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Streamwood High School, a school located in Streamwood, Illinois, whose mascot is the Sabres


1973–74 Buffalo Sabres season

Early on the morning of February 21, 1974, while driving on the Queen Elizabeth Way from Toronto to Buffalo in his white De Tomaso Pantera sports car, (a gift from Sabres' GM George "Punch" Imlach), Horton was involved in what is now an infamous accident.

1998–99 Buffalo Sabres season

Alexander Karpovtsev scored at 13:09 of the second to pull the Maple Leafs to within one, but they could not score the equalizer and Curtis Brown iced the game with an empty-net goal at 19:31 of the third period and the Sabres won, 4–2.

The Sabres went on to score twice in the third period, on goals by Curtis Brown at 5:21 and Geoff Sanderson at 11:02.

Andy Moog

In the final game of the series Moog gave up the overtime goal to the Sabres' Brad May.

Bob Sauvé

The Sabres selected three goaltenders in the 1975 draft, with Sauvé and Don Edwards being the most notable.

Buffalo Sabres

On November 30, Ken Campbell of The Hockey News reported a story that billionaire Terrence Pegula had signed a letter of intent to purchase the Sabres from Golisano for US$150 million.

Kevin Sylvester Fill-in play by play; Host of a daily radio show sponsored by the Sabres on WGR, Studio host (2005–2012)

Carlton Bailey

Bailey's son, Justin is an aspiring hockey player who is a member of the Kitchener Rangers of the Ontario Hockey League and was drafted by the Buffalo Sabres with the 52nd pick in the 2013 NHL Entry Draft.

CKTB

In that year, CKTB dropped Bills coverage, while the Sabres rights were revoked as Entercom Communications, owners of WGR in Buffalo and WROC in Rochester, New York, gained exclusive rights to the team's games.

Darcy Regier

In the summer of 2007, after Buffalo won the Presidents' Trophy for the league's best regular season record, Regier and Sabres Managing Partner Larry Quinn failed to re-sign Buffalo co-captains Chris Drury and Daniel Brière.

Jeff Jillson

He played sparingly for the Sabres, but was inserted into their lineup during the 2006 Stanley Cup Playoffs to fill one of the holes on their blueline created by injuries to Dmitri Kalinin, Teppo Numminen, and Henrik Tallinder.

Jillian Saulnier

Two of her teammates with the Stoney Creek Junior Sabres, Laura Fortino and Jessica Wong would play together at the 2009 IIHF World Women’s Under-18 Championships in Germany and win a silver medal.

Military history of Australia during the Indonesia–Malaysia Confrontation

On 17 July 1963 Australian Sabres sighted Indonesian Air Force MiG-19s near the Malaysian coast and tracked one of them back towards its base at Medan in North Sumatra.

No. 147 Squadron RAF

It reformed on 1 February 1953 as an overseas ferry unit moving aircraft such a Sabres and Hunters before final disbandment upon merger with No. 167 Squadron RAF on 15 September 1958.

Perth and District Collegiate Institute

Floyd Smith - NHL Forward - Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs, Buffalo Sabres; NHL Coach - Buffalo Sabres, Toronto Maple Leafs; WHA Coach - Cincinnati Stingers, NHL General Manager - Toronto Maple Leafs

Robitaille

Mike Robitaille, Canadian ice hockey player, defenceman for, among other teams, the Buffalo Sabres, for which he currently serves as commentator

Sandringham Sabres

Sandringham Sabres is a professional basketball team from Sandringham, Australia that plays in the ABA.

Sarah Darling

To promote the single, Black River Music Group arranged for Darling to sing the national anthem for a Buffalo Sabres game in place of usual singer Doug Allen; the Sabres and Black River are both owned by Terrence Pegula.

Si Zerrouk massacre

That night, a number of guerrillas armed with shotguns, knives, and sabres (30 according to The Economist, 100 according to Liberte) stormed into the area by night and started breaking into homes and cutting the residents' throats, killing men, women, and babies, and burning some victims alive.

Somerset County Cricket Club in 2005

Paul Hoffmann snared the important wicket of James Hildreth for 49, the lower order rolled over meekly to Arafat (who got 3-33), and with Jon Francis injured, the Sabres managed to lose the match by 15 runs as they were all out for 218.

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

The Sabres began to play a role in the Vietnam War in 1965, when their air defence responsibilities expanded to include protection of USAF aircraft using Ubon as a base for strikes against North Vietnam.

Ted Nolan

He remained with the team through 2011, when the team was sold to Terrence Pegula and the Americans' front office was integrated into that of the Sabres'.

Tom Barrasso

November 12, 1988, the Sabres traded Barrasso with a 3rd round draft pick in the 1990 draft (Joe Dziedzic) to the Pittsburgh Penguins for Doug Bodger and Darrin Shannon.

Wellsville, New York

John Rigas, founder of Adelphia Communications Corporation, as well as former owner of Buffalo Sabres.


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