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Steve Ott: 48 games, 9 goals, 15 assists, plus-3, 187 hitsIt didn't take long for Sabres forward Steve Ott to become a fa...
The Sabres have yet to confirm this, but many sources have told me that Ron Rolston has fired James Patrick and Kevyn Adams.B...
I want to get something out of the way right away. Suffering? Really? I know how it sounds in the building and certainly on t...
In explaining his decision to remove the interim tag from Head Coach Ron Rolston, Buffalo Sabres General Manager Darcy Regier...
Clearly one of Ron Rolston’s jobs is to win hockey games. However, with the Sabres talking more about the long term, an...
Ron Rolston's career in Buffalo will be defined by how he develops young players. It's been hailed as his greatest st...
Darcy Regier spoke to Ron Rolston after the season and decided to go no further. Rolston is now the head coach of the Sabres ...
Thomas Vanek and Ryan Miller both wanted to sit down with Darcy Regier andTerry Pegulato see what their futures are. Both hav...
It's deja vu for the Rochester Americans.Last season, they fought to the last day of the season to secure a post-season s...
The Sabres play their final game of the season tonight while the Islanders fight for playoff position.Right now New York woul...
The Sabres will finish the season Friday without Pat Kaleta and Ville Leino. Kaleta hurt his hand blocking a shot while Leino...
You can pretty much call tonight in Pittsburgh a preseason game. The Pens have first place in the Conference clinched and the...
After both goaltenders played poorly Friday against the Rangers, it’s Jhonas Enroth getting the start tonight against t...
It took Mark Pysyk 16 games to score his first NHL goal. He had four in the 57 games he played in Rochester.It was a shame th...
In late February, it sure looked like a shakeup in Buffalo would ruin the Rochester Americans' chances at making the play...
The Sabres won’t have Pat Kaleta in the lineup Monday against Winnipeg. Ron Rolston would not rule him out for the week...
They weren’t supposed to screw it up.The Buffalo Sabres’ plan should have been simple: Tank, get a top three draf...
The Sabres face elimination from the playoff race as they host the Rangers. If New York wins in regulation, Buffalo is done.T...
After giving way to Jhonas Enroth for two games, Ryan Miller is back in goal for the Sabres in Boston. Ron Rolston said, &ldq...
Tonight in Boston it’ll be the first gathering of sports fans since the bombing at the Boston Marathon.Chris Kelly of t...
Mikhail Grigorenko showed up for Sabres practice on Tuesday. His season is Quebec is over. The Sabres don’t seem to wan...
After three seasons at UMass Lowell, Chad Ruhwedel decided to leave school.Since he was a free agent, many teams were trying ...
Ever since Jordan Leopold and Robyn Regehr left, Tyler Myers ice time has increased significantly. Starting with the home Was...
The Sabres will go with Ryan Miller in goal against Montreal, but Ron Rolston said Jhonas Enroth will play this weekend.This ...
As I watched Thomas Vanek flounder for two periods in Winnipeg, I was thinking he came back too early. Vanek had said he woul...
Even though Thomas Vanek stayed out longer at the morning skate, Ron Rolston would not rule him out, “I don’t kno...
Even though Thomas Vanek stayed out longer at the morning skate, Ron Rolston would not rule him out, “I don’t kno...
Even though Thomas Vanek stayed out longer at the morning skate, Ron Rolston would not rule him out, “I don’t kno...
The Sabres have won three in a row, but they’ve done it without Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek and they’ve don...
While the Sabres are on the outside looking in as far as the playoffs are concerned, their farm team is in a playoff spot whi...
I get very few nice things said to me about Jochen Hecht. The German forward was always a favorite of Lindy Ruff and remains ...
The Devils played at home last night losing to Toronto while the Sabres were off. You always hear the cliché that you ...
The Buffalo Sabres are starting to look like the team they should have been all year.Amazing how that works, right?You add tw...
