Ex-Caps forward and current gentle sweetheart, Marcus Johansson, is now a Minnesota Wild… err, a member of the Wild. A Wildling? I don’t know. Anyway, now he’s wilding out.
(P.S. he was on the Buffalo Sabres before, in case you, like me, forgot.)
Going to Buffalo will be forward Eric Staal, who has never played for the Capitals as far as I can tell.
By Peter Hassett 2 weeks ago
The Buffalo Sabres announced on Tuesday that they are returning to royal for the 2020-21 season.
The team debuted new jerseys and a slightly tweaked logo that is nearly identical to what the team wore from 1970 to 1996, according to SportsLogos.net.
The Sabres are trying to create excitement around the team after cleaning house in June and firing 22 different people (including their general manager, hockey operations staff, and coaches and GM of its AHL team).
Tuesday, the Buffalo Sabres cleaned house after missing the playoffs for the ninth straight season and leaving one of its stars, Jack Eichel, “fed up.”
We knew the team fired General Manager Jason Botterill, members of the Sabres’ hockey operations staff, and the coaches and GM of its AHL team. But the full scope of the firings wasn’t realized until today.
According to TSN’s Frank Seravalli, 22 members of the organization were fired in total. Seravalli described it as “a bloodletting that may be unprecedented in NHL history.”
By Ian Oland 3 months ago
The Buffalo Sabres made a flurry of moves on Tuesday after missing the playoffs for the ninth straight season. The Sabres own the longest active playoff drought in the NHL.
The Sabres fired general manager Jason Botterill in the morning and named senior vice president of business administration, Kevyn Adams, as his replacement. Adams has no GM experience.
Members of the Sabres’ hockey operations staff, including scouts, were canned, as well as the coaches and GM at its AHL affiliate, the Rochester Americans.
By Ian Oland 3 months ago
The Washington Capitals humbled and molly-whopped the virtual Buffalo Sabres on Monday. The fake Caps are undefeated (4-0) since going digital.
The Capitals had seven different goal-scorers, including the snake-bit Digi Ovechkin. The game was so lobsided Nick Jensen scored and Braden Holtby tallied an assist.
NHL billionaires have been behaving badly.
Three have been worse than most: the Boston Bruins and the Buffalo Sabres, who were among the last to commit to paying their game-day employees and some of those plans were far weaker than other teams.
Now they’ve taken it to another, even lower, level.
By Brennin Weiswerda 6 months ago
The Washington Capitals followed up their great performance in Pittsburgh with the opposite of that in Buffalo. They were able to salvage a loser point out of the festivities, but ultimately fell in the shootout 3-2 to the Sabres.
The Caps out-shot the Sabres 35 to 26 and out-attempted them at five-on-five 50 to 34.
By Chris Cerullo 7 months ago
The Washington Capitals played a thoroughly Capital-y game on Monday night in Buffalo. For forty minutes they were a mix of boredom and badness, giving up chances and goals to a team they should be much better than. But then Alex Ovechkin heaved the entire 19-player roster onto his shoulders and carried them back into the game.
It began with Marcus Johansson setting up Victor Olofsson as the Caps blew a breakout. Jack Eichel made it 2-0 with a god-tier effort on a second period power play.
Suddenly, in the third period, the Caps were a different team — which is to say: a good one. Alex Ovechkin notched his 48th of the season, then Dmitry Orlov tied the game off Ovi’s assist. Brandon Montour “scored” late in the third, but the goal was washed due to Jeff Skinner’s interference against Braden Holtby, pushing us into overtime. There the Caps killed an Orlov trip to survive to the shootout, so here we go with the shootout bullets!
Caps lose.
By Peter Hassett 7 months ago
The Caps are still on the road and are making a quick stop in Buffalo to face off against the Sabres. Nothing to note on the scratches and injuries list.
Here is your report.
By Elyse Bailey 7 months ago
