What’s the best way to cap off a season in which you failed to make the Stanley Cup playoffs, fired your head coach and traded away your captain? How about angering an already disgruntled fanbase. That’s exactly what the Buffalo Sabres did with moves that collectively illustrate what not to do when managing PR for ...
It is finally official, the Buffalo Sabres disappointing season is over. The club gave the fans a little bit to cheer about going down the stretch as they finished 8-4 in the month of April, yet it was their poor performances in the other months of the season that did them in. The Sabres final ...
There may be two games left in the 2012/13 season, but for all intents and purposes, the season is over for the Buffalo Sabres. Technically, it was over with Friday night’s blowout loss to the New York Rangers on home ice, one that saw the Sabres limply fall into a 5-0 deficit, leaving the fans ...
Most Sabres fans were probably hoping for a better situation when they woke up on April 20. They had hoped that the Buffalo Sabres would have beaten the New York Rangers the night before and climbed to within two points of the eighth and final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference Standings. Alas, that was ...
They can’t. They won’t. They couldn’t possibly…. They did. In a game that they were supposed to lose, that would have even been acceptable to lose — and a game where fans may have even wanted them to lose — the Buffalo Sabres prevailed. Even when this team wins, they leave you scratching your head. ...
Things don’t seem so cut and dry in Buffalo anymore. A month ago, it seemed clear that not only would the Sabres not make the playoffs, but General Manager Darcy Regier would be shown the door the same way long-time coach Lindy Ruff was earlier in the season. After all, many believed Regier should have ...
For the Buffalo Sabres, it’s been easy to focus on the bad this year. So how about a look at the good?
A look at four players looking to make an impact for the Buffalo Sabres in the team’s final games with hopes of landing a spot on the 2013-14 squad.
While fans and analyst can point to several reasons why the team has struggled this season, the greatest catalyst for the Buffalo Sabres disappointing 2013 is their poor play on the power play and on the penalty kill. The Sabres rank dead last in the NHL when it comes to converting with the man advantage, ...
It’s been a tumultuous year for the Buffalo Sabres, to say the least. Facing injuries, inconsistency (or being consistently inconsistent), the firing of long-time head coach Lindy Ruff, and a myriad of other things, it hasn’t been easy to be apart of the franchise or its fan base. Hell, it has me longing for Bills ...
