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Local College and High School Hockey Schedules

Posted by Bill on December 7th, 2012

Since the players and owners don’t give a crap about the fans (yes Ryan Miller, my chin is resting on my goal stick and I’m looking right at you while wearing ear plugs so Derek Roy’s really loud Ferrari doesn’t make me go deaf and laughing at the foolishness of Thomas Vanek tweeting about owners stupidly handing out long term, big money deals) , let’s support hockey in one of its more pure forms. Great thread from our forums started by TD, this schedule was posted by Sabres + Amerks.

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Fri 12/7/12 7pm Akron vs. Jamestown Jamestown Ice Arena
Fri 12/7/12 9pm Maryvale vs. Southwestern/Maple Grove Jamestown Ice Arena
Sat 12/8/12 7pm City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara vs. Jamestown Jamestown Ice Arena
Sat 12/8/12 9pm ALDENvs. Southwestern/Maple Grove Jamestown Ice Arena
Sun 12/9/12 11:30am Depew vs. Olean Olean Rec. Center
Sun 12/9/12 8:45pm Maryvale vs. ALDEN Leisure Rinks
Tue 12/11/12 6:30pm Maryvale vs. City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara Riverside Ice Arena
Wed 12/12/12 8pm Jamestown vs. Depew Depew Rec. Center
Fri 12/14/12 9pm Olean vs. ClevHill/JFK Leisure Rinks
Fri 12/14/12 9:15pm Southwestern/Maple Grove vs. Akron Hyde Park
Sun 12/16/12 11:30am Southwestern/Maple Grove vs. Olean Olean Rec. Center
Tue 12/18/12 6:30pm Akron vs. City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara Riverside Ice Arena
Fri 12/21/12 9:15pm ALDENvs. Akron Hyde Park
Sat 12/22/12 8:45pm Olean vs. Maryvale Cheektowaga Rec. Center
Sat 12/22/12 9pm ClevHill/JFK vs. Southwestern/Maple Grove Jamestown Ice Arena
Fri 12/28/12 7:15pm Southwestern/Maple Grove vs. ALDENLeisure Rinks
Fri 12/28/12 9pm Depew vs. Akron Depew Rec. Center
Sat 12/29/12 3pm Jamestown vs. Southwestern/Maple Grove Jamestown Ice Arena
Sun 12/30/12 8:45pm Jamestown vs. ClevHill/JFK Leisure Rinks
Mon 12/31/12 3pm ALDENvs. ClevHill/JFK Leisure Rinks
Wed 1/2/13 8pm City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara vs. Depew Depew Rec. Center
Fri 1/4/13 7pm Olean vs. Jamestown Jamestown Ice Arena
Sat 1/5/13 7pm City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara vs. Southwestern/Maple Grove Jamestown Ice Arena
Sat 1/5/13 8:45pm Akron vs. Maryvale Cheektowaga Rec. Center
Sat 1/5/13 9pm ALDEN vs. Jamestown Jamestown Ice Arena
Sun 1/6/13 9:15pm City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara vs. ALDEN Leisure Rinks
Tue 1/8/13 6:30pm Maryvale vs. City Honors/Cardinal O’Hara Riverside Ice Arena
Fri 1/11/13 7pm Maryvale vs. Jamestown Jamestown Ice Arena
Fri 1/11/13 9pm Depew vs. Southwestern/Maple Grove Jamestown Ice Arena
Fri 1/11/13 9:15pm ClevHill/JFK vs. Akron Hyde Park

