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Sabres Mark Return To Playoffs With A Bang

BUFFALO (AP) — Tage Thompson and the Buffalo Sabres entered their first-round series against Boston being questioned over their lack of playoff experience. Turns out, they needed just over 52 minutes of game time to get the hang of it. Drawing upon the never-quit identity the team forged in vaulting from last place in the Eastern Conference standings in early December to winning its first Atlantic Division title, the Sabres marked their return to the playoffs after a NHL-record 14-season drought with a big bang. Thompson scored twice as part of Buffalo’s four-goal surge over ...

Allen Wants To Win To Set Example For Daughter

ORCHARD PARK (AP) — As he prepares to turn 30, celebrates the birth of his first child and adapts to a new head coach for the first time in his nine seasons in Buffalo, Josh Allen said his love of football and desire to win haven’t changed as much as they’ve evolved. Starting a family has a way of altering one’s perspective. “That want to win will never change. The why I want to do it has,” Allen said on Monday, two weeks into the Bills’ offseason workout program. “So why I want to do it is to show my family, to show my daughter how hard you need to work in order to ...

COMEBACK

BUFFALO — Mattias Samuelson scored with 3:24 left and Buffalo overcame a two-goal deficit in the final eight minutes to beat the Boston Bruins 4-3 on Sunday night in the Sabres’ first playoff game in 15 years. Tage Thompson scored goals 3:42 apart to tie it, and Alex Tuch sealed the ...

Ben Drake Joins Hoops Elite

One of the finest high school basketball coaches this area has ever produced was inducted into the New York State Basketball Hall of Fame on Sunday. Ben Drake, the former Jamestown High School boys mentor, was enshrined during a ceremony at Harding Mazzotti Arena (formerly Cool Insuring ...

Dunkirk Turns The Tables On Trojans

DUNKIRK — Anthony Piede’s single in the bottom of the seventh inning scored Ariez Cheverez with the winning run as Dunkirk edged Southwestern 1-0 in walk-off fashion in a Chautauqua-Cattaraugus Athletic Association Division 1 baseball game Saturday. Piede’s heroics made a winner of ...

Behind Four Utegg TD Passes, Fredonia Runs Record To 6-0

FREDONIA — Sophia Utegg continued to shine for the undefeated Fredonia flag football team Saturday. The sophomore quarterback completed 9 of 15 passes for 200 yards and four touchdowns, rushed for 48 yards on four carries and added three conversion passes to spark the Hillbillies to a 33-13 victory over West Seneca at the Orange Bowl. Junior wide receiver Madelyn Polhamus had three receptions for 62 yards and two TDs; freshman wide receiver Megan Ivory caught a pair of passes for 63 yards and one score; and eighth-grade wide receiver Alexa Hennessey collected one catch for 54 ...