New Group of Sabres in the Stable. Buffalo Jr Sabres OHL Story (EHM 07)

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April 2007

April 10th

I am using the default roster

The OHL has recently folded the Erie Otters club and have decided to look for an organization who can fill their spot in the OHL. A group of owners have come forward with an offer to bring the Buffalo Jr Sabres from the OPJHL to the OHL. As I sit at home in my Hamilton apartment as i just finished my smww hockey gm and scouting course I have decided to fill out application and fax it to the owners of the Buffalo Jr Sabres organization. As I sit at my apartment looking at the possible players I could potentially bring into the Buffalo Jr Sabres organzation because i would some players to begin with. So if I get the general manager job I might look into the idea of trading for players as I will be starting with no players just the draft picks, so some of the possible players will be free agent signed players or players traded for. Before I look at all of the clubs rosters, a few hours after I sent in the fax I have received a phone call from the Buffalo Jr Sabres to let me know that I have been named as the new Buffalo Jr Sabres general Manager.

As I was being interviewed for the job I was putting together a list of names of possible coaches, scouts and other staff that I would like to bring in as my possible staff.

Our development Club are the Rochester Junior Americans as well as our Rival teams are Saginaw Spirit and Niagara IceDogs.

The rule I have with prospects is that with them being drafted at the age of 15 that gives them to the age of 18 to make our line up or they will be released or traded.

April 11th

We named Viljo Turkki (Finnish) as one of our trainers as well as named Swedish coach Jonny Stenberg as my right hand man as our assistant GM.

April 12th

We named Swedish coach Tim Bjornberg as one of our assistant coaches, also signed Eric Daoust to a contract.

Later in the day we named the following people to our staff:

Jimmy-Carl Carrier (Canadian) – Defense Coach
Kjell Nordberg (Swedish) – Scout (Will be running our Import Draft)
Jamil Ivanov (Russia) – Scout
Mika Oberg (Sweden) – Scout
Keiron Tait (British) – Forward Coach
Pehr-Ove Moren (Sweden) – Trainer

April 13th

We signed our second player in franchise history as we signed 19 yr old defenseman Garrett Suter.

April 15th

With Nordberg running the Import Draft we named Richard Rose as our Head Scout and he will be running the OHL Selection Draft.

April 17th

My coaching staff is working with my scouting staff to put together a possible list of players we want to invite to our main camp as well as our assistant GM is working on a pre-season schedule that will rub from August 30th to the 10th of September. In those games we will dress four different teams to give us an equal look at every player in camp.

April 19th

We named Austin Mitchell as our Head Coach.

April 20th

We held our expansion draft today with us selecting the following:

Zane Neily (Guelph), Andrew Wilson, David Johnson (Kingston), Adam Sikora (Kitchener), Brian Molloy (London), Connor Smee, Ross Henry (Saginaw), Peter DiSalvo (Sarnia), Paul Dupont (Sudbury), also Mississauga gave us a 4th in 07 and Windsor gave us a 3rd in 07 to not select a player from their club.

Once our main roster is set we will be carrying 11 players on our farm team with 1 goalie, two left defense, two right defense, two left wings, two centers and two right wings.

April 21st

The will be Richard Rose’s 1st Draft as our head scout and both him and the rest of our scouts have orked real hard scouting all of the players in the upcoming camp and have came up with a real good list of prospects who will bring the future of our organization a bright future and will bring success to our club.

April 28th

It will be Belleville Bulls taking on our rivals Saginaw Spirit in the J. Ross Robertson Cup Finals with Game 1 going down May 1st.

April 29th

With being the expansion team we were awarded the first overall pick, followed by Windsor Spitfires with 2nd overall, Mississauga 3rd, Oshawa 4th and London Knights rounding out the top 5 picks with the 5th overall. The draft will be taking place on May 5th.

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May 1st

The J. Ross Robertson Championship game 1 went down tonight as Belleville is in Saginaw to take in the Spirit. Saginaw won game 1 by a score of 6-4 and take a 1-0 series lead.

May 2nd

Kjell Nordberg who will be running our import draft and the rest of our European scouts will be heading to Europe for the next month to scout upcoming players in the upcoming CHL Import draft as we will problemly be selecting 1st or second overall in the import draft.

May 3rd

Game 2 of the OHL Championship continued tonight as Belleville is in Saginaw to take on the Spirit as they lead the series 1-0.

May 5th

Today is the 2007 OHL Selection Draft

1st round (1st overall) – G Keith Leblanc – Eastern Ontario (ODMHA)
5`11 194lbs 16 yrs 4/6/91 Mississauga, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 30-5-7 2.32 GAA .914 Sv % 1 SO 7.92 AvR

2nd overall – Windsor – Larry Cooke
3rd overall – Mississauga – Spence Regier
4th overall – Oshawa – Derrick Kostuch
5th overall – Guelph – Jasen Berman

The following is the rest of our organzation’s picks in the draft

2nd round (21st overall) – LD Max Bastien – Eastern Ontario (ODMHA)
5`8 202lbs 15 yrs 10/20/91 Leamington, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 14g 23a 37pts +33 96PIM 6.60 AvR

3rd round (41st overall) – RD Rory Corriveau – Brantford (PAV)
5`8 200lbs 16 yrs 5/1/91 Kitchener, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 15g 44a 59pts +38 71PIM 7.20 AvR

3rd round (42nd overall) – LD Derek Brouillette – Barrie (ETA)
5`9 178lbs 15 yrs 5/14/91 Mississauga, ON
2006-2007 Season: 49gp 12g 35a 47pts +9 116PIM 6.94 AvR

4th round (61st overall) – RW Gerry Boisvert – Kitchener (PAV)
5`6 176lbs 15 yrs 8/19/91 Ottawa, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 16g 15a 31pts +8 74PIM 6.08 AvR

4th round (63rd overall) – RW Samuel Rowan – Waterloo (PAV)
5`6 185lbs 15 yrs 8/15/91 Toronto, ON
2006-2007 Season: 44gp 13g 25a 38pts +8 36PIM 6.34 AvR

5th round (81st overall) – RW/LW Julien Glaude – Markham (ETA)
5`7 205lbs 16 yrs 2/22/91 Streetsville, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 13g 22a 35pts -10 103PIM 6.52 AvR

6th round (101st overall) – LD Gerard Stephens – Chicago (CSHL)
6`3 211lbs 16 yrs 1/12/91 Chicago, IL, USA
2006-2007 Season: 60gp 20g 48a 68pts +13 92 PIM 7.18 AvR

7th round (121st overall) – G Dominic Ryan – Atlanta (U16E)
5`7 180lbs 15 yrs 9/16/91 Powder Springs, GA, USA
2006-2007 Season: 7gp 5-1-1 2.43 GAA .914 Sv % 0 SO 7.86 AvR

8th round (141st overall) – LW Parker Laliberte – Ajax-Pickering (ETA)
5`11 209lbs 15 yrs 5/6/91 Bethany, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 23g 25a 48pts +8 81 PIM 6.56 AvR

9th round (161st overall) – C Reid Duchesne – Vaughan (GTHL)
5`7 176lbs 16 yrs 4/21/91 Millbrook, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 3g 3a 6pts -6 40PIM 5.98 AvR

10th round (181st overall) – LW Chester Dyck – Markham (ETA)
5`9 198lbs 16 yrs 2/12/91 Oakville, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 15g 10a 25pts -6 60PIM 6.18 AvR

11th round (201st overall) – RW Jean-Francois Cain – Gloucester (ODMHA)
5`8 185lbs 15 yrs 5/20/91 Milton, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 19g 20a 39pts -11 70PIM 6.00 AvR

12th round (221st overall) – LD Jason Leblanc – Cambridge (PAV)
5`10 209lbs 16 yrs 1/4/91 Ajax, ON
2006-2007 Season: 49gp 6g 25a 31pts +16 77PIM 6.51 AvR

13th round (241st overall) – C Lucinao Woytas – Central Ontario (ETA)
5`8 180lbs 16 yrs 2/5/91 Collingwood, ON
2006-2007 Season: 50gp 16g 24a 40pts +9 82PIM 6.02 AvR

With 2 picks left and 7 spots left on our reserve list there wasn’t anyone that jumped out at us that we wanted so we skipped the rest of the draft.

We drafted a total of 15 players

In game 3 of the OHL Championship finals Saginaw Spirit take their 2-0 series lead into Belleville as they take on the Bulls. Belleville Bulls take advantage of the home ice advantage as they beat the Spirit by a score of 6-4 as Spirit takes a 2-1 series lead.

May 7th

Game 4 of the OHL Championship final is in Belleville tonight as Saginaw leads the series 2-1. The Spirit move to 1 win away from winning the Championship as they won by a 5-0 win shutting out the Bulls.

