The hot Tampa Bay Lightning host the struggling Buffalo Sabres on Thursday night in the first meeting this season between the ...

It has been widely speculated that Thomas Vanek will ultimately be ... When the Buffalo Sabres traded Vanek to the Islanders in October, they retained $1.4 million of his salary and cap hit ...

Instead, he took mentorship from a fellow Sabres forward from his time, Thomas Vanek, and learned how to be a slot presence and a crease crasher. He never had the hardest shot, nor was he the ...

Thomas Vanek's days with the New York Islanders appear ... a conditional 2014 first round pick and a 2015 second round pick to the Buffalo Sabres. Snow could seek a similar return for Vanek.

The last time Buffalo made it was in the 2010-11 season with a team led by forward Thomas Vanek, defenseman Tyler Myers and goaltender Ryan Miller. The dark times for the Sabres could get worse as ...