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Varsity Red League – Next 30 Games
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Fri 12/7/12 5:45pm Lancaster vs. East Aurora Leisure Rinks
Fri 12/7/12 9pm Canisius vs. St. Francis Leisure Rinks
Sat 12/8/12 9pm Orchard Park vs. Starpoint Hockey Outlet
Sat 12/8/12 9pm Cheektowaga vs. St. Joe’s Maroon North Town Center at Amherst
Sun 12/9/12 4pm Canisius vs. Lancaster Depew Rec. Center
Sun 12/9/12 7pm Cheektowaga vs. Orchard Park Leisure Rinks
Wed 12/12/12 8pm Orchard Park vs. Hutch-Tech Riverside Ice Arena
Fri 12/14/12 7:15pm Hutch-Tech vs. St. Francis Leisure Rinks
Sat 12/15/12 8pm Canisius vs. Cheektowaga Depew Rec. Center
Sat 12/15/12 9pm East Aurora vs. Starpoint Hockey Outlet
Sun 12/16/12 4pm Starpoint vs. Lancaster Depew Rec. Center
Sun 12/16/12 8:45pm East Aurora vs. Canisius Leisure Rinks
Fri 12/21/12 7:30pm – 9:30pm St. Francis vs. East Aurora Leisure Rinks
Sat 12/22/12 8pm – 10pm Hutch-Tech vs. Cheektowaga Depew Rec. Center
Sat 12/22/12 9pm St. Francis vs. Starpoint Hockey Outlet
Sat 12/22/12 9pm East Aurora vs. St. Joe’s Maroon North Town Center at Amherst
Sun 12/23/12 8:45pm Canisius vs. Orchard Park Leisure Rinks
Fri 12/28/12 5:45pm Lancaster vs. Orchard Park Leisure Rinks
Sat 12/29/12 8:45pm St. Francis vs. Cheektowaga Cheektowaga Rec. Center
Sun 12/30/12 4pm East Aurora vs. Lancaster Depew Rec. Center
Sun 12/30/12 7pm Hutch-Tech vs. Orchard Park Leisure Rinks
Fri 1/4/13 7:15pm Starpoint vs. East Aurora Leisure Rinks
Fri 1/4/13 9pm Lancaster vs. Canisius Leisure Rinks
Sat 1/5/13 9pm Starpoint vs. St. Joe’s Maroon North Town Center at Amherst
Sun 1/6/13 4pm St. Joe’s Maroon vs. Lancaster Depew Rec. Center
Mon 1/7/13 7:45pm Cheektowaga vs. St. Francis Leisure Rinks
Wed 1/9/13 8pm Starpoint vs. Hutch-Tech Riverside Ice Arena
Wed 1/9/13 8pm Orchard Park vs. Cheektowaga Depew Rec. Center
Fri 1/11/13 5:45pm Hutch-Tech vs. Canisius Leisure Rinks
Sat 1/12/13 9pm Lancaster vs. Starpoint Hockey Outlet

