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Why the NHL Playoffs Will Return to Buffalo

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Photo: Spectrum News BY: SEAN WALLACE, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The Buffalo Sabres missed the NHL playoffs for 13 consecutive seasons, tying  the New York Jets for longest playoff drought in professional sports. Despite two Stanley Cup appearances, the franchise has yet to win a championship in their 54 seasons of play. This season will  look to…

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Buffalo Brief

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By BV Sports Staff Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. Bills Buffalo Bills running back LeSean McCoy got involved in a bar fight in…

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By BV Sports Staff Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. Bills The Buffalo Bills 2016-17 season is already off to a roaring start. Pro-bowl…

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By: BV Sports Staff Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. Bills It is Super Bowl week, and the Buffalo Bills are once again not…

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By BV Sports Staff Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. Bills Are there any people out there that still believe in EJ Manuel? Anyone,…

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Bills  The king of headlines, Rex Ryan, took a shot at Tom Brady’s embarrassing first pitch at Fenway Park earlier this week. Brady’s throw was blooper-reel worthy, as his pitch trickled to home plate while Ryan, who threw out the first pitch at the Buffalo Bisons game, indeed did cross the plate with no help…

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Buffalo Brief

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Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. Sabres  BREAKING NEWS: The Sabres have stupidly won three of their last five games.  With wins over the…

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Buffalo Brief

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Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. UB Basketball  After winning the MAC tournament last weekend, the Bulls earned their first-ever berth in the NCAA…

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Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports.  Sabres  While the franchise will never put it this simply, the Sabres have continued the tanking process this week.…

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Western New Yorkers love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports.  Bills  The NFL Combine is underway, but the Bills made other headlines as they cut veteran            linebacker Keith…

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Sabres  Buffalo’s struggles continue week after week. The Sabres are 2-8 in their last 10 contests and now sit at the bottom of the league with yet another league-worst stat – a negative 88 goal differential. The team made eyes pop in one of the NHL’s biggest trades of the season on Wednesday as they…

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Western New Yorker’s love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports Sabres In a rare case of events, the Sabres won a game Tuesday, beating the Montreal Canadiens 3-2.…

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Western New Yorker’s love Buffalo sports. While other areas of the country may ignore this great city, many locals are infatuated with its’ regional teams. So here it is: The BV’s take on all things Buffalo sports. Sabres Oh yes, the Sabres. The worst team in the Atlantic Division. The worst team in the Eastern conference.…

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Buffalo Brief

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Not every student at St. Bonaventure is from Buffalo, but sometimes it certainly seems that way. Many of these students are, to extreme degrees, interested in the professional and college sports of that great town. To cater to our proud Buffalonians, the BV is excited to unveil the “Buffalo Brief”, a breezy synopsis of all…

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On the practicality of tanking: The 2014-2015 Buffalo Sabres

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By Gavin Lindahl Sports Assignment Editor   With the 2014-15 NHL season starting next week, Western New York is buzzing with the possibilities of what the Buffalo Sabres’ campaign will bring. The answers vary from fan to fan. Ask some fans, and they’re bound to tell you the Sabres will finish last again and draft…

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Time for Sabres to set Miller free

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By Gavin Lindahl Assistant Sports Editor Ask any Buffalo Sabres fan who the best player currently on the team is, and you’ll most likely get the same answer – Ryan Miller. The 33-year-old American goalie has been backstopping the team regularly for the better part of a decade and has been a main fixture of…

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Being a fan means keeping the faith

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By Taylor Nigrelli Sports Editor “Why do we fall, Bruce?” “So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” These words, first spoken to Bruce Wayne by his father in “Batman Begins,” ring true for Buffalo sports fans on a near-weekly basis. And I should know. As an avid, borderline mentally-unstable western New York sports fan,…

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Breaking the ice on the NHL

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By Harrison Leone Sports Assignment Editor Let me begin by listing the totality of my knowledge of the National Hockey League before coming to St. Bonaventure: 1.) It exists. 2.) Wayne Gretzky. That about does it. Growing up in a town with no hockey rink and where the nearest professional franchise is more than three…

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Players are not the only ones on thin ice due to lockout

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By Kyle Zamiara Promotions Editor As September comes to a close, NHL fans will be dreading an October with no puck drops. That’s right, the league is once again in a lockout. It didn’t seem so long ago when the league locked out for what felt like eternity in the 2004-05 season. I had never…

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