Buffalo Sabres News

Cody McCormick is out with an upper body injury and will be replaced by Zack Kassian who's called up after a two goal night Friday.

Last time the Tampa Bay Lightning and Buffalo Sabres squared off, the teams played back-to-back, home-and-home games a few days apart - with Tampa Bay sweeping the series in inspiring fashion.

The Buffalo Sabres announced that Tom McFall has been named as the 2012 recipient of the J. Michael Duffett Memorial Award, presented each year to the coach whose contributions to amateur hockey in Western New York "best exemplify the knowledge, teaching, love of the game and gentle humanity of Mike." McFall will become the 27th recipient of the ... (more)

When Derek Roy scored with 34 seconds left, the Rochester Americans exhaled. When Nathan Gerbe finished off a 3-2 win for the Buffalo Sabres over the Dallas Stars with a shootout goal Friday night, the Amerks could breathe for another day.

The Sabres will welcome Thomas Vanek back to the lineup after missing three games.

Nathan Gerbe scored in the fifth round of the shootout to lift the Buffalo Sabres to a 3-2 win over the Dallas Stars.

Buffalo Sabres' Ville Leino , of Finland, battles for the puck with Dallas Stars' Philip Larsen of Denmark in front of Stars goalie Kari Lehtonen, also of Finland, during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Buffalo, N.Y., Friday, Feb.

"WE'RE SUPER FREAKY" - STEVIE J The Bills are like your parents. You can't choose them, and no matter how much they disappoint you, and no matter how much you want to hate them, you simply love them.

A less than packed arena watches as the Phoenix Coyotes play the Dallas Stars on Tuesday March 29th at Jobbing.com Arena in Glendale, AZ.

The roughly hour-long session started with a battle drill. It ended with a battle drill.

Thomas Vanek practiced yesterday and it sounds like he'll be returning tonight. Very good news for the Sabres and his owners.

Let's change things up a bit once again and hope it translates into another Sabres blowout, this time against Dallas tonight.

Tyler Ennis has had trouble building on last year's 20-goal season mostly due to injuries but is coming off a two-point night Wednesday that raised his season totals to four goals and seven points in 19 games for the Sabres.

In the East, Winnipeg has made a run to pull within hailing distance of the top eight, adding a 10th team to a collection vying to make the second season.

Tough times in the coaching brotherhood. Sabres coach Lindy Ruff was sidelined for last night's game against the Bruins after fracturing three ribs in a freak accident during practice Monday.

After last night's thoroughly upsetting 6-0 defeat at the hands of the 12th-in-the-conference Buffalo Sabres, as represented above by Jordan Caron fumbling with the puck right in front of Ryan Miller, it's no surprise that reportedly today's Bruins practice is pretty brutal.

Thank you Patrick Kaleta. Thank you for doing something that if I knew you were going to do in advance I would have tried to talk you out of.

Drew Stafford #21 of the Buffalo Sabres celebrates scoring Buffalo's sixth goal against Tim Thomas #30 of the Boston Bruins at First Niagara Center on February 8, 2012 in Buffalo, New York.

The Sabres' Ville Leino , who has five points in his last six games, celebrates Jason Pominville's first-period goal along with Derek Roy and Mike Weber.

Jason Pominville of the Buffalo Sabres flipped the puck past Tim Thomas for Pominville's second goal of the game.