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Unwinding a crazy weekend
Suffice it to say this was the wrong draft weekend to head out to Boston to catch the Dispatch reunion show. I’m not mad at my decision, Boston is a great city and the show was absolutely killer....
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The Morning Skate – Weekend series
Ryan Miller will play the full game against Toronto on Friday. The Buffalo Sabres enter this weekend’s trio of games with 19 skaters who have yet to see action this preseason. As Rochester is set to...
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Double Minors: Sabres weekend wrap
The Sabres finished their three-game weekend 2-1 as they were handed their first preseason defeat on Sunday in Columbus. Buffalo, finishing a five game in seven nights stretch of hockey, weren’t very...
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2ITB NHL preview: The West
Since it is a yearly occurrence for the West to have 13 teams in the playoff race and two team at least 20 points out of eighth, I struggled to find a good balance of picks this season. I made a bold...
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The Morning Skate: Sabres vs. Blue Jackets
Despite what the current standings say, Buffalo’s match up with the Columbus Blue Jackets this evening will be anything but a sure thing. Columbus found some offense as they finally won their first...
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Double Minors: Sabres 4 – Blue Jackets 2
Just call them the Subway Line. Vanek-Adam-Pominville, call them The Subway Line Thanks to Thomas Vanek, Luke Adam and Jason Pominville, plenty of Buffalonians will be eating free subs after home games...
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The Morning Skate: Kassian set to make his debut
It is the debut every Sabres fan has been waiting for. Some have been saying to call Zack Kassian up since he signed his entry level contract and appeared in a handful of games for Portland last year....
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Double Minors: Sabres roll over in Columbus
Nationwide Arena has never been good to the Buffalo Sabres, that trend continued last night in the form of a 5-1 thrashing at the hand of the NHL’s worst team. Any number of adjectives could describe...
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Between the Pipes: Lackluster effort leads to lackluster result against #Lumbus
Things got ugly quick for the Sabres last night. Columbus scored just 1:51 into the contest and managed another early goal in the second period as well on their way to a 4-1 win. Not pictured: the...
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Roadtrip Recap: Columbus and Nationwide Arena
When I penciled in a trip to Columbus to catch the Sabres-Blue Jackets game I had no idea the implications that night would hold. At the time I decided to add Nationwide Arena as my next NHL road trip,...
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Over-Thought: Ready for some Deals
We’re five days from the deadline and Jason Botterill is standing by his roster, maybe to a fault. Even if the Sabres aren’t active at the deadline, there are some signs pointing to this season being a...
View ArticleThe Instigator Podcast 7.22 – NHL Trade Deadline Breakdown
The bonus extension of the deadline podcast looks at some of the biggest trades that went down at the 2019 NHL Trade Deadline. We look into all of the moves made by the Columbus Blue Jackets and the...
View ArticleThe Instigator Podcast 7.28 – Applying Kekalainen’s Deadline to the 2007 Sabres
In the wake of the first two eliminations in this year’s playoffs, we thought it would be interesting to take a look at how Jarmo Kekalainen’s aggressive trade deadline strategy may have been applied...
View ArticleThe Instigator Podcast 8.14 – Hall Monitors
With Taylor Hall’s name buzzing around the rumor mill, we consider whether or not the Sabres would be wise to invest the assets (and potentially cap space) into the Devils star, or if the club should...
View ArticleThe Instigator Podcast 9.7 – Process and Results
For the first time in the history of the sport, the Sabres actually have quality underlying numbers. Despite that fact, they haven’t seen legitimate success early in the season due, in part, to their...
View ArticleThe Instigator Podcast 9.9 – Burke and Hextall Hired in Pittsburgh
We recorded this episode on Tuesday and it felt like there was two weeks worth of news that broke over the past 48 hours in the NHL. From the offside review debacle in Columbus and John Tortorella’s...
View ArticleThe Instigator Podcast 11.38 – The First Trade of the Offseason
This week, we take listener questions and offer up some reactions on topics such as the Bills stadium project, arena renovations, choices in goal and Buffalo’s front office outlook. We kick things off...
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