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Injury may shelve Sabres' Lydman

The defense corps is getting thin for the Buffalo Sabres as Toni Lydman may not be available for Thursday's game in Florida.

Lydman, who was struck by a shot in Monday's loss to Nashville, was unable to take part in practice today in HSBC Arena before the team flew to Fort Lauderdale. Captain Craig Rivet remains questionable with an upper-body ailment suffered Saturday in Montreal.

(Updated: 12/03/08 12:19 PM )

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Sabres turn back the clock

See those standings that say the Buffalo Sabres are 11-10-3? Forget about them. Now they read 0-0-0.

That list of goal scorers that has Thomas Vanek tied for the top spot of the NHL heap with 18? Wipe it from your mind.

(Updated: 12/03/08 7:45 AM )

Ruff calls for fresh start for Sabres

First the Buffalo Sabres' coaches had their say. Then the players got some things off their chest. Then the team practiced in HSBC Arena for nearly 80 minutes today to try to lift the stench of Monday's 2-0 loss to Nashville that still hung in the air.

Coach Lindy Ruff said he's taking a clean slate approach and trying to get his players to start anew, as they did when they went 6-0-2 from the gate in October. To him, the loss to the Predators has to be rock bottom for a team that's just 3-8 in its last 11 games.

(Updated: 12/02/08 1:47 PM )

Lackluster Sabres draw a blank

The Buffalo Sabres were downright unwatchable Monday night. Too bad HSBC Arena was filled to the brim with folks who came to take a look.

The Sabres' 2-0 loss to the Nashville Predators before a sellout crowd of 18,690 was about as flat an effort — by both teams — as we've seen since the NHL lockout.

(Updated: 12/02/08 1:13 AM )

Rivet, Kaleta sidelined with injuries

For several days, the Buffalo Sabres targeted Monday's game against Nashville as winger Ales Kotalik's return to the lineup after missing seven games with a strained hamstring. Kotalik made that timetable but the news was tempered by the fact two of his teammates missed the game with injuries of their own.

Captain Craig Rivet was a surprise scratch, as the Sabres announced 90 minutes before faceoff that he would sit out the game with an undisclosed upper-body injury. Rivet played 20 minutes, 48 seconds Saturday in Montreal and took part in the pregame skate Monday.

(Updated: 12/02/08 12:39 AM )

Unbalanced scoring weighs down Sabres

The joke goes that Thomas Vanek is such a natural goal scorer that he can probably score on a plane, in his sleep, anywhere. Well, he did exactly that late Saturday night and it actually further shines a spotlight on one of the Buffalo Sabres’ biggest problems.

Vanek scored both goals in Buffalo’s 3-2 loss Saturday night at Montreal. A few hours later, his league-leading goal total was amended from 17 to 18 by the NHL after he was credited with one at 3:11 of the third period in Friday’s 4-3 win over Pittsburgh in HSBC Arena.

(Updated: 12/01/08 6:42 AM )

Habs put end to Sabres' streak

MONTREAL — The Buffalo Sabres' run for quite a four-day trifecta was stopped short of the finish line here Saturday night.

Defensive breakdowns cost Buffalo three second-period goals and that was enough for the Montreal Canadiens to pull out a 3-2 win over the Sabres before the usual singing, chanting Bell Centre sellout crowd of 21,273.

(Updated: 11/29/08 11:20 PM )

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