Published by hockeybuzz.com, 12-1-2019 Lookout below!!! That's the shout that accompanied the Buffalo Sabres tumble down the standings and when you look at their team stats, there's no question that they were worthy of their 3-8-3 record in the month of November and a drop from 3rd overall in the NHL standings to 20th. Luckily there's plenty of time left in the season to correct some things and special teams need the most attention. The Sabres powerplay was one goal shy of being completely powerless through November as defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen scored the lone goal on Buffalo's 37 opportunities. At one point very early in the season the Sabres couldn't be stopped and had the league's best powerplay but since then it took a dive to 17th as their conversion rate went from 29.8% at the end of October to 17.8% as of now. And their penalty kill, which wasn't anything to write home about to begin with, was pretty bad as well. Buffalo went from a 79.5% kill-rate, good for 20th in the league, to 74.7 which dropped them to 29th.
Published by hockeybuzz.com, 11-1-2019 It should be an interesting night at the rink in Washington DC tonight when the Sabres face off against the Washington Capitals. Fans in the nation's capital are celebrating their first World Series Championship since 1924 as the Washington Nationals finished off a heavily favored Houston Astros team in seven games, winning all four on the road. The 2019 Nats championship comes on the heels of a 2018 Stanley Cup win by the Capitals, their first-ever Cup win.
Party vibes will be swirling all around the Sabres as they take on the Caps and hopefully Washington captain Alex Ovechkin has been showing his baseball counterparts just what celebrating is all about. Ovechkin and his team mates embarked on a legendary post-championship party that began in Las Vegas, where they defeated the Golden Knights in five games, with the party stretching from days into weeks. The captain was quoted as saying, "Get some beers, get some whatever and start celebrating." That they did.