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Ruff crushed by former team

Sabres 0 – Devils 5 The Sabres looked good yesterday, except for goaltending, Buffalo launched 42 SOG as well as forcing New Jersey to absorb 20 blocks, the Sabres number one standing as the NHL’s premier penalty killers remains intact as they stopped the Devils on the power play, and (C) Thompson successfully participated in a revenge fight versus (RW) Noesen who had hit Tage with a cheap high hit in their last game.

The Buffalo Sabres are in the great state of Minnesota to take on the third best team in the Western Conference who are riding a seven-game winning streak, the Wild are absolutely rolling, and the Sabres will have to give it everything they have to bounce back with a win tonight at 8 pm.

In my senior year of high school the day before Halloween, this episode aired, I wish to thank the Canadian company Crosscut Films out of Saskatchewan for their time and efforts restoring this clip to one of the clearest versions I have seen over the previous holidays.

Tired from too much turkey or not, the Buffalo Sabres are hosting the New Jersey Devils tomorrow afternoon at four o’clock.

League & Division lead

Here along the Lake I accumulated the second highest score for this week’s matchup and maintain my division and the League lead.

My opponent last week scored 37 points in one night but then could only muster single digit scores for four of the other six nights falling short of 100 points for the week.

TRANSACTIONS

This Monday I and asher1961-1 were actively using the waiver wire, unfortunately I was clicking my mouse to quickly and picked-up (LW) Zucker by mistake and dropped him immediately and selected (LW) Neighbours who is sporting a 2.1 fantasy points average in his first 10 games, will he produce more productively than (C) Protas who I originally dropped to make room on my roster, tonight will tell.

Here is my line-up for tonight’s seven NHL games hopefully a good start to the week versus Zach’s Honorable Team the second-place team in the East Division who has a strong team and will challenge me this weekly matchup.

3-game regular season series tied at one

Sabres 4 – Hurricanes 1 (en) Buffalo and Carolina each have beaten each other at their home rinks this season with the rubber match coming on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Monday January 19th, 2026, an afternoon game (1:30 pm) in Raleigh, North Carolina.

The first period was maddening, the Sabres took the 1-0 lead on the power play and then shortly thereafter scored again, but the officials and the HQ in Toronto ruled “goaltender interference” (no clear rules on this) and disallowed the goal, video replay highlights the Buffalo player was clearly out of the blue ice and the Carolina netminder had time and did reset.

Then the officials called a phantom penalty on Buffalo which video replay again clearly shows that the offending Buffalo player did not touch the Carolina player who on video replay can be seen reaching too far forward and fell on his own, the Sabres killed off that Hurricanes power play.

Buffalo had held Carolina to just one SOG for approximately the first 15 minutes of the first period, then chaos during another penalty kill in front of the Sabres net as one Sabres player fell onto a sprawling (G) Luukkonen and another Sabres player in an attempt to clear the puck put it to a Carolina player in open ice who shot the puck into a gapping net to tie the game at one apiece to end the first period.

The Second period was much better as the Sabres scored early and late in the period to take a commanding 3-1 lead, with the third goal a beautiful deke the defender & breakaway goal by (LW) Malenstyn (2nd goal of the season) with less than two minutes remaining in the period.

Carolina had pulled their goaltender with at least three minutes remaining in the game and kept control for the most part, but Sabres (G) Luukkonen was excellent and once Buffalo regained possession it turned into an easy give-and-go between (C) Thompson and (LW) Benson for the empty netter and the 4-1 victory over the Eastern Conference leader.

Sabres Silence Blackhawks

Sabres 9 – Blackhawks 3 Buffalo’s offense came alive Friday night as (RW) Tuch earned four assists, (RW) Doan scored twice, special teams scored on the power play, and the defense contributed greatly as three different defensemen scored to aid the offense as well as keeping Chicago’s SOG to a minimum.

After an eight-game absence, Sabres (LW) Zucker scored and earned two assists during his first game back, and young phenom (C) Beddard (2 assists) was prevented from scoring a goal when (G) Luukkonen stoned the Chicago player on a breakaway.

Tomorrow afternoon at one o’clock the Carolina Hurricanes who currently are sitting atop of the Eastern Conference and with the second-best record in the NHL visit Buffalo for the Sabres last game during this four-game homestand.