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Joe Buscaglia and Matthew Coller's new podcast talking everything analytics from scouting to advanced stats. They take a ...
Clearly one of Ron Rolston’s jobs is to win hockey games. However, with the Sabres talking more about the long term, an...
There's no sugar coating it, so I'll be blunt: A deeper look into the Buffalo Sabres' statistics during the 2013 ...
With this being the penultimate game of the season, I felt it was the perfect time for one more round of who’s hot and ...
Now that its official and we know the Sabres will be spectators come playoff time for the second straight season, you might b...
It’s been a long time since Tyler Ennis has been involved in the scoring and not the scoring against. Ennis was pointle...
The Sabres have won three in a row, but they’ve done it without Jason Pominville and Thomas Vanek and they’ve don...
The Buffalo Sabres are starting to look like the team they should have been all year.Amazing how that works, right?You add tw...
The Sabres DID NOT pick up where they left offin Pittsburghas the Sens had the better of the play to start. Or course they mi...
With Jordan Leopold now in St. Louis, the ice time he received will go to others. First, it’ll be Mark Pysyk getting a ...
The Sabres got good goaltending and some pretty inspired play for 20 minutes. The question is, can it last for 60? Very often...
The Sabres walked into Montreal on Tuesday and beat the red hot Canadiens thanks to a Steve Ott overtime goal.The Habs have e...
The Sabres battled back from a pair of two-goal deficits on Thursday and picked up a 5-4 shootout win over the Maple Leafs. S...
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 ...
With the Sabres taking the day off mandated by the Collective Bargaining Agreement, today would be a good day to discuss wher...
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...
Marcus Foligno scored twice and Jhonas Enroth came up with 32 saves, lifting the Sabres (10-14-3, 23 pts.) to a 3-1 victory o...
It has been far from easy for Brian Flynn on his trip to the NHL. He wasn’t highly recruited while playing high school ...
During the second period of Sunday evening's game between the Rochester Americans and Abbotsford Heat, Amerks forward Mat...
The Sabres tried to pawn off last year’s failure to make the playoffs as injury related. To a point that was true, but ...
Brian Flynn gives the Sabres another small body for their lineup to go with Nathan Gerbe, Tyler Ennis, Jason Pominville, Andr...
Corey Tropp sat on top of the boards in front of the vistor's bench at the Sports Centre at Monroe Community College in R...
I’d call it a sophomore slump but technically Marcus Foligno is still a rookie. It might not seem that way since Folign...
One of the biggest criticisms of Lindy Ruff was that he struggled to figure out the right roles for the players on his roster...
Not only did Marcus Foligno get back into the lineup after a one game benching, but he went to left wing with Cody Hodgson an...
Marcus Foligno was cruising right along last season. In his first career game at Ottawa, he didn’t get a point, but in ...
Marcus Foligno has looked nothing like what he did last season when he was called up and Ron Rolston has seen enough. John Sc...
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...
On Thursday night, Sabres fans will experience something for the first time in more than 21 years. They'll see how their ...
If the Sabres have any chance of going on a streak and getting themselves in the playoffs, the power play has to be better.Co...
The answer is way simpler than you think: Do nothing.At practice on Tuesday morning, he was skating with John Scott and Cody ...
Without a practice sandwiched in between their loss to Pittsburgh on Sunday and their game tonight against Winnipeg, the Buff...
We saw the best and worst of Drew Stafford in the first period against the Bruins.It took just 3:24 in for Stafford to finall...
The Sabres are now dead last in the Eastern Conference and are just one point ahead of Columbus and Los Angeles for the basem...
Thomas Vanek scored twice in the final period, including the game-tying goal in the final seconds of regulation, and the Sabr...
A new mapping system of how NHL players are used may offer some insight as to why the Buffalo Sabres have struggled out of th...
With no goals in his first nine games, Drew Stafford is in the worst slump to start a season in his career. Stafford is and h...
Jhonas Enroth will get his second start of the season this evening in Ottawa. Ryan Miller's backup did play the third per...
A number of problems have emerged for the Buffalo Sabres through the first nine games of the season. Chief among them are lac...
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...
On the same day the Sabres opted to keep him with the big club, Mikhail Grigorenko scored the first goal of his NHL career, b...
Since the season opening five goal explosion in a win over the Philadelphia Flyers, the Buffalo Sabres offense has been, as H...