Coming off yet another win, the Buffalo Sabres got back on the ice for an abbreviated practice session at First Niagara Cente...
The Sabres no longer have a trading deadline to worry about as they move on minus three veterans. In addition, Thomas Vanek i...
The Sabres will not replace Jason Pominville’s captaincy this season. Ron Rolston said, “No, we’ll have an ...
Jason Pominville wouldn’t come right out and say, but it appears he has given the Sabres a list of eight teams he would...
Thomas Vanek again skated on Monday and says he’s improving. He wouldn’t rule out playing in Pittsburgh on Tuesda...
Welcome into the Ted Darling Memorial Press Box for this Easter Day edition of Buffalo Sabres hockey. Less than twenty-four h...
Only Thomas Vanek, John Scott and Ryan Miller skated this morning while the other players met, watched film or went home. Van...
Buffalo has lost twice to Washington this season and gets its last chance tonight at home.Thomas Vanek will miss his 6th game...
It's always a tricky time of year for players around the National Hockey League. If they're a member of a team that l...
While the Buffalo Sabres approach a back-to-back home game stretch over the weekend, they'll likely have to go through th...
The Sabres will need to play again tonight without leading scorer Thomas Vanek. He has a muscle strain.Andrej Sekera is a goo...
Almost as shocking as the players showing a low level of compete in Tampa was nobody including Ron Rolston had any answers. R...
The Sabres may play the Panthers without Thomas Vanek on Thursday. Ron Rolston said, “He didn’t skate today so he...
The Sabres have played three games with their new lines.In Montreal Ron Rolston broke up Cody Hodgson, Thomas Vanek and Jason...
The Sabres are facing a team that’s reeling and won’t even have their new coach yet.Tampa Bay lost all three game...
The Sabres walked into Montreal on Tuesday and beat the red hot Canadiens thanks to a Steve Ott overtime goal.The Habs have e...
Ron Rolston is not a screamer and he’s not a yeller, but he’s also a no nonsense coach. So far healthy scratches ...
Thomas Vanek returned to the Sabres very short practice on Friday. He missed the Toronto game, after getting hit by a shot in...
The Sabres snuck out of Montreal with two points thanks to Jhonas Enroth and Steve Ott. Buffalo now has just two wins in eigh...
Put your ear to the ice and you’ll hear something coming to the NHL. Hall of Fame goaltender Patrick Roy is getting mor...
After the Buffalo Sabres' most recent win over Montreal, their leading scorer was nowhere to be found on the ice for prac...
Ron Rolston broke up the Hodgson line for the first time all season and after 20 minutes, he had a goal from each of the two ...
When the Buffalo Sabres decided to keep Mikhail Grigorenko on the roster rather than send him back to juniors, I applauded th...
With the Sabres taking the day off mandated by the Collective Bargaining Agreement, today would be a good day to discuss wher...
The Sabres played one of their best periods of the season Saturday at home against Ottawa and left with a 2-0 lead. It only t...
Playing in his first game after injuring his hip in training camp, Ville Leino looked ready to play in Saturday's loss to...
The Sabres had three days to first rest and then get to work on their game.Ron Rolston tends to work on themes and they can c...
Did you know the two leading scorers in NCAA Division One hockey during the 2007-08 season are both playing for the Buffalo S...
When the Buffalo Sabres sent center Luke Adam to Rochester in early February of last season, you figured he'd be back wit...
Sabres defenseman Alex Sulzer is out for the season. He had successful knee surgery on his ACL.On the other side of the coin ...
After missing 10 games, eight of which were because of injury, Jordan Leopold returned to the Sabres lineup. Lindy Ruff made ...
Welcome once again into the Ted Darling Memorial Press Box. Tonight the Buffalo Sabres try and snap out of their funk against...
It has been far from easy for Brian Flynn on his trip to the NHL. He wasn’t highly recruited while playing high school ...
The Sabres tried to pawn off last year’s failure to make the playoffs as injury related. To a point that was true, but ...
