Sports
Covering the biggest moments of Buffalo High School athletics and athletes.
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Devan Dubnyk has done nothing but amaze since his arrival in the state of hockey with 31 consecutive starts, 24 wins, only 6 losses, and 5 shutouts. Many say that Dubnyk is the reason for Minnesota’s remarkable turnaround. Dubnyk joined the Wild after their sixth straight loss and made an immediate impact. The Wild are currently in playoff contention, seeded as the first wild card team in the western conference. “[Dubnyk’s] been a godsend here,”…
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Sophomore Carter Patnode, along with other athletes that play winter and spring sports, had a quick transition from walking out of the doors from his hockey banquet less than 24 hours before his first track practice. Everyone who plays sports knows about the late nights coming home from road games followed by waking up early to get to class by 7:45. People who play two or three sports experience that for more than just a…
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Buffalo has never blown away the State with its athletic programs. The school won its first athletic team State Title in 2007, beating Robbinsdale Armstrong in the class 4A basketball final. Two years later, Buffalo’s track and field team found its way to winning their first State Title in 2009. This is arguably the peak of Buffalo’s athletics winning two State Titles within two years. At the same time, the school had a superb football…
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The girls basketball team played on Friday, January 27th at 7:15 p.m. at St. Francis. Buffalo’s record this year is 15-10 and they are 7-5 in conference going into Friday night. “The season is going pretty well,” said Head Coach Scot Sorenson. “We lost a couple close games but we also beat some very good teams. We finished 3rd in conference and we are the fourth seed going into sections next Tuesday against Moorhead. ”…
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There’s a twitter page going around and being talked about called “Puck Sluts 101.” The page tells you things that girls usually say or do at hockey games. Puck sluts are girls that go to hockey games and claim that they know whats going on. Mainly the girls at the hockey games are for the sole fact of the hot boys or their boyfriends. Urban dictionary’s definition of a puck slut is…. “A ‘hockey fan,’ usually female,…
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The Buffalo Bison had a great run this season. Our hope next year is the Girls Hockey team can pick up where they left off. Girl’s Hockey faced the Edina Hornets in St. Paul at 1:00 p.m. at the Excel Energy Center in the State Quarterfinals. Fan support was enthusiastic with 21 buses, people driving from home along with a pep band and an administration that realized the value of their teams passion. The game…
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In 2013 Cheerleading was cut from being school funded only to be replaced by two title nine equalizers, Boys Swim & Dive and Girls Dance Team. Since then there has been a small amount of tension between the recently school funded Cheerleading squad, and the new addition, Dance team. Both are considered sports by the athletes that make up the team, but for others who don’t know the first thing about them… not so much.…
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Nerves were running high on February 13th at the Brainerd Hockey Areana during the Section 8AA championship hockey game. “Before the game, I was not that nervous until I actually started warming up and saw the other team,” said Senior Sydney Driver. “When we were on the ice doing starting line ups, my stomach starting flipping and I got butterflies.” During the first period, the momentum went back and fourth between the Bison and the Rams.…
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Are you or someone you know a sports bandwagoner? A sports bandwagon fan is someone who only supports a team in periods of success. These are the people you see wearing Chicago Blackhawks hats not knowing what sport they play, or people who just started to like a team that recently won a championship. Bandwagoners make the years of loyalty and dedication for a team’s true fans go unrecognized and unappreciated. “I wear my Avalanche…
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Buffalo Boy’s Hockey suffers loss against St. Michael-Albertville. The STMA Knights are now conference champions. The St Michael-Albertville Arena was overflowing with fans waiting for the puck to drop. The closest available parking spaces were no closer than a block away from the arena. After entering you would not be able to see the game but rather a massive sea of people crowding the stands at each end. The Buffalo student section was the same size as the…
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