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Varsity Blue League – Next 30 Games
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Fri 12/7/12 7:15pm – 9:15pm Pioneer/Springville vs. Eden/Lakeshore Leisure Rinks
Sat 12/8/12 2:30pm – 4:30pm Eden/Lakeshore vs. Dunkirk/Fredonia Fredonia (Steele Hall Ice Arena)
Sat 12/8/12 8pm – 10pm South Park/Riverside vs. St. Joe’s ‘B’ North Buffalo Ice Arena – Tacoma
Sun 12/9/12 12pm – 2pm Iroquois vs. Niagara Catholic Riverside Ice Arena
Mon 12/10/12 8pm – 10pm Pioneer/Springville vs. South Park/Riverside Riverside Ice Arena
Wed 12/12/12 7:30pm – 9:30pm South Park/Riverside vs. Wilson/Newfane Hyde Park
Fri 12/14/12 5:15pm – 7:15pm Williamsville vs. Eden/Lakeshore Leisure Rinks
Sat 12/15/12 5:15pm – 7:15pm Niagara Catholic vs. Dunkirk/Fredonia Fredonia (Steele Hall Ice Arena)
Sat 12/15/12 9pm – 11pm Iroquois vs. Williamsville North Town Center at Amherst
Sun 12/16/12 7pm – 9pm Dunkirk/Fredonia vs. Pioneer/Springville Leisure Rinks
Mon 12/17/12 8pm – 10pm Dunkirk/Fredonia vs. South Park/Riverside Riverside Ice Arena
Wed 12/19/12 8pm – 10pm Williamsville vs. Niagara Catholic Riverside Ice Arena
Fri 12/21/12 9pm – 11pm Dunkirk/Fredonia vs. Williamsville North Town Center at Amherst
Sun 12/23/12 7pm – 9pm South Park/Riverside vs. Eden/Lakeshore Leisure Rinks
Wed 12/26/12 8pm – 10pm Eden/Lakeshore vs. Niagara Catholic Riverside Ice Arena
Fri 12/28/12 9pm – 11pm Wilson/Newfane vs. Iroquois Leisure Rinks
Sun 12/30/12 11:30am – 1:30pm Pioneer/Springville vs. Williamsville North Town Center at Amherst
Wed 1/2/13 7:30pm – 9:30pm St. Joe’s ‘B’ vs. Wilson/Newfane Hyde Park
Wed 1/2/13 8pm – 10pm Niagara Catholic vs. South Park/Riverside Riverside Ice Arena
Fri 1/4/13 5:45pm – 7:45pm Pioneer/Springville vs. Iroquois Leisure Rinks
Fri 1/4/13 9pm – 11pm Niagara Catholic vs. Williamsville North Town Center at Amherst
Mon 1/7/13 6pm – 8pm Niagara Catholic vs. Iroquois Leisure Rinks
Mon 1/7/13 8pm – 10pm Wilson/Newfane vs. South Park/Riverside Riverside Ice Arena
Wed 1/9/13 7:30pm – 9:30pm Eden/Lakeshore vs. Wilson/Newfane Hyde Park
Fri 1/11/13 7:15pm – 9:15pm Eden/Lakeshore vs. Pioneer/Springville Leisure Rinks
Sat 1/12/13 5:15pm – 7:15pm Wilson/Newfane vs. Dunkirk/Fredonia Fredonia (Steele Hall Ice Arena)
Sat 1/12/13 9pm – 11pm South Park/Riverside vs. Williamsville North Town Center at Amherst
Sun 1/13/13 12pm – 2pm Pioneer/Springville vs. Niagara Catholic Riverside Ice Arena
Sun 1/13/13 8:45pm – 10:45pm St. Joe’s ‘B’ vs. Eden/Lakeshore Leisure Rinks
Wed 1/16/13 7:30pm – 9:30pm Niagara Catholic vs. Wilson/Newfane Hyde Park

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More fireworks

Posted by TD on June 28th, 2011

It looks as though the days of the meek and mild Buffalo Sabres are over.  No longer a franchise that doesn’t rock the boat, and skims along as safely as possible, Buffalo made a big splash with the trade acquisition of Robyn Regehr this past weekend.

Regehr gives the Sabres just the kind of shut-down defenseman they have been sorely lacking.  His addition is huge for Buffalo and it will show once the season starts.  Regehr will quickly become a fan favorite.  Buffalo GM Darcy Regier found his bag of “Jedi Mind Tricks” and performed one on Calgary.

The Sabres are now talking about acquiring another veteran defenseman, either through free agency or a trade.  Buffalo would have at least three strong components on the blue line with Tyler Myers, Regehr and a possible near-future acquisition.  Ryan Miller should be sleeping easier.

 

Fireworks should be going off on Friday when free agency begins.  The Sabres are looking to sign a big name scoring center, which is a surprise to no one.  Do they believe that Brad Richards would be a good fit?  Will they go in a different direction?  Would they possibly make a trade to bring in a first-line center?  At the very least, it looks like the Sabres will not be on the sidelines come July 1st.

 

Buffalo’s draft this past weekend looks quite strong as of now.  Things can certainly change over the next 3-4 years but I like a lot of the players they picked.  Maybe Joel Armia pans out as a legit scoring threat as a first-line right wing down the road.  The Sabres took a couple of promising centers (Dan Catenacci and Colin Jacobs) that were projected to go earlier than where they were selected.  I like that they took some chances on players like goalie Nathan Lieuwen in the sixth round and Wisconsin high school center Brad Navin in the seventh round.  Both players are a bit on the “boom or bust” side of things, but why not take some chances like that in the later rounds?

