All-time favourite Sabre survivor

[dudacek]

This is more of an off-season type thread, but considering how horrible things are I figured we need the distraction.

This is a survivor poll designed to determine the board's favourite Sabres of all-time.

 

It works like this:

• I post a list of a bunch of Sabres from an era of the franchise.
  
• You vote for your least favourite Sabres on the list
  
• After a few days, I close the poll, cut the guys with the most votes and start again
  
• Once the list gets small enough I add another era of players.
  
• Last two Sabres standing from any given group get a promotion to finals.
  
• And we continue our way through the history of the franchise.
  

You do not have to vote from each group. The groups are only important in terms of promotions. Sabres will make it to the finals without being promoted.

Technically, you can vote for as many as you want, but if you aim for three it makes the game work better.

 

There are about 120-130 Sabres included. I've tried to stick with people who were with the franchise for a long time and/or played prominent roles. Write-in votes welcome. If I've forgotten anyone who gets a lot of support, it's easy enough to add someone. Names in spoiler.

 

 

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BUILDERS

Seymour Knox

Norty Knox

Punch Imlach

Rip Simonick

Ted Darling

Rick Jeanneret

Gilbert Perreault

Lindy Ruff

 

THE GLORY YEARS

Eddie Shack

Floyd Smith

Roger Crozier

Joe Crozier

Rick Martin

Jim Lorentz

Don Luce

Craig Ramsay

Mike Robitaille

Tim Horton

 

Rene Robert

Jim Schoenfeld

Rick Dudley

Jocelyn Guevremont

Larry Carriere

Jerry Korab

Brian Spencer

Bill Hajt

Danny Gare

 

SCOTTY’S BOYS

Derek Smith

Dale McCourt

Andre Savard

Don Edwards

Bob Sauve

Ric Seiling

Tony McKegney

Larry Playfair

John Van Boxmeer

 

Scotty Bowman

Real Cloutier

Mike Ramsey

Mike Foligno

Phil Housley

Dave Andreychuk

John Tucker

Tom Barrasso

Paul Cyr

 

STARTING OVER

Daren Puppa

Christian Ruuttu

Uwe Krupp

Scott Arniel

Gerry Meehan

Ted Sator

Rick Vaive

Kevin Maguire

 

 

Clint Malarchuk

Benoit Hogue

Alexander Mogilny

Rob Ray

Ray Sheppard

Pierre Turgeon

Doug Bodger

Mike Hartman

 

 

LA-LA-LAND

Grant Ledyard

Petr Svoboda

Grant Fuhr

Donald Audette

Dale Hawerchuk

John Muckler

Pat Lafontaine

Craig Muni

 

Brad May

Yuri Khymylev

John Rigas

Larry Quinn

Richard Smehlik

Matthew Barnaby

Derek Plante

Dominik Hasek

 

NO GOAL

Darcy Regier

Gary Galley

Alexei Zhitnik

Curtis Brown

Ted Nolan

Mike Peca

Jason Dawe

Brian Holzinger

Dixon Ward

 

Vaclav Varada

Marty Biron

Miro Satan

Jay McKee

Chris Gratton

James Patrick

Jason Woolley

Stu Barnes

Rhett Warrener

Doug Gilmour

 

DARCY’S CORE

Max Afinogenov

JP Dumont

Al Kotalik

Tim Connolly

Henrik Tallinder

Danny Briere

Chris Drury

Mike Grier

Teppo Numminen

Tom Golisano

 

Toni Lydman

Paul Gaustad

Thomas Vanek

Drew Stafford

Jason Pominville

Derek Roy

Ryan Miller

Brian Campbell

Jochen Hecht

 

 

THE TANK

Patrick Kaleta

Andre Sekera

Tyler Myers

Tyler Ennis

Jhonas Enroth

Nathan Gerbe

Marcus Foligno

Mike Weber

Terry Pegula

 

 

Christian Ehrhoff

Cody Hodgson

Steve Ott

Robin Regehr

Ville Leino

Tim Murray

Zemgus Girgensons

Matt Moulson

Josh Gorges

Kim Pegula

 

 

 

There are no other criteria for voting, other than your love for a given Sabre, or lack thereof.

We begin with Sabres from the end of the Darcy era and the beginning of the Pegula era.

Edited November 29, 2014 by dudacek

[ubkev]

Myers, Gerbe, Leino and Foligno

[Sabres Fan in NS]

You have one too many "e"s in Petr Svoboda's name.

 

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Weber

Ott

Pominville

Grier

[dudacek]

Thanks. Fixed.

You've gotta vote for the players on the poll.

[Eleven]

Not sure why Kim is involved.

[dudacek]

  On 11/2/2014 at 6:03 PM, Eleven said:

Not sure why Kim is involved.

It's not just limited to players.

