Cheshire boys hockey coach Anthony Giusto says that, by this playoff time of year, younger kids aren't really younger kids anymore. Ryan Miller, whom the roster calls a sophomore goalie, sure didn't play like one Tuesday in the CIAC Division II semifinals.
Those moments, the moments when the puck gets out of your zone, when the penalty kill rags the puck for another 20 seconds, when the goalie makes another ridiculous save to save your bacon: They add up. Cheshire got all of them Friday night at Bennett Rink, and the Rams got a little puck-luck as well.
It has officially been 10 years since one of the toughest days in the history of the Buffalo Sabres. On Feb. 28, 2014, the Ryan Miller era came to a sad end in Buffalo when the Sabres traded him to the St. Louis Blues. Miller had been the last remaining vestige of the team's former glory days, and parting ways with the stalwart backstop ushered in a stretch of mediocrity that's difficult to describe in words. Things were already going poorly for the Sabres at the time, but pulling the trigger on the ill-fated transaction accelerated the decline and proved to be the first in a wave of bad decisions that transformed the franchise into the laughing stock of the NHL.
No | Player | P |
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91 | C | |
1 | G | |
4 | D | |
36 | G | |
24 | C | |
7 | D | |
44 | LW | |
49 | LW | |
17 | LW | |
60 | D | |
37 | D | |
20 | RW | |
28 | D | |
21 | C | |
26 | LW | |
23 | C | |
39 | C | |
G | ||
34 | D | |
33 | RW | |
16 | C | |
19 | RW | |
5 | D | |
77 | RW | |
11 | C | |
51 | D |