Locked On Sabres - Daily Podcast On The Buffalo Sabres

The Buffalo Sabres got a much needed win streak rolling while out west in San Jose, Anaheim, and then in Los Angeles on Halloween! The Sabres played a depleted Kings team that was missing one of their best players in Adrian Kempe, and took advantage. Led by another stellar Tage Thompson performance, the Sabres were able to go ahead late, and close out the game. With that, Tage was named the NHL's 1st star of the week, and not coincidentally that happened right when he was paired with Zach Benson. Benson continues to fuel whatever line he is on to play great, and Thompson has now scored 5 goals in the last two games, most of them setup by Benson. Sneaky Joe looks further at just how valuable Benson is offensively, and where he's ranking in some very important categories.

Plus, our first look at the Buffalo Sabres Hometown Remix uniform, which looks like a home run! Meanwhile, there are a lot of bad ones, but also a lot of great ones around the NHL!

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Nikita Kucherov has told the Tampa Bay Lightning that he will not re-sign and has asked for a trade! A stunning turn of events in Tampa sets up for another giant trade idea for the Sabres to go after. However, this one does seem less likely than the others. The bigger conversation is about Kucherov and the Montréal Canadiens. There's smoke that could eventually be his destination and that should put more pressure on the Sabres to make a big move of their own.

Plus, the Sabres beat the Anaheim Ducks in a wild 7-6 win where Tage Thompson put up a 3-goal, 5-point masterpiece. Colten Ellis meanwhile had a bunch of incredible saves, but did end up letting in six goals.

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The Dylan Larkin trade saga is heating up in Detroit, with Larkin now being sat out of the lineup in order to protect his health for an upcoming deal. It's close to happening. The Buffalo Sabres have reportedly been pushing to get into the mix and have the ability to make as an attractive an offer to the Red Wings as anybody. However, it's going to cost a lot more than it would've cost for Connor Hellebuyck.

If Larkin becomes a Sabre, it will likely cost Konsta Helenius and more. The issue is, will Larkin waive his no movement clause for Buffalo? The Sabres, Canadiens, Blues, and Bruins are all pushing to get him to say yes.

Plus, a preview of Sabres-Ducks, featuring another West Coast team that struggles defensively.

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Colten Ellis got his first start for the Buffalo Sabres in over two weeks and man did he show up. Ellis made a bunch of massive saves on his way to a 23-save shutout, making the case that he should be in a rotation with Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen at the very least, let alone given the chance to run with the starting job. The Sabres did play well defensively in front of Ellis, mainly blocking shots with a season high 20. The team did struggle with turnovers, especially early. Ellis earned the next game on Thursday night, but will he get it?

Meanwhile, Lindy Ruff's new lines looked spectacular... but only scored one goal before the goalie was pulled. The big surprise was how well the line of Jason Zucker, Josh Norris, Ryan McLeod was excellent. And of course, Tage Thompson and Konsta Helenius immediately looked better on a line with Zach Benson. Should we be concerned that even in a game where they looked great, the Sabres could only beat the goaltender once?

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The Buffalo Sabres have been struggling to score so far this season, outside of one line Zach Benson-Noah Östlund-Jack Quinn, and Lindy Ruff is attempting to break that line up to create multiple scoring lines. Benson has proved that he can get anyone on his line going for over a year, which he will now attempt to do with Tage Thompson and Konsta Helenius. Meanwhile, Östlund and Quinn will try to do the same with Josh Doan.

Colten Ellis for the first time in over two weeks gets another crack in goal. With Alex Lyon still missing to do injury, Ellis getting rolling is vital to re-create last year's goalie rotation. With Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen struggling, Ellis might be the only hope of giving him some relief. Looking at San Jose, Macklin Celebrini might be the most valuable player in the NHL, leading a team that otherwise doesn't have a lot of talent. The Sharks blueline is maybe the worst in the NHL and one that the Sabres should be able to get their goal scoring going against.

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Connor Hellebuyck has been traded to the New Jersey Devils. The dream of the Buffalo Sabres obtaining the best goalie in the world has come to an end. Could the Sabres have matched the Devils offer considering there wasn't much that was valuable?

Now that Hellebuyck is gone, what is the Sabres future in goal? Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen has three years remaining on his deal, including this year, and we've yet to see Alex Lyon this season. Internal options don't sound sexy, but it may be where we ultimately end up. There are a couple other trade ideas that could become realistic as the season continues, including Filip Gustavsson in Minnesota.

Plus, what went wrong for the Sabres in their overtime loss to Alex Tuch and the Washington Capitals.

