The University at Buffalo men’s basketball team won its sixth straight game by defeating Toledo, 81-58, at Alumni Arena on Thursday afternoon. The Bulls led wire to wire in a game that was rescheduled for 2:00 pm on Thursday after a winter storm forced UB to close on Wednesday.
Zach Filzen matched a career high with 23 points and Byron Mulkey added 20 to pace four UB players in double-figures. Filzen knocked down five three-pointers and also tied a career high with six rebounds. Mulkey shot 4-for-5 from beyond the arc and added five rebounds, five assists and three steals.
The Bulls rode Filzen’s hot hand in the second half as the junior sharpshooter scored 14 of Buffalo’s 17 points over a seven-minute stretch to extend the UB lead to 71-51 with 6:27 remaining.
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At a press conference Thursday afternoon at the HSBC Arena, Tom Golisano made it official. He’s selling the Buffalo Sabres to Pennsylvania billionaire businessman and Sabres fan Terry Pegula.
According to Golisano the closing will formally take place in about 30 days. There’s two issues that still need to be taken care of, one of which is the NHL Board of Governors vote/stamp of approval, which will be a mere formality. Also because of the size of the transaction, the Federal government makes the parties go through an application process with the Justice Department to make sure the transaction is not a monopolistic purchase.
Golisano said since the NHL already has a rule that you can only own one team at a time, it’s not an issue that can tie the sale up.
He noted that the process will cost the principals in the sale about $100,000 and didn’t sound pleased about what he sees as a meaningless governmental process.
The Buffalo Bandits will be included in the purchase.
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The Buffalo East Panthers will host the McKinley Macks on Thursday at 5:30 pm in boy’s high school basketball, with first place in the Yale Cup at stake. East High is located at 820 Northampton Street in Buffalo.
The Panthers and Macks both made it through the first round of the league schedule with one loss apiece. McKinley was defeated at Bennett, 76-67, on January 21st. The Panthers’ lone loss in the Yale Cup came in its first head-to-head meeting with the Macks, 61-56, on January 11th.
In my “Top games of the week” post, I called Monday’s game between East and Riverside the game of the week, because the Panthers needed to win that one, while the Macks had to get past Hutch Tech that same evening, in order to set the stage for Thursday.
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When the Buffalo Sabres return to the ice Friday night in Pittsburgh, they’ll be doing so with Paul Byron in the lineup. The Sabres recalled him from Portland again on Wednesday morning.
He’ll take Patrick Kaleta’s place. The rugged winger is still suffering the effects of his hand injury
“Pat can’t handle the puck yet,” head coach Lindy Ruff said. “You watch him…. he can’t shoot it yet. It’s going to be no use.”
Byron played the last two games for Buffalo before the All-Star break, both wins. In those games Byron had an assist and his first career goal in Ottawa.
He’s third on the Portland Pirates this season in scoring with 31 points in 45 games. he also has a team-leading seven power play goals.
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