Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss all the highs and lows from the Sabres overtime loss against the Penguins, positives from a tough game, UPL needing to step up in big moments, Cozens and Samuelsson's continued poor play, Peterka's incredible night, preview the upcoming games against the Blue Jackets and Blackhawks, and more. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday an...
Oct 17, 2024•37 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss the Sabres loss against the Kings & win over the Panthers, how the team has improved since the opening games against the Devils, McLeod's strong start, Benson on the top line, improved zone entries, Lindy's impressive post-game press conferences, continuing their strong play through this week, Dahlin & Krebs' practice fight, impressions of the fan experience from the hom...
Oct 15, 2024•50 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we preview the Sabres' home opener against the Kings, what players to look out for from LA, Peterka and Benson returning to practice, Byram's solid start, and what we're looking out for from a fan experience perspective from the home opener. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast d...
Oct 10, 2024•32 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss the Sabres 0-2 start after back-to-back losses to New Jersey in Prauge. We dive into whether it's time to hit the panic button, putting things into perspective so early in the season, when the appropriate time to lose hope would be, what we want to see corrected in the coming weeks, James Reimer getting claimed by Anaheim, Nicholas Aube-Kubel going on IR, and how that can lead t...
Oct 08, 2024•37 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we each give our five non-Sabres predictions for the upcoming season, which include the Hart, Selke, and Calder award races, teams regressing, playoff surprises, and more. In the second half of the episode, we go through our standings predictions for each of the divisions. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast N...
Oct 03, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we each give our five predictions for the Sabres this upcoming season, which include Jack Quinn, Rasmus Dahlin, Lindy Ruff, special teams, awards, and more. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buffalo Sabres. Podcasts’ are available at thehockeypodcastnetwork.c...
Oct 01, 2024•37 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss the new mural in Alumni Plaza, our thoughts on the selections, the Sabres continued hot start to the preseason, the lines and D-pairs, and more! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buffalo Sabres. Podcasts’ are available at thehockeypodcastnetwork.co...
Sep 26, 2024•46 min
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss the Sabres big 7-3 preseason victory over the Penguins, Peterka's hat trick, the 4th line's effectiveness, the much improved powerplay, Kulich getting a golden opportunity, and more! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buffalo Sabres. Podcasts’ are a...
Sep 23, 2024•32 min•Ep. 398
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss the start of Sabres training camp, Dahlin & Tage both getting banged up, Kulich getting a golden opportunity to make the team, lines and D pairings, why Lindy should move away from the Dahlin-Power pair, Kevyn Adams' press conference, and more before we end with a quiz! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hock...
Sep 19, 2024•48 min•Ep. 397
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we discuss the defense and goaltending situations heading into camp, including running it back with pretty much the same D-group, if Byram and Samuelsson can be permanent long-term fixtures in the top-4, what the 3rd pair could look like, not moving on from Jokiharju, UPL heading into this season as the unquestioned starter, Levi taking the next step in his development, how James Reimer fi...
Sep 17, 2024•32 min•Ep. 396
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! On today's episode, we dive into the forward group, discussing how important this year is for Kulich & Rosen to show out, the external additions of McLeod, Zucker, & the new fourth line, if those additions are enough to make the playoffs, comparing this year's forward group to last year's, what needs to go right this year among the forwards for the team to get over the hump, and more! Stay up to date ...
Sep 12, 2024•53 min•Ep. 395
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's season 6 premiere, we are thrilled to announce our new sponsorship with Mr. Goodbar, and welcomed Goodbar's owner Bobby Rabb to join us to discuss the new sponsorship, the return of trivia nights, getting folks out to watch Sabres games again, and more! We then discuss fan expectations ahead of the 2024-2025 and preview some of what's to come in season 6. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with...
Sep 09, 2024•47 min•Ep. 394
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's season 5 finale, we tease an exciting new sponsorship and the return of our trivia nights before each creating a team of all time players who share the same first initial as us. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buffalo Sabres. Podcasts’ are available at thehockeypodc...
Sep 05, 2024•26 min•Ep. 393
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the tragic loss of Johnny & Matthew Gaudreau. In the second half of the episode, we dive into who should be on the mural of past players overlooking Alumni Plaza should the Sabres ever decide to update it. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buff...
Sep 03, 2024•48 min•Ep. 392
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss our recent travels before diving into the now refuted reports that Filip Zadina was going to sign a PTO with the Sabres, Corey Pronman's pipeline ranking of the Sabres, disagreements with his rankings of Benson and Levi, and close with our thoughts on Tage's comments regarding switching to the goat head jerseys full time. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Po...
