Game One of the Stanley Cup Final is Saturday, with six former Buffalo Sabres players set to take the ice for the Edmonton Oilers and Florida Panthers.
The Buffalo Sabres are ready to move the No. 11 overall pick in the NHL Draft under the right circumstances.
The NHL Draft is just under a month away from kicking off in Las Vegas and we have already seen the Chicago Blackhawks and New York Islanders swap picks ahead of the draft.
The Buffalo Sabres have a lot to consider when it comes to the 11th overall pick in the 2024 NHL Draft. Do they take the best player available and add to their formidable prospect pool or package the pick in the hopes of making an immediate impact on the current roster?
As the 2024 NHL Entry Draft (June 28 and 29) and the opening of free agency on July 1 approaches, offseason decisions are on the horizon for the Buffalo Sabres who must end their 13-year playoff drought in 2024-25.
The Buffalo Sabres and Rochester Americans announced their new replacement for Seth Appert on Thursday. After a three-week coaching search, Michael Leone was named head coach of the Amerks.
The Sabres have hired USA Hockey mainstay Michael Leone as the head coach of their AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans, per a team announcement Thursday.
It worked so well with Seth Appert, why not try it again? The Buffalo Sabres have hired another coach from junior hockey to be the Rochester Americans’ bench boss.
The producers of the hit series “Drive to Survive” are at it again, this time announcing their plan to release a docuseries following some of the top players in the NHL.
As June presses on, and the 2024 NHL Entry Draft draws closer, the Sabres will face the decision of which player to choose with their 11th-overall selection.
Key trade deadline acquisition Bowen Byram got his feet wet in 18 games for Buffalo, coming in at number 16 on the Sabres Grades countdown. The organization traded their top scorer, Casey Mittelstadt, for the highly-touted defenseman, bringing in youth and big expectations from Colorado.
We haven’t even hoisted the Stanley Cup, but it feels like the dog days of summer have arrived. For every other team outside of the final two, eyes are fixed on the future.
The Sabres Grades countdown picks back up at number 17 with the longest-tenured Sabres player, Zemgus Girgensons. The Latvian Locomotive’s future in Buffalo may be nearing an end, but his performance this past season will undoubtedly find him a home in the NHL.
Number 18 on the Sabres Grades countdown is a new addition to the blueline, Connor Clifton. Buffalo needed to improve the right side of its defense and decided to take fliers on veterans Clifton and Erik Johnson.
Though the Stanley Cup has yet to be hoisted, teams like the Buffalo Sabres have already entered into the dog days of summer. The NHL Draft and free agency lay ahead, but most are waiting in anticipation for the start of the 2024-25 NHL season.
As a surprise riser through the organizational ranks, Lukas Rousek comes in at number 19 in the Sabres Grades countdown. The former sixth-round draft selection led the AHL Rochester Americans in points per game in 2023-2024 but managed only two in 15 NHL games.
The Buffalo Sabres’ cupboards are full of prospects ahead of the 2024 NHL Entry Draft (June 28 and 29), and per Lance Lysowski of The Buffalo News, the Sabres won’t be signing these three prospects by Saturday’s June 1 deadline.
Jeff Skinner‘s tenure with the Buffalo Sabres continues to be a wacky roller coaster ride and of all the players featured on their 2023-24 roster, he may be the toughest to assess in the aftermath.
Dylan Cozens is likely ready to forget the 2023-24 season. The Buffalo Sabres were among the most exciting stories heading into the campaign and expectations were high.
He was a hot topic of conversation coming into the season, and many had pegged him as the uncontested starting goaltender after his late-season heroics in 2022-23, but with the emergence of Ukko Pekka Luukkonen as the starter, Devon Levi was put more on the back burner as the hype surrounding him cooled off.
The Buffalo Sabres had high expectations heading into the 2023-24 NHL season. Buffalo missed the Stanley Cup Playoffs by just one point in 2023. They had a wealth of promising talent on their roster who figured to take a step forward this season.
After failing to make the playoffs for the 13th consecutive season, the Buffalo Sabres are expected to change their secondary scoring options this summer.
The Buffalo Sabres announced Monday that Seth Appert, the head coach of the AHL’s Rochester Americans, will join the Sabres as an assistant coach under new head coach Lindy Ruff.
The Buffalo Sabres are having a back to the future moment in the hiring of Lindy Ruff as their coach.
Buffalo’s playoff drought now stands at 13 years.
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