The Buffalo Sabres dropped their third straight contest on Sunday, and did it without top scorer Thomas Vanek because of a mu...
If the Sabres are to beat the Caps they’ll have to do it without their hottest player. Thomas Vanek is out with a muscl...
The Buffalo Sabres were back on the ice for practice following Friday night’s 3-1 loss to the Carolina Hurricanes. Afte...
Instability is the name of the game in the American Hockey League, but this season has been especially rocky. The lockout kep...
The Hurricanes scored three straight goals in the 3rd period, good enough for a 3-1 win over the Sabres on Friday. Thomas Van...
The Hurricanes scored two straight goals in the 3rd period, good enough for a 3-1 win over the Sabres on Friday. Thomas Vanek...
Thomas Vanek has played seven seasons for the Buffalo Sabres, never missing more than 11 games in one, and has averaged 33 go...
The Sabres put together a pretty complete game to start the season and it was pretty impressive to watch.Now let me stress, i...
Thomas Vanek was in on each Sabres goal as Buffalo bullied its way past Philadelphia 5-2 in Sunday's season opener. The S...
A 48-game season can be weird. One hot streak can turn a good player into a league MVP and some bad bounces can make a good p...
If the Buffalo Sabres are going to make the playoffs in this shortened NHL season, it’ll be because they found a way to...
While much of the talk at Sabres training camp has been on rookie Mikhail Grigorenko and his chances of earning the job of th...
The Sabres had another double session on Tuesday as training camp continues.Rookie Mikhail Grigorenko gets better every day. ...
On Monday night the Buffalo Sabres used their second day of training camp to hold a scrimmage, and while fans voiced their di...
Zemgus Girgensons can't cook. He says if not for his roommate Jonathan Parker, he would be stuck eating Lean Cuisines. Oh...
The writing is, quite literally, on the wall for Luke Adam.After Friday night's Rochester Amerks loss to the Syracuse Cru...
The end of the National Hockey League lockout brings with it uncertainty in the American Hockey League.How many players will ...
The Rochester Americans will play the Lake Erie Monsters at First Niagara Center on Friday night. To preview the game, I take...
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...
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...
There is no question that the ones most hurt by the National Hockey League lockout are fans, arena employees and local busine...
It took a little more than seven periods, but the Rochester Americans finally remembered how good they can be. And when they ...
Mark Mancari emerged from the tunnel to a roar. He waived his long arms like Ray Lewis giving a pre-game speech, then chucked...
There was very little chance that Marcus Foligno was going to play in the AHL this season. He did his time in Rochester and s...
Lindy Ruff and Darcy Regier have had to live through one lockout and now they’re into another.During the first one, Tom...
The Rochester Americans opened their two-game pre-season on Wednesday with a 4-3 loss to the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins a...
The Rochester Americans continue to try to fill the void left by the Sabres during the NHL lockout. The Amerks will open trai...
The Sabres have signed their last free agent as Tyler Ennis, who was restricted gets a two year deal. Sabres GM Darcy Regier ...
The Sabres announced the team has loaned the following 20 players to Rochester.Going down are forwards Luke Adam, Riley Boych...
While it's possible there could be a move in the works, it appears the current Buffalo Sabres roster is likely the one we...
Ever since the season ended I had wondered if Pat Kaleta would get any more than a one year deal from the Sabres or maybe eve...
Most Sabres fans, I believe, feel the team could use a player like Shane Doan. Respected, veteran leader type who can show th...
What a difference it's been from one year to the next for young Buffalo Sabres forward Marcus Foligno.This time last year...
Some of the newest and youngest members of the Buffalo Sabres organization will get their first taste of skating, while other...
Sabres President Ted Black announced on Sabres Hockey Hotline that developmental camp will be held at the Center starting Mon...
Darcy Regier and Lindy Ruff have finally seen, that their core group of players that they’ve been trying to count on si...
The Columbus Blue Jackets have traded defensman Marc Methot for forward Nick Foligno of the Ottawa Senators.While the Blue Ja...
With the beginning of the NHL's free agency period just days away, trade rumors are out in full force. Multiple rumors th...
Buffalo Sabres' fans have several months to think about what went wrong. Was it the injuries? Was it a combative relation...