The Sabres re-stocked their cabinet for centers with Catenacci, Jacobs and Navin joining Kevin Sundher, Steve Shipley and “sometimes center” Luke Adam.  Wouldn’t hurt to add a couple more centers in the 2012 draft.

The Sabres now look to be lacking mostly at left wing among the minor pros and juniors.  Marcus Foligno, Jacob Lagace, Riley Boychuk and Cedric Henley make up the LW group.  There needs to be an influx of youngsters at that position over the next couple of years.

Buffalo has a strong grouping of prospects.  Jhonas Enroth heads up the goaltending part of things… Mark Pysyk, Brayden McNabb, Drew Schiestel, T.J. Brennan and Jerome-Gauthier Leduc highlight the blue liners… Armia, Zack Kassian, Adam, Foligno, Catenacci, Sundher, Jacobs and Corey Tropp head up the forwards.  It may not be as talent-rich as some other clubs, but it’s a grouping that has to rank in the top half of the league.

 

 

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Friday’s craziness

Posted by TD on June 25th, 2011e-mail

The hangup with Robyn Regehr looks to have come to an end.  We are to assume that Regehr will be coming to Buffalo along with shoot-out champion, and former Sabre, Ales Kotalik.  Supposedly the Sabres are moving Paul Byron, Chris Butler and a second-round pick in 2012 to Calgary.

With that soap opera behind us, the Sabres and fans can now devote more attention to the draft today, as it ended up being obstructed Friday with the Regehr trade being in limbo for most of the day and evening.

When the Sabres did make their pick at #16, they took Finnish RW Joel Armia.  Armia played in Finland’s top league with Assat Pori.  He scored 18 goals and had 29 points.  Armia has good skating ability for a big kid (6’3, 195) and finds ways to make room for himself in the offensive zone.

Armia’s best quality is his shot.  He has an excellent wrist shot that finds the net.  His bread-and-butter in pro hockey, and has been up to this point, is scoring goals.  The Sabres need more offense and Armia can be a player down the road to supply that.

He’s not afraid to get into traffic when in the slot or near the net.  Definitely has an eye for scoring goals and doesn’t seem to shy away from the high traffic areas in that regard.

Looks a bit like a swift-skating Dave Andreychuk.  Armia gets some garbage goals at times, but how often have the Sabres in recent years been surrounding the opposing net, only to be possessing an uncanny inability of parking home goals?  Maybe Armia will help in that area.

Armia’s drawbacks are occasional lacks of intensity, motivation and not owning much of a sense for any form of defensive hockey.  Sounds a bit like Thomas Vanek when he was at the University of Minnesota, and was tagged a one-dimensional offensive player.

Overall, the Armia selection is a good pick.  He would have been drafted in the next 3-5 selections had the Sabres taken another player.   Buffalo should be focusing on centers today, and also their BPAs on their lists.  Sabres head scout Kevin Devine has insinuated that the team may move up to the second round today.  There’s several quality offensive players (centers) to be had in the second round.  Let’s see if Buffalo gets creative.

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Remembering Sabres drafts

Posted by TD on June 24th, 2011

I saw two days ago that the Eric Lindros draft at the Aud took place 20 years ago.  20 yearrrrrrrrrrrrs.  Seriously, 20?  Seems like yesterday where big, fat Eric stood next to an uncomfortable looking Quebec Nordiques GM Pierre Page, and refused to put on the blue fleur-de-lis adorned jersey.  Lindros was booed by the crowd at the Aud, and for the only time in Pat Falloon’s lackluster NHL career, he received cheers from the spectators as he donned the new aqua-colored San Jose Sharks jersey.

Drafts come and go, but each leaves a memorable mark, good or bad.  Find yourself a copy of the Sabres’ “Decade of Excitement”, the first 10 years of Sabres hockey, and watch Scotty Bowman announce the sage selection of European forward Jiri Dudacek in the first round of the 1981 draft.  The video uses the Dudacek selection as an admirable jump into the 1980s.  Dudacek became the kind of fodder that Sabres fans today reserve for Artem Kryukov.

