Matthew Fairburn
Reporter at The Athletic
Buffalo Sabres reporter for @TheAthletic. Mizzou grad. | [email protected]
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Fairburn
BUFFALO, N.Y. - The Buffalo Sabres have hired Eric Staal as special assistant to the general manager. Staal will report to general manager Kevyn Adams, who is being retained for a sixth season on the job. Staal, who played 32 games for the Sabres during the 2020-21 season, appeared in more than 1,300 NHL games, had 1,063 points and won a Stanley Cup as a teammate of Adams with the Carolina Hurricanes. Staal was one of the first players Adams acquired after becoming general manager in 2020.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Fairburn
Here we are again, Sabres fans. It's early May, and for the 14th straight year, hockey fans in Buffalo are stuck worrying about ping-pong balls while the NHL playoffs roll along. With their late-season hot streak, the Sabres played their way out of the top five lottery odds, but they still have the seventh-best odds to land the No. 1 pick. This gives them a chance at their highest draft pick since they had the No. 1 pick in 2021.
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1 week ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Fairburn
BUFFALO, N.Y. - In each of the last five seasons, the Buffalo Sabres have left at least $6 million in salary cap space unspent. They're the only team in the NHL that can say that. They also haven't made the Stanley Cup playoffs in that time frame. Now they enter an offseason in which the league's salary cap ceiling is going to rise from $88 million to $95.5 million. The season after that, it's expected to rise to $104 million. And then the season after that, it's going to rise to $113.5 million.
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2 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Fairburn
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Alex Tuch has a lot of leverage. The Buffalo Sabres' veteran forward is coming off one of the best seasons of his career. He played 82 games for the first time. He broke a record for shot blocks by a forward and led the NHL in short-handed goals and short-handed points. He did all of that while producing 36 goals and 31 assists. He was also plus-16, one of the few two-way bright spots on one of the worst defensive teams in the NHL.
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3 weeks ago |
nytimes.com | Matthew Fairburn
NHL legend Dominik Hasek has been a vocal critic of Russia's invasion of Ukraine since it began. This week, Hasek said he's received death threats from former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently deputy head of Russia's security council chaired by Vladimir Putin.
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The Sabres have hired Brian Galivan as their director of performance. He spent the last six years with USA Hockey, most recently as the director of sports science for the National Team Development Program. He's currently serving as the performance coach for USA at Worlds.
Busy day for the Sabres. Let's talk it out. Going live momentarily.
Baker Fairburn Hockey Show going live at 8:05 if I can get it together. We talk Staal, the lottery, a compelling Bowen or Owen question plus whatever else the chat wants to dive into. @MatthewFairburn https://t.co/B83Kuvq7wr
The Buffalo Sabres are adding Eric Staal to the front office as Kevyn Adams stays on GM for a sixth season: https://t.co/QMtMn6IB59