Sabres Sign Goaltending Prospect David Leggio
Melissa Kania looks at the Buffalo Sabres signing a depth goaltender.
The Sabres have added a back-up goaltender for their AHL squad, signing 26-year-old David Leggio to a one-year deal.
Categories: Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast Tags: Buffalo Sabres, David Leggio
Sabres Sign Shaone Morrisonn
NHLHS Buffalo Sabres Correspondent Melissa Kania writes on the acquisition of defenseman Shaone Morrisonn.
The Sabres announced Monday that they have signed free agent defenseman Shaone Morrisonn to a two-year contract. Morrisonn will earn $2.075 million each year of the contract.
The move came several hours after the team placed forward Tim Kennedy on waivers.
Categories: Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast Tags: Buffalo Sabres, Sabres, Shaone Morrisonn
Sabres Waive, Buy Out Kennedy
NHLHS Buffalo Sabres Correspondent Melissa Kania writes on the Sabres buy out of Tim Kennedy. Unfortunately for the Sabres, they could not walk away from his arbitration award due to the low number.
In a surprise move yesterday, the Buffalo Sabres placed recently signed forward Tim Kennedy on waivers, shortly after signing him to a one-year, $1 million arbitration contract.
Categories: Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast Tags: Sabres, Tim Kennedy
Kennedy to Stay with Sabres
NHLHS Buffalo Sabres Correspondent Melissa Kania reports on the arbitration hearing of Tim Kennedy. The Buffalo native will be staying with the team for one more year.
Just over 48 hours later, the results of Tim Kennedy’s arbitration hearing are in.
Arbitrators announced a 1-year, $1 million deal for Kennedy with the Sabres on Thursday.
Categories: Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast Tags: Sabres, Tim Kennedy
Kennedy Takes Team to Arbitration; Kaleta Re-Signs
NHLHS Buffalo Sabres Correspondent Melissa Kania discusses the Tim Kennedy arbitration hearing and the re-signing of Patrick Kaleta.
With arbitration hearings underway, the Buffalo Sabres met with arbitrators on Tuesday to settle Tim Kennedy‘s case.
A ruling is expected within 48 hours, and the team can either accept the ruling and sign Kennedy, or walk away, letting him become an unrestricted free agent.
Categories: Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast Tags: Patrick Kaleta, Tim Kennedy
Sabres’ Offseason Moves
NHLHS Buffalo Sabres Correspondent Melissa Kania presents her introduction to NHLHS and an off-season overview of the Buffalo Sabres thus far.
Hey all, this is Melissa, your new Buffalo Sabres correspondent for NHL HotStove. With just over two months before training camp and preseason begins, teams are looking to the future and improving through free agency and – in some cases – trades.
The Sabres entered free agency with a handful of players to deal with, and as free agency began on July 1, they lost two key defense. Henrik Tallinder, who had been a member of the organization since being drafted in 1997, quickly signed a four year deal with the New Jersey Devils. The deal will pay him an average of $3.375 million per year. Defenseman Toni Lydman also signed with the Anaheim Ducks for a deal that will pay him $9 million over three years.
Categories: Buffalo Sabres, By Teams Tags: Buffalo Sabres, Cody McCormick, Derek Whitmore, Henrik Tallinder, Jhonas Enroth, Jordan Leopold, Mike Kostka, Mike Weber, Patrick Kaleta, Patrick Lalime, Philip Gogulla, Rob Niedermayer, Thomas Vanek, Tim Conboy, Tim Kennedy, Toni Lydman
NHLHS Mock Draft: With the Twenty Third Pick…
NHLHS Mock Draft is our latest feature where we collectively predict the first round of the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. The draft is a crapshoot and we will be wrong… …but we thought it would be fun to try.
With the 23rd overall pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, the Buffalo Sabres select…
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Bruins Keys to Playoff Success
Newest talent to NHLHS, Brandon Macdonald, discusses the success of the Boston Bruins and why they are heading into the semi-finals of the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
It was a playoff series that featured the world’s best goaltender and one of the rising stars on the backend. The majority of experts, when making their playoff picks, chose the Buffalo Sabres to roll over the Boston Bruins in the first round of the NHL’s Stanley Cup playoffs.
