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Sabres leading scorer Tage Thompson out with lower-body injury
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo Sabres leading scorer Tage Thompson left Monday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens in the second period with a lower-body injury and did not return. Thompson, who scored his 11th goal of the season in the first period of the Sabres 7-5 loss, played...
Sabres show improvement with 3-win run, and chance to win 4 straight for first time in 21 months
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Sabres forward Tage Thompson likes how Buffalo has responded after losses this season. The next challenge for a franchise in the midst of an NHL-record 13-season playoff drought is how it handles a taste of success. Modest as Buffalo’s three-game winning...
Thompson scores go-ahead goal, and Sabres end season-opening 3-game skid with 5-2 win over Panthers
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jordan Greenway and Tage Thompson scored 41 seconds apart in the first period, and the Buffalo Sabres ended a season-opening three-game skid with a 5-2 win over the Florida Panthers on Saturday night. Henri Jokiharju, Mattias Samuelsson and Alex Tuch, with an...
Lorentz and Hildeby lead the Maple Leafs to 4-2 win over the Devils
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Steven Lorentz had a goal and an assist, goalie Dennis Hildeby won his first NHL game and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the New Jersey Devils 4-2 on Thursday night. Hildeby, Toronto’s fourth-round pick in the 2022 draft, stopped 22 shots in his NHL debut. ...
New-look Sabres face familiar challenge in attempting to end what's become a 13-year playoff drought
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres have a new coach in Lindy Ruff and a new captain in Rasmus Dahlin. They have an arena with a flashy new scoreboard and a newly installed roof to plug its many leaks. And with that comes a history of unfulfilled hopes accompanying the team's...
The Devils meet the Sabres in the Czech capital to open the NHL regular season
PRAGUE (AP) — Ondrej Palat has won the Stanley Cup twice. He's won a gold medal with the Czech Republic at the world championships. This week, the forward will check another item on his bucket list when his New Jersey Devils and the Buffalo Sabres open the NHL regular season with...
Defending champion Panthers head stacked Atlantic Division dominated by Bruins, Lightning and Leafs
Spending the summer celebrating a Stanley Cup championship wasn’t enough to distract Panthers captain Aleksander Barkov from paying attention to what Florida’s Atlantic Division rivals were up to this offseason. Three teams — Buffalo ( Lindy Ruff ), Ottawa ( Travis Green ) and...
The trade for goaltender Jacob Markstrom should help get the Devils back into the playoffs
New Jersey Devils Last season: 38-39-5, missed playoffs for the 10th time in 12 seasons. COACH: Sheldon Keefe (212-97-40 over 5 seasons with Toronto), hired May 23. SEASON OPENER: Oct. 4 vs. Buffalo in Prague, Czech Republic. DEPARTURES: D...
Buffalo Sabres bring back Lindy Ruff to provide structure in bid to end 13-year playoff drought
Buffalo Sabres Last season: 39-37-6, extended NHL-worst playoff drought to a 13th season. COACH: Lindy Ruff, hired April 22. (571-432-84 and 78 ties over 16 seasons with three teams, including previous stint in Buffalo). SEASON OPENER: Oct. 4 vs. New...
NHL coaching carousel takes Berube to Toronto, Keefe to New Jersey and Ruff back to Buffalo
So many changes have happened behind the bench around the NHL in recent years that only four of the league's 32 teams have the same coach they did coming out of the pandemic. “I don’t know what the average lifespan of a coach in a specific organization is, but I know it’s got...
