Author: Buffalo Winter

Gilded Knights Swept

Sabres 7  Knights 2 – The Sabres swept their two game season series with the Cup champions 5-2 and 7-2 and it did not matter if jackie vegas was there or not, Nevada desert or here, Mr. Levi or UPL, Buffalo out-scored the Knights by a three to one margin in both games.

Mr. Cozens scored short-handed twice, Mr. Skinner scored while earning two assists, Mr. Mittelstadt continues his positive play with a goal and his 33rd assist, with OP scoring a beauty while also contributing two assists.

Buffalo out-shot their opponent so profusely that the Knights had nearly 30 blocked shots for the game (27), a Sabres four goal third period crushed any hope of a Nevada comeback after Buffalo earned a 3-2 lead towards the end of the second period.

The Sabres have no time to rest on their laurels [7-3-0, W2] as the Winnipeg Jets fly into town to sample Buffalo hospitality tonight for a seven o’clock puck drop, then Buffalo heads to Toronto for Wednesday night’s matchup.

Another Road Victory

Buffalo 3 Tampa Bay 2 OT After weathering the initial Lightning storm, the Sabres had a strong road effort, shorthanded shots on goal, Mr. Clifton solidly checking Tampa Bay players all over the ice, Misters Thompson and Tuch providing offense, Misters Cozens, Krebs, with Benson, Girgensons and their constant pressure, OP clanging iron, and UPL!

In the first period Tampa Bay got away with one at the 10:48 mark as Mr. de Haan backhands the puck directly off the ice into the stands with the referee having no eyes on the puck to make the call.

Tampa Bay started OT with the puck but became careless and frustrated as Mr. Thompson was hooked on a clear breakaway and the Lightning earned a PN which afforded Mr. Mittelstadt and his sweet feed to Mr. Dahlin for the awesome back door winner!

Three Hat Tricks in one game

Wild 10 Canucks 7- The number one team in the NHL scored seven times during last night’s contest and ended up losing by three as their opponent incredibly scored five times in the first 5:12 minutes of the third period and eventually scoring two empty netters to finish the offensive onslaught.

Two Wild players and one Canucks player combined for the game’s three hat tricks, after Vancouver took an early 4-1 lead Minnesota would get one back but a successful Canucks breakaway gave Vancouver another three goal lead 5-2 with five and a half minutes remaining in the second period.

Vancouver scored twice in the third period to make it an 8-7 game but Minnesota scored two happy net goals in the remaining two minutes of the game for the 10-7 final and set their team record for most goals in a game.

Not to be out done…

Calgary, Carolina, and Edmonton teams all scored six times and won by 6-3 in each of their three contests.

Awesome Matthews

The Maple Leafs beat the Blues 4-2 last night and Mr. Matthews scored his NHL leading 49^th goal of the season and the next closest four players in the league are all still in the 30 goal range.

Road Warriors

The Sabres take their winning road record to the test beginning tomorrow night as Buffalo plays three consecutive road games versus Montreal, Tampa Bay, and Columbus before returning home to face Carolina Sunday night making it four games in five nights for the Sabres.

Woman’s Hockey in the USA during the Roaring Twenties

The 1920s brought the Prohibition, women achieving the right to vote, the beginning of the Great Depression, and Flappers who were the young women of the era that sought more out of life.

No one ever said that woman could not play hockey, but men and women of the time just preferred that females did not play professionally or in any organized league but only for recreation.

So they did, believing that this was a way of cutting the Victorian constraints still imposed on women and to show their vitality and health they played ice hockey unbelievably outside in their swimsuits.

Without any organization to represent or provide league play there is little to no information on the young ladies that took to the ice a century ago, a few images and admiration is all that you can find researching online.

Today woman’s ice hockey played in the United States of America is vibrant and entertaining and provides ladies of all ages to be able to participate in organized league play and hockey always was and has always been for everyone even without the government’s overreach to tell us so.

Wild honor goaltender, Oilers Kane x3

Minnesota 3 Pittsburgh 2

Marc-Andre Fleury earned his 553rd win last night as the hometown crowd was treated to an unabashed celebration of “Flower” with a video compilation on the scoreboard, his family present as he was recognized for his most recent accomplishments before the game.

Had already Passed Mr. Roy for 2^nd most wins (552) and now has played 1000 NHL games and during his night Sid the Kid scored on his former Cup winning teammate.

NYR 4 CHI 3 OT

The Rangers goaltender became a maniac and began throwing punches, chaos ensued.

The referees in the crowd thought there was a trip in overtime before New York scored the winning goal, to be fair it did appear that way but under closer inspection with video replay, it highlights a solid check was the culprit.

EDM 5 ANA 3

Commander “Hat Trick” Kane registered his eighth career hat trick versus the Ducks and fifth so far for his current Oilers team.