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NHL Season Preview: Buffalo Sabres

Welcome to the NHL FanHouse 2008-09 season preview. While other sites are previewing "30 teams in 30 days," we decided to take advantage of the extra time off before the start of the season to bring you all 30 previews over the next three weeks. We're counting down in reverse order of finish from last season in each...

Hello Numminen! Sabres Re-Up with Teppo

It's been in the works for a while now, but yesterday the parties made it official by agreeing to a one-year $1.1 million contract to bring more-than-veteran defenseman Teppo Numminen back to the Blue and Gold for 2008-09. It seems the stumbling block was the outstanding grievance that Numminen filed with the NHLPA over...

Potential Logjam on Sabres Blueline

After perusing my long-time internet mate Kris Baker's (known to one and all as "Bakes") excellent SabresProspects.com, I got to thinking about the present and future of the Sabres blueline, especially given the real possibility of the Return of the Numminen (cue the John Williams bombast!). As Bakes put it here:... the...

Numinnen and Sabres, No Heart Feelings

It's been a just under a year since the first day of training camp for last season, where it was discovered that Sabres defenseman Teppo Numminen could no longer wait to have his heart condition (valve replacement) corrected. That, in itself, was shocking enough, but to compound matters was the subsequent 'suspension' of...

The Ice Sheet: An All-Star Shootout

Every day from Monday to Saturday, The Ice Sheet will take a look at the biggest stories in the league that happened on the ice and elsewhere the night before.Let's face facts, folks. The NHL All-Star game is a giant bore, and the skills competition no longer holds as much interest as it used to as the novelty has worn...

Teppo Numminen News From the Web

10/06/11 Coaching called Numminen back into the game Source: NHL It's often said that star players never make good coaches, that it's the mediocre players who still have something to prove that make the best bench bosses.
09/17/11 Sabres Hire Numminen as Assistant Coach Source: NBC - WGRZ 2 - Buffalo NY Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff has hired former Sabre Teppo Numminen to be an assistant coach on his staff this season.
02/24/11 Shane Doan's franchise record Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Shane Doan typically downplays his accomplishments and is the first to give credit to others.
02/23/11 poised to set franchise record Source: NBC - KPNX TV 12 - Phoenix AZ Shane Doan typically downplays his accomplishments and is the first to give credit to others.
02/23/11 Coyotes' Doan set to break games-played mark Source: NHL - Los Angeles Kings Teppo Numminen remembers the first time he saw the Winnipeg Jets' first-round draft choice from 1995 -- a baby-faced winger out of Halkirk, Alberta who was long on bullish strength but short on style.