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The Buffalo Sabres have not played in a few days, and have not played at home in over a week, but get a lowly Philadelphia Flyers team that has scored the fewest goals in the league. The Flyers roster looks incredibly thin on goal scoring talent, and their top two centers have one career 50 point season between the two of them. Porter Martone was trusted to step right in and carry the offense, but that has not happened. This is the type of team that the Sabres, if they're going to be a playoff team, have to be able to beat, and maybe beat badly.

The way the Flyers play presents a lot of opportunity for the Sabres blueline to dominate this game, especially with Rasmus Dahlin returning to the lineup. Also, Jason Zucker returns! Zucker has not yet played this season and jumps right back on a line with Konsta Helenius. And does UPL and Ryan McLeod being in the lineup tell us anything about how close a Connor Hellebuyck trade is?

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The Buffalo Sabres are once again the center of Connor Hellebuyck trade reports, and if the deal gets done, it sounds like Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen will go the New York Rangers. Sabres GM Jarmo Kekäläinen joined WGR on Tuesday morning and backed UPL's role in the future of the organization. Was Jarmo just saying what he needs to say? Or does he truly believe that?

Plus, comments on Jack Quinn and where contract talks stand with him, excusing the coaching staff's role in the powerplay, and a look at the Sabres average age and size shows some interesting trends.

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The Buffalo Sabres and Winnipeg Jets are reportedly on speaking terms again surrounding a Connor Hellebuyck trade, with an upcoming deadline where Winnipeg would have to start paying Hellebuyck, or even allow him to rejoin the team. His teammates in Winnipeg, like Adam Lowry and Kyle Connor, do not sound eager to have Hellebuyck rejoin their locker room.

Re-evaluating what a Buffalo Sabres package would be for Hellebuyck likely includes Ryan McLeod, who is being played at 4th line wing because of the Sabres depth at center. Meanwhile, the Jets have an 18-year old with 0 points playing as their 2nd line center. A trade makes too much sense, especially with the New York Rangers now wanting Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen.

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The Buffalo Sabres are making a habit of getting behind and coming back in games, and they did it again Thursday night in Toronto! Jack Quinn was the catalyst with two goals early and two massive assists on goals by Dennis Gilbert and the overtime winner by Owen Power. Quinn was the best player on the ice in a game that included Tage Thompson, Auston Matthews, and William Nylander. Not to mention the Gordie Howe hat-trick with a fight in the second period.

Mattias Samuelsson scores a massive goal to tie it with only a few minutes to go in the third period. Samuelsson's ability to score goals is one of the craziest developments in Sabres history, as he now has 18 goals in the last 94 games. Plus, Toronto's reaction to the loss including a very bad defensive core and Gavin McKenna getting benched for seemingly no reason?

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The Buffalo Sabres and Toronto Maple Leafs have the exact same record through seven games this season. The Sabres have been a great even-strength team that has really struggled on special teams. The Maple Leafs are an elite special teams team that cannot stop teams at even-strength. Can the Sabres find a way to slow down Toronto's powerplay and score on their own? The matchup between the two sets up for lots of scoring chances and goals.

For the Sabres, it'll be Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen again, as he gets the chance to be the #1 again, amidst more trade speculation, this time with the New York Rangers. Meanwhile, Olen Zellweger has a new partner and looks to play huge minutes for the second consecutive game. Winning the season series for the Sabres against the Maple Leafs could be critical, as both teams figure to be competing for playoff spots in the Atlantic Division.

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It's early in the season, just seven games have been played on the Buffalo Sabres schedule thus far, but it's enough time to pickup on some trends. The Sabres so far look like a very good even strength team, but just aren't getting the goaltending. There is room to improve however, with Josh Norris and others dropping the ball so far. Getting Norris back into a top-six center position would be best for him and likely best for the whole team. Sneaky Joe would also like to see the return of the Zucker-McLeod-Quinn line when Jason Zucker returns from injury.

A look at the penalty kill shows a lot of new pieces trying to figure out how to do the job, and the likes of Zach Metsa are falling well short of last year's bar. Beck Malenstyn's role could serve to increase playing more with Ryan McLeod, and Conor Timmins eventually should help in a big way.

Meanwhile, the powerplay feels like a lost cause at this point. But Noah Östlund is helping the puck movement a lot, while Jack Quinn is sinking the top unit.

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The Buffalo Sabres were playing the second of a back-to-back, on the road in Montréal, without their best player Rasmus Dahlin, and found themselves down two goals in the third period. Ending the night with 1-point feels like a pretty good result! Despite being outplayed, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen kept the Sabres in the game with massive saves, and Olen Zellweger had his best game as a Sabre with two goals and tons of minutes played. Zellweger controlled the game every time he's on the ice.

