”It is obvious that it is a great honour,” said Pominville after training for the Sabres, Tuesday, at the Bell Centre.” Without becoming the new face of the team, I have now represent the image of the Sabres on the ice outside. I will also have to push the guys to elicit the best in our team.”‘

Goalie frustrates Canadiens with 40 saves (Montreal Gazette)
Gorges blames ‘mental lapse’ (Montreal Gazette)
Sabres are riding a wave of rich contracts (Montreal Gazette)
Adam off to quick start with Sabres (Montreal Gazette)
Miller a multi-dimensional guy (Montreal Gazette)
Photo gallery (Montreal Gazette)
The CH deserved better (Le Journal de Montreal)
“Their goalie was dominant” – Jacques Martin (Le Journal de Montreal)
“Our performance was deficient” – Brian Gionta (Le Journal de Montreal)
“Miller was fantastic” – Marc-Andre Gragnani (Le Journal de Montreal)
Luke Adam grandstanding (Le Journal de Montreal)
Is there a marker in the room? (Le Journal de Montreal)
Miller stands in front of the Canadian who bowed 3-1 (La Presse)
Gorges: “An error that has no right to commit” (La Presse)
The Sabres are like Canadian, according to Ruff (La Presse)
The Sabres and Myers wanted the same thing (La Presse)
Sabres-Canadiens: the newsletter of Pierre Ladouceur (La Presse)
Photo gallery (La Presse)
An effort marred by Miller (RDS.ca)
Captain Pominville is unanimous (RDS.ca)
Miller stands in front of the Canadian (CP)
A misleading score (Radio Canada)
Pominville, the designated captain (Radio Canada)
Habs hit rock bottom in loss to Sabres (Toronto Globe and Mail)
Shortchanged (Canadiens.com)
The numbers game (Canadiens.com)
Photo gallery (Canadiens.com)
Photo gallery (Sabres.com)
Photo gallery (AP)

‘The Canadiens (1-3-1) had a 41-23 shot advantage on Buffalo (4-1-0) but failed in their bid for a first win on home ice this season. Christian Ehrhoff had an empty-net goal for the Sabres.’

‘”We talked about it as a team that we want to embrace the expectations, but we also talked about areas of the game we want to get better at,” coach Lindy Ruff said Tuesday as his team prepared to face the Montreal Canadiens. “If we focus on those areas we’ll be able to meet some of those expectations. It’s not looking at where we should be, it’s how we’re going to get there.”‘

‘Miller made 40 saves, including 11 in the third, as Buffalo killed off all five of Montreal’s power-play chances to improve to 4-1-0 on the young season. Jordan Leopold also scored for the Sabres, while Christian Ehrhoff added an empty-netter in the final minute.’

‘The two teams were about to go into the second intermission tied, but the Canadiens ice the puck with 5.9 seconds left in the frame. Buffalo capitalized on the opportunity, winning the offensive zone faceoff. Gragnani and Pominville worked the puck across the crease for Thomas Vanek who sent it home for his fourth of the season.’

‘With less than six seconds left in regulation, Buffalo settled in to take a draw to the left of Montreal goaltender Carey Price. The play started with center Paul Gaustad, who won the draw over to Marc-Andre Gragnani. Gragnani tapped the puck to a waiting Jason Pominville who saw Thomas Vanek edging towards the net. Pominville passed the puck across the ice to Vanek who caught the pass, faked a shot, looked Price in the eyes and went top shelf on the Montreal goaltender. With 2.8 seconds left in the second period, Buffalo had taken the lead away from the Canadiens and set up an interesting third.’

While the temperature in Western New York gradually cools, the Buffalo Sabres are cranking up the thermostat down at the newly renovated First Niagara Center.

After a flawless trip across the pond that netted the team four points and two gritty wins over tough Western Conference opponents, the Sabres used a week off to prepare for a home contest versus Carolina, Friday, only to hit the road to Pittsburgh, Saturday.

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Rochester Amerks rally, top Syracuse in shootout (Rochester D&C)
Rochester prevails for shootout win over Syracuse Crunch, 3-2 (syracuse Post Standard)
Amerks pick up third straight win with 3-2 shootout victory over Crunch (Amerks.com)
Crunch fall to Rochester in Shoot out (SyracuseCrunch.com)
Together again (TheAHL.com)