Ruff said he talked with the team before Friday’s practice, and the Sabres are working with a “no excuses” mentality. Alternate captain Alex Tuch echoed that mindset and feels this early adversity could benefit the group going forward.

Norris was limited by injury to three games after the Sabres traded for him last season. This season didn't start any better.

The concerns about Josh Norris' injury history will only get louder as he left the Sabres' season-opener with an upper-body issue.

The Buffalo Sabres are just one game into the 2025-26 regular season, and already the adversity is starting to pile up. After being without defenseman Owen Power and goalie Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen for the first game of the year Thursday against the New York Rangers,

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres aren’t a team that can afford much bad luck. And one game into the season, they’ve already had more than their fair share of it.

Zach Benson's puck to the face at Wednesday's Sabres practice took him out of the lineup for opening night and into a hospital bed.

BUFFALO -- Igor Shesterkin made 37 saves, and Mike Sullivan got his first win as New York Rangers coach, 4-0 against the Buffalo Sabres at KeyBank Center on Thursday. “He's unreal,” New York forward Alexis Lafreniere said of Shesterkin. “Year after year, he's that guy for us. So, trying to get him a little less work, but he's been unreal again.”

The Sabres are already playing from behind at the start of a 15th season since their last playoff run. New York Rangers goaltender Igor Shesterkin made 36 saves in a 4-0 shutout victory Thursday night,

The first two games of Marco Sturm's head-coaching tenure have been quite telling of the type of team he wants his Boston Bruins to be.

Igor Shesterkin stopped 37 shots and Alex Lafreniere’s first-period goal stood up as the winner in the New York Rangers’ 4-0 victory over the Sabres in Buffalo’s season-opener.