The Montreal Canadiens want to take home-ice advantage in their best-of-seven Stanley Cup playoff series with the Buffalo Sabres back to Quebec with them, and they will need a much better effort on Friday in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference semifinal to accomplish that.

The Buffalo Sabres and the Toronto Maple Leafs are both in unfamiliar territory this month. The Sabres, of course, are in the Stanley Cup Playoffs a place they haven't been in over 15 years. As for the Leafs,

Buffalo Sabres captain and defenseman Rasmus Dahlin was named a finalist for the James Norris Memorial Trophy. The award recognizes the top defenseman in the NHL.

As the Buffalo Sabres face the Montreal Canadiens in the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs, Visit Buffalo is welcoming the city’s neighbors from the north with open arms despite any rivalry on the ice.

This perfect Sabres moment between Zach Benson, Jordan Greenway sums up Buffalo's team originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here. BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Buffalo Sabres ' chemistry at the moment is sky-high even off the ice.

Buffalo's playoff excitement fuels demand for handmade Sabres hats, created by refugee women at Stitch Buffalo, boosting their community and providing vital income.

Buffalo Sabres fans in Lancaster are showing their team spirit in a big way. Outside K & S Contractor Supply Inc. is a Sabretooth-themed mailbox, about 7 feet tall, made of concrete, pipe and wood.

The Sabres are one of 10 NHL teams who haven’t won a Stanley Cup, though they came close in 1999, and for as much as Josh Allen and Bills Mafia and folding-table shenanigans have shaped Buffalo’s sports reputation in recent years, it has always been a hockey city, too.