Single digit temps to greet the Lightning
Today’s 12:30 afternoon game is the Sabres last home game for January versus the number one wild card team in the Eastern Conference, Tampa Bay, a team that has only won three more games this season than Buffalo achieved earning a strong home record of only five losses.
Winning their last two games by shut outs and are 6-4 in their last 10 games, Buffalo just past the halfway point of the 2023-24 NHL season and are not out of the playoff seeding picture as of yet.
A victory today will give the Sabres a winning home record and assist in their goal differential before heading out West to battle Anaheim, Los Angeles, and San Jose to finish up the month’s schedule.
Will UPL make his fourth consecutive start? Is Mr. Levi going to remain Buffalo’s back-up or get playing time in Rochester? And why are the sports pundits speculating about Mr. Mittelstadt being traded because his contract is not locked down long term, time will tell.
The Hockey News has digitized all of their back issues, and here is a gem worth looking into to understand referees/linesmen and all that they have to go through and how they call the games.
Buffalo Winter 
Still a period and a half, approximately, to play in the game and I’m hopefully Buffalo can catch up.
Thanks very much Buffalo Winter for the tip about that gem of an issue. I remember you speaking of the digitalization of the back issues.
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Your welcome, this one issue was the one I was remembering about how they wrote about how the NHL keeps stats on officials but do not make them public, and how THN was going to keep their own stats, the April issue of that year has the results of their findings.
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Good memory.
Funny enough, my husband is a subscriber to THN and has been for years (I renew his subscription every year as a birthday present, I may have mentioned this another time) and I’m laughing because I bet somewhere here he might even have that issue lying around, since he doesn’t throw any of his hockey stuff out ! LOL.
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I almost forgot to mention….. I must say that 1970s poster by artist P. Rossi you have shared is very eye-catching. Everything about it is fun and interesting and in fact, additionally, if I may say so, I think that the artist incredibly captured the fast pace of the sport. Look at the way the player is leaning. Mr. Rossi makes it seem that the player is in motion on the paper. I also think his use of colour, making it appear as if the hockey player featured is on fire, enhances this sense of movement. Even the netminder pictured in the corner seems ready to make a big save. And the way the words, large and chunky, jump off the paper as if to make a bold statement. It is all really remarkable, imho. Anyways, that’s enough. I have probably rambled a tad too much, lol.
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Well, well, as an artist I must say this was a very concise and excellent review of the poster, I earned my degree in commercial art a few decades ago, lol
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Coming from you, I consider that a great compliment, thank you!
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