Speaking of Kryukov, who could forget Buffalo’s horrid selection of the Konkussion King in the first round of the 2000 entry draft.  Artem who?  How much beer was being downed the previous night, Messrs. Benning, Luce and Regier?  That was a darkhorse’s darkhorse pick.  Artem is still fumbling around somewhere in Russia, probably with a placard along the Trans-Siberian railway, “Will play for gruel”.

How about Pierre Turgeon?  Buffalo’s horrid 86-87 campaign allowed them to draft first overall in 1987.  Quickly, comparisons between Turgeon and Gilbert Perreault took hold in the media.  Pierre attempted to quell the excitement some by saying, “I CAN ONLY BE PIERRE, NO CANNOT BE GILBERT!!!”  Those words proved true as #77 spent a few decent years with the Sabres before being traded to the NY Islanders in the fall of 1991.

Joel Savage?  Brad May?   Barely any remembrance there.  For some reason I do remember the Sabres drafting David Cooper in the first round of the 1992 draft.  Cooper was supposed to be a big, offensive defenseman with great skills, fast skates, a hell of a shot and the next power play quarterback for Buffalo.  That didn’t exactly happen.

The Sabres kind of redeemed themselves the following few years with selections like Wayne Primeau, Jay McKee, Marty Biron and Curtis Brown.  Then there’s Erik Rasmussen.  We’ll conveniently skip that.

And let’s conveniently skip a number of years.  Let’s even go beyond the crooked lockout lottery that saw Illuminati favorite Pittsburgh get the first overall pick and draft Sidney Crosby in 2005.  Buffalo, playing the role of NHL Court Jester, settled for Marek Zagrapan… no let’s not dwell on that.

How about the awesomeness of the 2008 draft for the Sabres?  Already receiving great production from the two Tylers, Myers and Ennis… and possibly contributions from Luke Adam (if he isn’t sent packing today in a trade for Calgary’s Robyn Regehr), that’s three big components on the team in one draft.  That harkens back the days of Punch Imlach when he was assembling great talent through the first five drafts in Buffalo’s history.

The Sabres have filled the prospect pipeline quite well over the last few years.  Along with the aforementioned Tylers and Adam are Zack Kassian, Marcus Foligno, Jhonas Enroth, Drew Schiestel, Mark Pysyk, Brayden McNabb, T.J. Brennan, Corey Tropp, Kevin Sundher, Jerome Gauthier-Leduc and Paul Byron… just to name a few.  The depth is there.  Now it’s time for the Sabres to focus on offense, specifically centers.  Who will the Sabres take tonight if they keep the 16th pick?  Mark McNeill, Mark Scheifele, Sven Bartschi, Zack Phillips, Boone Jenner?  Will they consider Jamie Oleksiak?  Go off the board for Rocco Grimaldi?   Will the selection turn out to be a Tyler Myers or a David Cooper?  Time will tell.

 

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2011 Buffalo Sabres Mock Draft

Posted by TD on June 17th, 2011report

Sabres’ Draft Picks in 2011 NHL Entry Draft

  • 1st round, 16th
  • 2nd round, 46th (traded to St. Louis for Brad Boyes)
  • 3rd round, 77th
  • 4th round, 107th
  • 5th round, 137th
  • 6th round, 167th
  • 7th round, 197th

Sabres’ Mock Draft

1.16 C – Mark Scheifele – Barrie Colts – 66-22-53-75 -22 35                                 6.3 185, shoots right, 3.15.93, CSS ranking (16)

Scheifele’s first season in the OHL was quite successful. He finished second on his team with 75 points. As the season progressed, the Barrie Colts leaned on Scheifele more and more, and he did not disappoint. The Colts were the worst team in the OHL this past season, winning just 15 games out of 68. Their team will be depending on Scheifele heavily for the next couple years. Scheifele possesses a strong work ethic, is a good skater with quick hands, moves well for a big center and is defensively responsible. Scheifele has very good hockey sense and an ability to find the open man in the offensive zone, as can be attested by his 53 assists. Schiefele steadily rose up the ranks as the season went on and now finds himself as a top 20 pick for the draft. There’s a decent chance he won’t be around at #16 when the Sabres pick, but if he is available, it’s probably as good a selection as Buffalo can make at that spot.

