page_title: Marcus Foligno
section_title: Buffalo Sabres
hierarchical_section_title: Marcus Foligno / Playing career / Buffalo Sabres
caption_attribution_description: English: Buffalo Sabres forward Marcus Foligna skates against the Pittsburgh Penguins, February 17, 2013 at First Niagara Center in Buffalo, NY.
context_page_description: Marcus Foligno is an American-born Canadian professional ice hockey player who plays for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League. He was selected 104th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft.
context_section_description: Foligno agreed to terms on an entry-level professional contract with the Buffalo Sabres on May 25, 2011. He began play with the Sabres' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate, the Rochester Americans, in the 2011–12 season. Foligno was called up to the Sabres on December 19, 2011, and made his NHL debut on December 20, playing against the Ottawa Senators, the team his brother Nick Foligno was playing with at the time. Marcus Foligno's second career start came March 10, 2012, again against his brother and the Ottawa Senators. Foligno scored his first career goal at 14:06 in the third period, which tied the game; Buffalo eventually won the game in a shootout.
  Like his brother Nick, Marcus Foligno used their father's "Foligno Leap" as his first career goal celebration. However, on Marcus' first goal, he was unsure he actually scored. As a result, Marcus used the "Leap" on his next goal in Buffalo on March 14, 2012.
  Foligno broke the family tradition and did not choose the numbers 17 (worn by his father) or 71 (worn by his brother). Upon being drafted by the Sabres, he elected to wear number 82 (assigned to him at camp) instead of his father's number 17. Foligno was reassigned to the Americans immediately before the 2012–13 NHL lockout. However, this changed once he was traded to the Minnesota Wild, where he chose to wear the number 17.
  On June 27, 2016, the Sabres issued a qualifying offer to Foligno. He was signed to a one-year contract on July 14, 2016. In the 2016–17 season, Foligno scored a career-best 13 goals in a checking-line role to match his 23 points from the previous season.
caption: Foligno in February 2013.
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