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April 2025

Game 82: End of the road
The Sabres took down the Flyers 5-4 and gave coach Lindy Ruff his 900th career win.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 81: Playing it out
Buffalo's 4-0 loss at home to Toronto leaves one more game to play before it's time to answer more than a few questions.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 76: Tables turned
The Sabres won their fourth straight game and seventh in eight 6-3 against the Bruins in a game that would've ended much differently in December.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 75: Spoiler Sabres roll on
The Tampa Bay Lightning were the latest playoff bound team to drop a game to the Sabres, this time in a 3-2 shootout.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 74: Sabres sweeping the Senators
Buffalo's 5-2 win on the road in Ottawa made them 4-0-0 against them and gave a glimpse at what they're building to establish next season.
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Joe Yerdon

March 2025

Game 71: Doing the job right
A Sabres 7-3 laugher against the Pittsburgh Penguins saw a lot of things that were problems earlier in the season show to no longer be issues once…
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Joe Yerdon
Game 70: Lindy Ruff's 600th Sabres win and the future
Buffalo took out Dylan Cozens and the Ottawa Senators 3-2 on Tuesday night
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Joe Yerdon
Game 65: Playing up
The Sabres both had every reason to deserve a win against Vegas on Saturday afternoon, even if it didn't look like it would happen for a while.
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Joe Yerdon
Rasmus Dahlin, the Buffalo Sabres, and logic
Whether or not the team captain made an ultimatum with the general manager, sense says the threat is there in an unspoken way.
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Joe Yerdon
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Sabres at the trade deadline
A day that had a lot of questions surrounding what GM Kevyn Adams would do sees a massive change made in the core of the group with Dylan Cozens going…
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Joe Yerdon
Game 60: Devoured by Sharks
In a season that's had more than a few lowlights, Tuesday's 6-2 loss to the worst-in-the-NHL San Jose Sharks is the latest.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 58: The little things that can go wrong
The Sabres' 4-2 loss to the Canadiens was an exercise in execution and in frustration.
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Joe Yerdon

February 2025

Game 56: A different but same Sabres team
Following the Sabres 3-2 comeback win against the Ducks, Alex Tuch said this was a game they'd lose badly three months ago. He's right, too.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 55: Back from break, Sabres resume winning
Buffalo's 8-2 win against the New York Rangers gave them their fifth win in the past six games.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 53: Everything we've learned was wrong
For the first time since January 2023, the Sabres have won four games in a row after a 3-2 win against Columbus.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 52: Conflict
The Sabres won their third straight game with a 4-3 decision over the New Jersey Devils in which they were bullied and left more questions to be…
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Joe Yerdon
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Game 51: By a razor's edge
It wasn't exactly the beautiful game between two teams buried in the NHL standings, but it was a 4-3 win for the Sabres on the back of two Jiri Kulich…
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Joe Yerdon

January 2025

Game 50: The one in which the Sabres and Bruins pulled a "Freaky Friday"
Tage Thompson and J-J Peterka each had hat tricks to help Buffalo run Boston off the ice in a 7-2 win
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Joe Yerdon
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Sabres catch-up
The past three games have been... well, they've been something that's for sure.
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Joe Yerdon
Game 44: Keeping it weird in Buffalo
The Sabres threatened to blow another big lead in the third but closed out the Hurricanes 4-2 thanks to a Ryan McLeod hat trick that exists in the…
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Joe Yerdon
Game 43: Reruns in syndication
The Sabres were in control up 2-0 after the first period, but six unanswered Kraken goals and yet another obvious meltdown left everyone looking for…
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Joe Yerdon
Across the Hall: The return of Dan Bylsma
For two years, Bylsma was the Buffalo Sabres head coach. For seven years, he waited for his next chance to be an NHL head coach and found it in Seattle.
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Joe Yerdon
How to deal with a living legend like Alex Ovechkin
Ovechkin's pursuit of Wayne Gretzky's once seemingly unbreakable goal record is a good enough reason to find out what it's like to face off against him.
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Joe Yerdon
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