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Bad news for the Sabres blue line. Ted Nolan has announced that Hank Tallinder will miss the next 1-2 weeks due to an injury.
Sulzer is in for Tallinder, who sustained an injury last game. Nolan says Tallinder could miss about two weeks. #sabres
— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) December 31, 2013Alex Sulzer, come on down!
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I told you yesterday about Ondrej Pavelec's past few days in Claude Noel's dog house.
Tonight, Jhonas Enroth will look down the ice at Pavelec's under-study, Al Montoya.
Montoya took over the Jets' net for Pavelec on Friday night vs. Minnesota after Pavelec was yanked after giving up three early goals. Montoya beat the Wild 6-4, then defeated the Colorado Avalanche on Sunday night.
Enroth is still in search of his second win of the season. He hasn't recorded a "W" in over two months. His last win was on October 25th against the Florida Panthers.
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The quarter-final matchups are set at the World Junior Championships in Malmo, Sweden.
What a great final day it was at the preliminary round games.
Four titans clashed in two historical games.
Canada-USA was an epic chess match on Tuesday morning. If you were at work, or at the gin mill, here's watch you missed.
Sabres center Mikhail Grigorenko scored the game tying goal in the third period for Russia, however, Jacob De La Rose scored the game winner for the surging hosts Team Sweden.
The top eight teams, ranked 1st to 4th in their group, will play the cross-over quarter-finals on January 2. The top-seeded teams will stay at their venue in Malmö while the lower-ranked teams have to move to the other rink.
Quarter-Finals on January 2:
USA vs. Russia Finland vs. Czech Republic Canada vs. Switzerland
Semi-Finals on January 4:
CAN/SUI vs. FIN/CZE SWE/SVK vs. USA/RUS