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Eastern Conference - Northeast Division
Buffalo Sabres
Team's name: Buffalo Sabres
Conference: Eastern
Division: Northeast 
Location:
Buffalo,
New York
Nickname:
The Sabres
Mascot: Sabretooth
Team Colors:
Midnight Blue, Maize,
Silver and White
Joined the Conference: 1970
General Manager: Darcy Regier
Hockey Head Coach: Lindy Ruff
Hockey Stadium: HSBC Arena
Current Capacity: 18,690
First Year of Hockey: 1970
Team Titles:
Stanley Cup:
Conference Championships:1974-75, 1979-80, 1998-99
Division Championships:
1974-75, 1979-80, 1980-81, 1996-97, 2006-07 |
This New York professional ice hockey team first joined the NHL in the early 1970’s. Throughout the group’s history they have achieved several division championships especially during their beginning which was a very solid one; then in the 80’s and 90’s and more recently in 2006-07.
The Sabres have also won three conference championships but they keep searching for the Stanley Cup victory which has not arrived yet.
During the mid 1990’s the team was acquired by Adelphia Communications and later on the American billionaire B. Thomas Golisano became in possession of the team until today.
Over the past three seasons after the NHL lockout the Sabres have been able to reach the playoffs in two occasions but this recent 2007-08 campaign the team only managed to get 39 wins, 31 loses and the fourth place in the Northeast division but did not qualified for any further games. |
Some of the current players which are listed in the team’s roster are: Toni Lydman, Teppo Nummien, Mike Weber, Dmitri Kalinin, Ryan Miller, Adam Mair, Michael Ryan and Jochen Hecht.
The Sabres play their home games at the HSBC arena since 1996.
Roster
| Centers |
| No. |
Name |
Age |
HT |
WT |
Shot |
Birthdate |
| 19 |
Tim Connolly |
26 |
6-1 |
191 |
R |
5/7/81 |
| 28 |
Paul Gaustad |
26 |
6-4 |
229 |
L |
2/3/82 |
| 55 |
Jochen Hecht |
30 |
6-1 |
191 |
L |
6/21/77 |
| 22 |
Adam Mair |
29 |
6-1 |
208 |
R |
2/15/79 |
| 9 |
Derek Roy |
25 |
5-9 |
188 |
L |
5/4/83 |
| 37 |
Michael Ryan |
27 |
6-1 |
188 |
L |
5/16/80 |
| Left Wings |
| No. |
Name |
Age |
HT |
WT |
Shot |
Birthdate |
| 20 |
Daniel Paille |
24 |
6-0 |
197 |
L |
4/15/84 |
| 76 |
Andrew Peters |
28 |
6-4 |
247 |
L |
5/5/80 |
| 26 |
Thomas Vanek |
24 |
6-2 |
207 |
R |
1/19/84 |
| Right Wings |
| No. |
Name |
Age |
HT |
WT |
Shot |
Birthdate |
| 61 |
Maxim Afinogenov |
28 |
6-0 |
191 |
L |
9/4/79 |
| 56 |
Steve Bernier |
23 |
6-2 |
225 |
R |
3/31/85 |
| 36 |
Patrick Kaleta |
21 |
5-11 |
195 |
R |
6/8/86 |
| 12 |
Ales Kotalik |
29 |
6-1 |
227 |
R |
12/23/78 |
| 29 |
Jason Pominville |
25 |
6-0 |
186 |
R |
11/30/82 |
| 21 |
Drew Stafford |
22 |
6-1 |
202 |
R |
10/30/85 |
| Defense |
| No. |
Name |
Age |
HT |
WT |
Shot |
Birthdate |
| 45 |
Dmitri Kalinin |
27 |
6-3 |
206 |
L |
7/22/80 |
| 5 |
Toni Lydman |
30 |
6-1 |
202 |
L |
9/25/77 |
| 27 |
Teppo Numminen |
39 |
6-2 |
197 |
R |
7/3/68 |
| 38 |
Nathan Paetsch |
25 |
6-1 |
198 |
L |
3/30/83 |
| 4 |
Nolan Pratt |
32 |
6-3 |
207 |
L |
8/14/75 |
| 44 |
Andrej Sekera |
21 |
6-0 |
191 |
L |
6/8/86 |
| 6 |
Jaroslav Spacek |
34 |
5-11 |
206 |
L |
2/11/74 |
| 10 |
Henrik Tallinder |
29 |
6-3 |
214 |
L |
1/10/79 |
| 34 |
Mike Weber |
20 |
6-2 |
205 |
L |
12/16/87 |
| Goalies |
| No. |
Name |
Age |
HT |
WT |
Shot |
Birthdate |
| 30 |
Ryan Miller |
27 |
6-2 |
166 |
L |
7/17/80 |
| 35 |
Jocelyn Thibault |
33 |
5-11 |
169 |
L |
1/12/75 |
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