Early start at Sabres training camp on Friday the 13th.

Ryan Miller has been excused from today's session.

Miller and his cousin, former NHLer Kip Miller, have been bestowed with the honor of being inducted into the Michigan State University Athletic Hall Of Fame.

Great to be back on campus at MSU today. Very honored to be inducted into the athletic hall of fame along with my cousin Kip. #GoGreen

— Ryan Miller (@RyanMiller3039) September 13, 2013

Stick tap, Millsie





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Here are the lines for today's practice group and scrimmage.

Notice how coach Rolston is already forming his lines. Vanek-Hidgson-Folign is very intriguing. Look for this line to hit the ice running in Montreal on Sunday.

9-25-23 looked great to me last season and they found chemistry again on Thursday. Rolston will likely give this line a run in Montreal. Girgensons-Porter-Flynn played well tigether in Rochester last season.

I'm very intrigued by the Ennis-Larsson-Stafford trio. Larsson proved his worth as a puck possession center in the Traverse City tournament last week. The puck sticks to the guy's stick and no matter how defenders try, they cannot knock Larsson off the biscuit. Th eguy is a pit bull and is very strong and relentless. Ennis can use his speed and quick shot to get open for Larsson's darts. Stafford may become a 30 goal scorer again with a strong centerman. Lets watch this line and see if it gels together.

I'm also digging the energy line of Tropp-McCormick-Kaleta. Talk about a tough, meat-grinder of a line! I would live to see McCormick back on the Buffalo roster. He's healthy and in excellent shape. He will run through a burning building for Ron Rolston and his teammates. Tropp is fearkless and can score 10-15 goals. Kaleta, with increased minutes at the end of last season thrived 5 on 5 and on PK. I can't wait to see 78-8-36 declare war on the Canadiens, Blue Jax, Hurricanes, and Leafs in the exhibition games.

The D pairing of McNabb-McBain looks like a pair that can plug and play together in Rochester. I'm of the mind that Ristolainen will make the Sabres roster and McBain will be waived to Rochester at the end of camp, with Sulzer being the #7 in Buffalo. We'll seee how McNabb-McBain play in the scrimmages and in preseason games.


Practice Group

Steve Ott – Mikhail Grigorenko – Ville Leino
Luke Adam – Mike Zigomanis – Joel Armia
John Scott – Matt Ellis – Justin Bailey
Peter Trainor – Jonathan Parker - Johnny McGuire

Brayden McNabb – Jamie McBain
Alexander Sulzer – Chad Ruhwedel
Alex Lepkowski – Connor Boland

Matt Hackett
Nathan Lieuwen


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Scrimmage (9:15-10:30 a.m.)

Team Blue vs. Team Gold

Team Blue
Thomas Vanek – Cody Hodgson – Marcus Foligno
Zemgus Girgensons – Kevin Porter – Brian Flynn
Kevin Sundher – Colin Jacobs – Shawn Szydlowski
Frederick Roy – Eric Locke – Logan Nelson

Christian Ehrhoff – Tyler Myers
Drew Bagnall – Jerome Gauthier-Leduc
Nikita Zadorov – Matt MacKenzie

Andrey Makarov
Connor Knapp



Team Gold

Tyler Ennis – Johan Larsson – Drew Stafford
Corey Tropp – Cody McCormick – Patrick Kaleta
Daniel Catenacci – Philip Varone – Jamie Tardif
Colton Gilles – Justin Kea – Nicholas Baptiste

Henrik Tallinder – Mark Pysyk
Mike Weber – Rasmus Ristolainen
Brady Austin – Nick Crawford

Jhonas Enroth


Thanks, Sabres.com




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