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Huh, Maybe RW needs to sell it to a businessman.
Over the last few weeks the city of Buffalo has been galvanized by a professional sports team, and it isn't the Buffalo Bills. Instead, it's the city's NHL franchise, the Sabres, that has been winning over the hearts and minds of countless people in Western New York.
The Sabres entered the season with experts and fans expecting little more than a dead-end year, but they've somehow become arguably the best team in the league. That was palpable on Saturday when they upset the number 1 seed in their conference, the Ottawa Senators, in overtime to clinch their best-of-seven series, 4-1. The Sabres will now move on to play the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals. They should be the favorites to win that series and advance to the Finals. Never has a pro team from Buffalo won a title, so naturally the city is beside itself with excitement.
With the Sabres' recent success taking the region by storm, it's quite evident the Bills should take notice and try to duplicate their fellow Buffalo sports franchise next year.
This offseason, the Buffalo Bills have been thought of by experts as little more than a team likely to finish in last place, or close to it in 2006. 80-year-old GM Marv Levy has been ravaged by critics at every corner, and some of those criticisms have been unwarranted. On the other hand some have been deserved. Either way, next year could be a time to shine for the Bills, despite the fact that they've become somewhat of a laughingstock in the national media recently.
Over the last few weeks the city of Buffalo has been galvanized by a professional sports team, and it isn't the Buffalo Bills. Instead, it's the city's NHL franchise, the Sabres, that has been winning over the hearts and minds of countless people in Western New York.
The Sabres entered the season with experts and fans expecting little more than a dead-end year, but they've somehow become arguably the best team in the league. That was palpable on Saturday when they upset the number 1 seed in their conference, the Ottawa Senators, in overtime to clinch their best-of-seven series, 4-1. The Sabres will now move on to play the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals. They should be the favorites to win that series and advance to the Finals. Never has a pro team from Buffalo won a title, so naturally the city is beside itself with excitement.
With the Sabres' recent success taking the region by storm, it's quite evident the Bills should take notice and try to duplicate their fellow Buffalo sports franchise next year.
This offseason, the Buffalo Bills have been thought of by experts as little more than a team likely to finish in last place, or close to it in 2006. 80-year-old GM Marv Levy has been ravaged by critics at every corner, and some of those criticisms have been unwarranted. On the other hand some have been deserved. Either way, next year could be a time to shine for the Bills, despite the fact that they've become somewhat of a laughingstock in the national media recently.