May 9th

After shutting out Belleville last game the two teams meet in Saginaw tonight for game 5 as Belleville shuts out Saginaw by a score of 4-0.

May 11th

Game 6 is going down tonight in Belleville as they play host to the Spirit as Saginaw leads the series 3-2. Belleville wins 3-2 to force game seven on the 13th of May with winner takes all game and winner heads to the CHL memorial cup.

May 13th

Game 7 of the OHL J. Ross Robertson Championship winner take all game goes down tonight in Saginaw. Belleville shocks everyone and beats the top ranked team in the west with a 3-1 win in the game 7 final as the Bulls move onto the CHL Memorial Cup and Represent the OHL.

May 21st

The CHL got underway today as the first game of the day saw OHL Champs Belleville Bulls taking on the QMJHL Champs PEI Rocket. The Bulls had no problem with the PEI team as they won by a score of 6-1. In the even game it was the host team Vancouver Giants taking on the WHL Champs Everett Silvertips. The Silvertips won by a score of 6-3 as they move to a 1-0 record in the tournament.

May 23rd

It’s the battle of the unbeaten teams as the 1-0 Silvertips take on the 1-0 Bulls. Everett moves to 2-0 as they beat the Bulls by a score of 5-1 as the Bulls fall to 1-1 in the tournament. In the evening game it’s the battle of the winless team as PEI is taking on the host team Vancouver Giants as both teams are 0-1. PEI win a close game by a score of 3-2 and move to 1-1 as Vancouver moves to 0-2.

May 25th

In the last round robin game of the tournament PEI 1-1 is taking on the 2-0 Everett Silvertips. It took extra time but Everett ended up coming out with the win with a 4-3 win in overtime over PEI. Belleville Bulls are battling with the Vancouver Giants in the final round robin game. Vancouver won by a score of 3-1 and even with the win they finish 4th place as Belleville finished 3rd and will play PEI who finished second place in the semi-finals with the winning team playing Everett Silvertips in the CHL memorial Cup finals.

May 26th

Happy birthday to me

May 30th

Today is the semi-final game of the CHL Memorial Cup as Belleville Bulls are taking on PEI Rocket with the winner playing Everett Silvertips June 2nd in the Finals. The Bulls come out with a 4-2 win so now they head to the Finals to play Everett Silvertips.

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June 2nd

The CHL Memorial Cup final goes down tonight as Everett Silvertips take on Belleville Bulls as the winner will be the Champion of their represented league but also the Champion of all of CHL. Everett has won the CHL Memorial Cup with a 4-2 win over the Belleville Bulls.

June 4th

We made two trades today sending rights to Paul Dupont (who we acquired in the expansion draft) and negation rights to Ben Finney to Brampton for Cody Wilson. Cody had 3g 3a for 6pts -10 and 22pts with a 6.12 AvR in 42 games with Brampton last yr. We also sent rights to Ross Henry and rights to Shane Taylor to London Knights for Philip McRae, in 61 games with London last yr 6g 8a 14pts -24 79PIM and 5.75 AvR.

June 12th

Our European scouts have arrived back to our office as where myself and all of my scouts and my assistant GM will sit down and make up our final list of players to choose from for the upcoming CHL Import Draft.

June 16th

CHL Just announced tonight the selection order for the Import draft . Saint John Sea Dogs will be selecting first overall, with Regina pats selecting 2nd, we will be selecting 3rd with Rouyn-Noranda picking 4th and rounding out the top 5 is Kamloops Blazers.

June 21st

CHL Import Draft

1st round (3rd overall) – LW Joonas Valisalmi – FA
5`10 171lbs 18 yrs 3/17/89 Rauma, FIN
2006-2007 Season: 40gp 8g 14a 22pts +16 68PIM 6.45 AvR

2nd round (60th overall) – LD/RD Niksa Trstenjak - FA
5`8 189lbs 16 yrs 11/12/90 Zagreb, CRO
2006-2007 Season: 25gp 2g 16a 18pts +9 40PIM 6.88 AvR – Mladost (Cro)
2006-2007 Season: 10gp 1g 3a 4pts +1 16PIM 6.70 AvR – Mladost (IIHL 2)

June 25th

We signed Niksa Trstenjak to a contract. He will be reporting to our rookie camp in the summer as well as training camp as well.

Later on in the day we signed our 1st round pick in the Improt draft as both players are now signed and will play for our teams this summer and fall.

June 30th

As all prospects contracts with their previous teams have run out we find out where our prospects and other teams prospects will be spending next season signed with what club.

Being our expansion season the board is already expecting playoffs so I have my work cut out for me this upcoming season.

The host team for the 2008 Memorial Cup has been chosen as it will be OHL’s own London Knights.

July 1st

The OHL has released the schedule for the upcoming season as it will have us open the season against Kitchener (away), Sault Ste. Marie (home) and Sarnia (home) on September 22nd, 23rd and 27th respectively.

July 2nd

We have released the rights to the following players:

Zane Neily and Brian Molloy

July 5th

We signed overage forward Jordan Foreman to a contract.

July 7th

Urban Bergman has retired from coaching as we will be on search for a new assistant coach

July 9th

U-20 2012 WJC Div 1 host country is Belarus

July 11th

We made a trade sending Barrett Reynolds and Daniel Frawley and a 4th in 10 to Plymouth for Dustin Fummerton.

July 12th

We named Jay Wells as our new assistant coach

July 14th

We sent rights to Chester Dyck (our 10th round pick in 07) and rights to Jason Leblanc (12th round in 07) to Mississauga Majors for rights to Barry Laplante (MIS’s 6th round in 07)

July 19th

Our rookie camp runs from August 25th to the 27th, where we have two goalies five defense and nine forwards playing for our organization and after those three games they rest for the 28th and 29th and then the pre-season training game games run from August 30th to the 8th of where the training camp roster will be split into four teams and each team will play 2 games and then the games on the 7th and 8th of September will be the last chance games where the players on the bubble will have a chance to prove the staff they belong on the team.

The three teams our rookie team will be playing against is Merrit from the BCHL, Lindsay from the OPJHL and Weeks from MJAHL.

July 24th

Detroit has offered Richard Rose a possible contract to be their teams scout if that’s the case Nordberg will not only be running our Import draft but also our Selection draft too but will also be our head scout.

July 29th

We got word that Richard Rose has accepted the Red Wings contract as Kjell Nordberg will now be our head scout

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August 8th

The following is our pre-season schedule and our rookie camp schedule:

August 25th vs. Weekes (MJAHL)
August 26th vs. Merritt (BCHL)
August 27th vs. Lindsay Muiskes (OPJHL)
August 30th vs. Niagara IceDogs (OHL)
August 31st vs. Seattle Thunderbirds (WHL)
September 1st vs. Saginaw Spirit (OHL)
September 2nd @ Cape Breton (QMJHL)
September 3rd @ Chilliwack Bruins (WHL)
September 4th @ Oshawa Generals (OHL)
September 5th @ Quebec Remparts (QMJHL)
September 6th vs. Rimouski (QMJHL)
September 7th @ Rouyn-Noranda (QMJHL)
September 8th vs. St. John’s Fog Devils (QMJHL)
September 9th @ Sarnia Sting (OHL)
September 12th vs. Niagara IceDogs (OHL)

August 19th

Our rookies made it into Buffalo today as they start to practice tomorrow to prepare for the upcoming mini tournament in six days.

August 24th

Our rookie roster features our prospects we drafted from this past summer as they are also joined by our two import draft picks and Peter Disavlo as our rookies take part in the tournament starting tomorrow.

August 25th

Our rookies open the tournament up with a game against Weekes as it will be Keith Leblanc starting in goal tonight.

Weekes @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (Rookie Tourney)

Final: 2-0 L

Leblanc 21 of 22 saves 2nd star

Vachon (Weekes) left the game and is out of action for three weeks with a thigh strain, also our 1st round pick Joonas Valisalmi will be out of action for about a week with a broken toe and will problemly miss the rest of the tournament. Taking Joonas place on the team will be 16 yr old Derek Cheechoo.

In the other tournament game it was Lindsay beating Merritt by a score of 5-1. Wade Savard 10th overall had 1a and a +1 2PIM and 3 shots for Lindsay.

August 26th

The second day of the tournament has us going up against Merritt.

Merritt (BCHL) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (Rookie Tourney)

Trstenjak (Cheechoo) SH
Cain (Woytas)
Laliberte (Glaude)
Cheechoo (Boisvert, Trstenjak) PP
Boisvert

Final: 5-2 W

Leblanc 16 of 18 saves

In the other tournament game Weekes moved to 2-0 with a 4-3 win over Lindsay

August 27th

In the last day of the tournament we will be going up against Lindsay Muskies. With a win we will finish second place in the tournament.

