By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist

No. 60: March 18, 1997 – The Sabres trade Barrie Moore and Craig Millar to Edmonton for Miroslav Satan.

Miroslav Satan appeared to be doing quite well as a young player in Edmonton. He scored 18 goals in 62 games as a rookie, and added 17 more with about a month to go in the 1996-97 season. The winger was 22 years old and seemed capable of bigger things.

The Oilers, though, weren’t impressed. They thought he should be scoring more often, so they traded him to the Sabres. The return was Barrie Moore, who had eight points in 35 games that season, and Craig Millar, a prospect picked in the ninth round in 1994. It seemed almost incomprehensible that Edmonton would complete such a transaction.

Then it got worse. Satan scored eight goals in 10 games during the regular season, and kept scoring until his departure in 2004. Satan scored 224 goals as a Sabre including a 40-goal season and two 30-goal campaigns. He finished his NHL career with 363 goals in 1,050 games. Moore and Millar did little, making it one of John Muckler’s best trades in Buffalo.

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Budd Bailey

Budd Bailey has been involved in almost every aspect of the local sports scene for the last 40 years. He worked for WEBR Radio, the Buffalo Sabres' public relations department and The Buffalo News during that time. In that time he covered virtually every aspect of the area's sports world, from high schools to the Bills and Sabres and everything in between. Along the way, Budd served as a play-by-play announcer for the Bisons, an analyst for the Stallions, and a talk-show host. He won the National Lacrosse League's Tom Borrelli Award as the media personality of the year in 2011, and was a finalist for that same award in 2017. Budd's seventh and eighth books, one on the Transcontinental Railroad and the other about Ichiro Suzuki, are scheduled to be released in the fall.

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