Here we are

It’s been way too long since I last posted but even if I had kept up with this blog more over the past two months, I doubt I could have kept up with everything that’s happened to the Buffalo Sabres. Ironically enough, the team whose first half of the season was marked by predictability and mediocrity has whizzed through the last two months of the season as one of the league’s best teams. Moreover, they’ve dominated in games where no one expected it and found ways to come back in games where they’d normally be out of the game before the second period intermission. It’s been surprises all the way.

Now do you believe?

Thomas Vanek simply walking into Mordor

A funny thing has happened to the Buffalo Sabres since Terry Pegula purchased them from Tom Golisano towards the end of February: slowly but surely, they’ve actually managed to morph into contenders.  They’re probably no one’s idea of the next Eastern Conference Champions, not with 76 points and tied with the slumping New York Rangers for seventh in the conference. But the position the Sabres are currently finding themselves in was certainly all but unthinkable to a lot of people just two months ago. And not all of the team’s sudden revival is a direct result of their new owner.

Weeks in Review

It figures that the 10 days I just took off from this blog to go back to school and get settled in would be the two busiest and headline filled weeks of the month for the NHL and the Buffalo Sabres. Let’s review what’s been going on recently, shall we? First, a look at the Buffalo Sabres.