Here are your Buffalo Sabres daily links, featuring the few players from Buffalo tat are participating in the IIHF World Championships.

- Andrej Sekera helped Slovakia defeat the USA in the World Championships. [Democrat & Chronicle]

- Grading the sabres defensive depth. [Two In The Box]

- Commentary on comments. [Sabre Noise]

- The Sabres have started a goal of the year bracket, you can check out the goals and vote right here. [Sabres.com]

NHL Playoff News:

- The Coyotes completed their series dominance of the Predators last night with a 2-1 win. [NHL.com]

- The Rangers took a 3-2 series lead with an OT win over Washington. [NHL.com]

- There's plenty of blame to go around for the Preds' collapse. [USA Today]

- Capitals, Rangers and their shot-blocking: Troubling sign for the NHL playoffs? [Puck Daddy]

- The LA Kings intro before Game 3 against the Blues was all kinds of awesome. [Backhand Shelf]

- Claude Giroux has been suspended 1 game for a hit to the head. [NHL.com]

Around the NHL:

- Gary Bettman announced Monday that the League has an understanding with a group headed by former San Jose Sharks CEO Greg Jamison to pursue a purchase agreement of the Phoenix Coyotes [NHL.com]

- There are plenty of questions that remain even after the reaching of a tentative deal to sell the Coyotes. [Globe & Mail]

- Why Glendale will regret keeping the Coyotes. [THN]

- The IIHF Power Rankings are , for some reason, hilarious. [IIHF]

- Did Patrick Kane go out drinking in a shirt that commemorated his last incident of going out drinking? [Puck Daddy]