Christmas may not be until December 25th, but it came early for the Toronto Maple Leafs on Friday night in a 2-1 victory against the Buffalo Sabres. They gave the Leafs an early present of 2 points with such generosity that they might as well have wrapped them in a box with a bow on top. This is the first time the Sabres met their bitter rivals this season, and things started out great. Toni Lydman’s first goal of the season was a thing of beauty, and looked like it was going to set the tone of the game. It…
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League leaders in scoring? Check. League leader in goals scored? Check. Entertaining and offensive minded match up? Double-check. The Buffalo Sabres played with fire for most of the game and came out unscathed, topping the Pittsburgh Penguins at their own game 4-3 Monday night. Normally, I’d be all over the Sabres for trying to match Pittsburgh’s game, but they didn’t really give themselves much of a choice by going down 2 goals in the second period. Buffalo grabbed the lead and then shut down defensively with great success, keeping the Penguins from generating much of anything on offense until the…
When the Buffalo Sabres snapped their losing streak last week, they did it against the best the Eastern Conference had to offer. This week, they did it with the Eastern Conference’s worst, topping the Tampa Bay Lightning 4-3 on Saturday night. It wasn’t a pretty win, but it was just what the doctor ordered. After losing “the season opener” Friday to the Panthers, the Sabres buried their heads and pushed hard for 2 points on Tampa’s home turf. While they had trouble keeping the lead, they clamped down defensively in the third period and kept the ‘Bolts from generating much…
Four games in 6 nights certainly marks a rough patch in a schedule, and the Buffalo Sabres showed what kind of toll it can take by losing to the Nashville Predators 2-0 on home ice. To be fair, both teams played an uninspired game from start to finish, which makes sense when you consider that the Predators played 3 games in 5 nights. There were few exciting scoring chances on either side of the ice and the game’s pace was both stilted and broken. It was likely due to the coaches changing their lines more frequently – it’s a little…
The Sabres survived a costly turnover against the Penguins on Friday night, but were unable to weather another Saturday night against the Montreal Canadians in a 3-2 loss. The first of the 3 goals Montreal scored was due to sloppy play by Buffalo. Unfortunately, it jump-started their engines for the rest of the game. The cause was a fumbled pass from Teppo Numminen to Pat Kaleta, just inside the Buffalo blue line. Andrei Kostitsyn picked up the errant puck and drove it past a sprawled Patrick Lalime, who hit the ice in response to a fanned shot. Kostitsyn was able…
The Sabres skated way with 2 points Friday night after defeating the red-hot Pittsburgh Penguins, despite playing Lindy Ruff’s system for only one period. Luckily, it was the period that counted the most. Things were wide open for the first 2 periods, looking more like a game from the Briere and Drury era than one of the defense-first contests the coaching staff has been trying to get going this season. Shockingly, the score stayed relatively low, despite the presence of the league’s leading scorer, Evgeni Malkin, and his partner-in-crime, Sidney Crosby. To be fair, they both had a productive night.…
You could almost hear the collective Bruins nation, sarcastically chanting before the game. “One, two, three, four, five… we want six!” The Sabres responded: “Not tonight.” The Buffalo Sabres defeated the Eastern Conference leading Boston Bruins Thursday night in an ugly 3-2 victory to put an end to their 5-game losing streak. The Sabres’ play was rife with desperation and hard work, but they also showcased a few areas they need to tighten up as well. One of the biggest reasons Buffalo came away with the win was physical play. They didn’t exactly dominate Boston in terms of hits, registering…
Game and word lovers are asked to shake their tile bags and rack their brains while assisting others during Scrabble® Fest 2009, a fundraiser for Literacy Volunteers of Buffalo and Erie County. Literacy Volunteers holds Scrabble® Fest every year in February and March as a means for people to have fun during the dreary winter days and to use words to support literacy. Specifically, Literacy Volunteers is calling for hosts—anyone in the Buffalo area—to open their homes to family and friends to play the popular board game Scrabble® with each guest making a donation to Literacy Volunteers. One winner from…
By Dick Shaner May 2006, Carla MacNeil, violin in hand, and Stephen Stanley walked on stage at a low-key gig at Mitzi’s Sister in downtown Toronto. In Carla’s own words, the night was a “glad you missed it” affair, but the week of rehearsal leading up to the gig had been enough to get Stanley excited enough to dig into a major change of musical direction. “I knew that I wanted to introduce a violin into the new songs, but I hadn’t bargained on finding someone to share lead vocals with.” Instantly, the idea of forming a post-Low band was…
December Art Market on Amherst St is a collaborative Art Market put together by Sue Cholewa, Jill Hart, Marcus Wise, Hugo Rodgriguez, Monika Pavlikova, and Lou Schreiber. The mission of the Art Market is to provide a space for local artists to sell their original work during the Holiday time. We will be opening 11/28 and will run through 12/29, open 6 days a week. To bring exposure to the Market and the artists, we will have a Grand Opening event, and offer artists in the Market a chance to host their own opening/event at the space. We hope to…