{"id":550290,"date":"2026-04-11T12:18:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550290\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T12:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T12:18:30","slug":"bills-connor-mcgovern-stars-before-sabres-big-win-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/550290\/","title":{"rendered":"Bills&#8217; Connor McGovern stars before Sabres&#8217; big win (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/buffalo-bills\/324\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Buffalo Bills;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Buffalo Bills&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Buffalo Bills<\/a> offensive lineman Connor McGovern did his role for the crosstown hockey team this week.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, McGovern was in downtown Buffalo rooting on the city&#8217;s hockey team as the Sabres took on the Columbus Blue Jackets. McGovern led the Sabres&#8217; charge but banging the drum to get fans going before the opening faceoff.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It must have helped as the Sabres took a 5-0 win over the Blue Jackets at KeyBank Center.<\/p>\n<p>McGovern at the game can be found below:<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Bills Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/billswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/bills\/2026\/04\/11\/bills-connor-mcgovern-buffalo-sabres-blue-jackets-win-nfl-nhl\/89565198007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bills&#039; Connor McGovern stars before Sabres&#039; big win (video);elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Bills&#039;&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Bills&#8217; Connor McGovern stars before Sabres&#8217; big win (video)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo Bills offensive lineman Connor McGovern did his role for the crosstown hockey team this week. On Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[62464,1107,2077,229,5133,230,62463,51390,5,4,13651,1108],"class_list":{"0":"post-550290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-buffalo-sabres","8":"tag-banging-the-drum","9":"tag-buffalo","10":"tag-buffalo-bills","11":"tag-buffalo-sabres","12":"tag-buffalosabres","13":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets","14":"tag-connor-mcgovern","15":"tag-downtown-buffalo","16":"tag-hockey","17":"tag-nhl","18":"tag-offensive-lineman","19":"tag-sabres"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116386038049894739","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}