page_title: List of Buffalo Sabres players
section_title: Skaters
hierarchical_section_title: List of Buffalo Sabres players / Skaters
caption_attribution_description: Photo: Matthew Manor/AHL
context_page_description: The Buffalo Sabres are a professional ice hockey team based in Buffalo, New York, United States. The Sabres are members of the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference in the National Hockey League. The team was founded as an expansion franchise in 1970, and As of 15 April 2019, 51 goaltenders and 448 skaters have appeared in at least one regular season or playoff game with the Sabres.
  Nine former Buffalo Sabres players are enshrined in the Hockey Hall of Fame: Dave Andreychuk, Dick Duff, Grant Fuhr, Clark Gillies, Dale Hawerchuk, Tim Horton, Pat LaFontaine, Dominik Hasek, and Gilbert Perreault. Dominik Hasek won two Hart Memorial Trophies as NHL MVP while playing for the Sabres. In addition, Hasek won six Vezina Trophies as the NHL's top goaltender while playing for Buffalo; Ryan Miller and Tom Barrasso have won the Vezina while playing for the Sabres, while Don Edwards and Bob Sauve shared the trophy as Sabres in the 1979–80 season. Barrasso also won the Calder Memorial Trophy as NHL rookie of the year while playing for the Sabres, as did Gilbert Perreault and Tyler Myers. Michael Peca won the Frank J. Selke Trophy while with the team.
caption: Denis Hamel, shown here as a member of the AHL's Binghamton Senators, spent parts of four seasons with the Sabres.[10]
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