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Separating The Champions From The Choke-Jobs

The NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer.

I realize that Buffalo accepts crushing disappointment as a societal norm, like paralyzing snowfall totals and permanent wing sauce stains. But last night's third-period collapse against Ottawa — a 6-3 "definition of a joke" whose box score will be etched on the Sabres' tombstone for the '07-08 season — made Syracuse's choke in the NIT against UMass seem like a quaint, acceptable folly by comparison.

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10:40 AM on Wed Mar 26 2008
By wyshynski
3,849 views, 70 comments

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Our On-Site Report From The Ice Bowl


Jack Kukoda is a native of Buffalo, NY and is a writer for the Onion News Network. He lives in New York City now. And he was at the outdoors Sabres-Penguins game yesterday and files this most amusing report. More »

2:20 PM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Leitch
9,314 views, 52 comments

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Mother Nature Snowballs Bettman


Today's NHL Closer is written by Greg Wyshynski, of The FanHouse and The Fourth Period. He is also the author of Glow Pucks And 10-Cent Beer. Enjoy. More »

10:40 AM on Wed Jan 2 2008
By Leitch
5,749 views, 43 comments

Latest by TheTick: @Satyr Icon: Rangers and Kings played in Vegas (at the Caeser's Palace parking lot) September of '91. more »

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Looking Toward January 1 In Buffalo


For the 12 of you back at work, Melt Your Face Off offers this preview of the NHL's Winter Classic to be held one week from now, and why it kicks the ass of the stupid Capital One Bowl. More »

4:10 PM on Wed Dec 26 2007
By Leitch
6,143 views, 37 comments

Latest by the.outlaw.jose.mourinho: 10-6 lead? if the gators don't hang 40 on michigan... give michigan the asterisk win. more »

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Shooting At The Net Yields More Goals? Brilliant!

After a humiliating, unprecedented loss to the Buffalo Sabres, Redstate.org probably thinks the Carolina Hurricanes deserve a do-over. After all, some of the goals Buffalo scored throughout the game were intentional, unfair, and uncalled for. It's the only sensible conclusion after Buffalo's eight — eight goals were an embarrassing display of hockey, and should be stricken from the record. Anytime I'm getting blasted in a sports video game, I just hit the reset button, because it's the sporting thing to do. I can't subject animated sprites to such humiliating defeat. More »

1:10 PM on Sun Dec 2 2007
By sussman
1,430 views, 6 comments

Latest by Afino: After all, some of the goals Buffalo scored throughout the game were intentional, unfair, and uncalled for. So did John Grahame, who apparently thought goaltending was optional last night. At one point, he DUCKED out of the way of a shot. more »

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Suddenly, There Just Aren't Enough Hockey Tickets To Go Around

With every story about the NHL seemingly existing only to make fun of it, here's a good one: The Sabres-Penguins game, scheduled for New Years Day at Ralph Wilson Stadium, sold 42,000 tickets in 25 minutes. We might question the wisdom of having a huge event like that on a day dominated by college football, but whatever: That's pretty impressive. (And it doesn't even count season ticket holders, of which there are 30,000.) More »

1:35 PM on Wed Sep 19 2007
By Leitch
9,117 views, 65 comments

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Fortunately, Nobody Wants To Watch A Playoff Overtime

As MJD pointed out yesterday, NBC, amazingly, cut away from the Senators-Sabres Game 5 overtime yesterday to show ... the first two hours of the Preakness prerace coverage. That's right: Rather than show the most exciting part of an entire hockey season, NBC chose to show Bob Costas interview people who, for once, are actually smaller than he is. More »

11:30 AM on Mon May 21 2007
By Leitch
2,891 views, 71 comments

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Pity The Poor Buffalo Fan

Heading into the NHL playoffs, the subplot we were most excited about involved the Buffalo Sabres, a team with a long-suffering but rabid — we mean literally rabid; it's in the Buffalo drinking water — fanbase and a No. 1 seed. After they beat the Rangers, it all appeared to be coming together. At last, the city of Buffalo had a real chance at a championship, or at least another opportunity to fall apart in the title game/series. More »

12:00 PM on Tue May 15 2007
By Leitch
1,743 views, 80 comments

Latest by Fuck Rudolph: "NHLPA 93 was the best hockey game because of the head bleeding and the fighting." Although bitch slapping Wayne and making him bleed is always great, '94 has the one-timer, and that's a feature that just makes the game better. So 94>93, more »

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NHL Stanley Cup Pants Party: Sabres Vs. Senators

And here, you thought we were completely ignoring the NHL playoffs. To remind you: Canuck please! More »

5:45 PM on Thu May 10 2007
By Leitch
5,097 views, 561 comments

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Michael Bloomberg Cannot Be Bothered With Your 'Hockey'

Let it be known that Michael Bloomberg is a serious man with many important papers on his desk, and that his office has wood paneling and various brass fixtures. This leaves him little time for traditional sports wagers with other, lesser mayors. More »

2:30 PM on Wed Apr 25 2007
By rickchand
2,739 views, 75 comments

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... Or, As The NHL Calls It, 'Thursday'

For those who like their NHL violence varied and wanton, we present Thursday's Ottawa at Buffalo matchup, which makes the Spanish Inquisition look like a tickle fight. The Sabres' 6-5 OT win featured 100 total penalty minutes, with eight penalties for fighting, four for hooking, two for instigating and one for goalie leaving the crease (our favorite). There was also this glorious excerpt from the penalty summary: More »

10:30 AM on Fri Feb 23 2007
By rickchand
9,947 views, 228 comments

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They're Still Scraping Bits Of Umberger Off The Ice

A day after being absolutely trucked by Sabres defenseman Brian Campbell in Game One of the Flyers/Sabres series last night, R.J. Umberger is apparently fine. Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock says Umberger is "good to go," which is just difficult to believe after watching this: More »

4:27 PM on Sun Apr 23 2006
By mjdeadspin
873 views, 11 comments