Tag: card

  • Leafs upend Sabres, 7-4

    It was a back-and-forth third period, but in the end the Sabres didn’t have enough as they opened the 2008 pre-season with a 7-4 loss to Toronto. (see previous posts for 1st and 2nd period scoring notes). Trailing in the third, Mark Mancari one-timed a Marek Zagrapan shovel past Justin Pogge to cut the Leafs…

  • Funk suspended after brawl

    Rochester D Mike Funk has been suspended for one game after accumulating his third general misconduct ejection after a brawl in Friday’s 4-0 loss to Syracuse. From Kevin O’s Rochester D&C article: A scrap between Amerks winger Tanner Glass and Crunch defenseman Duvie Westcott sparked an 11-player brawl that led to the ejection of nine…

  • The Butler, in the library, with the deal?

    On Sunday, Mike Chambers of the Denver Post speculated on the future of Pioneers junior rearguard, Chris Butler: Two big question marks, and a smaller third one, exist with the Pios. One, will junior defenseman Chris Butler be back? DU’s best two-way player had a nice summer camp with the Buffalo Sabres last year and…

  • Amerks pick up where they left off

    Rochester returned from the All-Star break Friday at the BCA, losing in overtime to Toronto, 3-2. The loss was the Amerks’ ninth in a row, and 25th in their last 27 games. Down 1-0 at the end of two, Marek Zagrapan knotted the score 2:48 into the third. The Slovakian pivot took the return feed…