He's a forward and he's paid to produce offense.
Is this guy serious? Leino has zero goals - ZERO - and just five assists in 18 games this season. If you're not performing, then maybe you have to sit and watch for a while."Īnd Leino's reaction, per a story from Bill Hoppe, who covers the team for the Olean Times Herald: "I'm not sure what he wants out of me." "There's patience but we don't get that confused with avoiding.
"One thing you do with the team is kind of hold them accountable to one another," Nolan said. "The good guys are starting to rise a little bit and the guys who are not putting that effort game in and game out, they're starting to stick out a little bit too," Nolan told the media at today's morning skating in Buffalo. 13, and he said that over the past week he has noticed a bit of a trend. Ted Nolan has been the Sabres interim coach since Nov. Tom Askey, Matthew Barnaby, Kevin Bolibruck, Paul Brydges, David Cullen, Randy Cunneyworth, Daryl Drader, Richie Dunn, Dan Frawley, Jody Gage, Danny Gare, Mike Hurlbut, Jim Jackson, Yuri Khmylev, Steve Langdon, Grant Ledyard, Ray Maluta, Brad May, Scott McCrory, Jay McKee, Brian McKinnon, Scott Metcalfe, Craig Muni, Scott Nichol, Chris Palmer, Andrew Peters, Geoff Peters, Rob Ray, Kenton Rein, Craig Rivet, Ric Seiling, Darryl Shannon, Richard Smehlik Derek Smith, Chris Taylor and Jim Wiemer.Īlso, Joe Crozier, Jim Hofford, Gates Orlando, Jim Pettie, Rene Robert and Geordie Robertson are scheduled to be at the event, but they won't be on the ice. Amerks-Sabres alumni game at the Frozen Frontier. Goalie Martin Biron and forward Steve Ludzik have been added to the rosters for Sunday's 5 p.m. The Sabres organization (read, Terry and Kim Pegula) is paying for family members to accompany the players to Switzerland, and players say they're grateful for the gesture.īut no radio means one thing to me: It's really not that big of an event. And this surely wasn't a decision based on budget. Stevens did broadcast from Davos when the Amerks participated in 1996. 31 in Davos, Switzerland.Ī team spokesman didn't really say why there will be no broadcast. The Amerks will not be providing radio coverage for the tournament, which runs Dec. Yet you won't be able to hear Don Stevens call the games. We've been told that the Spengler Cup is prestigious international tournament, and that it's an honor for the Amerks to be participating. "What incident," forward Mike Zigomanis said, inferring that a lot of transgressions take place night after night. 29, but they downplayed any significance going into this week's two games. The Amerks acknowledged that there is bad blood from the incident with the Monsters and Ristolainen on Nov. "I don't know if we get up to play divisional teams," defenseman Matt MacKenzie said, "but the time (to start winning consistently) is right now." They're 0-7-1-1 against the rest of the AHL. All 10 Amerks victories have come against divisional opponents (10-3-1-1). Maybe a string of games against the Monsters is a good thing for the Amerks, since they are a North Division rival. "We always seem to play close - if not some wild - games with them," Cassidy said. Yeah, the schedule is a bit Monster heavy at the moment. And then again the following Friday (Nov. And Friday night outdoors at Frontier Field. The Amerks and Monsters play again Wednesday night. His progress - and the recurrence of any symptoms - must be monitored. He was struck in the face with a sucker punch by Monsters forward Mitchell Heard.Īmerks coach Chadd Cassidy said Ristolainen has just started to ride the stationary bike, which means he's not all that close to a return to game action. The rest of world would term his injury a concussion. Ristolainen suffered what the team has termed an upper body injury in the waning seconds of the Nov. He said he has, however, been given permission by the Sabres to play for Finland at the World Junior Championship, assuming he recovers from his injury. Rochester Americans defenseman Rasmus Ristolainen still isn't practicing, and he won't be playing any games this week.
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