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  1. 1. Should the Sabres retire Ryan Miller’s number?


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  • Poll closed on 05/13/2021 at 12:00 AM

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  On 5/9/2021 at 5:49 PM, PASabreFan said:

The problem is that the Hall of Fame is itself bloated. Jim Kelley, Rudy Migay, Jerry Korab. Maybe to the Pegulas' credit, no one's been inducted since 2012 when Rick and Dale went in.

Hindsight is 20/20 (or 1980). If you could start from scratch you'd have a ring (or rink) of honor for most of the people in the current Hall of Fame, your HOF would be the cream of the crop and of the COTC you'd have 11 and 39 in the rafters, although it's hard to argue with retiring a number of a player who died while still a Sabre.

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The Sabres Alumni page is outdated.  Hasek was inducted in 2014.

43 people for a 50+year old team seems about right to me.  It's just the local team HoF; it isn't supposed to be THAT selective.

Horton is always problematic for me but I think the move would be never to issue the number again, but not to hang it in the rafters.

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  On 5/9/2021 at 5:49 PM, PASabreFan said:

The problem is that the Hall of Fame is itself bloated. Jim Kelley, Rudy Migay, Jerry Korab. Maybe to the Pegulas' credit, no one's been inducted since 2012 when Rick and Dale went in.

Hindsight is 20/20 (or 1980). If you could start from scratch you'd have a ring (or rink) of honor for most of the people in the current Hall of Fame, your HOF would be the cream of the crop and of the COTC you'd have 11 and 39 in the rafters, although it's hard to argue with retiring a number of a player who died while still a Sabre.

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No it isn’t. He was incredibly intoxicated and crashed his sports car after only playing for the team for two seasons at the end of his career. None of that screams “retire my number.”

  On 5/9/2021 at 5:57 PM, Eleven said:

The Sabres Alumni page is outdated.  Hasek was inducted in 2014.

43 people for a 50+year old team seems about right to me.  It's just the local team HoF; it isn't supposed to be THAT selective.

Horton is always problematic for me but I think the move would be never to issue the number again, but not to hang it in the rafters.

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Exactly this. Take it down when we move arenas and just don’t put it back up. 

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  On 5/9/2021 at 5:57 PM, Eleven said:

The Sabres Alumni page is outdated.  Hasek was inducted in 2014.

43 people for a 50+year old team seems about right to me.  It's just the local team HoF; it isn't supposed to be THAT selective.

Horton is always problematic for me but I think the move would be never to issue the number again, but not to hang it in the rafters.

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They listed 41. Dom was 42.

But I stand corrected.

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  On 5/9/2021 at 6:04 PM, PASabreFan said:

They listed 41. Dom was 42.

But I stand corrected.

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Yeah I'm putting Miller in at 43.

I instantly knew which site you were relying on; shame that we can't count on what should be the definitive source.  

  • Hoss changed the title to Give Ryan Miller his respect (poll question added)
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  On 5/10/2021 at 9:03 PM, Hoss said:

Fun fact: Ryan Miller is the final player in the NHL to have worn the goathead. End of an era.

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People might think I'm nuts, but I actually loved the goathead. Then I absolutely hated the blond Howard Cosell toupee that came after that.

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  On 5/10/2021 at 11:54 PM, Crosschecking said:

People might think I'm nuts, but I actually loved the goathead. Then I absolutely hated the blond Howard Cosell toupee that came after that.

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I don't think we talk enough about how truly horrid a re-introduction it was for the Royals, this year

Their first season back is our Franchise Centre's last?

What a terrible omen

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  On 5/10/2021 at 11:57 PM, Thorny said:

See edit. 

...and, we finished last

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Oh. Royal blue. Got it.

I don't see it as an omen myself. I try not to read into omens and curses - regardless of what the talking heads say. Watch them shut up when Vince Lombardi and Lord Stanley stay in town for a year.

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