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'Defenseman Mattias Samuelsson was given a maintenance day by head coach Lindy Ruff from practice, and expects him to play Sunday in St. Louis. However, forward Nic Aube-Kubel is sick and his availability is questionable.' … [Read more...] about Sabres look for third-straight win Sunday in St. Louis

'Alex Tuch's third-career hat-trick helped lead the Buffalo Sabres to a 6-2 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Friday night at KeyBank Center. It was the team's second-straight victory after snapping a 13-game winless streak.' … [Read more...] about Tuch’s hat-trick powers Sabres’ victory over Blackhawks

'Buffalo scored four goals in the first period and outshot the Hawks 11-2. The Sabres have now scored 39 first period goals which is third in the NHL and three off the lead.' … [Read more...] about Buffalo gets its first home win since mid-November beating Chicago

'2023 second-round pick Maxim Strbak (45th overall) is set to play in his fourth-straight World Junior Championship representing Slovakia. The 19-year-old will, once again, serve as one of the top blue liners for a Slovakian team that comes into the tournament with a nice mix of youth and veteran fire power, looking to take the tournament by storm.' … [Read more...] about Six Sabres prospects to participate in 2025 World Juniors in Ottawa

'Inside UBS Arena on Monday night, the Buffalo Sabres exorcised some serious demons to the tune of a 7-1 walloping of the New York Islanders to get back into the win column for the first time since November 23.' … [Read more...] about Sabres bulldoze Islanders to end winless skid

'Tuesday was their second game in a row where they were very good defensively and worked hard and for each other. When you look at every goal they scored, it was hard work that got them there.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: Sabres break their 13-game winless streak with 7-1 win in Long Island

'And you name it with the ways the Sabres have lost over the course of 13-straight games: Getting "goalied" by an opposing netminder, blowing multi-goal leads, one mental slip up costing the team a game, critical late-game mishaps that result in blown chances at a point, simply just not showing up to play from start-to-finish.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: An airing of Sabres grievances

'A low-event third period looked to be leading to a 3-on-3 overtime, but Boston had other plans. Sam Lafferty took a costly tripping penalty with 3:45 to play, and again at the twilight of a man advantage the Bruins made the Sabres pay.' … [Read more...] about Sabres lose in Boston for 13th winless game in-a-row

'The Buffalo Sabres could not overcome an early deficit and two goals being overturned in their 6-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night at KeyBank Center.' … [Read more...] about Sabres doubled up by Toronto

'Depending on how you look at the standings, the Sabres, under four years and 33 games of Adams, go into Boston on Saturday as the worst team in the Eastern Conference, and the second-worst team in the National Hockey League. If you go by points, only the Nashville Predators have fewer points than the Sabres. If you go by points percentage, the Preds and San Jose Sharks are … [Read more...] about Opinion: Sabres go into Boston hoping they’ve hit rock bottom

'“I felt really good, so yes, I’m ready.”' … [Read more...] about Dahlin will return Friday against Toronto

'It was another wildly miserable night at the rink for the Buffalo Sabres.' … [Read more...] about Eleventh-straight loss for Sabres comes in Montreal

'That is a plain and simple hard truth, you could say the Sabres are a better team than this team or another team, but just like this organization, you’d be kidding yourself. They are in last place in the East, they aren’t there by accident, they’ve earned their way there.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: Sabres are a no-show just one day after positive feedback from their owner

'"I'm the coach. I am the one that has to solve this," said Ruff with Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase. "It has been a lot of different things inside of those games. Our puck management against Toronto put us in a bad place in some situations in the game. I really felt early in the year, our managing the puck was better. You look at that game, we mismanaged it. It ended up giving … [Read more...] about Ruff: ‘I’m the coach. I am the one that has to solve this’

'The Buffalo Sabres' latest winless streak has reached double-digits.' … [Read more...] about Sabres drop 10th game in-a-row in Toronto