Buffalo Sabres Milestones

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How to play the Buffalo Sabres history timeline game

Each card in this deck is a Sabres milestone, with a few words underneath saying what it was: a draft, a trade, an award, a playoff run, a sad day. Line them up by year. You begin with one card on the timeline and its year in view. Each new one goes in a gap before, between or after the others; place it correctly and the year shows, place it wrongly and it still slides to its true spot while you lose one of three lives.

Buffalo has never lifted the Cup, so this deck is built from star players, award seasons, near misses and the occasional change of owner or arena. Goaltending and scoring feats take up a lot of room, and several of them belong to the same few players, which makes ordering within one career the real test. The captions are brief, so lean on what you know about when each star was at his best.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 21 of the 21 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Drafted Gilbert Perreault Punch Imlach won a spin of the roulette wheel to grab the No. 1 pick for the new team's inaugural season, entering the league alongside the Vancouver Canucks
The French Connection line The Perreault-Martin-Robert trio came together as one of hockey's most electric forward lines
Tim Horton dies The Hall of Fame defenceman and doughnut-chain founder was killed in a car crash driving home from a game
First Stanley Cup Final Their first trip to the Cup Final against the Broad Street Bullies, remembered for fog on the ice and a bat swatted out of the air
Scotty Bowman arrives The legendary bench boss came from Montreal to run the club's hockey operations
Danny Gare's big season The captain tied for the NHL lead with 56 goals as the club reached the semifinals
Perreault's 500th goal The captain became the franchise's first 500-goal scorer
Retired Perreault's No. 11 The team raised its founding star's number to the Memorial Auditorium rafters
Acquired Pat LaFontaine A blockbuster with the Islanders, swapping Pierre Turgeon, brought the star center to Buffalo
Mogilny's 76 goals Alexander Mogilny erupted for a franchise-record scoring season
Hasek's first Vezina The Dominator won his first top-goalie award and stopped 70 shots in a four-overtime playoff marathon
Moved to a new arena The Sabres left the Aud for a shiny new downtown building
Hasek wins the Hart The goaltender became the first netminder in decades to be named league MVP
Reached the conference final Buffalo advanced to the East final before falling to Washington
No Goal Brett Hull's skate-in-the-crease overtime goal ended their Cup Final against Dallas
Pushed to Game 7 A young, fast Sabres team took Carolina to seven games in the conference final
Won the Presidents' Trophy Led by Briere and Drury, the Sabres finished atop the entire league standings
Terry Pegula buys the team The new owner promised to spend whatever it took to build a contender
Drafted Jack Eichel Buffalo took the center second overall, right behind Connor McDavid
Drafted Rasmus Dahlin The Sabres used the first overall pick on the Swedish defenceman
Traded Jack Eichel The Sabres dealt their captain to Vegas amid a neck-injury standoff