Tyler Ennis was not at practice on Monday. Ron Rolston said he got stiches in the forehead, but does not have a concussion. R...
The Sabres start the game in Philadelphia in 14th in the East, six points from a playoff spot. As teams play their games in h...
Both Andrej Sekera and Tyler Ennis are nursing minor injuries and took the morning skate. Sekera told me he expects warm up t...
The Rochester Americans blasted the Abbotsford Heat on Friday night 5-0, giving new head coach Chadd Cassidy his first &ldquo...
Brian Flynn gives the Sabres another small body for their lineup to go with Nathan Gerbe, Tyler Ennis, Jason Pominville, Andr...
When the Buffalo Sabres take on the Philadelphia Flyers on Sunday, they'll likely do it without both Ville Leino and Andr...
Jhonas Enroth breaks Ryan Miller’s string of 15 straight starts as he gets the call in goal tonight in New Jersey.Enrot...
(WGR - Bulldog)The Sabres Halfway To Where?The 2013 Buffalo Sabres are halfway to somewhere. Where that is exactly is tough t...
If you sit in the lower bowl of some arenas, you can hear the players talking to each other during the play. The Buffalo Sabr...
Thomas Vanek came back after missing two games with an upper body injury and got six shifts for 4:49 of action in the first 2...
Thomas Vanek and T.J. Brennan will return to the Sabres lineup in Carolina. Adam Pardy will be the healthy scratch.Vanek retu...
Sabre F Pat Kaleta suspended for his hit from behind on Ranger F Brad Richards Sunday night in New York during the third peri...
Ryan Miller leads the NHL in minutes played so he could use the day off Ron Rolston gave the team on Monday.Miller has been i...
So I've been trying to think of a name for the Rochester Americans' top defensive pairing of Brayden McNabb and Mark ...
I was wondering what kind of energy the Sabres would have on back to back games and three games in four days.My answer came e...
With back to back games and three games in four days, the Sabres elected not to have a morning skate. They gathered for a mee...
Welcome yet again into the Ted Darling Memorial Press Box, where the Buffalo Sabres are trying to make it three wins in a row...
The Sabres have called up winger Brian Flynn from Rochester. Thomas Vanek didn’t practice on Friday and coach Ron Rolst...
Jhonas Enroth has not played a game for Ron Rolston. As a matter of fact, his last game was a loss on February 5th in Ottawa....
Marcus Foligno was cruising right along last season. In his first career game at Ottawa, he didn’t get a point, but in ...
It was an interesting first period to say the least. In the first 20 minutes, the Sabres blew a two goal lead, but immediatel...
Marcus Foligno has looked nothing like what he did last season when he was called up and Ron Rolston has seen enough. John Sc...
Four points out of a playoff spot versus 15th place - Should I be looking for the Sabres to go on a run to 8th place? Should ...
The Sabres got away with winning a game with only two goals, but if they want to put together a streak, scoring must improve....
Many have been questioning why Ron Rolston sees so much more wrong with the Sabres than Lindy Ruff did. Rolston said that&rsq...
The buzzword for Ron Rolston and his crew the past few days has been the pace. Rolston has been looking to quicken the pace. ...
Ron Rolston isn’t making any changes to the forwards as the Sabres are in Tampa tonight. That means John Scott sits.Ada...
The Sabres own the worst record in the East and second worst record in the NHL. With this being a shortened schedule, games a...
Thomas Vanek didn’t practice on Monday along with Alex Sulzer, Jordan Leopold and Ville Leino. Leino took the ice after...
The Sabres start wasn’t horrible and it wasn’t anything special.They provided their usual turnover right off the ...
Hello, and welcome once again into the Ted Darling Memorial Press Box at First Niagara Center. Well...since I last joined you...
The Sabres host the Islanders tonight knowing they're two points from being the worst team in the National Hockey League....
Ron Rolston says he’s nervous before every game so he’s not expecting his first NHL game behind the bench for the...
