Archives for 2012

'Milan Lucic's bulldozing of Miller and the Sabres' lack of response to their franchise goalie getting run started a tailspin that lasted more than two months. They entered the Boston beatdown with a 10-5 record, but they won just nine of the next 33 games.' … [Read more...] about Sabres begin their time of reflection

'The season started heading south Jan. 7. In the final 38 games of the season, Vanek scored just seven times and recorded 21 points, including two assists in Saturday's 4-3 shootout loss in Boston. He had skids of seven, four and three games without a point.' … [Read more...] about Second half a mystery to Vanek

'"I thought during this season that perhaps I should have done a few more games than I did," said Jeanneret, who worked 39 home games and 18 road games this season. "When you pick the games at the start of the season it all looks great. Then in January I had 17 days off. I spent some of them in Florida, I spent some of them with my wife yelling at me around the house, saying … [Read more...] about Jeanneret finds he’s not really the retiring type

Bergeron gives his all in Game 82 (Boston Globe) Figuring playoffs adds degree of difficulty (Boston Globe) Bonus baby: Top scorer Seguin hits jackpot (Boston Globe) B’s wrap up regular (Boston Herald) Pouliot develops in end (Boston Herald) Photo gallery (Boston Herald) Bergeron leads Bruins to 4-3 win over Buffalo (Quincy Patriot Ledger) Bruins ice Sabres; Capitals … [Read more...] about Sunday’s Boston Coverage

'Brad Boyes scored twice for the Sabres, who finished with 88 points—two behind the Capitals, who had one game to play.' … [Read more...] about Bergeron leads Bruins to 4-3 win over Buffalo

'Boston erased a 3-1 deficit in the third period with goals from Tyler Seguin -- his second of the game -- and Brad Marchand 2:25 apart.' … [Read more...] about Boston 4, Buffalo 3 (SO)

'Boston would not go down quietly, however, as Seguin's 2nd of the game cut the deficit to a goal about one minute after Pominville scored. About two and a half minutes later, Brad Marchand shoveled a shot past Enroth to tie the score 3-3. The two sides skated to a scoreless overtime before Patrice Bergeron notched the lone shootout goal to lift Boston to victory.' … [Read more...] about Bruins Close Out Sabres With 4-3 SO Win

'Last season the Sabres went on this big run and got away with it, no team in NHL history has done it two years in a row and the Sabres won’t be the first. Thomas Vanek said it best, “We’re here to lead this team and we failed. I needed to be one of the guys that needed to keep going and be a leader and I didn’t.”' … [Read more...] about This game shouldn’t be meaningless

'“It’s frustrating, it sucks any word you can find it’s out there. I think the standards have to be higher around here, we have to find a way to be better. It’s unacceptable to be out in the position that we’re in right now and disappointing we came up short.” Pominville added, “We gave ourselves a chance, we lost a game in a tough way where we had the lead and ended up losing, … [Read more...] about Pominville: The standards have to be higher around here

'Well, that’s all folks.' … [Read more...] about Bruins 4, Sabres 3 (SO)

Rochester Amerks defeat Hamilton Bulldogs (Rochester D&C) Rochester Amerks keep their faith (Rochester D&C) Loss to Rochester seals season for Dogs (Hamilton Spectator) With Sabres out, Can the Amerks make the playoffs? (WGR-AM) Amerks snap winless streak with 3-1 victory over Bulldogs (Amerks.com) Amerks sign defenseman Ryan Grimshaw to ATO (Amerks.com) Bulldogs' … [Read more...] about Sunday’s Rochester Coverage

'"Don't ever like losing. Don't ever like making the mistakes you made. The chance to make a difference and you didn't make a difference. You get an opportunity. You're paid to either score goals or prevent them if you're a defender. We had two-on-ones we didn't score. We had a two-on-one we went offside. That's unacceptable. It's game-on time. It's difference time. We've … [Read more...] about Sabres feel wrath of Ruff

'Rookie defensemen T.J. Brennan and Brayden McNabb are also expected to rejoin the Amerks, but the Sabres need them to fill out their blue line today in the season finale against Boston.' … [Read more...] about Amerks get a boost from parent club

'This year marks the sixth season in the past 10 the Sabres failed to make the playoffs, all of which — of course — under GM Darcy Regier and head coach Lindy Ruff. Ruff had a lot to do with his team's failure midway through the season. Regier failed to react quick enough, the same way his team failed to react when its star netminder was steamrolled in November, cost them … [Read more...] about Vital offseason in store for Sabres

'"Don’t ever like making the mistakes you made," he said in regards to the Sabres' 2-1 loss in Philadelphia Thursday. "The chance to make a difference, and you didn’t make the difference. You get an opportunity to get paid to score goals, and prevent them if you’re a defender. We had two-on-ones that we didn’t score. We had a two-on-one where we went offside. That’s … [Read more...] about Buffalo visits Boston for finale