Lindsay Muskies @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (Rookies Tourney)

Boisvert (Glaude, Stephens)
Woytas (Boisvert, Corriveau)
Stephens (Woytas)

Final: 3-1 W

Leblanc 20 of 21 saves

In the other tournament game Merritt beat Weekes 5-4 as Weekes finishes in second place and our rookie team finishes 1st place.

August 29th

Joonas Valisalmi is day to day and will take part in the preseason games.

Here are the Teams for the pre-season games.

Team Blue:

G – Keith Leblanc (Tryout) (Prospect)
D – Brendan Lynch (Tryout)
D – Max Bastien (Tryout) (Prospect)
D – Joseph Gatien (Tryout)
D – Ryan Henry (Tryout)
LW – Joonas Valisalmi (Import 07 Pick)
C – Adam Sikora (Expansion Draft)
C – Derek Cheechoo (Tryout)
C – Michael Aiello (Tryout)
RW – Ryan Martineau (Tryout)
RW – Gerry Boisvert (Tryout) (Prospect)
RW – David Johnson (Expansion)

Team Red:

D – Tyler Turcotte (Tryout)
D – Emmanuel Boudreau (Tryout)
D – Alex Galli (Tryout)
D – Derek Brouillette (Tryout) (Prospect)
LW – Parker Laliberte (Tryout) (Prospect)
C – Brad Fleishman (Tryout)
C – John Harrington (Tryout)
C – Lucinao Woytas (Tryout) (Prospect)
RW – Thomas Moore (Tryout)
RW – Samuel Rowan (Tryout) (Prospect)
RW – Eric Daoust (Tryout)
RW – Philippe Cote (Tryout)

Team Green:

G – Cody St. Jacques (Tryout)
D – Garrett Suter
D – Wilson Ngai (Tryout)
D – Josh Deacon (Tryout)
D – Rory Corriveau (Tryout) (Prospect)
C – Chris Brown (Tryout)
C – Jacob Wright (Tryout)
C – Dustin Fummerton
RW – Philip McRae
RW – JF Cain (Tryout) (Prospect)
RW – Jordan Foreman

Team White:

G – Peter DiSavlo (Expansion)
D – Mike Folkes (Tryout)
D – Gerard Stephens (Tryout) (Prospects)
D – Ryan Bottum (Tryout)
D – Niksa Trstenjak (Import 07)
LW – Dan Vernelli (Tryout)
LW – Cody Wilson
LW – Julien Glaude (Tryout) (Prospect)
C – Connor Smee (Expansion)
C – Reid Duchesne (Tryout) (Prospect)
C – Barry Laplante (Tryout) (Prospect)
RW – Andrew Wilson (Tryout)
RW – Jerry Petingalo (Tryout)

August 30th

Team Blue will be taking on one of our Rivals Niagara IceDogs at home. Keith Leblanc will be getting the start in goal.

Niagara IceDogs @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (Pre-Season)

Cote (Aiello) SH
Boisvert (Lynch, Bastien)
Sikora (Moore, Henry) PP
Moore (Martineau, Cheechoo)

Final: 4-3 W

Leblanc 25 of 28 saves; Ryan Henry 1st star 1a; Thomas Moore 3rd star 1g 1a

August 31st

The Goalie we just invited to camp that we had pencilled in for Team Red isn’t here yet so Peter DiSavlo will play for Team Red vs Seattle Thunderbirds from WHL tonight.

Seattle Thunderbirds @ Buffalo Jr Sabres

Vernelli (Deacon)
Laliberte (Corriveau, Laplante)

Final: 4-2 L

DiSavlo 33 of 37 saves; Parker Laliberte 2nd star 1g

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September 1st

Team Green is up against our Rival Saginaw Spirit as Cody St. Jacques will get the start in goal tonight.

Saginaw Spirit @ Buffalo Jr Sabres

Final: 9-0 L

Leblanc 24 of 31 saves; DiSavlo13 of 15 saves; I guess Cody St. Jacques wasn’t 100 %.

September 2nd

The Buffalo Jr Sabres training camp will begin tomorrow. A total of 50 players will be taking part in the week long training camp with 45 players attending camp on a try out bases.

Later in the night we travelled to Cape Breton to face the Screaming Eagles as Team White took part in pre-season action tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres @ Cape Breton Screaming Eagles (Pre-season)

Bottum (Laplante)
Gatien (Smee)
Glaude (Laplante) SH
Petingalo (Smee, Folkes)
Bottum PP
Glaude (C.Wilson, Bottum) PP

Final: 6-4 W

DiSavlo 18 of 22 saves; Ryan Bottum 2g 1a 1st star; Connor Smee 3rd star 2a

September 3rd

Team Blue is on the road to face Chilliwack Bruins in pre-season action

Buffalo Jr Sabres @ Chilliwack Bruins

Moore
Lynch (Valisalmi, Aiello) PP
Lynch (Aiello)

Final: 3-2 W

Leblanc 25 of 27 saves; Brendan Lynch 2g 1st star; Michael Aiello 2nd star 2a

September 4th

Day One of Buffalo Jr Sabres training camp saw the physical evaluations of all players. Showing outstanding fitness were Michael Aiello and Garrett Suter. Only Eric Daoust was a cause for concern

Team Red 0 – Team Blue 3
Blue: Suter 1a; Galli 1a; Valisalmi 1a; Brown 1g; Moore 1g; Duchesne
Red: None

Team Green 1 – Team White 0
Green: Bottum 1g; Woytas 1a
White: None

Team Red will be on the road tonight to face Oshawa Generals as Patrice Piche will be in goal for Team red tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres @ Oshawa Generals (Pre-Season)

Brouillette
Deacon (Woytas)

Final: 7-2 L

Piche 7 of 11; DiSavlo 8 of 11

September 5th

Team Geen is going up against Quebec Remparts on the road as Cody St. Jacques gets the start in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres @ Quebec Remparts

Stephens (Suter, McRae)
Cain (Wright, Suter)
Suter (Brown)
Wright (Cain, Ngai)

Final: 4-1 W

St. Jacques 23 of 24 saves; Garrett Suter 1st star 1g 2a; JF Cain 1g 1a; Gerard Stephens 3rd star 1g

Now that Blue, Red and green have played both of their games we are making first cuts to their teams tonight.

Team Blue Cuts:

D – Joseph Gatien
D – Ryan Henry
C – Adam Sikora
RW – David Johnson – released rights as well

Team Red Cuts:

D – Tyler Turcotte
C – John Harrington
C – Lucinao Woytas – retain rights

Team Green Cuts:

D – Rory Corriveau – retain rights
C – Chris Brown
RW – JF Cain – retain rights

With the game on the 9th against Sarnia it gives us the 7th, 8th and 9th to let the last chance team to play 3 games.

With Alex Archibald being released by Chilliwack Bruins and we invited him to camp he will be playing in Team White’s last game at home vs. Rimouski.

Rimouski @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (Pre-Season)

Laplante (C.Wilson, Deacon)
Smee (Glaude) PP
Glaude

Final: 4-3 L

Archibald 11 of 13 (left game with injury); Piche 14 of 16 saves.

After the game we found out that Alex Archibald will be out of action for about 3 weeks with a pulled groin.

Team White Cuts:

C – Connor Smee
C – Reid Duchesne – retain rights

The rest of our cuts:

D – Derek Brouillette – retain rights
C – Brad Fleishman
RW – Ryan Martineau
RW – Thomas Moore

September 7th

We have came up with a list of 2 goalies, five defenseman and eight goalies for the three games. These players will then be cut or reassigned to our development club after the three games. The last chance team is in Rouyn-Noranda to face the Huskies.

Buffalo Jr Sabres @ Rouyn-Noranda Huskies

Glaude (Cheechoo, Laliberte) PP
Glaude (Ceechoo) PP
Folkes (Cheechoo)
Bottum (Cheechoo) PP
Cote (Stephens)

Final: 5-4 W

Leblanc 20 of 24 saves; Piche 1 of 1; Derek Cheechoo 4 assists 1st star; Julien Glaude 2g 2nd star

After the game we released Philippe Cote as we wanted to sign Alex Archibald as our third overage player

September 8th

We play host to St. John’s Fog Devils in our second of three last chance games.

St. John’s Fog Devils @ Buffalo Jr Sabres

Laliberte (Rowan, Stephens)
Glaude (Laplante, Galli) PP

Final: 3-2 L

Leblanc 21 of 24 saves; Mike Folkes left the game and will be out of action for about a week with a thigh contusion.

September 9th

OHL Season Pre-view

The hockey news has previewed the upcoming OHL season by listing the best and the worst teams in the league as well as the most valuable to their teams.