3.77 C – Joseph Labate – Holy Angels Academy (MN) – 25-27-22-49 +27 42
6.4 195, shoots left, 4.16.93, CSS ranking (51)

There’s a good chance Labate will be drafted in the second round or early in the third (the draft spots for high school players are often unpredictable), but if he were to fall to the Sabres’ third round selection, Labate’s a player the Sabres should consider. Labate is a big center with good skating ability. He’s offensively geared with a good shot and has no fear of getting into the high-traffic areas and says he models his game after power forwards / centers like Joe Thornton and David Backes. Labate will be playing as a freshman at the University of Wisconsin this fall. He would help fill the prospect pipeline gap at center, especially among the lack of larger centers.

4.107 C – Jean-Gabriel Pageau – Gatineau Olympiques – 67-32-47-79 +23 22
5.9 165, shoots right, 11.11.92, CSS ranking (not ranked)

Diminutive center in the Quebec junior league that quickly reminds you of Danny Briere. A very fast skater with a nose for the net, Pageau possesses a nasty wrister and he has pin-point accuracy on the shot. His speed allows him to skate around the defense from the blue line in and go one-on-one with the opposing team’s goalie. Despite being a small player, has no fear going into the slot, to the net, or high-traffic areas. For some reason or another, Pageau was not ranked by the CSS, however he has seen his stock rise dramatically in the past few weeks. Pageau led his team to a surprising run in the Quebec playoffs, leading the way with 13-16-29 in 24 games.

5.137 G – Benjamin Conz – SC Langnau

46 GP / 19 W, 26 L / 2.98 GAA / .906 Sv%
5.11 205, right glove, 9.13.91, CSS ranking (4*) *European Goalies

Conz has gone undrafted the past two seasons, however it looks as though the third time will be the charm for the Swiss goalie. Conz has been the starting goalie for the Swiss U-20 team the past two seasons. He was the named the “All-Tournament” goalie at the 2009-2010 WJC. He made a very good impression at the Buffalo WJC tournament this past winter. He faced more shots than any goalie at the Buffalo junior tournament and registered a 3-3 record along with a 2.97 GAA and .918 save percentage. He made 46 saves on 49 shots in a loss against Team Canada, and played very well in a 2-1 loss against the U.S.A. Draft projections have Conz being selected anywhere between the fourth and seventh rounds. The Sabres do need to draft at least one goalie. Conz would be a good enough fit to challenge or surpass the likes of Connor Knapp.

6.167 C – Thomas Tynan – Notre Dame – 44-23-31-54 +21 36
5.9 170, shoots right, 2.25.92, CSS ranking (not ranked)

Tynan was draft eligible last year but was passed over. He committed to Notre Dame and led the Fighting Irish in scoring in his freshman season. Tynan was tied for third in overall scoring in the CCHA this past season. Tynan was an integral part of a Notre Dame team that ended up making it to the Frozen Four. He has been invited to the U.S. National Evaluation camp as a candidate for the WJC U.S. U-20 team. Tynan’s name has been thrown around as a probable 6th round selection in the NHL draft. The Sabres could make out quite well here in stockpiling more offensive talent at the center position. If they can grab at least four centers in this draft, the cupboard will certainly no longer be empty.

7.197 D – Edward Wittchow – Burnsville H.S. (MN) – 25-9-14-23 +11 28
6.3 190, shoots left, 10.31.92, CSS ranking (111)

Wittchow reached a CSS final ranking of 111 after being left off the mid-term list. The Sabres need to spend at least one pick on a defenseman. Good size, quite a good skater. He’ll round out above 200 pounds down the road… played at a large Minneapolis area high school.  Wittchow was selected 4th overall in May’s USHL draft.  He’s the property of the Waterloo Blackhawks and will likely spend the 2011-12 campaign there.

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