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….
Sabres add Carolina’s Skinner in trade
Sabres trade O’Reilly to the Blues
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…
Just another summer day for Sabres
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…
Appendix: Outside looking in at the Hall
Let’s make you the expert on Hall of Fame discussions. I’ve gone through the record book and come up with a list of players who aren’t in the Hall of…
The Hockey Hall of Fame’s Class of 2018
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…
The Sabres change the subject
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…
Christmas Morning Comes A Few Hours Late Tonight
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…
Sabre Stats: No power-play goals
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…
Sabre Stats: Stanley Cup hangover?
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…
Sabres Stats: Home/Road Records
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…
The better story wins in the Stanley Cup Finals
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…
Relevance comes to HarborCenter
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….
Let The Gambling Begin
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…
What Went Wrong With Sabre Teams?
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…