The strongest J. Ross Robertson Cup contender was predicted to be the Belleville Bulls, with the Kitchener Rangers right behind them. The Press also ranked the Plymouth Whalers and Sarnia Sting as Solid contenders. At the bottom of the barrel this year are set to be Buffalo Jr Sabres and Barrie Colts are expected to struggle this year.

20th out of 20 Team Buffalo Jr Sabres – Team MVP: Garrett Suter, Key New Face: Joonas Valisalmi

We have decided to keep the same line up for tonight’s pre-season game against Sarnia Sting

Buffalo Jr Sabres @ Sarnia Sting

Stephens (Laplante)
Penner
Laplante (Galli)

Final: 3-2 W

Leblanc 33 of 35 saves 1st star; Gerard Stephens 1g 2nd star; Cole Penner 3rd star 1g

The following players were sent down to our development club down in Rochester:

G – Keith Leblanc
D – Max Bastien
D – Gerard Stephens
D – Alex Galli
LW – Parker Laliberte
LW – Cole Penner
C – Derek Cheechoo
C – Barry Laplante
RW – Jerry Petingalo
RW – Samuel Rowan
RW – Julien Glaude

We have released Mike Folkes

Our game on the 12th vs. Niagara IceDogs will feature our opening night roster and lines

September 12th

We havn’t decided of who is going to be the starter on opening night but Peter DiSavlo will start the game tonight.

Niagara IceDogs @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (Pre-season)

Boudreau (Fummerton, A.Wilson)
Boisvert (Fummerton, Valisalmi)
C.Wilson (Daoust, Boudreau)
Trstenjak (McRae) PP
C. Wilson (Trstenjak, Ngai) PP
Valisalmi

Final: 6-2 W

DiSavlo 18 of 20 saves; Boudreau 1g 1a

I couldn’t sign Archibald because he was injured. He is currently up at the Coyotes training camp as an invitee I am hoping he gets cut and I can sign him if not I am with DiSavlo and St. Jacques for the rest of the season.

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Re: New Group of Sabres in the Stable. Buffalo Jr Sabres OHL Story (EHM 07)

September 16th

2007-2008 Chilliwack Bruins

G – Peter DiSavlo
6'1", 183 lbs, Age: 16, 11/14/90 From: Don Mills, ON
2006-2007 Season Dixie (OPJHL): 17gp 14-2-1 2.51GAA .906 Sv % 1 SO 7.71 AvR

G – Cody St. Jacques
6'0", 174 lbs, Age: 17, 5/14/90 From: Kirkland Lake, ON
2006-2007 Season Georgetown (OPJHL): 46gp 18-21-7 3.50 GAA .876 Sv % 0 SO 7.02 AvR

D – Emmanuel Bordeau
5'9", 174 lbs, Age: 18, 8/15/89 From: Canadian
2006-2007 Bancroft (OPJHL): 60gp 5g 11a 16pts +2 62PIM 6.42 AvR

D – Niksa Trstenjak – 07 Import
5'9", 189 lbs, Age: 16, 11/12/90 From: Zagreb, CRO
2006-2007 Season: 25gp 2g 16a 18pts +9 40PIM 6.88 AvR – Mladost (Cro)
2006-2007 Season: 10gp 1g 3a 4pts +1 16PIM 6.70 AvR – Mladost (IIHL 2)

D – Ryan Bottum
6'2", 187 lbs, Age: 19, 8/4/89 From: Haliburton, ON
2006-2007 Season Brancroft (OPJHL): 60gp 10g 36a 46pts -19 134PIM 6.72 AvR

D – Josh Deacon
5'8", 145 lbs, Age: 17, 1/7/90 From: St. Albands, VT, USA
2006-2007 Season Streetsville (OPJHL): 57gp 7g 31a 38pts +8 94PIM 6.75 AvR

D – Brendan Lynch
5'11", 169 lbs, Age: 18, 7/9/89 From: Waterloo, ON
2006-2007 Season St. Michael’s (OPJHL): 44gp 1g 9a 10pts -13 60PIM 6.43 AvR

D – Wilson Ngai
6'2", 174 lbs, Age: 18, 3/7/89 From: Scarborough, ON
2006-2007 Season Petrolia (WJHL): 35gp 8g 17a 25pts +11 36PIM 6.86 AvR

D – Garrett Suter - OA
6'0", 194 lbs, Age: 20, 6/9/87 From: Madison, WI, USA
2006-2007 Season: NA

LW – Joonas Valisalmi
5'10", 171 lbs, Age: 18, 3/17/89 From: Rauma, FIN
2006-2007 Season: 40gp 8g 14a 22pts +16 68PIM 6.45 AvR – Rauma Jrs (Fin Jrs)

LW – Dan Vernelli
6'0", 127 lbs, Age: 18, 5/16/89 From: Sault Ste. Marie, ON
2006-2007 Season Sault Ste. Marie (GNML): 36gp 10g 15a 25pts +9 66PIM 6.33 AvR

LW – Cody Wilson
5'10", 178 lbs, Age: 18, 1/19/89 From: Hamilton, ON
2006-2007 Season Brampton (OHL): 42gp 3g 3a 6pts -10 22PIM 6.12 AvR

C – Michael Aiello
6'0", 185 lbs, Age: 19, 4/5/88 From: Caledon, ON
2004-2005 Season Stouffville (OPJHL): 42gp 8g 10a 18pts 0 57PIM 0 AvR

C – Dustin Fummerton
5'7", 143 lbs, Age: 18, 1/24/89 From: Thunder Bay, ON
2006-2007 Season Fort William (SIJHL): 60gp 29g 46a 75pts +25 92PIM 6.78 AvR

C/RW – Philip McRae
6'0", 156 lbs, Age: 17, 3/15/90 From: Chesterfield, MO, USA
2006-2007 Season London (OHL): 61gp 6g 8a 14pts -21 79PIM 5.75 AvR

C/LW Jacob Wright
6'0", 169 lbs, Age: 18, 4/22/89 From: Kirkland Lake, ON
2006-2007 Season Stouffville: 59gp 3g 3a 6pts -11 40PIM 6.31 AvR

RW/C – Gerry Boisvert
5'7", 178 lbs, Age: 16, 8/19/91 From: Ottawa, ON
2006-2007 Season Kitchener (PAV): 50gp 16g 15a 31pts +8 74 PIM 6.08 AvR

RW/C – Eric Daoust
6'2", 165 lbs, Age: 17, 9/30/89 From: Markham, ON
2006-2007 Rochester (EJBHL): 60gp 35g 30a 65pts +49 83PIM 7.15 AvR

RW/C – Jordan Foreman - OA
5'9", 176 lbs, Age: 20, 1/6/87 From: Cambridge, ON
2006-2007 Season London (OHL): 22gp 1g 1a 2pts -8 14 PIM 5.86 AvR
2006-2007 Season Sarnia (OHL): 23gp 5g 6a 11pts -2 42 PIM 6.26 AvR

RW/C – Andrew Wilson
6'1", 160 lbs, Age: 18, 1/27/89 From: London, ON
2006-2007 Season Villanova (OPJHL): 31gp 4g 3a 7pts -1 29PIM 6.23 AvR

Prospects:

G – Dominic Ryan – Cleveland Junior Barons (NAHL)

LD – Derek Brouillette – Collingwood Blackhawks (OPJHL)
RD – Rory Corriveau – Ottawa Junior Senators (CJHL)

C – Reid Duchesne – Schreiber Diesels (SIJHL)
C – Lucinao Woytas – Fort William North Stars (SIJHL)

RW – Jan-Francois Cain – Blind River Beavers (NOJHL)

Players on the Development Team:

G – Keith Leblanc
D – Max Bastien
D – Gerard Stephens
D – Alex Galli
LW – Parker Laliberte
LW – Cole Penner
C – Derek Cheechoo
C – Barry Laplante
RW/LW – Julien Glaude
RW – Jerry Petingalo
RW – Samuel Rowan

September 18th

OHL has released their top 10 per position as well as the top 10 prospects

None of our players re listed in any of the lists

September 21st

The 2007-2008 Regular Season gets kicked off tonight with two games with Sudbury taking on Barrie Colts and Brampton Battalions taking on Peterborough Petes. Barrie shutout Sudbury by a score of 3-0, while Petes beat the Battalions in a shootout 3-2 as they took the game 5-4

September 22nd

We are kicking off our regular season as the loan part of many games tonight on the schedule for the OHL as we are on the road to play Kitchener Rangers, with Cody St. Jacques in goal tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (0-0-0) @ Kitchener Rangers (0-0-0)

Suter (1) (Wright) SH
Lynch (1) (Aiello)
McRae (1) (Aiello) PP
Wright (1) (Daoust, C. Wilson)
Ngai (1) (Lynch, Valisalmi)
McRae (2) (A. Wilson, Trstenjak) PP

Final: 6-4 W

St. Jacques 18 of 22; Brendan Lynch 1g 1a 2nd star; Jacob Wright 1g 1a 1st star

September 23rd

We are using the same line up and St. Jacques starts as we play host to the Greyhounds.

Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (1-0-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (1-0-0)

McRae (3) (Foreman, Trstenjak) PP

Final: 8-1 L

St. Jacques 34 of 42 saves

OHL Player of the Week: SSM Greyhounds Dustin Jeffrey 2gp 6a 6pts

September 27th

We are at home tonight against Sarnia. Peter is only 59 % so Cody St. Jacques will be starting tonights game against the Sting.

Sarnia Sting (0-1-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (1-1-0)

Ngai (2)
Foreman (1) (Aiello, C. Wilson) PP
Foreman (2) (Ngai, C. Wilson) PP

Final: 4-3 L

St. Jacques 22 of 26 saves; Wilson Ngai 1st star 1g 1a; Philip McRae will be out of action for about a week with a shoulder contusion.

September 28th

We have signed Alex Archibald to a contract. He will start tomorrow’s game against Owen Sound Attack on the road.

September 29th

We are on the road to play Owen Sound Attack as Alex Archibald makes his Sabres debut tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (1-2-0) @ Owen Sound Attack (0-0-1)

McRae (4) (Aiello)
Wright (2)
Fummerton (1) (Aiello, A. Wilson) PP
Suter (Wright) SH

Final: 4-3 W

Archibald 24 of 27 saves; Garrett Suter 3rd star 1g

September 30th

We are at home to finish the month of September off with an home game vs London Knights with Alex Archibald starting in goal.

London Knights (1-1-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (2-2-0)

Final: 3-0 L

Archibald 33 of 36 saves named 3rd star

Monthy Stats

Month of September: 5gp 2-3-0-0 0.400 14 GF 22 GA 16.7%PP 80.9PK 4PTS 2 way tie for 1st Midwest Division
Overall Record: 5gp 2-3-0-0 0.400 14 GF 22 GA 16.7%PP 80.9PK 4PTS 2 way tie for 1st Midwest Division

G: McRae 4; 4 tied at 2
A: Aiello 5; C. Wilson 3; 3 tied at 2
PTS: Aiello 5; McRae, Wright 4; Foreman, Ngai, C. Wilson 3
+/-: Aiello +2; Foreman, Trstenjak +1, 5 tied at 0
PIM: Aiello, Boudreau 14; Ngai 12; Lynch, Valisalmi 10
SOG: McRae 11; Trstenjak, A. Wilson 9; 4 tied at 8
HT: Suter 11
SB: Suter 11
TA: Aiello 0
GAA: DiSavlo 0.00
SV%: Archibald .905
Av R: Archibald 8.50

Goalies:
Alex Archibald 2gp 1-1-0 3.03 GAA .905 Sv % 0 SO 8.50 AvR
Cody St. Jacques 3gp 1-2-0 5.45 GAA .822 Sv % 0 SO 6.00 AvR

OHL Player of the Month of September: Peterborough’s Jordan Staal 3gp 5g 2a 7pts
OHL Player of the Week: Owen Sound’s Scott Gillies 2gp 3g 2a 5pts

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Re: New Group of Sabres in the Stable. Buffalo Jr Sabres OHL Story (EHM 07)

October 1st

Peter DiSavlo has been loaned to Dixie Beehives of the OPJHL

One Sabre was ranked in the NHL rankings for the upcoming draft

C/RW – Philip McRae – 97th overall

The top-ranked player was NTDP Forward Jimmy Hayes, followed by Guelph’s defenseman Drew Doughty and Kelowna’s defenseman Luke Schenn

The ISS also released their Preliminary Rankings for the upcoming OHL Bantam Draft!

The top-ranked player was Stittsville Winger Pete Moore, followed by Perth’s defenseman Dany O’Sullivan and London’s Winger Danny McGeough

The ISS also released their Preliminary Rankings for the upcoming CHL Import Draft!

The top-ranked player was Swedish Center Joakim Mattsson, followed by Swedish dman Niklas Olvestad and another Swedish dman Mika Lindqvist.

October 4th

Philip McRae has returned to 100 % from his injury

October 5th

As McRae returns to 100% we begin the month of October with a road game against Sudbury with Alex Archibald starting in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (2-3-0) @ Sudbury Wolves (2-4-0)

A Wilson (1) (Aiello, Fummerton) PP

Final: 3-1 L

Archibald 29 of 31 saves 3rd star

October 7th

We look to end our two game losing streak with a home game against Plymouth as Alex Archibald will be starting in goal tonight.

Plymouth Whalers (2-3-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (2-4-0)

Fummerton (2) (Foreman, Suter) PP
Fummerton (3) (Lynch)
A.Wilson (2) (Trstenjak, Foreman)
Bottum (1) (Fummerton) PP

Plymouth:
Armstrong: Miss
McGinnis: Miss
Beal: Miss

0 for 3

Buffalo:
McRae: Miss
Aiello: Miss
Fummerton: Goal

1 for 3

Final: 5-4 SOW

Archibald 39 of 43 saves; Dustin Fummerton 1st star 2g 1a

OHL Player of the Week: Mississauga’s Kasper Daugavins 2gp 1g 4a 5pts

October 9th

We try to go for a two game winning streak with a home game tonight against the Storm. Alex will be in goal.

Guelph Storm (2-5-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (3-4-0)

Bottum (2) (Foreman)
A.Wilson (3) (Aiello, Boudreau) PP

Guelph:
Hyvarinen: Miss
Doughty: Miss
Priamo: Goal

1 for 3

Buffalo:
Aiello: Goal
Suter: Miss
McRae: Goal

Final: 3-2 SOW

Archibald 41 of 43 saves 1st star; Ryan Bottum 3rd star 1g

October 13th

We are on the road tonight against Brampton who was on the road and won in overtime but with our team well rested we look to add in a third straight win tonight with Alex Archibald getting the start in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (4-4-0) @ Brampton Battalions (3-5-1)

Aiello (1) (Suter, Valisalmi)
Boisvert (1) (Valisalmi)
Wright (3)

Buffalo:
Suter: Goal
Aiello: Goal
McRae: Goal
Fummerton: Goal

4 for 4

Brampton:
de Gray: Goal
Smyth: Goal
Kaye: Goal
Lynes: Miss

3 for 4

Final: 4-3 SOW

Archibald 25 of 28 saves; Garrett Suter 3rd star 1a; Jordan Foreman will be out of action for about a week with a skate bite.

October 14th

Jordan Foreman will be out of the line-up tonight as we will be playing host to the Mississauga Majors at home with Archibald in goal.

Mississauga Majors (3-2-2) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (5-4-0)

Boudreau (1) (Fummerton) PP
Boisvert (2) (Trstenjak, Fummerton)
Suter (3) (Fummerton)

Final: 5-3 L

Archibald 27 of 31 saves; Dustin Fummerton 3rd star 3 assists

OHL Player of the Week: Mississauga’s Mike Pelech 3gp 2g 7a 9pts

October 15th

Just looking at our schedule we don’t play again till the 20th where we will play three games in three nights with a game on the 20th against Owen Sound Attack on the road, then heading to our rival Saginaw Spirit and then finally another road game the following night against Windsor, we will be hoping that Jordan Foreman will be back for the three games in three nights.

We have recalled Cole Penner who is a 16 yr old from Medicine Hat, Alberta who signed with us as a free agent who has 4g 4a 8pts +6 8PIM and 6.86 AvR in 7 games. With us recalling Penner we have decided to send down Dan Vernelli. In 10 games he has 0g 0a for 0pts -3 and 10PIM with 5.70 AvR.

October 17th

Jordan Foreman is listed as day to day as he will return to the line-up against Owen Sound as well Cole Penner will make his Sabres debut on the 20th on the second line with Dustin Fummerton and Gerry Borisvert.

October 20th

We are on the road for the start of a three games in three nights tonight as we take on the Attack from Owen Sound. Alex Archibald gets the start in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (5-5-0) @ Owen Sound Attack (4-3-2)

Boudreau (2) (Aiello)
Aiello (2) (McRae)
Deacon (1) (Boudreau, Penner)
A.Wilson (4) (Aiello, Fummerton)

Final: 4-2 W

Archibald 17 of 19 saves; Michael Aiello 1st star 1g 2a; Emmanuel Bordreau 2nd star 1g 1a

October 21st

We got word from our trainers that Cole Penner will be out of action for about a week after he suffered a twisted knee in practice this morning. With the injury we decided to recall 16 yr old Julien Glaude to our OHL team in time for tonights game against our Rivals Saginaw. Alex Archibald will be in goal tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (6-5-0) @ Saginaw Spirit (9-2-1)

Trstenjak (1) (Foreman) PP
C.Wilson (1) (McRae, Foreman) PP
Ngai (3) (Trstenjak, McRae) PP

Final: 3-1 W

Archibald 22 of 23 saves 2nd star; Niksa Trstenjak 3rd star 1g 1a; Jordan Foreman & Philip McRae 2a each. In julien Glaude’s debut he had 17 penalty minutes and got his first victory in a fight as well.

