By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The Toronto Maple Leafs and their hordes of fans turned up at the KeyBank Center on Thursday night. Not only did the Leafs…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Let’s look on the bright side while taking a look at the Buffalo Sabres’ 2-1 shootout loss to the Vegas Golden Knights on…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Remember the Buffalo Sabres squad that went 6-17-4 in its first 27 games, essentially taking all of the suspense out of the entire…
By Budd Baiiley, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist As you may have heard – about 9,000 times – most of the winter nights involving Sabre games at the KeyBank Center haven’t…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Evander Kane has been floating in limbo for several months. On Monday, he finally found a landing point – 2,684 miles away. The…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The hockey world is in its usual frenzy as the trading deadline approaches. In the meantime, this group of Buffalo Sabres – which…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We need something to discuss when it comes to the Buffalo Sabres. April still seems like a long way off, as about a…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The Buffalo Sabres played a better first two periods on Monday than they did on Saturday, and they played a better third period…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We’ve seen this movie far too many times this season. No wonder some people are walking out of the theater in search of…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Jack Who? All right, no one is suggesting for a minute that the Buffalo Sabres are a better team without Jack Eichel. He’s…
by Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Sunday was a long, difficult day for the Buffalo Sabres. The bad news started well before their night game with the Colorado Avalanche….
by Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The Buffalo Sabres reached one milestone number on Thursday night, and didn’t hit another one. Both pieces of news were more than welcome….
by Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Oh, these Buffalo Sabres. They are always capable of surprise. And yet, the result is so frequently the same. The short version of…
by Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist What do you do when you do almost everything right, and it still comes out wrong? That was the story of the Buffalo…