Sports Columnist {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. We’re aware this isn’t the French Connection or Ramsay-Luce-Gare. It’s not Afinogenov-Roy-Vanek or Skinner-Thompson-Tuch either.
As Buffalo Sabres forward lines go, you probably didn’t wake up Monday morning thinking for a second about Sam Lafferty between Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Beck Malenstyn as a thing come Oct. 3 in Prague against the New Jersey Devils. Or in Lindy Ruff’s official return to KeyBank Center, announced Monday as Oct.
10 against Los Angeles. But get ready for it. Your first big takeaway from the start of NHL free agency on Monday is the Sabres have a completely revamped fourth line.
Kyle Okposo was traded to Florida at the deadline in March, and Zemgus Girgensons, Tyson Jost and Eric Robinson have now all been replaced. You wonder if Girgensons goes to Pittsburgh, where he’s made his offseason home in his wife’s hometown. Adding hometown boy Dennis Gilbert on defense is interesting, too, because he isn’t afraid to stick his nose where opponents don’t want it, either.
Truculence is in fashion. Ruff will love it. Opposing teams won’t.
Sabres General Manager Kevyn Adams talks to the media after Monday’s development camp. “We have a lot of skills. We have a lot of talent,” General Manager Kevyn Adams said late Monday afternoon in KeyBank Center.
“We needed to round the group out. We needed to get harder, have a little.