I feel like my whole neighborhood is waiting for more snow to come before shoveling because there really isn’t anything worth shoveling right now.

Hey, give the excellent @iceman-cometh.bsky.social a follow and a welcome to Bluesky. We should have a parade every time a new hockey writer hops aboard.

Lindy Ruff said on the postgame is he may have tweaked his previous injury. Could’ve played, they opted against it.

Count me as a little nervous after seeing Thompson’s reaction on the NZ draw. Ideally nothing there but you never know

That’s a hell of a game. Sometimes they go that way. Hell of a game from Bussi but damn if the Sabres didn’t get after it.

Svechnikov is so good but man he’s reckless

Bold call by me here but I don’t think Norris is going to be out long. I also don’t think Buffalo is going big fish fishing but Jarmo is a new quantity to be judged so…

Absolutely tickled seeing a Benson-Östlund-Helenius line

Wonder what Sabres fans would think of a best-of-seven series against Carolina (apart from frothing at the mouth that is)

Chris Mason quite nattily attired today

I think Stankoven’s leg gave out there. That’s tough. Probably not a penalty but what can you do?

Not sure what to make of the lake snow but I do know my sympathies lie with the meteorologists trying to figure it out for real

Fun game! Spicy game.

Has Luke Wilson always had a Southern accent…?

Svechnikov was trying to get a return power play for his team by trying to goad Dahlin and he gave the gambit away by looking to the referee the whole time

Dahlin got the number he wanted

If Bussi wasn’t a righty catcher, that’s a money goal for Thompson.

A bit of a shitty play by Svechnikov on Dahlin in the corner there. Just unnecessary.

Bills promote GM Brandon Beane despite turbulent 2025 season, checkered draft record www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...

Over the years, when people would ask how Pegula could operate his teams with such polar results, my upshot was: "Be thankful he doesn't run the Bills like he does the Sabres." You can't say that anymore. Column to post shortly.

Doan *has* to shoot there

The snow has returned to the city

Tough turnover in the neutral zone there. It scatters everyone back and Samuelsson is trapped having to play home plate

Holy smokes the pad stretch from Luukkonen on Hall

Dahlin with the snipe show - whew

For those looking, today’s Sabres-Canes game is on TNT For B/R today, Rasmus Andersson is off to Vegas… so who’s getting moved next? bleacherreport.com/articles/253...

That’s the good stuff for Konsta Helenius www.instagram.com/reel/DTs6xFb...

Your NHL First Star of the Week? Tage Thompson

To my not-on-the-Bills-beat eye, Beane and McDermott have been playing PR games against each other for the last few months. One or both of them knew that if they didn’t come through, change was coming.

Been told about this snow coming for days now and I’m in the “get on with it” mind set now

Ok so what’s Calgary getting from Vegas then

this app is absolutely at the apex of sports discussion when we start getting this

Bought the cheap rock salt as opposed to the more expensive and superior ice melt and now I have opinions on this subject. I am so upset.

Lindy Ruff said Konsta Helenius will make his NHL debut tomorrow vs. Carolina

Sabres will get a practice in before flying to Raleigh for tomorrow afternoon’s game against Carolina. Players just coming to the ice and we’ve got Alex Lyon out here getting warm

Eerie, the timing. The last time I walked into a locker room so devastated and disarmed was when the 2005-06 Sabres — their elite roster hammered to bits — almost won yet crumbled in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference Finals. www.nytimes.com/athletic/698...

Zoinks

I got a text from a Montreal number I didn’t have in my phone that could’ve been applied to the finish to the football game OR a scam/spam text just the same and either I’m a jerk for not responding or doing the right thing

The quick and dirty for AP Sports on the Wild ending a winless streak: apnews.com/article/wild...

Pretty grounded take from Lindy Ruff about today's game. "I think this is also product of the schedule. You're going to see some goofy scores and you're going to see some games where you don't look as good and you'll look back and you pretty well know why."

Sabres tried to get a change after Samuelsson cleared the zone, couldn't do it. Zuccarello off the bench and into the scorebook with the winner 5-4 Wild take it in OT

Sabres lay out the body in the closing seconds to send this game to overtime. Wild will have 1:47 of 4-on-3 power play to start the extra period

After a peaceable third period without a call, Peyton Krebs is called for hooking with 13.7 seconds to go in the third

Owen Power rings one off the post - that close

Mattias Samuelsson hustles off the ice after he got hit in the face with the puck. Unpleasant

A tightly played third after all kinds of loosey-goosey action in the first two periods. Had to be expected, of course, but both the Wild and Sabres playing to not screw it up

Malenstyn goes heavy into the corner and was slow to get up and head to the bench

Luukkonen with a handful of big stops on a flurry from Minnesota to keep this one knotted at 4

Zach Benson with some chatter for Hughes and Faber at the whistle. A spicy third on the way??? It's 4-4 after two periods and the Wild have a 24-15 SOG advantage

Mattias Samuelsson and Ryan Hartman developing a distaste for each other's presence