Earlier this month, THW's Mike Coll…
Pittsburgh PenguinsIt’s been no secret these days that the Buffalo Sabres are in a rebuild. Not that anyone in the front office will formally say it but when you start trading away veterans and acquiring draft picks, it’s pretty transparent no matter what type of image you’re trying to maintain. One of the casualties of the ...
The definition of futility according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary: Futility – 1. The quality or state of being; 2. A useless act or gesture For the sport of hockey, futility is a real dirty word. After over a week of collecting myself after the Canucks’ miserable end to Round 1 of the 2013 Stanley Cup ...
Devan Dubnyk isn’t a bad goalie. On some nights, he’s a very good goalie. He’s played his entire NHL career on a bad team, and thus it’s difficult to measure he’s ability to be a number starter in the league. The Oilers haven’t decided, at least not publicly, whether or not Dubnyk is their guy ...
Given all that happened for the Buffalo Sabres during the shortened 2012/13 NHL season, it ended on a fairly high note. Granted, they’d dug themselves such a deep hole that it proved too much to emerge from, missing the playoffs for the second year in a row and raising plenty of questions. Still, their play ...
Perhaps to the dismay of Sabres fans it is official. Ron Rolston has had the interim tag removed and is the 16th coach in the history of the Buffalo Sabres, joining the likes of Scotty Bowman, Punch Imlach and Ted Nolan to name a few. Why He’s The Guy Rolston took over the bench from ...
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 ...
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?
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, ...
