Roger Crozier Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Guess who mine is. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SDS Posted October 8, 2006 Report Share Posted October 8, 2006 Mike Bossy... late 70's, early 80's when I was 10-14 years old. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabregoats Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Derek Plante, can't remember the year but I think it was 1993-94 and he scored an overtime goal against Boston (at least that is how I remember it). In the first Hockey game I remember being at. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ogie Oglethorpe Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Going to MSG to see Rangers vs. Devils. Nothing beat the Beezer in goal!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fushetti Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Derek Plante, can't remember the year but I think it was 1993-94 and he scored an overtime goal against Boston (at least that is how I remember it). In the first Hockey game I remember being at. I remember him scoring an OT goal against Boston in 95-96 because I was at that game....but maybe he did then too. One player..... hmmmmm. I don't have a player. I just loved the experience of going to the Aud and watching the Sabres play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Seats Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Mike Ramsey. I loved watching him as a kid in the 80s. (I know we're only allowed one, but after Ramsey it would be Darren Pupa). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabregoats Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 I remember him scoring an OT goal against Boston in 95-96 because I was at that game....but maybe he did then too. One player..... hmmmmm. I don't have a player. I just loved the experience of going to the Aud and watching the Sabres play. could have been 95-96 also, that probably is it, thanks for clearing up my childhood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apushms Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Gilbert Perreault ... one end-to-end rush and I was a goner. Great question! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thesportsbuff Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Perreault at first... then i stopped for a while. so seeing Hasek lead the Sabres made me fall in love with hockey again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Done Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Kevin Maguire- for the youngins here, he was an enforcer type for the Sabres in the mid-late 80's, but he had enough skill to score 10-15 goals a year. He wouldn't back down from anyone. One game Detroit took a few runs at our goalie, and the guys on the ice were pretty ho-hum about it. Well, when it was Maguire's shift, he took a run at their goalie when he was the only Sabre in the zone...then had 4 Red Wings jump him including Bob Probert in his prime. He did his Hulk Hogan impression until some other Sabres jumped in. That was the end of old time hockey, when no BS was tolerated and the players were self-policed. I enjoy the new NHL and the Sabres, but I am not in love anymore. I know I am in the minority. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bmwolf21 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Didn't Maguire have some help from Mike Hartman? :) I remember meeting Hartman & another Sabre at an autograph signing at the Niagara Falls hockey rink, and he showed up sporting a pair of nasty shiners. You are right, it was at time when players took care of one another come hell or high water. (BTW, Maguire never cracked the 10-goal plateau in his NHL career - his high was 9, and sadly it came with the Laffs.) I am going to be the jerk who breaks the rule and give you a couple names. First one was Andy Bezeau, a pest type of forward who played for the Niagara Falls Thunder. My father used to take me, my brothes and my best friend at the time to watch the Thunder games, and after Bezeau scored one of his rare goals, me & my buddy got up on the edge of the boards & reached over and Bexeau hi-fived us on the way by. We were like 13 or 14 at the time, so he became the coolest player ever to us. In the NHL, I really enjoyed watching Mogilny, LaFontaine and Grant Fuhr (for a brief time) at the old Aud, and I remember watching Vancouver's Pavel Bure starting around the goal line and catching Mogilny from behind on a 2-on-1 - just awesome speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doohickie Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Easy: Gilbert Perreault, the first Sabre. Guy LaFleur was the first non-Sabre that I liked. I lived in Detroit for a while (91-97), so I became a big Yzerman fan after being away from hockey for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PASabreFan Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Danny Gare! Game 1 of the semifinals against Munreal in the 75 playoffs was the first game I ever watched. He scored, won the game and slid into the boards. He was tripped, but I was hooked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slapshot1619 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 I've been watching hockey since the late 80's when I was 6 or 7, but I really fell in llove with hockey in 91 with the acquisition of a Certain Pat Lafontaine. I remember Maguire quite well... One game that stuck out was against the Whalers and he fought... I want to say Dineen(not sure tho) and absolutely destroyed him. He had Dineen's jersey over his head and when the ref finally broke it up Dineen rose and revealed his entire left side of his face bloodied I saw that and gave a Keanu Reaves-esque Whoa... Good old days of 80's Hockey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Done Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 I've been watching hockey since the late 80's when I was 6 or 7, but I really fell in llove with hockey in 91 with the acquisition of a Certain Pat Lafontaine. I remember Maguire quite well... One game that stuck out was against the Whalers and he fought... I want to say Dineen(not sure tho) and absolutely destroyed him. He had Dineen's jersey over his head and when the ref finally broke it up Dineen rose and revealed his entire left side of his face bloodied I saw that and gave a Keanu Reaves-esque Whoa... Good old days of 80's Hockey I liked him not so much that he fought, but he didn't back down from anybody and had some skill to boot. I think he still refs now. Patty was for sure #2. What a class act. That year where he and Mogilny went bonkers together was great. As much excitement as there was for the team last year, I think there was more of a buzz for those 2 guys when they were at their peak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wudden Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Believe it or not, Vanek. I was always a casual fan until I started dating a girl in Rochester during the lockout. She had season tickets to the Amerks so we started going. Watching their run to the playoffs (minus their 1st round choke) totally turned me from a casual hockey fan into a fanatic. When last season started and all the guys from Rochester were there, it was great because I watched them play the whole previous season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kicksave11 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Roger Crozier. He was in goal for us and Gilles Meloche for the California Golden Seals when I went to my first game in 1973. We lost 2-0 that night but I was there and it was great and I saw Roger live making a "kicksave and a beauty!!!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vegas4BOC Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 "Red" Berenson - St. Louis Blues. As a little kid growing up in Buffalo, it was right before the Sabres franchise was formed. I recall watching the 69 Stanley Cup Finals - Blues vs. Canadiens. I just picked up on him because of the unique name. I recall in early 80's, Berenson actually joined the Sabres coaching staff when he worked for Bowman (his coach when he was on the Blues). Of course, then came Gil Perrault..... :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp000085 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 I don't remember a player that got me hooked... But i was hooked going to the aud with my dad when i was very young. However, when i was about 12, and grant fuhr came to play for us, i was hooked on playing. I never was a goalie till i saw another leftie actually playing well for my team. I think i convinced my parents to splurge on some street hockey goalie equipment within a couple days of fuhr's first game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregor7777 Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Alexander Mogilny...named my son after him...j/k..sorta NHL 93 baby! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inkman Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Being from Rochester, with my parents having season tickets, it was mostly Amerks from the early 80's. Jody Gage, Geordie Robertson, Dave Fenvys, Dan Frawley, Mal Davis, Val James and Jim Weimer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Aud Smell Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Gotta be Bert for me. I don't yet own a jersey, but number 11 would be the only one I'd ever get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevilsAlum Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 As a kid in the 70s there van be on one - Gilbert Perreault. However, I grew up across the street from Jim Schoenfeld and got to lnow his family fairly well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
envirojeff Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Gilbert Perreault ... one end-to-end rush and I was a goner. Great question! I knew it wouldn't be long before someone hit on him, mine too! Grace, incredible athleticism and a grade A class act. Jeff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RVJ Posted October 9, 2006 Report Share Posted October 9, 2006 Bryan Trottier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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