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Daily Links: Beauts Batter Whale, Byron’s Big Contract

The Beauts opened their season in dominant fashion.

By Steve Lopez Sep 24, 2018, 6:26am EDT

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In their first game of the season, Shannon Szabados and the Beauts went Whale hunting in Hamilton, NY, winning 7-2.
The Athletic’s Joe Yerdon reports on Twitter that the Sabres have a press conference scheduled for today with Brian Gionta. (hat tip: tocsik1 in the comments)
Also in The Athletic, Tim Graham takes a sobering look at the post-concussion reaction that sent Kyle Okposo to the neurosurgical ICU back in 2017.

NHL Links

Former Sabre Paul Byron earned a contract extension in Montreal with an AAV of $3.4 million. [Sportsnet]
Robby Fabbri is injured again. What else is new? Hopefully it’s nothing serious.

And in non-NHL news... Tiger Woods ended a 5 year drought by winning the PGA Tour Championship. Hopefully that will inspire all the Sabres’ players who are such... avid... golf fans.