OHL Player of the Week: Maxim Kitsyn 3gp 5g 4a 9pts

October 22nd

We are pushing for a 3-0 in three nights as we are going up against Windsor on the road with Alex Archibald starting in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (7-5-0) @ Windsor Spitfires (2-8-1)

Foreman (3) (Ngai, Trstenjak) PP
McRae (5) (Aiello, Valisalmi)

Final: 4-2 L

Archibald 32 of 36 saves

October 24th

We have decided to send Josh Deacon down to our development club and have Cole Penner dress and have four full lines for our forwards and three defense lines instead of 11 forwards and 7 defenseman, Deacon had 1g 0a 1pt -3 10PIM and 6.15 AvR in 13gp with our club.

To finish off the month of October we have three games in the next four nights as we play a home game against Kitchener and then 2 back to back nights on the road against Guelph.

October 25th

Kitchener Rangers are in town as we are on home ice tonight with Penner back in the line-up with Alex Archibald starting in goal.

Kitchener Rangers (6-7-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (7-6-0)

Foreman (4) (C. Wilson, Penner)

Final: 4-1 L

Archibald 33 of 37 saves

After the game we shipped Peter Disalvo and rights to Rory Corriveau to Windsor for their 2nd in 08. I know Windsor is having goalie trouble so I know DiSavlo will bring them the goaltending they need and Rory has 1g 3a 4pts +2 18PIM in 8 games with Ottawa Junior Senators. Rory was our 3rd round selection in the OHL 2007 selection draft.

The same night Windsor sent Ben O’Connor to Peterborough for Zach Bogosian and Mackenzie Micks

October 26th

We got word that Julien Glaude will be out of the line-up for our next two games as he was suspended for our next two games after he was ejected from the 4-1 loss to Kitchener after he received a five minute for clipping as well as a game misconduct.

October 27th

We will be without Glaude tonight and tomorrow as we play our two games back to back against Guelph Storm.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (7-7-0) @ Guelph Storm (4-9-1)

Ngai (4) (McRae) PP
McRae (6) (Aiello, Foreman) PP
Foreman (5)
Ngai (5) (Valisalmi) – OT Winner 61:55

Final: 4-3 OTW

Archibald 30 of 33 saves 3rd star; Wilson Ngai 1st star 2g

October 28th

We will be finishing up the month of October with our last game of the month tonight on the road against Guelph as Glaude finishes out his last game of his suspension as well as Alex Archibald will get the start in goal tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (8-7-0) @ Guelph Storm (4-9-2)

McRae (7) (Valisalmi)

Final: 4-1 L

Archibald 40 of 44 saves; Ryan Bottum left the game with a lower leg contusion and will be out of action for a few days. After the game Gerry Boisevert was sent down to our development club as he has 2g 0a 2pts -1 18PIM 5.88 AvR in 16gp. We have decided to recall 17 yr old winger Jerry Petingalo from our development club where he had 4g 4a 8pts +5 4PIM and 6.50 AvR in 12gp. Julien Glaude has served his full suspension and will be in our next game on the 3rd of November.

OHL Player of the Week: Kitchener’s Mike Duco 4gp 4g 8a 12pts

October 29th

Brendan Lynch will be out of action for about 3 weeks after he suffered a hip flexor strain in practice this morning. We have recalled Josh Deacon to fill the spot in the line-up until Lynch gets back.

Monthy Stats

Month of October: 11gp 6-5-0-0 31 GF 35 GA 12PTS 4th Midwest Division
Overall Record: 16gp 8-8-0-0 .500 45 GF 57 GA 14.41%PP 80.0PK 16PTS 4th Midwest Division

G: McRae 7; Foreman, Ngai 5; A. Wilson 4; 3 tied at 3
A: Aiello 11; Foreman 7; 3 tied at 6
PTS: Aiello 13; Foreman 12; McRae 11; Fummerton 9
+/-: Aiello, Trstenjak +3; Suter, Valisalmi +3
PIM: Aiello 36; Glaude 32; Lynch, Suter 24
SOG: McRae 42; A. Wilson 34; Aiello 33; Trstenjak 30
HT: Suter 44
SB: Suter 25
TA: Suter 4
GAA: Archibald 2.95
SV%: Archibald .910
Av R: Archibald 8.31

Goalies:
Alex Archibald 13gp 7-6-0 2.95 GAA .910 Sv % 0 SO 8.31 AvR
Cody St. Jacques 3gp 1-2-0 5.45 GAA .822 Sv % 0 SO 6.00 AvR

OHL Player of the Month of October: Mississauga’s Maxim Kitsyn 11gp 12g 15a 27pts

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Re: New Group of Sabres in the Stable. Buffalo Jr Sabres OHL Story (EHM 07)

November 3rd

We start off with a fresh month with a clean stray as we are on the road to take on John Tavares and the Oshawa Generals.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (8-8-0) @ Oshawa Generals (5-5-3)

Aiello (3) (McRae, Petingalo)
Glaude (1) (Trstenjak)

Final: 3-2 OTL

Archibald 29 of 32 saves; Michael Aiello 2nd star 1g

After the game London Knights announced they acquired Cody Hodgson from Brampton for Justin Levac and Andrew Wilkins. The reason why announcing it is because we play London at home tomorrow

November 4th

We are at home to face the Knights from London

London Knights (8-7-2) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (8-8-1)

Aiello (4) (Wright, Suter)
Trstenjak (2) (Fummerton)
Ngai (6) (Aiello)
Daoust (1) (C. Wilson, Foreman)
Bottom (3) EN
C.Wilson (2) (Trstenjak, Ngai) PP

Final: 6-3 W

Archibald 22 of 25 saves; Trstenjak 1st star 1g 1a; Ngai 2nd star 1g 1a; Aiello 3rd star 1g 1a; Jordan Foreman’s point in tonight’s game brings his OHL career milestone to 100 career OHL points.

OHL Player of the Week: Peterborough’s Jordan Staal 2gp 3g 2a 5pts

November 5th

We got double bad news today. First off Philip McRae will be out of action for about ten days after he suffered a olecranon bursitis in practice today. Secondly he has been suspended by the league for two games after he was ejected in the 6-3 game against his former team when he was give a five minute for slashing and a game misconduct 3:51 into the game.

November 8th

We are at home against Barrie Colts tonight and with Philip out and suspended we have decided to go with three centers and four pair of wingers as Archibald gets the night off and Cody St. Jacques gets the start in goal tonight.

Barrie Colts (9-5-3) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (9-8-1)

A.Wilson (5) (Penner)
Ngai (7) PP
Boudreau (3) (Wright)
Aiello (5) (A. Wilson, Fummerton) PP
A.Wilson (6) (Aiello, Ngai) PP
Boudreau (4) EN

Final: 6-4 W

St. Jacques 24 of 28 saves; Emmanuel Bordreau 2g 1st star; Wilson Ngai 2nd star 1g 1a; Andrew Wilson 3rd star 2g 1a

November 9th

We made a trade today sending Cody Wilson, Dan Vernelli, a 5th in 11 and undisclosed amount of cash to Ottawa 67’s for right wing Thomas Nesbitt and a 6th in 08.

Cody Wilson has 2g 5a 7pts +2 10PIM and 6.26 AvR in 19 games played with our club. Dan Vernelli has 3g 6a 9pts +16 6PIM and 6.75 AvR in 8gp with Rochester while also having 0g 0a 0pts -3 10PIM and 5.70 AvR in 10gp played in the OHL this season. Thomas in 15 OHL games this season has 2g 2a 4pts -8 10 PIM and 5.47 AvR with Ottawa as he will serve as our top rw until McRae returns and then Nesbitt will serve as our second line rw.

Thomas Nesbitt will be making his Sabres debut tomorrow on the road against Plymouth Whalers.

November 9th

Alex Archibald returns in the starting role tonight as well as Thomas Nesbitt makes his debut tonight as we are on the road against Plymouth Whalers. As well Brendan Lynch is day to day as he will return in our next game as will Philip McRae.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (10-8-1) @ Plymouth Whalers (6-10-1)

Ngai (8) (Wright) PP
Trstenjak (3) (Foreman) PP
Wright (4) (Fummerton) PP
Fummerton (4) – 62:00 OT Winner

Final: 4-3 OTW

Archibald 26 of 29 saves; Niksa Trstenjak 1st star 1g; Dustin Fummerton 2nd star 1g 1a

November 11th

We are up against Arch Rivals Saginaw Spirit as Philip McRae makes his return to the line-up tonight along with Brendan Lynch. As well we made sure Julien Glaude will be in the line-up tonight against our rivals are we playing them at home in front of our fans tonight.