Things did not go as planned, as they rarely do, and the Bruins were able to pass the Sabres in six games without the help of number one center and offensive playmaker Marc Savard. ‘Savvy’, who is a large piece of the Bruins puzzle, has been out since March 7, when Penguins’ forward Matt Cooke threw the infamous check that led to Savard missing the remaining games of the regular season and well into these playoffs as he still hasn’t returned.
Categories: 30 Team Series, Around the League, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast, Playoff Coverage Tags: Evgeni Malkin, Marc Savard, Matt Cooke, Sergei Gonchar and Marc-Andre Fleury, Sidney Crosby, Zdeno Chara
The Man Behind the Mask: Ilya Bryzgalov
The NHLHS Man Behind The Mask series is a profile on some of the best goalies in the league to ever wear the “mask”. We hope you enjoy the latest installment of the NHLHS MBTM series.
Mature for this league, although some may differ when it comes to age. Either way, neither have prevented Coyotes number one goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov from performing as nothing short of outstanding.
His performance during last year’s IIHF World Championship tournament opened some eyes to the fans who are not as open to the small market teams and their players.
Bryzgalov helped Russia capture gold with a stellar performance during the tournament. Carrying that momentum into this season has provided the Coyotes with a man who can now place his name among the tops in the league within the position.
This year, Ilya Bryzgalov has helped his Phoenix Coyotes into their first playoff birth in many years. He has been rewarded from his outstanding play as being one of the three finalist for the Vezina trophy. The other two: New Jersey Devils goalie Martin Broduer and Buffalo Sabres goalie Ryan Miller. Not to shabby to be part of that group of goalies.
Categories: 30 Team Series, Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast, The Man Behind the Mask Tags: AHL, Anaheim Ducks, Anaheim Mighty Ducks, Cincinnati Mighty Ducks, Ilya Bryzgalov, Jean-Sebastien Giguere, Martin Broduer, Martin Gerber, NHL Entry Draft, Phoenix Coyotes, Ryan Miller
The Man Behind the Mask: Ryan Miller
The NHLHS Man Behind The Mask series is a profile on some of the best goalies in the league to ever wear the “mask”. We hope you enjoy the latest installment of the NHLHS MBTM series.
For the Buffalo Sabres and Ryan Miller, things are constantly looking up.
If last season was any indication as to how vital Miller is to the line up and on-ice performance of the Buffalo Sabres, just look at this season and where the Sabres currently are.
As the number three seed heading into the 2010 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs, there truly isn’t anyone else on this Sabres roster to thank, outside of rookie standout Tyler Myers, other than Miller.
Categories: 30 Team Series, Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast, The Man Behind the Mask Tags: AHL, Buffalo Sabres, Dominik Hasek, Grant Fuhr, Jocelyn Thibault, Martin Biron, Olympics, Rochester Americans, Ryan Miller, Silver Medal, Team USA, Tyler Myers, Vezina
It Keeps Getting Better
Five days in, seven overtime games and ten road wins later, the playoffs have been all that we could expect and more.
In what has been discussed time and time again, the National Hockey Leagues second season, also known as the Stanley Cup Playoffs, is all about goaltending.
Jonathan Quick of the Los Angeles Kings, Brian Boucher of the Philadelphia Flyers, Roberto Luongo of the Vancouver Canucks, Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins, Ilya Bryzgalov of the Phoenix Coyotes, Ryan Miller of the Buffalo Sabres, Pekka Rinne of the Nashville Predators, Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils, Evgeni Nabokov of the San Jose Sharks, Marc-Andre Fleury of the Pittsburgh Penguins, Antti Niemi of the Chicago Blackhawks, Brian Elliot of the Ottawa Senators, Jimmy Howard of the Detroit Red Wings, Jaroslav Halak of the Montreal Canadiens, Craig Anderson of the Colorado Avalanche as well as both Jose Theodore and Seymon Varlamov of the Washington Capitals have not only stepped up to make some amazing saves but have been able to keep each and every series even or close enough to it.
