Tonight the Buffalo Sabres host the Arizona Coyotes. The Coyes are sitting firmly in 29th place with 51 points, while the Sabres are in 22nd place with 63 points. Buffalo has a lot of work to do if they want to land themselves in a potentially good draft lottery spot.
This will be Buffalo’s first game since the trade deadline and we did not see the Fire Sale that I was expecting. It looks like General Manager Tim Murray was not diving into full-on tank mode. GMTM did make one blockbuster deal, an AHL trade that sent Rochester Amerk Dan Catenacci to the Hartford Wolf Pack in exchange for defenseman Mat Bodie (http://www.