Sabres Hockey Jersey, The Buffalo Sabres entered the National Hockey League for the 1970-season along with the Vancouver Canucks. In the forty years since the Sabres first started bringing exciting hockey to upstate New York, three Buffalo players have won the Calder Memorial Trophy as the NHL\'s rookie of the year.
Gilbert Perreault was the first overall pick in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft and the first player ever drafted by the Sabres. In that inaugural Sabres season, Perreault scored 38 goals and assisted on 34 others for 72 points while playing all in all 78 games.
Gil was drafted out of the Ontario Hockey Association where he was a member of the Montreal Junior Canadiens for three years from 1967-68 to 1969-70. In his final season, he scored 51 goals and added 70 assists for 121 points in just 54 games.
Over an NHL career that spanned from 1970-71 to 1986-87, all with the Buffalo Sabres, Perreault accumulated stats at a pace that have put him at the top of the Sabres all-time lists for career games played, goals, assists and points. To this date, Gil is the team leader in all these categories. He was selected to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1990, the Sabres Hockey Jersey same year that Perreault\'s number 11 became one of six Buffalo Sabres retired numbers.
Tom Barrasso was the fifth overall pick in the 1983 NHL Entry Draft by the Buffalo Sabres. In 1983-84, the American-born goaltender played 42 games for Buffalo with a record of 26-12-3. Barrasso sported a goals against average of 2.84 and a save percentage of.893 with two shutouts, earning the Calder. By today\'s standards, those weren\'t the greatest numbers, but one has to remember that 1983-84 was in the height of Sabres Hockey Jersey the crazy Wayne Gretzky fed offensive days of the National Hockey League when scores of 8-7 were the rule, not the exception.
Barrasso played with the Sabres from 1983-84 until a trade sent him to the Pittsburgh Penguins during the 1988-89 NHL season. His career ended after the 2002-03 season with stints with the Ottawa Senators, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs and St. Louis Blues along the way. The man who was drafted straight out of high school in the United States is now a member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame.
In 2009-10, 6\'8\" defenseman Tyler Myers won the Calder. Tyler was the 12th overall pick of the Sabres in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft. While earning the Calder, Myers played in all 82 regular season games for Buffalo, scoring eleven and totalling 48 points from the point.
Like Barrasso, Myers is also American-born but moved to Canada when he was 10. He spent four years with the Kelowna Rockets of the Western Hockey League before being drafted. In his final Sabres Hockey Jersey season of junior, he helped Kelowna to the WHL championships and a berth in the Memorial Cup. As well, he helped Canada to a gold medal win at the IIHF World Junior hockey championships.
Tom is the author of http://www.ohlalumnicentral.com/ (OHL Alumni Central). OHL Alumni Central is a daily updated blog featuring graduates of the Ontario Hockey League and their careers in professional hockey after leaving the OHL.
The centrepiece of ohlalumnicentral.com is the OHL Alumni Big List. The Big List is an on-going database of the whereabouts of all the active OHL grads.