Categories: Around the League, Atlantic, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Central, Chicago Blackhawks, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, Eastern Conference, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, NHLHS Features, Nashville Predators, New Jersey Devils, Northeast, Northwest, Ottawa Senators, Pacific, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Playoff Coverage, San Jose Sharks, Southeast, Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals, Western Conference Tags: Andrei Kostitsyn, Antti Niemi, Braydon Coburn, Brian Boucher, Brian Elliot, Craig Anderson, Evgeni Malkin, Evgeni Nabokov, Henrik Zetterberg, Ilya Bryzgalov, Jaroslav Halak, Jimmy Howard, Jonathan Quick, Jose Theodore, Marc Andre Fleury, Martin Brodeur, Mike Richards, Nickas Backstrom, Nicklas Backstrom, Patrick Sharp, Pekka Rinne, Peter Forsberg, Roberto Luongo, Ryan Miller, Seymon Varlamov, Sidney Crosby, Tuukka Rask
Discovering the Underdog
NHLHS writer Anthony Curatolo gives a look at how the underdogs are on top to start this year’s NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.
If you were a betting man who strictly took the underdogs, the first night of the playoffs made you rich.
And as if the first night of the 2010 NHL playoffs completed wasn’t enough, it seemed as if night two would match night one.
Why you ask? The answer is simple. Not one team considered to be the favorite were able to win.
Categories: 30 Team Series, Around the League, Atlantic, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, Central, Chicago Blackhawks, Colorado Avalanche, Detroit Red Wings, Eastern Conference, Los Angeles Kings, Montreal Canadiens, NHLHS Features, Nashville Predators, New Jersey Devils, Northeast, Ottawa Senators, Pacific, Philadelphia Flyers, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Playoff Coverage, San Jose Sharks, Southeast, Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals, Western Conference Tags: Jaroslav Halak, Jimmy Howard
Pros & Cons: Boston Bruins vs. Buffalo Sabres
Our newest feature, Pros and Cons, holds a debate between two of our featured writers as they make an argument for each team in the series. We will continue this series throughout the playoffs as we delve deeper into how these two teams will interact.
Categories: Around the League, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Eastern Conference, NHLHS Features, Northeast, Playoff Coverage Tags: Boston Bruins, Derek Roy, Drew Stafford, Jason Pominville, Lindy Ruff, Marc Savard, Mark Recchi, Patrice Bergeron, Raffi Torres, Ryan Miller, Thomas Vanek, Tim Connolly, Tim Thomas, Tuukka Rask, Tyler Myers, Zdeno Chara
Calder Profiles: Tyler Myers
When Tyler Myers was drafted , Buffalo had high hopes but did not expect him to take the blue line by storm.
In his first season in the NHL, Myers is logging top pairing minutes amongst Buffalo’s defensive pairings.
Categories: Around the League, Buffalo Sabres, Calder Profiles, NHLHS Features, Northeast Tags: Buffalo Sabres, Tyler Myers
The Value of: Lubomir Visnovsky
NHL Hot Stove presents it’s “The Value Of” series which will look at some of the names discussed around the NHL who likely will be moved at the March 3rd trade deadline.
If the Oilers cannot move star defenseman Sheldon Souray perhaps they can move another of their excellent offensive defensemen in Lubomir Visnovsky. TSN’s Darren Dreger listed Visnovsky as one of his 10 most likely players to get traded at the trade deadline so it should make sense that the Oilers wish to move this talent.
Categories: Buffalo Sabres, By Teams, Deadline Speculation, Eastern Conference, Northeast, Northwest, Ottawa Senators, Southeast, Value Of:, Vancouver Canucks, Washington Capitals, Western Conference Tags: Jarret Stoll, Lubomir Visnovsky, Matt Greene, Scott Niedermayer, Sheldon Souray, Steve Tambellini
