# OFFICIAL Buffalo Sabres Thread **URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-thread/25170 **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic **Created:** [September 18, 2006, 5:03pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-thread/25170 "2006-09-18T17:03:45Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 903
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From the Sabres Website…Decent read > Winning Streak Ends At 10 > October 28, 2006 > By Brian Wheeler > > The Atlanta Thrashers were able to do something that no other team this season has been able to do. They beat the Buffalo Sabres. Well, sort of. > > Buffalo rallied from four different one-goal deficits during regulation to push the game into overtime before being defeated for the first time in 10 games during a shootout, 5-4, by Vyacheslav Kozlov’s lone goal. > > INSIDER CONTENT > Audio: Lindy Ruff | Ryan Miller | Derek Roy | Jason Pominville > Photogallery: Click Here > > “We didn’t necessarily lose,” said Sabres head coach Lindy Ruff, whose team tied the 1993-94 Toronto Maple Leafs’ NHL record for most wins to start a season. "We just didn’t win. > > “We didn’t take advantage of those three breakaways we got in the shootout. That was the only difference in that game.” > > Daniel Briere missed the net, Maxim Afinogenov’s offering was kicked away and Thomas Vanek’s around-the-world shot beat Atlanta’s netminder but pinged off the cross bar during the two-and-a-half round shootout. > > Kozlov beat Miller with a quick wristshot low stickside by a toe on Atlanta’s first attempt. > > “I still don’t know how Kozlov’s [shot] went in,” said goaltender Ryan Miller, who made 32 saves in the game. "I read it. I made the move. I swear to God, I can feel it brush off my foot. It was a really nice shot, I guess. > > Off the streak, Miller added: “It would have been fun to be on our own with a piece of history but we’re getting mentioned with some good hockey teams. But ultimately, we’re just happy with the good start because every point matters.” > > Skating from the ice on Saturday night, the team was in unfamiliar territory. Buffalo hadn’t lost a game in HSBC Arena since Game Four of the Eastern Conference Finals against the Carolina Hurricanes on May 26. > > “I haven’t felt this in a while,” said Miller. “I’m a little pissed off, but this is how I get after any loss.” > > “I’m a little disappointed,” said forward Jason Pominville. “We never want to lose, but we still are proud of the winning streak.” > > “The guys in that room were having a lot of fun [during the winning streak to start the season] and that energy spilled into the community,” said Ruff. “It’s great getting on a run and we’re still in one. We’ve gotten 21 out of 22 points and we still don’t have a number in the loss column. I’m proud of how hard they played and how hard they’ve worked.” > > Before leaving the rink, the team gathered at center ice and saluted the capacity crowd that was deafening throughout that night’s contest. The moment was a chilling reminder of last year’s unbelievable playoff run and a well-deserved tribute to the fans in attendance. > > “That crowd was as good as any playoff game again tonight,” said Ruff. “It was unbelievable.” > > “That was the loudest we’re heard it since playoffs last year,” said Miller. “We’re having a lot of fun with our fans. You can expect more hockey like this to come so stay tuned.” > > Atlanta became the first team to outscore Buffalo in a period since the New York Rangers on October 14 thanks to the play of Bobby Holik. > > Holik scored his fourth goal of the season and gave the Thrashers the 1-0 lead after receiving a feed from Jim Slater and slipping the puck around Miller’s outstretched glove at the 5:29 mark of the first. > > Intercepting Afinogenov’s drop pass in Atlanta’s zone, Holik raced up ice and found Scott Mellanby cutting down the slot to make the score 2-1 in favor of Atlanta at 10:29. Mellanby beat Miller with a low wristshot just inside the left post for his sixth goal of the season. > > Briere extended his points streak to a personal-best 10 games with bank shot off Kari Lehtonen’s left pad to tie the 1-1 at 9:45 of the first. > > Vanek netted his third power-play goal of the season to tie the game 2-2 after shoveling Derek Roy’s rebound past Lehtonen at 14:03 of the middle frame. > > Niko Kapanen one-timed Andy Sutton’s rebound off the end boards into the top of the net for his first goal and point of the season at 15:58. > > Pominville tied the score 3-3 with his fifth goal in as many games after converting on a Briere rebound at 2:23 of the third. > > Ilya Kovalchuk regained the lead for Atlanta after he snapped a blazing wristshot low gloveside on Miller from the high slot at 3:38 of the third. > > Charging the net, Jochen Hecht slipped Pominville’s rebound between Lehtonen’s pads to tie the game with less than two minutes remaining in regulation. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-buffalo-sabres-thread/25170)._