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Mikhail Grigorenko will leave the Sabres on Sunday. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Grigorenko, McBain, McCormick, McNabb, New York Rangers, Nolan, Rochester Americans, Sulzer, Zadorov
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – Sabres prospect Mikhail Grigorenko knows he can’t develop properly sitting in the press box regularly.

“I need to play,” Grigorenko said this morning inside the First Niagara Center. “Everybody understands this.”

Luckily, the Sabres’ new regime understands that, so the team’s letting the 19-year-old center play for Russian at the upcoming world junior championship in Sweden.

“I think it’s going to be great for me because I’m not getting enough ice time,” said Grigorenko, a healthy scratch the last two games …

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Tyler Ennis has only nine points this season. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Adam, Ennis, Girgensons, LaFontaine, New York Rangers, Nolan, Rolston
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – Ted Nolan noticed a difference immediately after talking to Tyler Ennis. It looked like a huge weight had been lifted off the slick speedster, the interim Sabres coach said.

Nolan told the center to stop playing so robotically and start utilizing his natural instincts. The 24-year-old’s game possessed too much hesitancy when he replaced Ron Rolston on Nov. 13.

Ennis knows he’s at his best freewheeling around the ice.

“I think he could tell I was too focused before on playing …

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Trade rumors haven been swirling around Ryan Miller. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Compher, D'Agostini, LaFontaine, McCormick, McNabb, Miller, New York Rangers, Nolan, Rochester Americans, Sulzer
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – In Ted Nolan’s mind, franchise goalie Ryan Miller, an unrestricted free agent following the season, is more of a building block for the struggling Sabres than an asset.

“You build around him versus as a pawn to try to get something to make you better,” the interim coach said Wednesday. “You learn to deal with the now as a coach, and we got one of the better goaltenders in the world here. I’d like to build around him, myself.”

Is …

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Mikhail Grigorenko has been a healthy scratch recently. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Grigorenko, Nolan, Zadorov
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – Center Mikhail Grigorenko will be leaving the Sabres on Sunday to play for his native Russia at the upcoming world junior championship.

The 19-year-old, a healthy scratch the last two games and five of the last eight under interim coach Ted Nolan, posted a message to a Facebook account this afternoon that read, “Flying to Russia Sunday with my brother Zadorov!”

That’s the Nikita Zadorov, the 18-year-old defenseman the Sabres recently sent back to junior.

Jay Grossman, Grigorenko’s agent, told the …

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Ryan Miller will be a free agent following the season. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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LaFontaine, Miller, Nolan
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – In Ted Nolan’s mind, franchise goalie Ryan Miller, an unrestricted free agent following the season, is more of a building block for the Sabres than an asset.

“You build around him versus as a pawn to try to get something to make you better,” the interim coach said this afternoon following practice inside the First Niagara Center. “You learn to deal with the now as a coach, and we got one of the better goaltenders in the world here. …

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Brayden McNabb has sat the last two games. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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D'Agostini, McCormick, McNabb, Nolan, Rochester Americans, Sulzer
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – Defenseman Brayden McNabb, a healthy scratch the last two games, will play tonight for the Rochester Americans before returning to the Sabres.

Sitting long isn’t good for the 22-year-old, interim Sabres coach Ted Nolan said. The Amerks host the Utica Comets tonight.

“The greatest thing about having the Rochester Americans so close he can go down and play,” Nolan said this afternoon following practice inside the First Niagara Center. “He sat out almost five days now. We can give him …

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Marcus Foligno has been skating on the fourth line recently. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Foligno, Nolan, Ott
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – Marcus Foligno said Ted Nolan could’ve easily demoted him to the fourth line without an explanation. But a straightforward, face-to-face chat accompanied the struggling young winger’s move.

“Marcus is a big, powerful forward,” the Sabres’ interim coach said Tuesday following practice inside the First Niagara Center. “I told him he was just big, he wasn’t powerful. He wasn’t hitting anybody. He wasn’t using his size to his advantage.”

So in slashing his minutes, Nolan told the 6-foot-3, 223-pound Foligno he …

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Mikhail Grigorenko could be playing somewhere else soon. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Bernier, Flynn, Grigorenko, LaFontaine, McBain, Nolan, Ristolainen, Rochester Americans, Sulzer, Zadorov
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – The Sabres are “discussing all possibilities” to find 19-year-old prospect Mikhail Grigorenko playing time, interim coach Ted Nolan said Tuesday.

That means the Sabres could loan the center, a healthy scratch the last two games, to Russia for the world junior championship later this month if he’s invited. He could also get sent back to the junior Quebec Remparts.

“We’re not 100 percent sure what we’re going to do,” Nolan said following practice inside the First Niagara Center.

Nolan said Grigorenko, …

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Brian Flynn plays the game cleanly. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Bernier, Flynn, Nolan
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – The streak ended 4:57 into the third period of the Sabres’ 1-0 overtime loss Saturday.

In his 53rd NHL game, forward Brian Flynn was whistled for hooking New Jersey’s Steve Bernier, his first NHL penalty.

How did Flynn, who takes a regular shift, avoid getting penalized until his second NHL season?

“I don’t know, probably because I’m not that physical,” Flynn said this afternoon inside the First Niagara Center. “That’s how most of the penalties are in the league … finishing …

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Mikhail Grigorenko (25) could get loaned to Russia. ©2013, Dan Hickling, Olean Times Herald
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Grigorenko, LaFontaine, Nolan, Sulzer, Zadorov
Bill Hoppe     Olean Times Herald
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BUFFALO – The Sabres are “discussing all possibilities” to find 19-year-old prospect Mikhail Grigorenko playing time, interim coach Ted Nolan said.

That means the Sabres could loan the center, a healthy scratch the last two games, to Russia for the world junior championship later this month if he’s invited. He could also get sent back to the junior Quebec Remparts.

“We’re not 100 percent sure what we’re going to do,” Nolan said this afternoon following practice inside the First Niagara Center.

Nolan said …

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