The Buffalo Sabres haven't looked like the club that took the NHL by storm last season. Their previously high-flying offense has struggled to score consistently and their goaltending, which ranked among the league's best in 2025-26, has been a major weakness early on.
It is no secret that the Buffalo Sabres are performing below the expectations that were set for them this season. With a measly 4-4-3 record, and a lot of issues glaring them in the face, there are certainly plenty of fingers to be pointed in a number of directions.
The Buffalo Sabres are back at KeyBank Center on Wednesday as they are set to play the Philadelphia Flyers after three straight games on the road. They are playing a Flyers team that got off to a horrible start to the season going 0-6-3 but playing much better as of late and winning their last two games.
How many of the 22 players in NHL history with at least 600 career goals can you name in five minutes?
BUFFALO – Through nine games this season, the Sabres sport an underwhelming but intriguing 4-3-2 record. The team that ended last season on a torrid 39-9-5 run has stumbled out of the gate a bit, often falling behind multiple goals before roaring back.
People love a good mid-round draft pick that pans out, and in the NHL you used to see those fairly often, but that’s obviously partially luck. If the Red Wings thought Nicklas Lidstrom was going to become a top-five defenseman in history, they wouldn’t have waited until the 53rd pick to take him.
BUFFALO – Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin, who has missed the last three games with an upper-body injury, returned to practice this morning and expects to play Wednesday against the Philadelphia Flyers.
Buffalo Sabres defenseman Owen Power has certainly been living up to his name this season. And it’s been a most welcome situation for a team that’s lost its best blueliner to injury.
An upper-body injury will force Buffalo Sabres captain Rasmus Dahlin to miss his third straight game Saturday, coach Lindy Ruff told reporters Friday in Montreal.
TORONTO – Had he kept recovering from the left shoulder injury he suffered in the preseason, Sabres coach Lindy Ruff said goalie Alex Lyon would’ve made his season debut Tuesday in Montreal.
The Buffalo Sabres defeated the defending Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers 5-3 on Monday, October 12, but the win came with a concerning development: captain Rasmus Dahlin left the game with an upper-body injury and did not return.
Even though the Buffalo Sabres had momentum coming off a 5-3 win over the Florida Panthers, they were facing a tough task on Tuesday night against the Montreal Canadiens.
People will talk about the “Mount Rushmore” for a franchise, which is to say the four people, usually four players, that most define the franchise. Not always the four-best players, but the four that evoke the essence of the franchise.
The Buffalo Sabres will be without captain Rasmus Dahlin for at least Tuesday’s game against the Montreal Canadiens after head coach Lindy Ruff announced the defenseman will remain behind in Buffalo.
Rasmus Dahlin suffered an upper-body injury midway through Monday's 5-3 victory over the Florida Panthers. The Buffalo Sabres are initially calling their captain day-to-day and, for the first time in the superstar's career, his team may have a suitable short-term replacement.
Yesterday, on Canadian Thanksgiving, things were pretty quiet in the NHL. Only three games were on the schedule. Here are the results and highlights: Earlier in the day, the Panthers visited the Sabres.
The Buffalo Sabres dug deep to score a 5-3 win over the Florida Panthers on Monday afternoon, ending a two-game losing streak, but only time will tell whether it was a Pyrrhic victory after Rasmus Dahlin departed early with an injury.
The Buffalo Sabres were dealt a major blow in the middle of an important early season divisional game in the form of an injury to their captain. Defenseman Rasmus Dahlin exited the Sabres’ Monday matinee contest against the Florida Panthers with an upper-body injury, the team announced.
The Buffalo Sabres roster cornerstones have remained the same in recent years: forward Tage Thompson and defenseman Rasmus Dahlin, who also serves as the team's captain.
Buffalo Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin has carried major expectations ever since he was selected first overall in the 2018 NHL Draft. Now entering his ninth NHL season, he has fully grown into one of the league’s premier defensemen.
The Buffalo Sabres’ run in the 2026 Stanley Cup Playoffs is over, and it ended in such a painful fashion. Sabres star defenseman Rasmus Dahlin’s vulgar reaction to his team’s series loss against the Montreal Canadiens summed it all up.
There was only one game on the Stanley Cup Playoff schedule Saturday night, and it was a massive game as the Buffalo Sabres forced a Game 7 in their second-round series with an 8-3 win over the Montreal Canadiens.
There are not many cities in North American sports that have been more tortured than Buffalo. Wide right. Four consecutive Super Bowl losses. Brett Hull's skate. The longest playoff drought in NHL history.
The Buffalo Sabres are officially back. In the playoffs, that is.
The Pittsburgh Penguins will not have star forward Evgeni Malkin for the next five games after he was suspended on Friday night. Malkin was ejected from Thursday's game against the Buffalo Sabres for dangerously (and selfishly) slashing Rasmus Dahlin in the head early in the second period.
Malkin's reckless play impacted Thursday's game and could put his team in a tough spot over the next few games.
A little more than a week ago, Sabres blueliner Rasmus Dahlin took a leave of absence.
Buffalo Sabres captain and star defenseman Rasmus Dahlin is taking a leave of absence from the team.
Florida Panthers forward Brad Marchand is the NHL's biggest love-hate player.
As Dahlin began training camp, he shared a "traumatic" story about his fiancée, Carolina Matovac, and her major health scare from earlier this summer.
While the public and rival teams may start speculating about the future of the star defenseman in Buffalo, he has no desire to leave the Sabres.
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