The Buffalo Sabres have named Ron Rolston as their interim head coach.The team firing long-time head coach Lindy Ruff after w...
When the Buffalo Sabres acquired Steve Ott and Adam Pardy from the Dallas Stars in exchange for Derek Roy, most people in Wes...
It isn't often that a team loses its two top scorers and starts winning like crazy. But that's the case with the Roch...
When Connor Knapp made the Rochester Americans' roster coming out of training camp, he probably figured the team would br...
Instability is the name of the game in the American Hockey League, but this season has been especially rocky. The lockout kep...
Darcy Regier walked into the locker room with a grin on his face. It became a full smile when he got to Adam Pardy, who was t...
Zemgus Girgensons can't cook. He says if not for his roommate Jonathan Parker, he would be stuck eating Lean Cuisines. Oh...
The end of the National Hockey League lockout brings with it uncertainty in the American Hockey League.How many players will ...
When Cody Hodgson was traded from Vancouver to Buffalo, Canucks management, media and fans had one message for the 22-year-ol...
The Rochester Americans defeated the Lake Erie Monsters at First Niagara Center in front of 19,040 fans – the largest c...
The Amerks come into Buffalo Friday night with a 5-3-1 record lately. The team has 31 points which is fourth in the North Div...
It wasn't pretty, but they'll take it.The Rochester Americans allowed five goals on 39 shots to the Binghamton Senato...
After the Rochester Americans' 4-3 shootout loss to the Toronto Marlies on Saturday night, center Cody Hodgson said he wi...
No skill is more important when it comes to winning a shootout than competitiveness – maybe that's why no goaltende...
Connor Knapp earned every bit of his first career win.Knapp stopped 41 shots to lead the Rochester Americans over the Adirond...
Phil Varone is wearing a San Francisco Giants hat, but he's really a Toronto Blue Jays fan. He grew up in Vaughan, Ontari...
It would be correct to allocate one finger to point at injuries to explain the Rochester Americans’ second no-show in t...
There were a lot of two-word answers in the Rochester Americans' locker room on Wednesday night.Head coach Ron Rolston an...
Connor Knapp didn’t get a whole lot of help in his first career start at home. The Rochester Americans were disappointi...
David Leggio slides himself out to a point just above the crease. He settles there, looking a little bit like an Olympic gymn...
Luke Adam had a message the Rochester Americans' coaching staff and the Buffalo Sabres' organization on Friday night:...
For Luke Adam, Friday night is a crossroads. It may very well end up being the night that he looks back on as the one that sa...
“From Vanek, to Gragnani....on to the corner to Roy....Roy looks back to Gragnani....Gragnani tried to pass it back to ...
It may not have been a highlight reel goal, but Zemgus Girgensons prefers it that way.The Buffalo Sabres' first-round dra...
Twelve months ago, Evan Rankin was playing in the ECHL – a league where the minimum salary is $425 per week.Last we...
The NHL lockout prevented Mark Pysyk from working alongside the Buffalo Sabres during the pre-season but despite that disappo...
It took a little more than seven periods, but the Rochester Americans finally remembered how good they can be. And when they ...
Corey Tropp got two full periods in and a little bit of the third on Friday before injuring his knee. He'll finish the se...
Mark Mancari emerged from the tunnel to a roar. He waived his long arms like Ray Lewis giving a pre-game speech, then chucked...
Phil Varone isn't very big. At 5-foot-10 and 186 pounds, he looks more like a high school wrestler than a hockey player. ...
The Rochester Americans opened their two-game pre-season on Wednesday with a 4-3 loss to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a...
Drew Schiestel sat at his locker looking up. He wasn't really smiling, but for the first time all season, he didn't h...
Multiple sources have told WGR Sports Radio 550 that the Amerks have let go assistant coach Jay McKee.The former Sabres defen...
In this year's Stanley Cup Final series between the Devils and Kings we were guaranteed to have an American raising the C...