She owns the team and seems to be a favourite of more than few posters.

[Eleven]

  On 11/2/2014 at 6:04 PM, dudacek said:

It's not just limited to players.

She owns the team and seems to be a favourite of more than few posters.

 

Does she own a piece of the team? I know she is a co-owner of the Bills; I'm not too sure about the Sabres.

[dudacek]

  On 11/2/2014 at 6:07 PM, Eleven said:

Does she own a piece of the team? I know she is a co-owner of the Bills; I'm not too sure about the Sabres.

I'm not sure. I've always thought the team was owned by the Pegula family and Kim seems to take a very active role.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

  On 11/2/2014 at 6:03 PM, dudacek said:

Thanks. Fixed.

You've gotta vote for the players on the poll.

 

Sorry.

 

So, for this poll we are in The Tank era?

 

If so ...

 

Please change my votes to ...

 

Weber

Ott

Gorges

Regehr

[Randall Flagg]

  On 11/2/2014 at 6:33 PM, Sabres Fan In NS said:

Sorry.

 

So, for this poll we are in The Tank era?

 

If so ...

 

Please change my votes to ...

 

Weber

Ott

Gorges

Regehr

How come these guys are your least favorite, NS?

[darksabre]

I was expecting this to be the bizzaro Drew Stafford thread.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

  On 11/2/2014 at 7:09 PM, Arcsabresfan41 said:

How come these guys are your least favorite, NS?

 

I give up.

 

I thought it was favourite Sabre .......

 

I am so out of this poll. I'm not smart enough to even read it right.

 

Maybe I thought it was in the Bizarro World of the CHL.

[Randall Flagg]

  On 11/2/2014 at 7:17 PM, Sabres Fan In NS said:

I give up.

 

I thought it was favourite Sabre .......

 

I am so out of this poll. I'm not smart enough to even read it right.

 

Maybe I thought it was in the Bizarro World of the CHL.

Ah I see. Then my question is, why wasn't Girgensons one of your players?? :P

[Stoner]

Dudes, you might want to change the thread title. Wait, never mind. Between this and the CHL, I don't know if I'm coming or going.

Edited November 2, 2014 by PASabreFan

[deluca67]

  On 11/2/2014 at 7:10 PM, d4rksabre said:

I was expecting this to be the bizzaro Drew Stafford thread.

Give it time.

[Stoner]

Eleven and Zemgus and GMTM, but not Kim Pegula, sittin' in a tree...

[qwksndmonster]

Eleven, Physics, pastajoe, Eric, and blugold43.

 

You 5 are on notice for selecting Andrej Sekera. How dare you.

 

Edit: Numark and Ghost, I thought I liked you two. :angry:

Edited November 3, 2014 by qwksndmonster

[IKnowPhysics]

Don't get me wrong, I don't mind Sekera, and I understood that he was developing well. But I'm dropping three guys in every group, and he doesn't make the cut, barely, past local boy Marcus Foligno. Similar thing with Regehr and Ehrhoff.

[Eleven]

I don't think Sekera has any chance of being voted all-time favorite Sabre, so I have no problem sparing him humiliation and telling him to leave the island early.

[Samson's Flow]

_{This is going to take a loooong time if we only vote off 3 players from the list at a time. You must have had 200 or so names in that spoiler list.}

 

_{Disclaimer: I in no way counted the number of names in the list so I could be way off. Don't be a dick.}

Edited November 3, 2014 by Touched by Boyes

[Eleven]

  On 11/3/2014 at 6:14 PM, Touched by Boyes said:

_{This is going to take a loooong time if we only vote off 3 players from the list at a time. You must have had 200 or so names in that spoiler list.}

 

_{Disclaimer: I in no way counted the number of names in the list so I could be way off. Don't be a dick.}

 

I don't think I even left three ON the list.

[qwksndmonster]

  On 11/3/2014 at 5:59 PM, Eleven said:

I don't think Sekera has any chance of being voted all-time favorite Sabre, so I have no problem sparing him humiliation and telling him to leave the island early.

That's fine. I'm fine.

 

Watch your back, scum.

[Samson's Flow]

  On 11/3/2014 at 6:16 PM, Eleven said:

I don't think I even left three ON the list.

I'm sorry, I like to follow the rules to this made up game...

 

  On 11/3/2014 at 6:16 PM, dudacek said:

Technically, you can vote for as many as you want, but if you aim for three it makes the game work better.

 

[Eleven]

  On 11/3/2014 at 9:36 PM, Touched by Boyes said:

I'm sorry, I like to follow the rules to this made up game...

 

That's because you've been touched by Boyes.

[IKnowPhysics]

  On 11/3/2014 at 6:44 PM, qwksndmonster said:

That's fine. I'm fine.

 

Watch your back, scum.