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Minneapolis and St Paul have to be near the top.

Tage is one obviously. Andreychuk also scored 5 for the Sabres, but he’s Canadian.

Although i think he was raised there. I think no one remember Lalor because he had a solid if un-memorable career. 687 games in the NHL is an accomplishment.

I think we are going to need help with the last one.

Brownschidle and Scamurra were drafted. Got to love those Nichols boys. Scott Thomas, Sean Malone, and I think Jeff Farkas and Jason Zent also went to Nichols.

He's got to be 2nd in games after Kane. It's a good thing Regier drafted Persson, G-d forbid we would have taken the son of a Sabres legend.

He was another of the guys we all talked about Him and the Brownschidles. It's funny what you remember.

Was Scamurra the first?

What about Jack Brownschilde? or do they list him as Amherst?

Miles Wood Jack Brownschidle The Brownschidle brothers were the idols when I was playing in Amherset as a kid

Maybe we’ll be wrong, but I will never understand this pick for a team that really seems to have its crap together when drafting, especially when the next pick of Neuchev.

It’s why I wrote the question. Mitts and TNT this season will pass the tenure of these legends. It’s also kind of sad how few games we really got out of Patty, Briere and Drury.

Lol. The answer is as follows Dawe 290 games Dudley 279 games Mitts 277 games Patty 268 games TNT 260 games Grier 241 games Drury 234 games Briere 225 games

Dawe is one. Also Briere is last. 1. Dawe 2. Dudley …….. 7. Drury 8. Briere

Not close but not bad either. Dudley and Drury are in the correct spots.

Without looking it up, place these current and former Sabres in order from most to least games played for the Sabres Briere, LaFontaine, Jason Dawe, Drury, Mitts, Rick Dudley, TnT and Mike Grier?

It’s funny but he was the first one that came to mind when I wrote the question.

I think for at least 4 different teams. I know Florida, TB, Ottawa, and Atlanta. I feel like we are missing a guy or two. Should be count Patty's stint as Sabres President?

How could you. What about Rick Dudley?

I don’t know the answer to this question (yet), but how many former Sabre players have served as GM’s in the NHL? And who are they?

Is it a goalie?

DG doesn’t ever dump on a player publicly and what we learned with Risto sometimes coaches play guys because that’s all they have. Joki played 21 minutes because he was paired with Power and because he was a better option than Bush to pair with Power. I don’t think the analytics support that was either guy was especially “good” last year. There is a reason KA brought in 2 guys for the defense and not just one guy to pair with Power. That reason is that the guys after the top 3 weren’t good enough. https://theathletic.com/3989459/2023/01/30/nhl-player-cards-buffalo-sabres-2/ While these cards aren’t perfect they do a good job illustrating the great divide in D last year. The top 3 had and excess contract value of 16 mill, while Bush, Joki and Bryson had a -6.5 value. According to these cards Joki was terrible on both ends of the ice and frankly that matched the eye test. With 5 of the top 6 D slots now spoken for, my guess is Bush earns the 6th slot over Joki. By comparison the hockey cards for Johnson had a market value of 4.5 and Clifton was 7.7. Like I said these cards aren’t perfect but they clearly illustrate why Clifton and EJ were signed and why Joki and Bush were pushed farther down the depth chart.

It’s going to be a goalie.

I think you may be reading too much into DG’s comments. I think he is of the mindset that he wants to see who has chemistry with whom. Whose skill set works well with others. DG wants to see if Samuelsson and Johnson for on the PK for example even though they likely won’t be paired 5 on 5. They have been very adamant of cross training their players so that they can flip sides and play their off side comfortably both for the wingers and D. They reason for this is simple, injuries or an over abundance of special teams can force guys to play together who normally don’t share the ice and DG wants the guys to be comfortable on those situations. DG also now has a full complement of real NHL D for the first time. Bush and Joki are going to battle to see who is our 6th D. Last here he had 3 guys he could fully trust, now he has 5. It’s going to take some time to figure out how the puzzle fits together.

I love these questions.