Aug 29, 2024•35 min•Ep. 391
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we each share three storylines we're looking forward to ahead of the 2024-2025 season, including the pressure to win it all in Edmonton, if Vancouver can take the next step, the potential of a non-forward winning the Hart, what offseason additions will help propel the teams in the Eastern Conference Wild Card race, will an Atlantic non-playoff team knock off one of the mainstays, and what ...
Aug 15, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 390
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the idea of trading for Patrik Laine, the arguments for and against, where we both stand on a potential move, and the Olympics wrapping up. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buffalo Sabres. Podcasts’ are available at thehockeypodcastnetwork.com or ...
Aug 12, 2024•29 min•Ep. 389
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the report that 2024 1st round pick Konsta Helenius will be playing in North America this season before quizzing each other on leading scorers from each draft class during the playoff drought and leaders in Olympic games played for Team USA hockey. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers ...
Aug 06, 2024•43 min•Ep. 388
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we each share five ideas for new movies based off real-life sporting stories/events. Ideas include former Sabre Brian Spencer's life story, Dock Ellis throwing a hitter while high on LSD, Leicester City winning the Premier League, the Dream Team, and more! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a u...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 387
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss UPL's 5-year contract extension with the Sabres, how he came to earn it, why there's not much, if any, downside to the deal, how it affects Devon Levi and the future of the net, and more before ending the episode with a quiz on all time leading scorers to never win an Art Ross. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The ...
Jul 29, 2024•34 min•Ep. 386
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, which was recorded before the Sabres announced they re-signed UPL to an extension (we'll cover that Monday), we open the show sharing our thoughts on the Oilers hiring Stan Bowman as GM before getting into our mailbag! Huge thanks to everyone who sent their questions in! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Net...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 385
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss whether or not the Sabres are fully done with their offseason plans, not spending to the cap, not using all of the cap space freed up from Jeff Skinner's buyout, if their a playoff team as it stands now, and what our summer episodes will look like! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers ...
Jul 22, 2024•31 min•Ep. 384
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we continue our segment where we go through each team and rate which, if any, of their players are Hall of Fame caliber on a 1-5 scale. Brendan shares his Eastern Conference picks, including which Sabres made the cut. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Network offers a unique podcast dedicated to your Buffalo...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 383
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we revisit an old segment where we go through each team and rate which, if any, of their players are Hall of Fame caliber on a 1-5 scale. Taylor goes through his picks for the Western Conference today and Brendan shares his Eastern Conference picks on Thursday's episode. Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast Network. Every Monday and Thursday The Hockey Podcast Net...
Jul 16, 2024•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 382
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we welcome Matt and Pat from the band Super American to discuss their new album Gangster of Love, their upcoming headlining North American tour and fall tour supporting Neck Deep, the most memorable moments of their Sabres fanhood, how they're feeling ahead ahead of next season, the Sabres recent moves, Lindy, and so much more! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 381
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the Sabres' trading Matt Savoie for Ryan McLeod, understanding the arguments both for and against the move, where McLeod may slot in the lineup and who with, how this move affects Krebs & Greenway's standing in the lineup, how they can still make a move for the top-6 (even though it's highly unlikely), how it affects the rookie forwards in Rochester, and more! Stay up to dat...
Jul 09, 2024•43 min•Ep. 380
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the Sabres' free agent signings, what their impact may be, our disappointment in the front office's approach, inexplicably not making a trade for a top-6 forward, overpaying in a trade to get a deal done, the possibility of regression for certain players, the D group and where Ryan Johnson may fit, and so much more! Stay up to date in the world of hockey with The Hockey Podcast ...
Jul 04, 2024•39 min•Ep. 379
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we recap the Sabres' weekend including their trade back with San Jose, trading a 2nd for Beck Malenstyn, drafting Konsta Helenius at 14th overall, and morale heading into free agency. Then, Brendan goes through his trade and free agency ideas and Taylor reacts to each player, including what their ideal preferred plan of attack would be with mock trades. Stay up to date in the world of hock...
Jul 01, 2024•46 min•Ep. 378
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the reports that Jeff Skinner will be bought out by the Sabres, what affect this has on the cap in the short and long term, the arguments for doing it either this year or next, and how we view his legacy as a Sabre. Then, in the second half of the episode, Taylor gives his extended thoughts on the Hall of Fame class and we close out by discussing the rebranded Kings and Ducks je...
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr 22 min•Ep. 377
Welcome to Straight Up Sabres on The Hockey Podcast Network & The Charging Buffalo! In today's episode, we discuss the Florida Panthers defeating the Edmonton Oilers in game 7 to win their first Stanley Cup. Within the discussion, we dive into Florida's road over the past decade getting to this point, how we feel about the former Sabres winning the Cup, how wrong we both were about Paul Maurice, what the Sabres can take from Florida's team building, McDavid going stagnant in games 6 & 7,...
Jun 25, 2024•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 376
