Sabres, Senators glad for a second chance By John Vogl NEWS SPORTS REPORTER The dream of a second chance has driven the Buffalo Sabres and Ottawa Senators for the better part of a year. The Sabres fell just 20 minutes short of the Stanley Cup finals last June. Getting that close has inspired and haunted them. The Senators, favorites to win the trophy last year, went home in May — courtesy of the Sabres. Ottawa often dreamed of a rematch with the upstarts. The second chance has arrived for both. The Sabres and Senators begin their Eastern Conference finals tonight in HSBC Arena, with glory and redemption awaiting the winner of the best-of-seven series. A win by the Sabres would finalize their season-long goal of playing for the Cup. A Senators victory would crush the fantasies of their playoff rival and deliver them to the trophy’s doorstep.
No cloaking these daggers Malice lingers just below surface for Sabres, Sens By Tim Graham NEWS SPORTS REPORTER The Buffalo Sabres insist the wounds have healed from their heated February feud with the Ottawa Senators. Sabres co-captain Chris Drury made the point quite literally two days before Game One of their Eastern Conference final matchup. He was the one whose head had been broken open by Chris Neil’s blindside hit nearly three months ago. “Once I got up off the ice and got stitched up,” Drury said, “that was over for me.” Apparently, the damage has been mended. To hear the Sabres tell it, even the scar tissue is gone. “That’s behind us,” Sabres defenseman Jaroslav Spacek said. “It happens in professional sports. You just have to leave it behind.” Then again, as Spacek was quick to admit, the Northeast Division foes have gotten under each other’s skin so much in the past, the tiniest scratch can rip it all wide open in an instant. “Then everybody remembers,” Spacek said. “Then it’s all pumped up and it’s war like before. You don’t really focus on it, but if it happens, it happens. Might be a little thing, like a crosscheck or a little slash, and everything’s fired up again.”
It stands for "Carrie is a sellout and if MTL's team were in the playoffs she would be rooting for them instead of the Sabres".
Who is your team MTL? If it's the Montreal Canadians, I'd never root for them after they stole the Stanley Cup from my Blackhawks in 71. I was only a baby in diapers then, but know my father and brothers were devasted.. From that day forward I vowed to hate anything and everyone from Montreal.... :icon_tease: :lol: I'd really really like to see the Sabres win the Stanley cup...:yes:
fishers a beast 3-2 sens with 10 mins left, this could be a shocker but briere will come through eventually
Wake up, Chrissy... Sabres and Sens going to a second OT... Sabres forced OT by tying it up with six seconds left in the 3rd... :yes:
You guys still doubting MTL? Gawd when will you ever learn. I know who wins hockey games like old people can feel if it will rain in their bones.
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