2013-14 PRESEASON GAME NOTES

2013-14 PRESEASON SCHEDULE DATE: OPPONENT: LOCATION: TIME: RESULT: Sun., Sept. 15 at Montreal Bell Centre 7:30 PM 5-4 W (SO) Tue., Sept. 17 at Columbus Nationwide Arena 7:00 PM Thurs., Sept. 19 CAROLINA First Niagara Center 7:00 PM Sat., Sept. 21 TORONTO First Niagara Center 7:00 PM Sun., Sept. 22 at Toronto Air Canada Centre 7:00 PM Wed., Sept. 25 COLUMBUS First Niagara Center 7:00 PM Fri., Sept. 27 at Carolina PNC Arena 7:00 PM (All times EST)

TONIGHT’S GAME – BUFFALO at COLUMBUS – TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

This is Buffalo’s second of seven preseason games after opening camp on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at First Niagara Center; it is their second of four road games during the 2013 preseason.

Buffalo and Columbus have played 13 pre-season games all-time. The Sabres are 7-6-0 in preseason contests against the Blue Jackets; 2-2-0 at home, 3-3-0 in Columbus. Three of the 13 preseason games between the Sabres and Blue Jackets have been played at neutral site venues, with the Sabres going 2-1-0.

The last time the teams met in the preseason was on Sept. 25, 2011 in Columbus. Tyler Myers scored Buffalo’s lone in a 4-1 defeat. The first of three regular season meetings between the Sabres and Blue Jackets will take place on Thursday, Oct. 10 in Buffalo. The teams will then meet twice in eight days with a game at First Niagara Center on Saturday, Jan. 18 followed by a trip to Columbus on Saturday, Jan. 25.

After scoring twice on Sunday, including a shorthanded tally, leads the Sabres with two points in the preseason. , Buffalo’s first selection (8th overall) in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft, led all Sabres with 23:22 of ice time in Sunday’s contest, including a team-high 5:20 on the kill; newly acquired defenseman Jamie McBain was close behind with an ice time of 23:21. Goaltender Matt Hackett, who took over for Jhonas Enroth midway through the game, made 11 saves on 12 shots through regulation and overtime, then denied three shooters in the shootout to earn his first win as a member of the Sabres.

The Sabres are 139-147-49 all-time in the preseason. Buffalo is 26-11-3 in preseason action since the 2005-06 season; they finished the 2011 preseason 4-1-1, going 2-1-1 on the road and have started the 2013 preseason 1-0-0 after a 5-4 shootout win at Montreal on Sunday. These totals only include NHL games; the Sabres also defeated Adler Mannheim, 8- 3, as part of the 2011 NHL Premiere Series in Germany.

Buffalo’s next game is Thursday (7 p.m.), as the Sabres host the Hurricanes in their first home game of the preseason.