Saginaw Spirit (14-4-1) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-8-1)

A.Wilson (7) (Daoust)

Final: 8-1 L

Archibald 34 of 40 saves; Cody St. Jacques 2 of 4 saves; Michael Aiello left the game with a bruised ankle and will be out of action for a few days.

Even though we lost 8-1 I am proud of my team for sticking up for each other as we had two brawls today with Glaude picking up 36 penalty minutes, Jacob Wright had 10; Petingalo with 12; Bottom with 17; Bourdeau with 21 and St. Jacques with 15. In two games against Saginaw this yr Julien Glaude now has 51 penalty minutes in two games.

OHL Player of the Week: SSM James Livingston 3gp 3g 2a 5pts.

Just looking at the schedule we play three games in three nights coming up on the 16th we are on the road against Barrie Colts, London Knights on the road on the 17th as we return to play in front of our fans on the 18th against our other rival team Niagara IceDogs.

November 16th

We begin our three games in three nights starting with tonight as we are on the road against Barrie Colts with Cody St, Jacques starting in goal tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-9-3) @ Barrie Colts (10-7-3)

Daoust (2) (Bottum, Foreman)

Final: 5-1 L

St. Jacques 24 of 29 saves

November 17th

Cody St. Jacques will get his second start in two games as we continue our road trip with a game against London Knights tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-10-1) @ London Knights (10-10-2)

Suter (4) (Penner, Aiello)
Glaude (2) (Daoust, Bottom)

Final: 6-2 L

St. Jacques 26 of 32 saves; Andrew Wilson will be out of action for a few days with a bruised ankle.

November 18th

We finish off the three games in three nights as we finish with a home game tonight against Rival Niagara IceDogs. Alex Archibald will get the start in goal as Andrew Wilson will miss tonight’s game with the injury.

Niagara IceDogs (13-10-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-11-1)

Foreman (6) (Valisalmi, Daoust)
Trstenjak (4)
Foreman (7) (Glaude, Ngai)

Final: 5-3 L

Archibald 29 of 33 saves

November 20th

We sent our scouts out to scout some of the upcoming prospects for the upcoming OHL Selection Draft

November 22nd

QMJHL All-stars took on the Russian Selects in the Canada-Russia Series in Drummondville. Team Russia won by a score of 7-4. 1st star was Egor Averin for Team Russia with 2 goals, followed by 2nd star Nikolai Lukyanchikov for Team Russia also with 2 goals and third star was from team Russia Yuri Postnikh with 2 assists.

We signed prospect JF Cain who has 8g and 10a for 18pts with the Blind River Beavers who was our 11th round pick in the summers draft will join our club in the summer and will play for our development club next season. We also signed our 3rd round pick in the 07 draft Derek Brouillette who with Collingwood Blackhawks has 4g 21a for 25pts in 18 games.

November 23rd

We return to action tonight on the road against Owen Sound Attack as Alex Archibald will get the start in goal on the road tonight.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-12-1) @ Owen Sound Attack (14-5-3)

Suter (5) (Fummerton) PP
Fummerton (5) (Wilson, Suter) PP

Final: 3-2 L

Archibald 28 of 31 saves; Garrett Suter 1st star 1g 1a

November 25th
Tonight is the OHL All-stars vs. The Russian Select Team, the game is being played at Compuware Sports Arena in Plymouth. The OHL All-Stars team took a 6-3 win over the Russian Selects team. 1st Star Jordan Staal for Team OHL had 2 goals and 1 assist, 2nd star Ben Shutron of Team OHL had 2 assists as 3rd star Logan Couture also for Team OHL had 1g 1a

OHL Player of the Week: Brampton’s Mike Lomas 2gp 4g 5a 9pts

November 26th

We continue our road trip with a game against Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds as Cody St. Jacques gets the start in goal as Alex will play on the 28th against Saginaw.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-13-1) @ Sault Ste. Marie Greyhounds (14-9-3)

Final: 3-0 L

St. Jacques 33 of 36 saves

November 28th

We finish the month of November off with a road game against our Arch Rivals Saginaw Spirit as Alex Archibald will be getting the start in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (11-14-1) @ Saginaw Spirit (18-6-1)

Wright (5) (Petingalo, Suter)
Wilson (7) (Foreman, Lynch)
Daoust (3) (Foreman, Wilson)
Penner (1) (Boudreau, Nesbitt)
McRae (8) (Trstenjak, Foreman) PP
Suter (6) (Aiello)
McRae (9) (Foreman, Archibald) PP

Final: 7-3 W

Archibald 26 of 29 saves with 1 asssist; Jordan Foreman 1st star 4 assists; Garrett Suter 2nd star 1g 1a

November 30th

Monthy Stats

Month of November: 11gp 4-6-1-0 34 GF 46 GA 9PTS 4th Midwest Division
Overall Record: 27gp 12-14-1-0 .463 79 GF 103 GA 15.68%PP 80.3PK 25PTS 4th Midwest Division

G: McRae 9; Ngai, A. Wilson 8; Foreman 7
A: Aiello 15; Foreman 14; Fummerton 10; Trstenjak 9
PTS: Foreman 21; Aiello 20; Fummerton 15; McRae 14
+/-: Suter +6; Foreman, Petingalo +1
PIM: Glaude 127; McRae 49; Aiello 44; Bordreau 43
SOG: Trstenjak 56; McRae 55; Aiello 54
HT: Suter 88
SB: Suter 49
TA: Suter 7
GAA: Archibald 3.19
SV%: Archibald .902
Av R: Archibald 8.20

Goalies:
Alex Archibald 20gp 10-9-1 3.19 GAA .902 Sv % 0 SO 8.20 AvR
Cody St. Jacques 8gp 2-5-0 5.11 GAA .836 Sv % 0 SO 6.50 AvR

OHL Player of the Month of November: Sudbury’s Gary Friesen 4gp 7g 1a 8pts

November 30th
Our assistant GM and our scouts who are not scouting for the OHL selection draft will be scouting players and meetings so that in a month’s time when the trade deadline comes we can made trades that help our organization move forward.

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Re: New Group of Sabres in the Stable. Buffalo Jr Sabres OHL Story (EHM 07)

December 1st

The WHL All-Stars beat the Russian Selects by a score of 6-1 at the ENMAX Centre in Lethbridge. 1st star was from Team WHL Colton Gillies who had 2g 1a; 2nd star Ben Maxwell had 3 goals for a hat trick and 3rd star was Ryan Depape with 3 assists.

December 2nd

We look to start a fresh month off with a win as we hit home for a game against Sudbury Wolves with Cody St. Jacques in goal.

Sudbury Wolves (16-12-0) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (12-14-1)

Wilson (8) (Trstenjak, Foreman) PP
Wilson (9) (Daoust, Foreman)
Trstenjak (5) PP
Trstenjak (6) (Wright)

Final: 6-4 L

Cody St. Jacques 22 of 27 saves; Niksa Trstenjak 1st star 2g 1a

December 3rd

We play our second game in two nights tonight as we play Sarnia Sting as Cody St. Jacques get his second straight start in goal.

Sarnia Sting (15-8-2) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (12-15-1)

Foreman (8) (Trstenjak) PP

Final: 5-1 L

Cody St. Jacques 30 of 35 saves

December 4th

We got word from our trainers that Niksa Trstenjak will be out of action for about a week after he suffered a neck strain in practice today.

December 6th

We are back on the road with a road game against Guelph with Cody St. Jacques getting the start in goal.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (12-16-1) @ Guelph Storm (9-14-4)

Aiello (6) (Foreman, Trstenjak) PP
Glaude (3)

Final: 4-2 L

Cody St. Jacques 24 of 27 saves

December 8th

We are playing a home and home series with Kitchener starting with tonight as we are on the road against the Rangers.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (12-17-1) @ Kitchener Rangers (18-9-1)

Nesbitt (3) (Wilson) PP
Ngai (9) (Fummerton)
Suter (7) (Trstenjak, Fummerton) PP
Nesbitt (4) (Suter, Boudreau) PP

Final: 6-4 L

Cody St. Jacques 0 for 3; Alex Archibald 33 of 36 saves

December 9th

We finish off the home and home series with Kitchener as Alex Archibald gets the start in goal.

