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'Not only do the Sabres have the longest active playoff drought in the NHL, missing the postseason every season since 2011, but they have also seen organizational turnover at a rate similar to the biggest basement dwellers across professional sports.' … [Read more...] about The Sabres are in rare, unwanted company in the sports world

'The 20-year-old has spent the past three seasons playing professionally for Ilves in the Finnish Liiga, appearing in 113 games while scoring five goals and registering 35 assists for 40 points. His best season came in the 2018-19 season, where he scored three goals and put up 21 assists for 24 points in 46 games. This past season, Laaksonen dealt with some injuries throughout … [Read more...] about Sabres sign Laaksonen to three-year entry-level contract

'In his final 32 games played this season, Lazar established himself as a very reliable depth player on the Buffalo roster, while also scoring four goals and registering five assists for nine points. He ended up becoming one of their more efficient faceoff guys, and found himself playing in other key roles like on the penalty kill.' … [Read more...] about Lazar named Sabres’ nominee for Masterton Memorial Trophy

'After a slow start in Rochester this season, Pilut ended up re-gaining his form and putting up six goals and 17 assists for 23 points in 37 games. However, Pilut went pointless in 13 games in the NHL with the Sabres and ended up finding himself in-and-out of the lineup just before the shutdown of the season due to the coronavirus pandemic.' … [Read more...] about Pilut signs two-year deal with Traktor Chelyabinsk in the KHL

'In his four years in Buffalo, Okposo has not been able to stay completely healthy, only playing in 271 of a possible 315 games. In that time, he has scored 57 goals and registered 80 assists for 137 points.' … [Read more...] about Okposo undergoes successful knee surgery

'"We don't think after these 11 weeks that there's one player who isn't embracing the journey. That's how I sit here after one year. Encouraged by a lot of signs, encouraged by the buy in, encouraged by the culture we're evolving and growing into and the habits that are forming. But we're extremely disappointed with our placing after a season that saw us quite competitive on … [Read more...] about Krueger knows there’s pain and anger, but feels ‘so many positives’ after Year 1

'"I think at this point, you've got to take a lot of the positives and a lot of things that have gotten better for us this year," Reinhart said. "We know it's not what we ultimately wanted, a disappointing ending, for sure. However, all we can do right now is focus on the things that went well and really try to utilize this long offseason to our advantage. It's all how you … [Read more...] about Reinhart not worried about his next contract

'One area of Buffalo's game that Eichel thinks has to improve and develop some consistency for net season is the team's ability to hold on to a lead and solidify their play when it matters most.' … [Read more...] about Eichel is ‘fed up with the losing’

'"If I think [about] my whole career in Buffalo and before I came to Buffalo, I'm not sure if I've ever been [part of] a team where's there's been a winning culture," Ristolainen admitted. "Sometimes you ask the question, 'what is it?' I mean, I haven't seen it before or in Buffalo. This year, we built our culture a little bit better than the previous years, but I don't know if … [Read more...] about Ristolainen: I have never been part of a winning culture

'"I've been reflecting pretty much since I came home here in Sweden, and especially now that we couldn't make the 24 best [teams] in the league," Dahlin said. "It's tough to be here in Sweden when all my Swedish buddies are going back and playing and I'm staying here at home, back in Sweden and not playing. It pisses me off a little bit actually to not play now."' … [Read more...] about Dahlin ‘pissed off’ about not playing again this season

'They have very little offensive firepower after the top line, and limited depth across the roster. A mess of a salary cap situation and barren prospect pool doesn't offer a lot of reinforcements.' … [Read more...] about Freaky Friday 2 starring the Buffalo Bills and Buffalo Sabres

'"At the end of the day, we should have put ourselves in a better position. I think in the five or six games leading up to the start of the pause, we played well, but we didn't get the results that we wanted. In a situation when you get into February, March and April, you have to get results. We didn't get that."' … [Read more...] about Botterill: ‘At the end of the day, it’s our fault that we didn’t win more games’

'"It was tough navigating it because these are crazy times," McCabe said during his end-of-season press conference on Wednesday via a Zoom conference call. "Any format that we decided upon and voted upon, there's obviously going to be some push back. It's an imperfect situation and it's an imperfect format, no matter how you look at it or which way you go about it, but … [Read more...] about McCabe disappointed in the way the 2019-20 season ended

'Lawrence Pilut, who has had a tough time getting minutes with the Sabres in the past two seasons, is reportedly considering leaving for the Kontinental Hockey League in Russia, according to Russian reporter Igor Zhukov.' … [Read more...] about Report: Lawrence Pilut is considering leaving for the KHL

'It’s mostly about what's happened with the franchise in his tenure, but Kim Pegula’s comments only added to my ire. The Sabres team president and co-owner told the Associated Press on Tuesday, “I realize, maybe it’s not popular with the fans, but we have to do the things that we feel are right” in explaining the reasoning for keeping Botterill for a fourth season. Pegula … [Read more...] about Continuity is a bad idea for the Sabres