Buffalo Sabres News

Restricted free agent Thomas Vanek has signed US$50-million, seven-year offer sheet with the Edmonton Oilers, his agent said Friday. The Sabres have seven days either to match the offer and keep Vanek or could take four first round draft picks as compensation. The Sabres have scheduled an afternoon news conference with managing partner Larry Quinn and general manager Darcy Regier at HSBC Arena in Buffalo, N.Y. ``It's not a surprise,'' agent Stephen Bartlett said. ``I've been saying for a ...

Buffalo Sabres centre Derek Roy will miss up to two weeks because of a hand injury. Roy joins a list of ailing Sabres that includes goalie Ryan Miller (abdominal strain) and defencemen Henrik Tallinder (broken forearm) and Toni Lydman (neck strain). Forward Maxim Afinogenov missed the last five games because of a shoulder injury, but was scheduled to return Friday night when Buffalo hosts Pittsburgh. Afinogenov was the team's leading ...

Derek Roy and the Buffalo Sabres haven't let success go to their heads. ``Right now we're a good team, but I think we can be a little bit better,'' Roy said after getting two assists in Buffalo's 5-4 victory over the Carolina Hurricanes on Friday night, the Sabres' seventh straight win to start the season. ``We have some work to do and some errors to clean up.'' Despite Roy's feelings, it's hard to imagine the Sabres improving on ...

Maxim Afinogenov had a goal and four assists, helping the Buffalo Sabres maintain their perfect record in a 9-1 rout of the Philadelphia Flyers on Tuesday night. Thomas Vanek had two goals and two assists, and Derek Roy scored twice for the Sabres (6-0), who posted a six-goal second period and are two wins shy of matching their best start set in 1975. Buffalo has also won 11 straight regular-season games, tying the franchise record established 31 ...

The NHL enters its third week of the season with only three teams sporting perfect records, but it didn't come easy for any of them. Buffalo, Dallas and Minnesota are all 5-0-0 but only seven of those 15 wins were decided in regulation time. ``We might be the best example,'' Wild GM Doug Risebrough said Monday. ``We won two in the shootout, one in overtime, and one in the last ...

Chris Drury had his first career three-goal game, and also added an assist, to help the Buffalo Sabres win their fifth consecutive game, 7-4 over the New York Rangers on Saturday night. Buffalo, which reached the Eastern Conference finals last season, is off to its best start since winning its first eight games of the 1975-76 season. The game was played despite the region still recovering from a crippling snow storm that began late Thursday night. Nearly 350,000 households ...

Ales Kotalik's shootout goal gave the undefeated Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 victory over the Detroit Red Wings on Friday night. Daniel Briere also scored for the Sabres in the shootout, their third in four games this season. Pavel Datsyuk got Detroit's only shootout goal. Chris Drury and Thomas Vanek scored in regulation for Buffalo (4-0-0) and Ryan Miller made 41 saves. Jason Williams had both of Detroit's goals and Dominik Hasek made 15 saves. Vanek's power-play goal with 2:12 left ...

The Buffalo Sabres signed goaltender Adam Dennis to a three-year entry level contract Thursday and assigned him to Rochester of the American Hockey League. Buffalo selected Dennis in the sixth round, 182nd overall, in the 2005 NHL entry draft. The 21-year-old Toronto native spent four years in the Ontario Hockey League with the Guelph Storm and London Knights, posting a career record of 100-45-9. Dennis was named the OHL's top ...

Goaltenders are creatures of habit who often believe disaster is around the corner when their routines are broken. Buffalo Sabres goaltender Martin Biron proved that theory wrong on Saturday night as he led his team to a 4-3 win over the Ottawa Senators 4-3 in front of a sellout crowd of 19,202 at Scotiabank Place. Biron damaged his skate blade during the warm-up and had to get his skates sharpened before the opening period. He then faced ...

Chris Drury had a goal and an assist to help the Buffalo Sabres defeat the Ottawa Senators 4-3 Saturday night. Henrik Tallinder, Brian Campbell and Jason Pominville also scored for the Sabres (3-0-0), who won their third straight _ and first in regulation, after opening the season with two shootout victories. Jason Spezza scored twice in the third period for the Senators, while Dean McAmmond had the other Ottawa goal as the Senators (1-2-0) lost their second ...

Daniel Briere scored the only goal in a shootout and Ryan Miller stopped Carolina cold to give the Buffalo Sabres a 3-2 victory over the Stanley Cup-champion Hurricanes on Wednesday night in a season-opening rematch of last year's Eastern Conference final. Jason Pominville and Chris Drury each had goals during regulation for the Sabres, who claimed they were motivated all off-season by their Game 7 loss to Carolina. Briere, the ...

Chris Drury broke a third-period tie, Henrik Tallinder had a goal and an assist, and Ryan Miller made 20 saves to help the Buffalo Sabres beat the Pittsburgh Penguins 4-2 on Saturday night in the pre-season finale for both teams. Brian Campbell and Adam Mair also scored for the Sabres (5-1). Michel Ouellet and Ryan Malone scored for the Penguins (2-2-3). The Penguins played without Sidney Crosby, John LeClair, Mark ...