Archives for April 2012

'Brad Boyes scored twice for the Sabres, who finished with 88 points—two behind the Capitals, who had one game to play.' … [Read more...] about Bergeron leads Bruins to 4-3 win over Buffalo

'Boston erased a 3-1 deficit in the third period with goals from Tyler Seguin -- his second of the game -- and Brad Marchand 2:25 apart.' … [Read more...] about Boston 4, Buffalo 3 (SO)

'Boston would not go down quietly, however, as Seguin's 2nd of the game cut the deficit to a goal about one minute after Pominville scored. About two and a half minutes later, Brad Marchand shoveled a shot past Enroth to tie the score 3-3. The two sides skated to a scoreless overtime before Patrice Bergeron notched the lone shootout goal to lift Boston to victory.' … [Read more...] about Bruins Close Out Sabres With 4-3 SO Win

'Last season the Sabres went on this big run and got away with it, no team in NHL history has done it two years in a row and the Sabres won’t be the first. Thomas Vanek said it best, “We’re here to lead this team and we failed. I needed to be one of the guys that needed to keep going and be a leader and I didn’t.”' … [Read more...] about This game shouldn’t be meaningless

'“It’s frustrating, it sucks any word you can find it’s out there. I think the standards have to be higher around here, we have to find a way to be better. It’s unacceptable to be out in the position that we’re in right now and disappointing we came up short.” Pominville added, “We gave ourselves a chance, we lost a game in a tough way where we had the lead and ended up losing, … [Read more...] about Pominville: The standards have to be higher around here

'Well, that’s all folks.' … [Read more...] about Bruins 4, Sabres 3 (SO)

Rochester Amerks defeat Hamilton Bulldogs (Rochester D&C) Rochester Amerks keep their faith (Rochester D&C) Loss to Rochester seals season for Dogs (Hamilton Spectator) With Sabres out, Can the Amerks make the playoffs? (WGR-AM) Amerks snap winless streak with 3-1 victory over Bulldogs (Amerks.com) Amerks sign defenseman Ryan Grimshaw to ATO (Amerks.com) Bulldogs' … [Read more...] about Sunday’s Rochester Coverage

'"Don't ever like losing. Don't ever like making the mistakes you made. The chance to make a difference and you didn't make a difference. You get an opportunity. You're paid to either score goals or prevent them if you're a defender. We had two-on-ones we didn't score. We had a two-on-one we went offside. That's unacceptable. It's game-on time. It's difference time. We've … [Read more...] about Sabres feel wrath of Ruff

'Rookie defensemen T.J. Brennan and Brayden McNabb are also expected to rejoin the Amerks, but the Sabres need them to fill out their blue line today in the season finale against Boston.' … [Read more...] about Amerks get a boost from parent club

'This year marks the sixth season in the past 10 the Sabres failed to make the playoffs, all of which — of course — under GM Darcy Regier and head coach Lindy Ruff. Ruff had a lot to do with his team's failure midway through the season. Regier failed to react quick enough, the same way his team failed to react when its star netminder was steamrolled in November, cost them … [Read more...] about Vital offseason in store for Sabres

'"Don’t ever like making the mistakes you made," he said in regards to the Sabres' 2-1 loss in Philadelphia Thursday. "The chance to make a difference, and you didn’t make the difference. You get an opportunity to get paid to score goals, and prevent them if you’re a defender. We had two-on-ones that we didn’t score. We had a two-on-one where we went offside. That’s … [Read more...] about Buffalo visits Boston for finale

'The Amerks, two points behind eighth-place Houston for the final Western Conference playoff spot, have five games remaining. They play Saturday in Hamilton and Sunday in Glens Falls.' … [Read more...] about Sabres assign rookies Foligno, Tropp to Rochester

Sabres thumbnails (Boston Globe) Bruins expect unexpected (Boston Herald) Boston Bruins close regular season against Buffalo Sabres (Quincy Patriot Ledger) Bruins not expecting grudge match (Metro West Daily News) Boston Bruins look to end regular season strong against Buffalo Sabres (Springfield Republican) Buffalo (39-32-10) at Boston (48-29-4) (AP) Buffalo Sabres … [Read more...] about Saturday’s Boston Coverage

'After practice Buffalo sent Marcus Foligno and Corey Tropp back top Rochester. The Amerks are trying to get into the playoffs with a little over a week left in the season. Rochester's in Hamilton Saturday and Glens Falls on Sunday.' … [Read more...] about Sabres send down two

'What if they didn’t set a franchise record with a 12 game road losing streak? 24 points up for grabs from December 17th in Pittsburgh through January 21st at St Louis and the Sabres got zero points. Injuries had taken a number of regulars out of the lineup but they managed to go 3-1-1 over that time in home games and you’d think they could have done better than score a … [Read more...] about What If?