Jay McKee was trying hard to be polite. With every question, he made an effort to form his lips into a smile, but at that mom...
While most Buffalo Sabres players were failing to meet expectations, Marcus Foligno and Brayden McNabb were setting them.When...
When the Buffalo Sabres hired Ron Rolston to be the head coach of the Rochester Americans, they had one thing in mind: player...
The Rochester Americans' season is over.The Toronto Marlies were simply too good for the Buffalo Sabres' American Hoc...
Corey Tropp had no time to feel sorry for himself or the Sabres when they were eliminated from playoff contention in the seco...
The Rochester Americans are officially in the Calder Cup Playoffs.The Buffalo Sabres' American Hockey League team will be...
The Rochester Americans' playoff hopes continue to swing from “in” to “out” quicker than a pendul...
Sometimes all a hockey player needs is a chance.It took Rochester Americans' forward Evan Rankin until he was 25-years-ol...
With some players, you take the good with the bad. You accept the turnovers because you get the goals. You shrug your shoulde...
Tyler Myers returns to the Sabres line-up after serving a three game suspension. Still don’t know which defenseman is g...
For Rochester Americans' goalie David Leggio, asking captain Colin Stuart for advice was as easy as Eddie Vedder turning ...
The NHL's trade deadline brought good news and bad news for Rochester Americans' head coach Ron Rolston.First, the go...
Saturday night was the first time in two weeks that Marcus Foligno played without a full cage. He's back to a standard-is...
If there's been one problem with the Rochester Americans this season, it's been consistency. Last weekend, they won a...
At least one Pegula-owned team still has a chance to make the playoffs.After a 6-2 win over the Lake Erie Monsters Friday nig...
For the first time in his career, Buffalo Sabres' rookie Luke Adam experienced failure.He was sent down to the minor leag...
When Derek Roy scored with 34 seconds left, the Rochester Americans exhaled. When Nathan Gerbe finished off a 3-2 win for the...
While he may be only a few years older than the actors on Hanna Montana and has a boyish grin and curly hair generally reserv...
For the last two years, fans in Buffalo have viewed former 13th overall pick Zack Kassian as the type of player they've b...
The Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans are going in different directions. Never has it been more evident than onFriday ni...
0:00Shaone Morrisonn skates hard up the ice, arriving just in time. Evan Rankin has just taken a low slap shot. There it is, ...
It's often been joked this season that the team on the ice at First Niagara Center should be called the “Rochester Sabr...
Marcus Foligno has the house to himself these days. Figuratively and literally.Figuratively speaking, Foligno is the only one...
Derek Whitmore sits down in front of his locker. He stares down for a second before looking up at the small group of smiling ...
As if the Sabres didn't already have enough injuries, defenseman Robyn Regehr left Friday night's game against the Columbus B...
With hype comes great expectations. That's what's on the shoulders of former first-round draft pick Zack Kassian this weekend...
The Rochester Americans have been on a tear lately. Wednesday night, the Amerks won their fourth in a row. The team's chemist...
There are high expectations for Zack Kassian. Wait, no. There are crazy high expectations for Zack Kassian.The Sabres' top pr...
Jay McKee always stood out.During his playing days, the 6-foot-4 defenseman was enormous and tough as hell. He also played a ...
The Rochester Americans didn't get off to the start they wanted under the ownership of Terry Pegula.The Amerks lost their fir...
Wednesday night, “Hockey Heaven” officially extended down I-90 to Rochester.It should come as no surprise that Bu...
KevinOklobzija from the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle is reporting that the Sabre have found the coach for the Amerks; Ron...
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Despite the win in Tampa, the Buffalo Sabres have a number of problems to solve. The main one being, of course, their record....
On Thursday morning, everyone at Blue Cross Arena had the same look on their face. From team employees to players to new Roch...
The NHL lockout prevented Mark Pysyk from working alongside the Buffalo Sabres during the pre-season but despite that disappo...
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