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'And to make things worse, the Caps were without four of their top players that included Alex Ovechkin, their number one center Evgeny Kuznetsov, their starting goaltender Ilya Samsonov and defenseman Dmitry Orlov. They were placed on the NHL’s COVID-19 list after breaking league protocols.' … [Read more...] about Sabres fall in a shootout to Alex Ovechkin-less Capitals

'Right now the Sabres haven’t announced who will start in goal against the Capitals in game one on Friday. Jonas Johansson came in for the injured Hutton against Philadelphia and he’ll be ready if called upon.' … [Read more...] about Sabres goaltender Carter Hutton day-to-day, won’t make trip to Washington

'The Buffalo Bills are scheduled to play their AFC Championship Game at 6:40 p.m. on January 24.' … [Read more...] about NHL moves up Sunday’s Sabres game, avoids overlap with Bills AFC Championship game

'Buffalo went 0-for-3 on the power play in the opening period. They scored zero goals despite outshooting the Capitals 11-6.' … [Read more...] about Drawing a blank: Sabres 0-for-5 on Power Play in 2-1 loss to Capitals

'Buffalo’s defense struggled to keep pace with the Capitals all night, allowing two goals in each of the first two periods. Washington needed just 23 shots in the first 40 minutes to put up the four goals.' … [Read more...] about Sabres start slow in 6-4 loss to Capitals

'Jack Eichel is the captain. The alternate captains are Kyle Okposo and Jake McCabe.' … [Read more...] about Sabres release 2020-21 roster

'It didn’t work out then with the MLB, but he found out just two days ago that the Sabres have picked his business, Print2Web, to make the fan cutouts that will fill KeyBank Center through the NHL season.' … [Read more...] about Fan cutouts to fill stands at Sabres games

'“I think it’s just taking it a game at a time,” winger Tage Thompson said. Obviously our schedule is pretty compact and we’ve got a lot of games back to back and a lot of games in a short amount of days so I think not looking too far ahead, just focusing on the now and making sure we are taking it a a game at a time, day at a time is going to give us our best chance. And then … [Read more...] about Sabres stress importance of fast start this season

'The players will practice and travel with the team, but will earn the same salary they would make in the AHL.' … [Read more...] about Sabres assign five to taxi squad

'“I know they are both fast players and obviously very talented and offensively gifted,” Thompson said. “I think my job is just to play my game. I think I bring a lot of size and speed and I got a pretty good shot so I think my offensive instincts are along the same lines as theirs in terms of where to go on the ice, so I think just kind of getting open and winning puck battles … [Read more...] about Tage Thompson impressive during training camp

'Defensemen Casey Fitzgerald and Ryan Jones.' … [Read more...] about Sabres assign eight to Rochester Americans

'Krueger said he was pretty confident Cozens and Quinn would be on the ice Friday. They’ll be around the team and must undergo testing before being cleared to practice.' … [Read more...] about Sabres plan to have Cozens, Quinn at Friday practice

'He was skating in a line with Taylor Hall and Victor Olofsson, who also made his own return from an injury suffered early in camp. Eichel mentioned the importance of building chemistry with Hall before the season.' … [Read more...] about Return of the Jack: Sabres captain back on the ice

'“We were clearly not happy to see that and we are assessing it right now,” Krueger said. “We’ll give you feedback once we have it, but at the moment very questionable lower body injury and once again no final assessment because he is getting scanned right now.”' … [Read more...] about Sabres center Zemgus Girgensons helped off ice during Monday’s scrimmage

'“It’s quite clear there’s so much respect for each other that nobody was running over each other,” Krueger said. “There was one penalty in the whole game so you can see that you aren’t going to get the ‘A’ game here, we don’t expect that, but we did see many good things today. We saw a lot of system things within the principles we want being executed properly, and we felt … [Read more...] about Krueger saw “many good things” in first scrimmage