2012-13:
• Recorded seven points (4+3) over a seven game span (4/2-4/14)
• Career-best four game point streak (2+2; 4/9-4/14)
• Logged a career-high 19:51 TOI at BOS (4/17)
• Tallied his first point of the season with an assist while logging 17:44 TOI at PHI (3/10)
• Registered four hits at NYR (3/3), vs. WSH (3/30), vs. BOS (3/31) and vs. WPG (4/22)
• Scored his first two goals of the season and was a plus- 2 at PIT (4/2)
• Recalled from Rochester (AHL) to make his Sabres debut at TOR (2/21)
• Has recorded 44 points (15+29) in 48 games AHL games this season
• Serves as captain of the Rochester Americans (AHL)
CCHA Second All-Star Team (2007) CCHA First All-Star Team (2008) CCHA Player of the Year (2008) NCAA West First All-American Team (2008)
Traded to Colorado by Phoenix with Peter Mueller for Wojtek Wolski, March 3, 2010. Signed as a free agent by Buffalo, July 6, 2012. Missed majority of 2011-12 as a healthy reserve.