Meanwhile up front, Josh Norris scores, but continues to struggle, and Jack Quinn looks lost since a hot-start in the first couple of games. Looking ahead, the Sabres goalie rotation is up in the air. Will Lindy go back to Luukkonen in Toronto? Also, the trend of losing the special teams battle every night needs to end and end quickly.

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The Buffalo Sabres put up two stinkers in a row against Western Conference opponents over the weekend, but got an opportunity to answer for that in their first division game of the year against the Florida Panthers. The Sabres put forth arguably their best game of the season getting the win over Florida.

Josh Doan and Ryan McLeod got those 0s off their backs in the goal scoring column, Zach Benson had his best game of the year, and Owen Power continues to look dominant. Colten Ellis was strangely pulled after just two goals in the 2nd period, but Lindy Ruff's move works out! UPL stood tall with his best effort of the year.

However, Rasmus Dahlin suffers an injury, and the penalty kill is looking like a real problem.

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The Buffalo Sabres are on a two game winning streak, both in games against the Western Conference, and they have another one on Thursday night against the Dallas Stars. The Stars have been slow out of the gates of the 2026-27 season, losing two of three to teams that did not make the playoffs last year. How strong an opponent is this for the Sabres? It's still a veteran group that should be expected to make the playoffs this season, with a great goaltender in Jake Oettinger.

Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen surprisingly gets the net after a very strong game by Colten Ellis on Tuesday. What this start could tell us about the rotation going forward, Josh Doan's injury, and what the top line will likely look like in this game if Doan can or cannot play. Peyton Krebs has looked good enough to stay up with Tage Thompson, and should be expected to play there.

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The Buffalo Sabres found themselves down two goals heading into the 3rd period against the Minnesota Wild, and then Owen Power took over. Power and Rasmus Dahlin, paired together, dominated the Wild and helped carry the Sabres to tie the game in regulation. Power, especially, controlled the flow of the game and created tons of opportunities. It was only fitting that he then gets the overtime game-winning goal!

Also, Tage Thompson's strong finish, after a really tough start to the game, Colten Ellis bounces back from a difficult second period, and the officiating almost costs the Sabres with an egregious no-call before Minnesota's second goal.

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The Buffalo Sabres head into a matchup with a very strong Minnesota Wild team led by Colten Ellis in goal, who gets his first start of the season after an impressive rookie campaign. What Ellis has been doing during the offseason should give Sabres fans confidence that he can take the next step as a player. Lindy Ruff is making changes, not just in goal, but also to the forward lines and the powerplay. Justin Danforth is expected to make his season debut, and Noah Östlund gets promoted to the first powerplay unit. Sneaky Joe believes the powerplay struggles have gone on for far too long to believe there is any internal fix with this team, and attention should be turned to the penalty kill getting back to an elite level.

Plus, a couple of Minnesota injuries to Brock Faber and Danila Yurov makes this a more favorable matchup for the Sabres. And why confidence should be sky high with Jack Quinn game to game after an electric start to the season vs Columbus and Chicago.

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The Buffalo Sabres win their home opener over the Chicago Blackhawks, a game in which the Sabres thoroughly outplayed a bottom-feeder team, but almost blew it. However, both Jack Quinn and Peyton Krebs were dynamic creating tons of chances and big goals.

Plus, UPL's up and down game, Ryan McLeod's demotion to the fourth line and Jiří Kulich's promotion, coupled with his gamer winning goal! All around it was a fantastic night to be at KeyBank Center.

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The Buffalo Sabres look to bounce back from their season opener with a home opener against Bo Byram and the Chicago Blackhawks, a team that the Sabres are heavily favored against. Without Connor Bedard, Chicago is struggling a lot, being outscored 11-2 in their first two games. And their new top pair defenseman isn't helping.

In their most recent game against Utah, Byram and Alex Vlasic, Chicago's top pairing, were thoroughly dominated by the Mammoth. An early sign that Byram might not be up to being a team's #1 defenseman.

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The Buffalo Sabres open their season with a 6-3 loss in Columbus with five goals allowed by Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen and an 0 for 5 start for the powerplay. The powerplay especially let the team down after Mathieu Olivier acted like an idiot and drew Zach Metsa, who he has 40 pound on, into a fight. Despite Olivier's selfishness putting Columbus at a huge disadvantage with a 5-on-3, the Sabres couldn't take advantage.

Plus, Konsta Helenius gets his season rolling with a goal, Louis Crevier struggles in his first appearance after a four year extension, and who starts now on Saturday between UPL and Colten Ellis? Fans seem to prefer Ellis after the first game.

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