The Sabres show up in Pittsburgh with four picks in the top 44. Buffalo is scheduled to select 12th, 21st, 42nd and 44th. The...
The season that sometimes feels as though it will never end finally did last night with the Kings winning their first Stanley...
After spending a few days watching future NHL players workout in Toronto let’s pick up how one of the current Sabres is...
Buffalo Sabres' fans have several months to think about what went wrong. Was it the injuries? Was it a combative relation...
The NHL Playoffs are wearing me out this year. I've been thinking about the reasons for this. Some of them have come up o...
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...
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 have fallen behind two games to none in their best-of-five series against the Toronto Marlies in the ...
The NHL has announced its three finalists for the Calder Trophy which is Rookie of the Year.Last year’s number one over...
Preparation for the NHL Draft has its own wrinkle...you have a pipeline. As the Sabres get set to revamp the roster in June, ...
The Rochester Americans are officially in the Calder Cup Playoffs.The Buffalo Sabres' American Hockey League team will be...
Yes Ted Black told John Wawrow today and he will tell Howard Simon on Thursday that Darcy Regier and Lindy Ruff will be back ...
This is the first in a weekly series designed to prepare you for the upcoming NHL Entry Draft. Jeremy White of WGR and Kris B...
Going into today’s game in Boston I don’t think there are too many players on this team that want to play this ga...
When Terry Pegula purchased the Rochester Americans in mid-June, he proclaimed that his two goals for the team were to develo...
The Sabres practiced hard for one hour at Boston University. Lindy Ruff twice addressed the team for a long time. I'll ha...
We all know by now that the Sabres have to finish the regular season without Christian Ehrhoff, Tyler Myers and Jochen Hecht....
There couldn’t have been many more ups and downs than Tuesday’s 6-5 come from behind victory over the Leafs. Buff...
Marcus Foligno's work on Mike Komisarek gets the puck to the front ofthe net...the official uses his Superman X-ray visio...
Thom Cich reportingThe Buffalo Sabres overcame a 3-0 first period deficit to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs 6-5 in overtime and...
My focus tonight was going to be on special teams and how the Sabres have not done well on them, but after the first period I...
Normally the Sabres would be looking for revenge against the Leafs after their embarrassing loss in Toronto Saturday, but now...
Marcus Foligno didn’t play all 16 games in the month of March, but it was still good enough to be named NHL rookie of t...
Sidney Crosby racked up four points and the Penguins hung on for a 5-3 win over the Sabres on Friday. Buffalo remains tied wi...
It doesn’t get any easier for the Sabres as the Caps held serve winning in Boston.That puts Washington and Buffalo at 8...
It doesn’t get any easier for the Sabres as the Caps held serve winning in Boston.That puts Washington and Buffalo at 8...
Ville Leino hasn’t lived up to what the Sabres said they were getting and what the fans were expecting. Heading into Fr...
We shouldn’t be surprised with Marcus Foligno’s early success in the NHL, should we? He has the bloodlines going ...
Entering Tuesday's matchup against Montreal, Drew Stafford was on his hottest streak of the season with two goals and sev...
When all is said and done, if the Sabres miss out on the playoffs, injuries will be cited as one of the reasons. An injury to...
Most of the Buffalo Sabres stayed off of the ice on Tuesday afternoon when the team met at First Niagara Center. Only a small...
For the second straight game, the Sabres gave up a game-tying goal in the final seconds of the 3rd period this time to Colora...
The Buffalo Sabreslooked like they had the Montreal CanadiensdefeatedMonday night, but withfourseconds remaining David Deshar...
Just like many periods this season, the Sabres had many chances, but couldn’t beat the other team’s back-up goali...
Since many fans are trying to rush the whole Amerk team into the NHL I thought I have no choice than to follow Marcus Foligno...
Since many fans are trying to rush the whole Amerk team into the NHL I thought I have no choice than to follow Marcus Foligno...
The Buffalo Sabres overcame 3 one-goal deficits to defeat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 in a shootout on Saturday night at Scotiaba...
As usual this time of year Lindy Ruff would not reveal his line-up. He said both Thomas Vanek and Pat Kaleta are “iffy&...
For Rochester Americans' goalie David Leggio, asking captain Colin Stuart for advice was as easy as Eddie Vedder turning ...
