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Quietly competent Phil Housley ready to turn Buffalo Sabres around

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Phil Housley is pretty sure that his old Buffalo house is in good hands.

In 2011, while an assistant coach for Team USA in the World Junior Championship in Buffalo, Housley and his family took a quick trip to the suburb of East Amherst to see the house he and his wife, Karin, had built when he played for the Sabres in the 1980s.

"It's the same house," Housley told ESPN.com. "It was a great little neighborhood and had four little cul de sacs, so it had a dead end and it was very peaceful.