By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Andrej Sekera of the Sabres Taken in Round 3 in 2004 Other picks in the round: Sekera wound up second in games played…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 71
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 74
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Daren Puppa of the Sabres Taken in Round 4 in 1983 Other picks in the round: Esa Tikkanen was the biggest start in…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 75
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Kevin Sundher of the Sabres Taken in Round 3 in 2010 Other picks in the round: The Sabres also took Matt MacKenzie, a…
Sabre Stats: Team Penalty Minutes
By Budd Bailey I knew if I looked hard enough, I’d find something for the Sabres to brag about. And I did. They were at the best in the NHL…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 83
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Matthew Barnaby of the Sabres Taken in Round 4 in 1992 Other picks in that round: Jere Lehtinen went 88th to Minnesota that…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 84
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Tim Regan of the Sabres Taken in Round 7 in 1970 Other pick in the round: Terry Murray was taken by California at…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 85
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Peter McNab of the Sabres Taken in Round 6 in 1972 Other picks in that round: No other player selected in that round…
A midcourse correction may be coming
By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Sabres’ “tank” – the time in team history around 2013 to 2015 when the front office wasn’t particularly interested in winning games – remains the…
An Eichel Earthquake
By Budd Bailey This was supposed to be a typical end-of-the-season, locker clean-out day interviews with the members of the Buffalo Sabres. The players were supposed to say that the…
Buffalo’s Top Draft Picks by Number: No. 89
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 89 – Alexander Mogilny of the Sabres Taken in Round 5 in 1988 Other picks in that round: Nine of the players…
Houser, Bjork lead Sabres to win
By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Sabres’ season can be summed up quite quickly. In the team’s last home game of the season, Anders Bjork and Michael Houser were the heroes…
Houser’s night to remember
By Budd Bailey Cincinnati. San Antonio. Ontario (California). Manchester. Cleveland. Fort Wayne. Tucson. Michael Houser has played for all of those hockey teams during a professional career that began almost…
UPL is A-OK in Sabres’ debut
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We first heard about Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen about two years ago. He had been a second-round draft choice of the Buffalo Sabres in 2017….
Perfect combination helps beat Sabres
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist We’ve been watching the combination of Patrice Bergeron, Brad Marchand and David Pastrnak for about five seasons now. You know what? The three…
