By Budd Bailey It was an unexpectedly “entertaining” night for the fans of the Buffalo Bandits at the KeyBank Center on Saturday. The crowd of 19,070 had watched their favorites take a 14-7 lead over Las Vegas with a little more than 10 minutes to play. Since 2016, the Bandits were 22-0 when they had a seven-goal lead at some point in the fourth quarter, so it seemed time to light up a “rhetorical” victory cigar. Then the Desert Dogs scored five goals in a row in a little ove

By Budd Bailey The Buffalo Bandits played more than 60 minutes in their game against the Halifax Thunderbirds in the KeyBank Center on Saturday night. Yet it took less than a minute of that time for the game to get away from them … the last minute of play. As a result, the Bandits dropped a 9-8 overtime that was on the painful side. “A tough night,” Dhane Smith summarized. “We came out flat. … We didn’t play to our standard. We played to theirs. We had our moments to build mo

By Budd Bailey It’s become a tradition like no other … at least in the history of Buffalo sports. Every spring, the Buffalo Bandits win a championship. And every autumn, they raise a banner on Opening Night of the following season to celebrate it. Or so it seems. The tradition goes all the way back to, um, 2023, when the team won the first of its three consecutive championships. This year’s version followed the script nicely – take a bow, and then go win the game. In this cas