Incredible! Sabres beat Ryan Miller in return to Buffalo with 16 seconds to play

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They have played at First Niagara Center since 1996. Prior to that, the Buffalo Sabres played at the Buffalo Memorial Auditorium from the start of the franchise in 1970. The Sabres are currently owned by Terry Pegula and coached by Dan Bylsma.

Miller was an outstanding goalie during his time in Buffalo — one of the best in the NHL for a lengthy period of time — winning 284 games and recording a .916 save percentage while helping lead the team to a pair of Eastern Conference Finals in 2005-06 and 2006-07.

Their losing in the final few years of his tenure with the team had more to do with bad management and a terrible team in front of him.

The consensus was that first pick in the 1970 NHL Amateur Draft would be junior phenom Gilbert Perreault. Either the Sabres or the Canucks would get the first pick, to be determined with the spin of a roulette wheel. Perreault was available to the Sabres and Canucks as this was the first year that the Montreal Canadiens did not have a priority right to draft Quebec-born junior players.

The Canucks were allocated numbers 1–10 on the wheel, while the Sabres had 11–20. When league president Clarence Campbell spun the wheel, he initially thought the pointer landed on 1. However, while Campbell was congratulating the Vancouver delegation, Imlach asked Campbell to check again. As it turned out, the pointer was on 11—effectively handing Perreault to the Sabres.

Perreault scored 38 goals in his rookie season of 1970–71, at the time a record for most goals scored by a rookie in the NHL, and was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as the league’s rookie of the year. Despite Perreault’s star play, the Sabres finished well out of playoff contention.

By Adam Gretz | Hockey writer

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