GAME-BY-GAME RESULTS

2013-14 PRESEASON Goals Shots Date Opp. 1 2 3 OT F 1 2 3 OT F Pen/Min PPG/OPP GWG/SDG Goalies Attend. Record 9/15 BUF 0 3 1 0 5 7 9 10 1 27 13/40 0/4 Girgensons Enroth, Hackett (W) 21,273 1-0-0 at MTL 1 2 1 0 4 8 6 10 1 25 9/24 2/7 - Budaj, Fucale (OT) 0-0-1 9/17 BUF at CBJ 9/19 CAR at BUF 9/21 TOR at BUF 9/22 BUF at TOR 9/25 CBJ at BUF 9/27 BUF at CAR BUFFALO SABRES PRESEASON SKATER GAME-BY-GAME 9/15 9/17 9/19 9/21 9/22 9/25 9/27 No: PLAYER: at MTL at CBJ vs. CAR vs. TOR at TOR vs. CBJ at CAR 3 PYSYK, Mark 0-1 DND 4 McBAIN, Jamie 1-0 DND 5 RUHWEDEL, Chad DND 6 WEBER, Mike 0-0 DND 8 McCORMICK, Cody 0-1 DND 9 OTT, Steve 0-1 DND 10 EHRHOFF, Christian DND 12 PORTER, Kevin 0-1 DND 13 SUNDHER, Kevin DND DND 15 BAILEY, Justin DND JR JR JR JR JR JR 17 ZIGOMANIS, Mike DND DND 19 HODGSON, Cody DND 20 TALLINDER, Henrik 0-0 21 STAFFORD, Drew 0-0 DND 22 LARSSON, Johan 0-0 23 LEINO, Ville 0-1 DND 24 BAGNALL, Drew DND DND 25 GRIGORENKO, Mikhail 0-0 26 VANEK, Thomas DND 28 GIRGENSONS, Zemgus 2-0 32 SCOTT, John DND 33 ARMIA, Joel DND 34 GAUTHIER-LEDUC, Jerome DND 36 KALETA, Patrick 0-0 37 ELLIS, Matt DND 38 SZYDLOWSKI, Shawn DND DND 41 KEA, Justin DND JR JR JR JR JR JR 42 BOLAND, Connor DND JR JR JR JR JR JR 43 CATENACCI, Daniel DND 44 McNABB, Brayden DND 45 NELSON, Logan DND JR JR JR JR JR JR 47 MacKENZIE, Matt DND DND 48 PARKER, Jonathan DND DND 51 LEPKOWSKI, Alex DND DND 52 SULZER, Alexander DND 54 TRAINOR, Peter DND DND 55 RISTOLAINEN, Rasmus 0-1 57 MYERS, Tyler DND 58 ROY, Frederick DND DND 59 SCHALLER, Tim DND DND 61 ZADOROV, Nikita 0-0 62 CRAWFORD, Nick DND DND 63 ENNIS, Tyler DND 64 McGuire, Johnny DND DND 65 FLYNN, Brian 0-0 DND 67 AUSTIN, Brady DND DND 68 TARDIF, Jamie DND 70 GILLIES, Colton 1-0 DND 72 ADAM, Luke 0-0 DND 73 BAPTISTE, Nicholas DND JR JR JR JR JR JR 75 JACOBS, Colin DND DND 78 TROPP, Corey DND 79 LOCKE, Eric DND DND 82 FOLIGNO, Marcus DND 84 VARONE, Phil DND DND

PLAYER STATS = Goals-Assists INJ = Missed Game Due to Injury DND = Did not Dress JR = Returned to Junior ROC = Assigned to Rochester (AHL) BUFFALO SABRES PRESEASON GOALTENDER GAME-BY-GAME

9/15 9/17 9/19 9/21 9/22 9/25 9/27 No: PLAYER: at MTL at CBJ vs. CAR vs. TOR at TOR vs. CBJ at CAR 1 ENROTH, Jhonas ND, 10-13, 29:37 DND 30 MILLER, Ryan DND 31 HACKETT, Matt W, 11-12, 35:23 35 MAKAROV, Andrey DND DND 49 KNAPP, Connor DND DND 50 LIEUWEN, Nathan DND DND

GOALTENDER STATS = Decision, Saves-Shots, Minutes INJ = Missed Game Due to Injury DND = Did not Dress DNP = Did not Play ND = No Decision JR = Returned to Junior ROC = Assigned to Rochester (AHL)

PRESEASON AT A GLANCE

2013-14 PRESEASON RECORD… GP W L OTL GF GA PTS HOME: ------ROAD: 1 1 0 0 5 4 2 OVERALL: 1 1 0 0 5 4 2

GOALS BY PERIOD… SHOTS BY PERIOD… 1 2 3 OT TOTAL 1 2 3 OT TOTAL SABRES: 0 3 1 0 4 SABRES: 7 9 10 1 27 OPPONENTS: 1 2 1 0 4 OPPONENTS: 8 6 10 1 25

SABRES POWER PLAY… SABRES PENALTY KILLING… PPGF OPP % PPGA OPP % HOME: - - - HOME: - - - ROAD: 0 4 0.0 ROAD: 5 7 71.4 OVERALL: 0 4 0.0 OVERALL: 5 7 71.4

SABRES TRAINING CAMP TRANSACTIONS… Date Transaction(s) Sept. 16, 2013 Returned five players to their respective junior clubs: Forwards Justin Bailey (Kitchener, OHL), Nicholas Baptiste (Sudbury, OHL), Justin Kea (Saginaw, OHL) and Logan Nelson (Victoria, WHL); Defenseman Connor Boland (Peterborough, OHL).

NOTE: The Sabres have 56 players on their 2013-14 training camp roster (33 forwards, 17 defensemen and six goaltenders).