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'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

'With that in mind, rookie goalie Devon Levi needs to get game action and play. That's why the team announced Tuesday he’s been loaned to the Rochester Americans.' … [Read more...] about Luukkonen takes over crease for Sabres with Levi being loaned to Rochester

'"We obviously win Friday at home against Pittsburgh [Penguins], and come back with a lot of excitement, but Saturday's game was just flat out bad," said Granato on Tuesday during his weekly appearance on the "Jeremy and Joe Show" on WGR. "There's lots of ways to describe it in New Jersey. We had 48 hours to look at it. I was happy with the way our guys competed, they seemed to … [Read more...] about Granato pleased with players rising to challenges

'The blue and gold trekked to New York City on Monday and steamrolled the Metropolitan Division-leading New York Rangers by a final score of 5-1 at Madison Square Garden.' … [Read more...] about Sabres bring ‘A’ game in road win over Rangers

'The Sabres came out and played their game and got great goaltending from Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and beat the Rangers 5-1. It’s just another example of when this team plays the way the coaches ask them to play, they’re a very good team. The problem is, games like Monday are few and far between.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: Luukkonen and Tuch lead the Sabres to a big win in New York over the Rangers

'After 20-minutes, it was 4-0 Devils on the strength of goals from four forwards; Alexander Holtz, Tyler Toffoli, Nico Hischier and Ondrej Palat.' … [Read more...] about Sabres smoked in New Jersey

'On too many nights, they get dominated early, get behind and have to chase the game. There are times they do find ways to win, but there’s no way this team should be regressing from last year with a 9-10-2 record. They can’t string more than two wins together because they rarely string two good games together.' … [Read more...] about Opinion: With a quarter of the Sabres season gone, this organization has to start walking the walk

'Rosen is the AHL’s fifth leading scorer with eight goals and 11 assists for 19 points. Kulich is 10th in the league with 11 goals and six assists for 17 points. Rosen scored the overtime winner for the Amerks on Friday night.' … [Read more...] about Sabres call up Kulich, Rosen from Rochester