Archives for 2016

'"[Ristolainen] makes the read to go get the puck and be engaged, and Brian takes a look over his left shoulder. By the time he sees the puck coming, [Galchenyuk] is gone. It's a bang-bang play and again, we're being aggressive in the corner, and we're leaving a guy who is probably the Canadiens' best goalscorer right now, and hottest goalscorer, all alone in front of the … [Read more...] about Sabres-Canadiens: From the Locker Room

'"You're trying to win a hockey game, but you almost felt like you don't want to keep playing at that point in time," Buffalo coach Dan Bylsma said. "There's a couple of minutes left in the game, but you're really mostly entirely concerned for the athlete and for the person, and the game's an afterthought."' … [Read more...] about Canadiens defeat Sabres, lose Subban

'"It was a weird game," Gionta said afterward. "At spurts things were happening, at other spurts nothing was going on. But again, we've got to find ways to win these games."' … [Read more...] about Late goal is the difference in back-and-forth loss to Habs

Cole Schneider welcomed trade to his hometown Sabres (Rochester D&C) … [Read more...] about Friday’s Rochester Coverage

'“I know we’re looking at it as an opportunity to maybe catch them in the standings with two games,” Sabres coach Dan Bylsma said after an hourlong practice at First Niagara Center on Wednesday. “We’ve had some success against them earlier in the year. We know where we’re at in the standings. We know where they’re at and we want to use these two games as a possible way to catch … [Read more...] about Sabres head for Montreal with Habs just an arm’s length away

'“I thought he was attentive and sharp and eager to get back in net and he will for us tomorrow night,” Bylsma said, thereby naming Lehner the Sabres starter for Thursday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens in Bell Centre.' … [Read more...] about Lehner to get the start against Canadiens

'“The fact that he’s put in a different role right now … on the checking side of things, playing against the other teams’ top lines, responsible, that hasn’t changed who he is or how he approaches the game,” said Sabres defenseman Josh Gorges, Gionta’s close friend and teammate in Montreal.' … [Read more...] about Sabres captain Brian Gionta happy back in checking role

'O’Reilly, who’s out three to four weeks, could be back on the ice soon. Bylsma has said he could start skating later this week.' … [Read more...] about Sabres’ Ryan O’Reilly itching to return; Robin Lehner to start Thursday

Sabres-Canadiens Preview (AP) Eller day-to-day, likely out for Canadiens (NHL.com) Game Preview: Canadiens vs. Sabres (Canadiens.com) Game Day - Sabres - March 10 (Canadiens.com) … [Read more...] about Thursday’s Montreal Coverage

'“It’s disappointing, I didn’t know why it wasn’t an icing, he said it got tipped, but it’s not the reason we lost the game, but we’re looking at a minute left on the clock, we’ve got the timeout, it gets sent back down to the other end, Cal’s going to take a draw where he’s 70 percent on the night (he was 58 percent overall) and we’re going to win it, but it was waived off and … [Read more...] about Sabres’ Deslauriers didn’t think the puck hit him on the key icing play

'"I really think that was the hardest we've pushed and the hardest we've played, aggressively going after a win," he said. "I think they had two scoring chances the rest of the game. We had them on the ropes. They flipped a lot of pucks out of the glass and played a responsible road game but we were pushing hard at them."' … [Read more...] about Foligno: Tuesday’s comeback effort was “the hardest we’ve worked”

'“We gave a real good team everything they could handle. They put a lot of pucks off the glass and out tonight in the third period because of the way we were coming at them and how hard we were coming at them.”' … [Read more...] about Sabres unable to get even, lose to Rangers for ninth time in row

'“I didn’t want to go off,” Lehner said in First Niagara Center. “It’s his decision, and I don’t agree with it, but he’s the boss.' … [Read more...] about Lehner, Bylsma differ on goalie’s departure

'It was the Rangers' ninth straight win against the Sabres, their longest in series history, and marked the first time they've ever won five straight in Buffalo. The defeat ended the Sabres' bid for their first five-game point streak since March, 2012.' … [Read more...] about Quick Hits: Rangers 4, Sabres 2

'Lehner never got his chance. To spark his team, Sabres coach Dan Bylsma yanked his No. 1 netminder for the second time this season.' … [Read more...] about Sabres’ furious comeback against Rangers falls short