How Buffalo Sabres Milestones is played

Every card in this deck carries a hidden value on the same scale — release years and dates — and the run is one long sorting problem. The first card is dealt face up. Each card after it goes into the gap where you think it belongs, and the value only shows once it lands. Get it wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had placed.

This deck can also be shuffled together with any other deck measured in release years and dates — tick several on the deck tree to build one longer timeline out of them.

What's in the deck

21 of the 21 cards you could be dealt. The 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