The Buffalo Sabres of the past decade have been known as a franchise who lives off of drafting and low paid players. Even though they live and die by their small name players, the Sabres have had a great deal of success in recent years.
Of those who have come through Buffalo on small pay that caught a huge payday else where, the Flyers leading scorer Danny Briere. Briere played for seasons with the Sabres after being acquired from the Yotes in a trade where Buffalo gave up Chris Gratton.
Now-a-days Buffalo thrive through their Olympic star goaltender, Ryan Miller. Miller was originally drafted by the Sabres in the 5th round of the 1999 entry draft. The Hobey Baker winner is currently playing in his 6th season with the team, he has never had a GAA of more than 2.75 in his career.
The Sabres constist of a good group of veterans and young guns. 36 year old, Craig Rivet, leads the Sabres on the back end and also where the captain's C. While Tyler Myers and Andrej Sekera are two of the brightest young defensemen in the league.
Their offense is led by Tomas Vanek, who was part of some off-ice fighting a few summers ago. Vanek was a restricted free agent, meaning the Sabs had the right to match an offer that was made on the winger, Edmonton started a bidding war that ended up with the Sabres paying the young Austrian over $7 million.
Rob Niedermayer was signed as a free agent to bolster the Sabs 4th line. Nathan Gerbe the small (5'6"), former Boston College captain, is a firecracker that is always giving 100% percent.
On the Flyers side
Sergei Bobrvsky will make the start in net, he is 2-2-0 with a GAA of 2.78.
Ville Leino scored the Flyers lone goal last night versus the Blue Jackets.
The Flyers have lost the last 4 of their past 5 games.
game is on at 7:30 on VS and CSN PHI. Live from Philadelphia.
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