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Sabres utilized synthetic ice, game film during quarantine Eric Staal describes how he stayed busy during his week away from the rink by Jourdon LaBarber @jourdonlabarber / Sabres.com Eric Staal found a new set of teammates to train with during his week away from the rink.  Staal set up a sheet of synthetic ice on the second flo...

Photo by Bruce Bennett/Getty Images For the first time in over 10 months, there is a month of New Jersey Devils hockey to review. I could be cute and just leave at that. The Coronavirus Pandemic continues throughout the world and there is no guarantee the Devils or the National Hockey League will complete the 56-games-in-fiveish-months season sprint in full. However, this is All About the Jersey and not All About the Epidemiology. The focus is on the Devils. This is about the first month of t...

Montreal drops 5-1-2 after being shut out by Calgary, 2-0.

Eichel scores in shootout, Sabres beat Devils Jack Eichel scored in a shootout, Linus Ullmark made 31 saves, and the Buffalo Sabres beat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Saturday. Victor Olofsson, Tobias Rieder and Eric Staal also scored as the Sabres improved to 3-0-1 in their past four games. The Canadian Press Jack Eichel Scott Wedgewood , The Canadian Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — Jack Eichel scored in a shootout, Linus Ullmark made 31 saves and the Buffalo...

Eichel scores in shootout, Sabres beat Devils 4-3 By JONAH BRONSTEINJanuary 30, 2021 GMT BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Jack Eichel scored in a shootout, Linus Ullmark made 31 saves and the Buffalo Sabres beat the New Jersey Devils 4-3 on Saturday. Victor Olofsson, Tobias Rieder and Eric Staal also scored to help the Sabres improve to 3-0-2 in their past five games. Taylor Hall had two assists. In the first of eight meetings this season between the East Division teams, Sabres coach Ralph Krueger was pl...

2. Evaluating the team at even strength   The Sabres have yet to establish consistent 5-on-5 scoring, tied for 17th with 12 goals. They have played .500 hockey in spite of that thanks to sound play systematically. The loss to a desperate Rangers team on Thursday was an outlier. Since the third period of the opener against Washington, the Sabres had consistently outshot and outchanced opponents despite varying results. They entered Thursday ranked third in high-danger chance percentage (64.3) a...

Washington was fined $100,000 on Wednesday for violating COVID-19 protocols, which resulted in forwards Alex Ovechkin and Evgeny Kuznetsov, defenseman Dmitry Orlov, and goaltender Ilya Samsonov being placed on the COVID-related absence list. Coach Peter Laviolette said all four players are quarantining and are expected to miss at least the next four games. The NHL said in its statement that the Capitals violations "involved social interactions among team members who were in close contact and wh...

The Buffalo News Lance Lysowski.  4 Taylor Hall - 9 Jack Eichel - 23 Sam Reinhart 68 Victor Olofsson - 12 Eric Staal - 24 Dylan Cozens 13 Tobias Rieder - 20 Cody Eakin - 72 Tage Thompson 53 Jeff Skinner - 27 Curtis Lazar - 15 Riley Sheahan 19 Jake McCabe - 55 Rasmus Ristolainen 26 Rasmus Dahlin - 62 Brandon Montour 33 Colin Miller - 10 Henri Jokiharju  Dylan Cozens moves up to the second line alongside Victor Olofsson and Eric Staal following a strong first two games, which we detailed Sunda...

News and notes from Sundays practice.

Why the Toronto Maple Leafs will win the Stanley Cup in 2021 play How will the 2021 NHL season be different than previous seasons? (3:41) Greg Wyshynski joins SportsNation to discuss the upcoming NHL season and who he thinks will take home the Stanley Cup. (3:41) Everything youre about to read can change in a cough. Thats the reality of the 2021 NHL season, which is being played inside (mostly) empty arenas during the COVID-19 pandemic. The league released the names of 27 players who began the ...