By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 22: July 1, 2001 – The Sabres trade Dominik Hasek to Detroit for Vyacheslav Kozlov, a first-round draft pick in 2002, and…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 22
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 23
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 23: December 31, 1987 – The Sabres trade Paul Cyr and a 10th-round draft choice in 1988 (Eric Fenton) to the New…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 25
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 25: July 1, 2018 – Traded Ryan O’Reilly to St. Louis for Tage Thompson, Patrik Berglund, Vladimir Sobotka, a first-round draft choice…
The Sabres’ One-Hit Wonders
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Last week, you might remember, we looked over the list of “one-hit wonders” of the late and lamented Buffalo Braves. It was a…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 27
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 27: July 3, 2003 – The Sabres trade Rhett Warrener and Steven Reinprecht to Calgary for Chris Drury and Steve Begin. Chris…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 28
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 28: March 10, 1981 – The Sabres trade Rick Martin to Los Angeles for a third-round draft choice in 1981 (Colin Chisholm)…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 32
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page No. 32: March 10, 1980 – The Sabres trade Jerry Korab to Los Angeles for a first-round draft choice in 1982 (Phil Housley). The…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 33
Bu Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 33: August 2, 2018 – The Sabres trade Cliff Pu, a second-round draft choice in 2019, a third-round draft choice in 2020,…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 35
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page No. 35: June 24, 2001 – The Sabres trade Michael Peca to the New York Islanders for Tim Connolly and Taylor Pyatt. Michael Peca…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 36
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page No. 36: October 5, 1979 – The Sabres trade Rene Robert to Colorado for John Van Boxmeer. Scotty Bowman was hired in the summer…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 38
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 38: June 26, 2015 – The Sabres trade Nikita Zadorov, Mikhail Grigorenko, J.T. Compher and a second-round draft pick in 2015 to…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 39
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page No. 39: June 10, 1970 – The Sabres trade Tom Webster to Detroit for Roger Crozier. The Boston Bruins had it all figured out…
Buffalo’s Biggest Trades: No. 40
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist No. 40: June 6, 1983 – The Sabres trade Tony McKegney, Andre Savard, J.F. Sauve and a third-round draft choice in 1983 (Iirvo…
Sabres’ top picks arrive
By Budd Bailey, Buffalo Sports Page Columnist Ryan Johnson didn’t notice it, of course. New draft choices aren’t aware such things, since it’s only been a few days since he…
