By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Wait a minute. The Sabres made a good-sized trade in August? Nobody in the NHL makes trades in August. Everyone is on vacation….
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Can a last-place team get better by trading its best overall player? We are about to find out. The Buffalo Sabres have traded…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Ah, summer – when the living is easy and thoughts turn to … hockey? In this case, yes. The Sabres had themselves a…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist The selection committee for the Hockey Hall of Fame will meet on June 26 to figure out what the Class of 2018 will…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Rasmus Dahlin came to the Sabres on Friday, he saw, and he conquered. And it’s only Monday. Dahlin was the team’s first draft…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist You’ve been waiting about seven weeks … or in another sense, 11 years. You can wait a little while longer, right? It was…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist About 25 years ago, I was looking at the then-incomplete statistical record of Gary Roberts. He had scored 53 goals in 1991-92, something…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist You’re Alexander Ovechkin. You have finally won a Stanley Cup, and partied like it was your last chance at glory. But it wasn’t…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Do you think it was easy to cover the Buffalo Sabres during the 2017-18 season? Think again. It wasn’t easy to come up…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Sometimes sportswriters are asked if they root during games. It’s a slightly weird query, at least for the good ones, but if they…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist What a difference a few weeks can make. Back in mid-April, the Buffalo Sabres finished one of the worst seasons in their history….
by Bob Gaughan, Buffalo Sports Page The Supreme Court today over turned a rule that barred states from legalized sports betting. There were several states including the state of New…
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Back in February, we took a look at the five most improved teams in Buffalo Sabres’ history to see what went right for…