WGR

'In danger of spiraling further and further down the standings, the Buffalo Sabres shocked one of the league's best, the Boston Bruins, inside TD Garden on Thursday night to the tune of a 3-1 final.' … [Read more...] about Sabres pull off big upset in Boston

'I think what’s more impressive is three of their best players, Rasmus Dahlin, Alex Tuch and Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen didn’t play due to injuries and illness.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: The Sabres had a good start, a good middle and a good ending to win in Boston

'“I’m pretty frustrated with my game and it’s been awhile now and obviously I haven’t found my game and I’m working on that every day and I’m trying to get back where I can impact this team in a positive way.”' … [Read more...] about Clifton very honest, upset with his play this season

'In order to make room for Robinson, the Sabres have assigned forward Brandon Biro back to the Rochester Americans.' … [Read more...] about Sabres acquire Eric Robinson from Columbus

'Once again, the Sabres found themselves trailing their opponent early in a contest.' … [Read more...] about Late Sabres rally not enough in loss to Red Wings

'Sabres head coach Don Granato said he has players that hold themselves accountable, but I don’t see how. They make the same mistakes over-and-over again.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: Sabres need to find different approach, because this one isn’t working

'"When you're missing top players, it's hard in this league. You can just look through the league, the parity in the league is incredible," said Granato during his weekly appearance on WGR with Jeremy White and Joe DiBiase. "For us, we've got to muscle through a stretch here of a lot of games, very little practice time-to-no practice time, and kind of a depleted forward group. … [Read more...] about Granato, Sabres have tough stretch given multiple injuries

'Buffalo's first goal of the game came nearly halfway through the second period on a penalty shot oppportunity. Victor Olofsson was tripped on a breakaway and awarded a penalty shot. The forward used a couple of moves on Juuse Saros to trim the deficit to 2-1 in the period.' … [Read more...] about Sabres fall behind early, cannot catch Nashville

'Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen was back in form making numerous great saves to hold his team in the game until they found their game, but this again needs to be bottom lined. It doesn’t matter what they did well, what matters is once again, they weren’t ready to play for the first 30 minutes of the game.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: The Sabres only put in 30 good minutes and it spelled a 2-1 loss to Nashville

'One step forward, two steps back. Such a promising start to the week (Monday night's 5-1 win at the Rangers) was followed up with two consecutive losses, both of which the Buffalo Sabres allowed six goals to their opponents.' … [Read more...] about Sabres allow six more goals in Carolina

'“I think we definitely play too soft, we’re too easy to play against and we need to get a little FU in our game. I think we had more of that last year and we’re way too soft this year, I feel like we don’t kill plays, we kind of get bullied and stuff and we need to be way harder to play against.”' … [Read more...] about Cozens says the Sabres are too soft and are too easy to play against

'"I think he’ll get better 5-on-5. It’s a big system change from man-on-man, and I still think that affects him," said Sabres head coach Don Granato. "It takes time, and he’s played it for a lot of years. Through reps and through games, that’s something that will resolve, in a sense that he’ll get better with it. But I do think it’s been a challenge for him, absolutely. So I … [Read more...] about Erik Johnson continues to try to settle in with new defensive system

'Despite owning zone possession and shot totals throughout the night, the Sabres found themselves trailing by multiple goals in an eventual 6-4 road loss to the St. Louis Blues at Enterprise Center.' … [Read more...] about Sabres lose doozy to Blues

'Offensively the Sabres absolutely dominated. They rolled four lines and each one of them would get a cycle going in the offensive zone for minutes and minutes. The Blues couldn’t handle the line of Jordan Greenway, Peyton Krebs and Kyle Okposo. They caused numerous turnovers by the Blues keeping pressure on goalie Jordan Binnington.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: The Blues were awful on Thursday, but were still good enough to beat the Sabres

'"It was a situation for Devon that maybe he was going to get in a game a week, and then we really aren’t going to have much practice time in December. This is all part of the process," said Adams on Wednesday. "We’re super excited about Devon and believe in him, and I just feel like this is an opportunity for him to get into a rhythm and get more sharpened up, even through … [Read more...] about Adams: Levi ‘positive’ in talks before leaving for Rochester