The Sabres are in Buffalo for about 33 hours and get to play one game tonight against Carolina.Ryan Miller will play in his 2...
Back in December, you never would have guessed Phil Varone would lead the Rochester Americans in scoring. You couldn't ha...
Ryan Miller has been recognized for his red hot streak leading the Sabres to the brink of a playoff spot. Miller is the NHL&r...
Robyn Regehr was the only Sabre to skate Sunday as they Sabres get ready for the Jets on Monday. Regehr is good enough to sen...
The Sabres have called up winger Marcus Foligno from Rochester. With Robyn Regehr suffering a “mid to lower body injury...
What a strange end to trade deadline day. The clock struck 3, so Brad Riter, Brian Duff and I handed things over to Schopp an...
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...
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...
The Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans are going in different directions. Never has it been more evident than onFriday ni...
We’re spending time on the show this week reviewing the top sports stories of the year both national and local. For me,...
The Sabres got in late this morning from Ottawa so practice wasn’t until the afternoon in Toronto. Thomas Vanek and Pau...
With more injuries, this time to Tyler Ennis and Colin Stuart, the Sabres had to bring two more up. Both Marcus Foligno and R...
With two more guys out and two new players up from Rochester, Lindy Ruff is forced to shuffle his lines again.Derek Roy will ...
Derek Whitmore and Marcus Foligno have been called up by the Buffalo Sabres in the wake of the teams continuing injury proble...
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...
The Buffalo Sabres announced Monday they have signed current Rochester Americans defenseman Joe Finley to a multi-year contra...
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...
Let's get this out of the way right now: Zack Kassian is not coming to the rescue.Saturday night against the Bruins, forward ...
There are high expectations for Zack Kassian. Wait, no. There are crazy high expectations for Zack Kassian.The Sabres' top pr...
With the NHLsuspending Buffalo Sabres forward Patrick Kaleta for four games the team has called up forward Corey Tropp from ...
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...
Ales Kotalik and Shaone Morrisonn both cleared waivers and have been sent to Rochester of the AHLon Monday. No team made a cl...
All the goals and disallowed goals in that period were from right around the crease. Paul Gaustad, Nathan Gerbe and Pat Kalet...
Not a bad period for the Sabres, but with the rebounds James Reimers is giving out they should be up a lot more. They did get...
That was a much better period for the Sabres than the first period against Carolina. Due to a customs agent which held the te...
When fans of the Buffalo Sabres start speaking about the youth of the organization, it gets them fairly excited.The names rol...
The Sabres will have a pretty veteran lineup Monday against the Hurricanes. TheRochesterguys this evening include Derek Whitm...
The Buffalo Sabres prospects won the Traverse City Prospects tournament in convincing fashion. A 5-2 win over the Rangers in ...
In September the Sabres prospects will head off to Traverse City, Michigan to play in a tournament hosted by the Detroit Red ...
While many of the Buffalo Sabres’ prospects go home to continue their summer workouts following the team’s develo...
Brayden McNabb signed his NHL entry-level contract nearly two months ago and as Sabres development camp starts to wind down a...
Marcus Foligno has a lot to live up to. With an older brother playing for the Senators and a father who was a Sabres captain ...
The NHL Draft begins Friday and normally for Sabres fans it is a day to watch other teams make trades while the hometown team...
The newest signee of the Buffalo Sabres organization and the son of a former Sabres player, Marcus Foligno is excited to be a...
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I’d call it a sophomore slump but technically Marcus Foligno is still a rookie.It might not seem that way since Foligno...
I’d call it a sophomore slump but technically Marcus Foligno is still a rookie. It might not seem that way since Folign...
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 night, Sabres fans will experience something for the first time in more than 21 years. They'll see how their ...
A number of problems have emerged for the Buffalo Sabres through the first nine games of the season. Chief among them are lac...
Since the season opening five goal explosion in a win over the Philadelphia Flyers, the Buffalo Sabres offense has been, as H...
While much of the talk at Sabres training camp has been on rookie Mikhail Grigorenko and his chances of earning the job of th...
We shouldn’t be surprised with Marcus Foligno’s early success in the NHL, should we? He has the bloodlines going ...
When all is said and done, if the Sabres miss out on the playoffs, injuries will be cited as one of the reasons. An injury to...
We’re spending time on the show this week reviewing the top sports stories of the year both national and local. For me,...
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