Lindy the Line Tinkerer was at it again Saturday night. And you can look for the coach’s shiny new combinations to take the ice again tonight when the Buffalo Sabres meet the Toronto Maple Leafs in Air Canada Centre.

The second period was all Ryan Miller as the Sabres remained scoreless. The third period was all offense.

Roy, Hecht, Grier, Clarke MacArthur and Vanek scored and 10 players had points as the Sabres erupted for all of their goals in a 5-1 win.

“I liked the fact that Kennedy and Grier were real good down low in the first period and felt the Roy line really struggled in the first period,” Ruff said after Saturday’s game. “So I just flipped wingers on a hunch and those guys did a good job. I thought Kennedy was really good down low and Thomas and Michael were doing a good job finding holes.”

Ruff is no stranger to line shifts from game to game and even period to period. But chemistry is a delicate thing and you don’t often see such quick results. He kept his No. 2 line intact, with Tim Connolly centering MacArthur and Drew Stafford after Connolly had four points Friday in Philadelphia.

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Buffalo Bills starting defensive tackle Marcus Stroud has been ruled out because of a knee injury, meaning the NFL’s worst run defense could be without both starting defensive tackles against Jacksonville this weekend.


Kyle Williams has missed three games because of a knee injury, and was listed as questionable by interim head coach Perry Fewell on Friday. Williams has practiced sparingly this weekend.

The Bills (3-6) have only two other defensive tackles on their roster — reserves Spencer Johnson and John McCargo.

Their defense is allowing an NFL-worst 173 yards rushing this season. Buffalo prepares to face the run-happy Jaguars led by Maurice Jones-Drew, who’s tied for fourth in the league with 860 yards rushing and has scored seven of his 12 touchdowns in the past four games.


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Andy Rautins made seven 3-pointers and scored 22 points, leading Syracuse past Robert Morris 100-60 on Wednesday night in the 2K Sports Classic.


Syracuse (2-0), which opened its season with a 75-43 victory over Albany on Monday night, will play California in a week at Madison Square Garden in the next round of the tournament that benefits Coaches vs. Cancer.

Rautins, who missed all six shots he attempted and then rolled his left ankle in the season opener, found his range early against the Colonials (0-1). He hit a 3 from the left corner and another from the right wing to help Syracuse take a 10-6 lead in the first 5 minutes. He made three more 3s in the first 3:09 of the second half to give Syracuse a 71-36 advantage.

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Tony Dungy says Michael Vick could potentially wind up in Buffalo, which he says previously discussed signing the quarterback.


Dungy has served as an adviser to Vick since the Super Bowl-winning coach retired from the Colts after last season. Now a commentator for NBC, Dungy confirmed during the pregame show Sunday night before Philadelphia hosted Dallas that the Bills and Vick “talked originally” when Vick was searching for a team after serving 18 months in federal prison for running a dogfighting ring.

The Eagles signed Vick to a $1.6 million contract for 2009, with a team option for the second year at $5.2 million. But he has played sparingly.

“I told Michael to just worry about this year,” Dungy said. “It’s technically up to Philadelphia. If they want him back, he has to stay there. If they don’t, there are some teams looking for quarterbacks: Cleveland, St. Louis and Washington.


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The Buffalo Bills’ logjam at wide receiver will soon get a little more crowded.

The team is expected to add second-year man James Hardy to the 53-man roster by Wednesday. That’s when the 21-day window in which he can practice with the team while still on the reserve/physically unable to perform list ends.

Hardy has been practicing fully since Oct. 21.

“James has done a real nice job,” Bills coach Dick Jauron said this week. “We have that 21-day window, and my understanding is that it runs through next Wednesday. So we’ll keep looking at it and look at our roster and see what we can do and what we think at that point. We’ll run it right up to that time.”


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Knock, knock. There’s an opportunity waiting at the UConn football team’s door. It’s the Cincinnati Bearcats.

The Bearcats, No. 4 in the country, are 8-0 and off to their best start since 1954. The reigning Big East champions are 4-0 in the conference.

UConn, which put a 40-16 hurtin’ on Cincinnati at Rentschler Field last season, has blown four games in the fourth quarter.

But UConn coach Randy Edsall bopped to the podium for his weekly press conference at the Burton Family Football Complex like he knew something special was on tap.

He wasn’t close to being this upbeat on any other Tuesday.


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