Kitchener Rangers (19-9-1) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (12-18-1)

Suter (8) PP
Trstenjak (7) (Aiello) PP
Ngai (10) (Aiello) PP
Bourdreau (5) (Fummerton) PP
Foreman (9) (Ngai) PP

Final: 5-3 W

Archibald 12 of 12 (left with injury); St. Jacques 8 of 11. Alex Archibald will be out of action for ten days after suffering a groin strain tonight.

December 12th

We signed 16 yr old RW Jamie Cote to a contract. In 9 games with Chatham of the PAV he has 0g 0a 0pts -2 6PIM and 6.11. We reassigned him to our development team.

December 13th

Today the U-20 Division 1 began today with Czech Rep leading the way for all countries as they are the big name country in Division 1.

We are on home ice tonight as we look to take on Barrie Colts without key goalie Alex Archibald for the next five games. Cody St. Jacques will be starting in goal.

Barrie Colts (14-13-4) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (13-18-1)

Nesbitt (5)
Wright (6) (Petingalo, Boudreau)
McRae (10) (Valisalmi, Aiello)

Final: 4-3 L

Cody St. Jacques 23 of 27 saves

December 14th

Between now and the 21st in 7 days we play four games before the xmas break.

December 15th

We are on the road to face the Sarnia Sting with Cody St. Jacques starting his second straight game.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (13-19-1) @ Sarnia Sting (17-11-2)

Wilson (10) (Foreman, Ngai)
Boudreau (6) (Bottum, McRae)

Final: 4-2 L

Cody St. Jacques 26 of 29 saves

December 16th

We are at home tonight to take on Windsor Spitfires as Cody St. Jacques gets the start in goal

Windsor Spitfires (13-16-1) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (13-20-1)

McRae (11) (Aiello, Foreman) PP

Final: 4-1 L

St. Jacques 18 of 22 saves

OHL Player of the Week: Windsor’s Mickey Renaud 4gp 2g 9a 11pts

December 18th

We have retained all of our staff for next season

December 19th

We are playing host to John Tavares and the Oshawa Generals

Oshawa Generals (12-14-4) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (13-21-1)

Bottum (4) (Foreman)

Final: 4-1 L

St. Jacques 31 of 35 saves

December 20th

We play our last game before the xmas break as we are on the road against Kitchener Rangers

Buffalo Jr Sabres (13-22-1) @ Kitchener Rangers (22-11-1)

Aiello (7) (McRae, Ngai) PP
Valisalmi (1) (Glaude, Suter)
Suter (9) PP
Wilson (12) (Nesbitt, Trstenjak) PP

Final: 4-3 W

St. Jacques 17 of 20 saves; Garrett Suter 1st star 1g 1a

December 25th

Merry Christmas everyone

December 26th

Russia opens up the WJC with a win over Team USA by a score of 4-2, also in Group A it was Team Finland beating Slovenia by a score of 4-0 win

In Group B action Team Canada beat Sweden by a score of 5-3, while Slovakia beat Germany by a score of 4-1

Some of the players we didn’t see in our teams future we decided to place them all on the trade block today. Let’s see between now and January 11th what we can get for them.

December 27th

In Day 2 of the World Juniors in Group A it was Team USA moving to 1-1 with a 4-2 win over Team Finland as Slovenia also moves to 1-1 with a 3-2 win over Switzerland.

December 28th

In Group B Team Canada won 5-1 over Slovakia to move to 2-0, as Host Country Austria lost to Germany by a score of 3-1.

December 29th

We return after our eight day rest to return to the ice to finish off the month of December with a road game against our Rivals Niagara IceDogs tonight and a home game against Brampton tomorrow.

Buffalo Jr Sabres (14-22-1) @ Niagara IceDogs (20-15-2)

Bottum (5) (Fummerton)
Foreman (10) (Ngai, Trstenjak) PP
Wright (7) (Ngai) SH

Final: 3-2 W

Archibald 23 of 25 saves; Wilson Ngai 1st star 2 assists, Ryan Bottum 2nd star 1g

In Group A U-20 World Juniors Team USA beat Swiss by a score of 4-0, while Team Russia beat Finland by a score of 4-2 as Russia leads Group A with a 2-0-0 record.

December 30th

We finish the month of December off with a home game against Brampton as Cody St. Jacques will get the start in goal

Brampton Battalions (16-20-3) @ Buffalo Jr Sabres (15-22-1)

Trstenjak (8) (Aiello, McRae) PP
Boudreau (7) (Aiello)
Aiello (8) (Foreman, McRae) PP

Final: 7-3 L

St. Jacques 27 of 34 saves; Michael Aiello named 3rd star 1g 2a; Garrett Suter left the game with a olecranon bursitis and will be out of action for ten days.

In Group B Team Canada beat host Austria by a score of 5-1, as Sweden and Slovakia tied 2-2.

I have came up with a new rule. The 16 yr olds that I sent down to my development club, I can not recall any of them till after the trade deadline from now on.

OHL Player of the Week: Kitchener’s Dan Kelly 2gp 1g 5a 6pts

December 31st

In Group A of the U-20 World Juniors USA beat Slovenia 4-2 as Russia beat Swiss by a score of 4-0

Just a reminder Czech Rep who was sent down to Division 1 after last yrs poor U-20 tournament didn’t finish first in their pool as they finished 2nd in Pool A behind Denmark as they will be promoted to U-20 next year with Top team in Group B of Estonia with them going 5-0 in Group B and Denmark went 4-1 in Group A.

Monthy Stats

Month of December: 12gp 3-9-0-0 33 GF 53 GA 6PTS Tied for 4th Midwest Division
Overall Record: 39gp 15-23-1-0 .397 112 GF 155 GA 17.52%PP 80.7PK 31PTS Tied - 4th Midwest Division

G: A. Wilson 12; McRae 11; Foreman, Ngai 10
A: Aiello, Foreman 21; Trstenjak 15; Fummerton 14
PTS: Foreman 31; Aiello 29; Trstenjak 23; McRae, Ngai 20
+/-: Suter +4; Daoust, Foreman -1
PIM: Glaude 135; Suter 87; Lynch 78; Trstenjak 66
SOG: Aiello 87; Trstenjak 77; McRae 76; A. Wilson 73
HT: Suter 112
SB: Suter 67
TA: Suter 10
GAA: Archibald 3.08
SV%: Archibald .905
Av R: Archibald 8.22

Goalies:
Alex Archibald 23gp 12-9-1 3.07 GAA .905 Sv % 0 SO 8.22 AvR
Cody St. Jacques 19gp 3-14-0 4.80 GAA .836 Sv % 0 SO 6.47 AvR

OHL Player of the Month of December: Peterborough’s Jordan Staal 12gp 12g 17a 19pts

Development Club Update (Rochester Jr Americans) (EJBHL)

G – Keith Leblanc 33gp 33-0-0 1.00 GAA .963 Sv % 15 SO 9.00 AvR – BUF’s 1st round 1st overall in 07

D – Max Bastien – 33gp 8g 17a 25pts +27 54PIM 7.09 AvR – BUF’s 2nd round 21st overall in 07
D – Gerard Stephens – 31gp 12g 36a 48pts +33 34PIM 7.36 AvR – BUF’s 6th round 101st in 07
D – Josh Deacon – 12gp 4g 9a 13pts +12 20PIM 7.08 AvR
D – Alex Galli – 33gp 18g 7a 25pts +28 76PIM 6.79 AvR

LW – Parker Laliberte – 33gp 7g 26a 33pts +26 40 PIM 6.85 AvR – BUF’s 8th round 141st overall in 07

C – Derek Cheechoo – 29gp 9g 23a 32pts +36 42PIM 7.24 AvR
C – Barry Laplante – 33gp 13g 12a 25pts +20 48PIM 6.76 AvR – MIS’s 6th round 119th in 07

RW – Gerry Boisvert – 21gp 8g 6a 14pts +14 20PIM 6.38 AvR – BUF’s 4th round 61st overall in 07
RW – Jamie Cote – 6gp 0g 2a 2pts +4 22PIM 5.67 AvR
RW – Samuel Rowan – 33gp 12g 17a 29pts +28 34PIM 6.48 AvR – 4th round pick 63rd overall in 07

Prospect Update:

G – Dominic Ryan – 33gp 18-9-6 2.93 GAA .904 Sv % 7.82 AvR 0 SO – Cleveland Jr Barons (NAHL)

LD – Derek Brouillette – 31gp 6g 31a 37pts +18 84PIM 7.06 AvR – Collingwood Blackhawks (OPJHL)

C – Reid Duchesne – 31gp 3g 0a 3pts -4 20PIM 5.84 AvR – Schreiber (SIJHL)
C – Lucinao Woytas – 31gp 8g 6a 14pts -3 30PIM 6.19 AvR – Fort William (SIJHL)

RW – Jean-Francois Cain – 31gp 13g 15a 28pts +10 24PIM 6.90 AvR