Sabres doubled up by Toronto
The Buffalo Sabres could not overcome an early deficit and two goals being overturned in their 6-3 loss to the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night at KeyBank Center. Full Story by: WGR Sports Radio 550
Sabres winless streak hits 11 with blowout loss in Montreal. Will anything change?
Buffalo Sabres owner Terry Pegula flew to Montreal on Monday to meet with the team before their game against the Canadiens. The Sabres are struggling through a 10-game winless streak, and Pegula wanted to calm the group down and express his support for the players and management. Full Story By: Matthew Fairburn at nytimes.com:
Laine has hat trick, Canadiens cruise past Sabres
Patrik Laine scored three power-play goals, and the Montreal Canadiens dealt the Buffalo Sabres their 11th straight loss with a 6-1 win at Bell Centre on Tuesday. Full Story By: Sean Farrell at msn.com:
Sabres’ 10-game winless streak is NHL’s longest this season
Surrendering a two-goal lead midway through Saturday’s 5-3 loss in Toronto, the Sabres extended their winless streak to 10 games, the longest in the NHL this season. Full Story By: Kyle Evans at msn.com:
Sabres blow two-goal lead, lose 10th straight in Toronto
Jack Quinn scored twice and Alex Tuch added another for Buffalo, who led 3-1 midway through the second period. JJ Peterka tallied two assists, while Devon Levi made 36 saves in his first NHL game in a month. Full Story By: Kyle Evans at fingerlakes1.com:
Tavares, Leafs sink Sabres 5-3
John Tavares scored twice as part of a second-period outburst and added an empty netter for his 14th career hat trick as the Toronto Maple Leafs battled back from a 3-1 deficit to pick up a 5-3 victory over the Buffalo Sabres on Sunday. Full Story By: at Observertoday.com:
Rangers’ Mika Zibanejad drops truth bomb after tight win vs. Sabres
In a battle of teams struggling mightily in the Eastern Conference, the New York Rangers outlasted the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Wednesday night, defeating their cross-divisional foes 3-2. Full Story By: Colin Gallant at msn.com:
Sabres fall to Rangers 3-2
Adam Fox had a goal and two assist and the New York Rangers beat the Buffalo Sabres 3-2 on Wednesday night. Mika Zibanejad got his 300th career go. Full Story By: Joe Yerdon at observertoday.com:
Jets end 4-game losing streak, defeat Sabres in OT
Adam Lowry scored with 1:01 left in overtime to give the Winnipeg Jets a 3-2 win against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Thursday. Josh Morrissey knocked a rebound through the top of the crease toward Lowry, who picked it up and scored near the right post after Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen stopped his initial chance off the rush from the left circle. Full Story By: Heather Engel at NHL .com:
Sabres comeback comes up short in OT loss to Vancouver
Dylan Cozens scored twice in the third period, but the Vancouver Canucks were able to score last and defeat the Buffalo Sabres 4-3 in overtime on Friday afternoon at KeyBank Center. Full Story by: WGR Sports Radio 550
Sabres squeeze out a point but get edged by Canucks in OT loss
The Sabres received goals from Dylan Cozens and Alex Tuch 99 seconds apart in a late rally to get to overtime but couldn’t come away with another point in a 4-3 loss against the Vancouver Canucks on Friday. Full Story By: Jonah Bronstein at WIVB.com
Garland has 3 points, Canucks recover to defeat Sabres in OT
Dylan Cozens had a goal and an assist, and Zach Benson had two assists for the Sabres (11-10-2), who have lost two in a row after a three-game winning streak. Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen made 18 saves. Full Story By: Heather Engel at NHL.com
OPINION: Gustavsson steals two points for Wild
Buffalo makes 87 shot attempts but fails to score in a 1-0 loss.
It’s an oversimplification of Wednesday’s 1-0 win by the Minnesota Wild, but one team got a 4-on-1 break for a goal, and the other team didn’t. Full Story By Paul Hamilton at WGR Sports Radio 550
Sabres shut out by Wild in low-scoring affair
The Buffalo Sabres were unable to solve Filip Gustavsson and the Minnesota Wild, despite 39 shots on goal, in a 1-0 loss on Wednesday night at KeyBank Center. Full Story By: at WGR Sports Radio 550
Gustavsson makes 39 saves, Wild shut out Sabres
Filip Gustavsson made 39 saves for the Minnesota Wild in a 1-0 win against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Wednesday.
Sabres win 3 in a row out West
The Sabres are coming home on a winning streak. And in playoff position a quarter of the way through the season. Alex Tuch’s short-handed goal in the third period lifted Buffalo to its third consecutive victory Saturday night in San Jose. Full Story By Jonah Bronstein at Yahoo Sports
Sabres Lose Heartbreaker in Overtime 4-3
A late collapse by the Buffalo Sabres opened the door as Capitals Tom Wilson, with a little over a minute left, tied the score late in the third.
Unfortunately for the Sabres, they were bitten by a late goal, another buzzer-beater. Dylan Strome put the final stake into the hearts of all things Buffalo Sabres with only eight seconds left in overtime. The win was Whashington’s fifth straight in the win column.
The Sabres’ JJ Peterka opened the scoring with his 8th of the season from Tyson Jost and Victor Olofsson with a few clicks past the ten-minute mark of the first period.
The Sabres went up by a 2-0 score at 16:04 when rookie Zach Benson scored his first National Hockey League goal. Victor Olofsson picked up the assist, his second on the night.
At 07:50 into the second period, the Capitals tied the game at 2-2 when Alexander Alexeyev earned his first of the season from Nic Dowd and Trevor van Riemsdyk.
Buffalo took back their one-goal lead at 16:18, remaining in the second when Dylan Cozens scored his fourth from Rasmus Dahlin and Casey Mittelstadt while on the powerplay.
Then it was Tom Wilson with his 4th from Dylan Strome and John Carlson at the 18:45 mark of the third. It was Strome winning the game in overtime 4-3.