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'Beaulieu is not quitting and he's not going to give up. He said, “The biggest thing for me is to keep grinding away. I’m proud to be a Buffalo Sabre and my main message is I just want to be out there.”' … [Read more...] about Sabres’ Beaulieu is about playing, not being traded

'Leier is one year older than Bailey and was the Flyers' fourth round pick in 2012. His NHL numbers are pretty close to Bailey’s, scoring two goals and five assists for seven points in 55 games.' … [Read more...] about The Sabres trade Justin Bailey to the Flyers

'Eichel was able to carry the puck into the offensive zone in the 3-on-3 overtime session and beat Rittich with a wrist shot into the top corner of the net. The captain's 16th goal of the season was the game-winning goal, giving the Sabres the 4-3 victory.' … [Read more...] about Sabres storm back for 4-3 overtime win in Calgary

'It may not be fair, but Eichel wants that pressure. He wants people to look to him to be the clutch player. I asked him if he agreed with me and he did, "When things aren’t going well you want to be one of the guys to make a difference. Hopefully that goal can get me going again and it’s just what I needed."' … [Read more...] about Sabres’ Eichel came through when it meant the most

'"I think as a group we probably weren't the most confident after losing 7-2 in Edmonton. But I think when you just put your head down and work like we did tonight it just goes to show what you can do. This is a game we should use moving forward as a building block of what we can do every night to give ourselves the best chance to win."' … [Read more...] about From the Locker Room: Sabres-Flames

'An increase in ice-time may be hard to come by. Beaulieu has been a rotational player on the Sabres blue line this season, playing in just 26 of Buffalo's 46 games, while being surpassed by Lawrence Pilut in the lineup. Beaulieu has three goals and four assists this season. He is a pending restricted free agent.' … [Read more...] about Report: Sabres defenseman Beaulieu has requested a trade

'"I think he likes it [in Buffalo]. That's a positive. I think his family likes going to be able to watch him play more. Those are the intangibles that you can't measure, but you're talking between $9 and $10 million a year. You can't blow smoke with the fact that he's scored this many goals and has finally revealed that talent we saw early in Carolina, and now that he's … [Read more...] about Shannon: Skinner could cost the Sabres ‘between $9 and $10 million’ per-year

'Pominville said the video session was uncomfortable, but had to happen, “Video like that is never fun, but I think it’s good to go through that and it helps us move forward and really see the stuff that we haven’t been doing well lately.”' … [Read more...] about Sabres’ Housley took the team through a not so fun video session

'The Sabres pulled within a goal at 8:57 of the first on Evan Rodrigues' 3rd of the season, but Connor McDavid made it 4-2 in the opening minute of the 2nd and Edmonton never looked back. Milan Lucic put the Oilers up 5-2 about 4:30 later, ending Hutton's night. Linus Ullmark came off the bench for Buffalo and kept the Oilers out of the net for the rest of the 2nd period, but … [Read more...] about Oilers rout Sabres 7-2

'You can’t have players who aren’t under duress just handing the puck to the opponent in front of the net. To me the defensive effort was a lack of concentration and if Phil Housley doesn’t get to the bottom of that in a big hurry, it’s going to be too late.' … [Read more...] about The Sabres may have hit rock bottom

'"I thought we established our game pretty good early. In the second period we had some good cycling. It just seemed like when we weren't able to get one, they were able to get one. Their scoring was more timely than ours. It's frustrating. It's a rough patch for our group right now and we just have to find a way out of it. We have to stick together, that's the biggest thing. … [Read more...] about From the Locker Room: Sabres-Oilers

'Sergachev drew blood, so he was assessed a four-minute high sticking penalty, while Larsson went for cross-checking.' … [Read more...] about Tampa Bay’s Sergachev gets fined by the NHL for cross-checking Larsson

'Stamkos' second point of the night resulted in his 24th goal of the season and gave Tampa their first lead since the opening period. It came with each team a man down. Sergachev was serving a double minor for high sticking, with Jack Eichel was penalized for elbowing. Ryan Callahan incresed the lead to 5-3 for the Lightning with just over a minute to go in regulation.' … [Read more...] about Lightning storm back for 5-3 win over Sabres

'Kyle Okposo has two goals and three points in his last five games. He credits Larsson in helping his game, “I think Larry has been playing well all season and he does a really good job in the defensive zone and coming low to support the puck he he’s been creating that momentum up the ice which makes it easy for him to get you the puck and then he comes up with speed through … [Read more...] about Sabres’ Larsson has been adding a bit of offense to his defense

'"We just have to regroup and go to Edmonton, we have a few games on the road here before the break."' … [Read more...] about From the Locker Room: Sabres-Lightning