The Buffalo Sabres joined the NHL in the 1970-71 season, owned by Seymour and Northrop Knox, scions of a family long prominent in Western New York. They picked the nickname because a sabre had long been considered a weapon carried by a leader. The Knoxes had tried twice before to get an NHL team; first in the 1967 round of expansion, then unsuccessfully attempting to buy the Oakland Seals with the intent of moving them to Buffalo. Buffalo had been a hotbed for minor-league hockey, and the Buffalo Bisons had been one of the pillars of the American Hockey League, winning the Calder Cup in their final year before yielding to the Sabres.

They got off to a good start before they even hit the ice by picking future Hall of Fame centre Gilbert Perreault first overall in the NHL's Entry Draft. Perreault scored 39 goals in his rookie season, at the time a record for most goals scored by a rookie, and was awarded the Calder Memorial Trophy as rookie of the year, but the Sabres did not make the playoffs that first season.

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In the team's second season (1971-72), rookie Rick Martin via the draft and Rene Robert via a trade late in the season joined Perreault and would become one of the league's top forward lines in the 1970s. They were nicknamed "The French Connection" after the movie of the same name and in homage to those players' French-Canadian roots. The Sabres made the playoffs for the first time in 1972-73, just the team's third in the league, but lost in the quarter-finals in six games to the eventual Stanley Cup champion Montréal Canadiens. Game 6 at the Aud ended with the fans serenading their team in a chant of "Thank you Sabres! Thank you Sabres!" a moment many consider to be the greatest in team history. The chant would be heard again several more times in team history.

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After a subpar year in 1974 (missing the playoffs), the Sabres finished in a tie for the best record in the NHL in the 1974-75 regular season, and played the Stanley Cup finals in 1975 against the Philadelphia Flyers, a series which included the legendary Fog Game, the third of the series and the first-ever Sabres finals win. (The Fog Game was unique for two reasons: First, due to an unusual May heat in Buffalo that year, portions of the game were played in heavy fog and were invisible to many spectators.

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Robert was traded to the Colorado Rockies in 1980, and Martin to the Los Angeles Kings in 1981. Perreault retired in 1987 after spending 17 years with the Sabres, including several years as the team's captain. Stars for the Sabres in the 1980s included Perreault, the tough and yet skillful Mike Foligno, defensemen Phil Housley and Lindy Ruff (who would later return to Buffalo as head coach), 1983-84 Vezina and Calder Trophy winner Tom Barrasso and left-winger Dave Andreychuk. The Sabres of the 1980's missed the playoffs only twice, in 1986 and 1987, however only twice in the decade did they get past the first round of the playoffs. The 1986-87 season saw a new low as Buffalo finished an NHL worst 28-44-8. This finish gave them the first overall pick in the 1987 draft which they used to select Pierre Turgeon of the QMJHL's Granby Bisons. Turgeon would have a solid rookie season finishing 6th in the team in scoring with 42 points, and would later be the key to the package sent by the Sabres to the New York Islanders to acquire Pat Lafontaine. Buffalo closed out the decade of the 80's on June 16, 1990 when they traded one of that decade's stars, Phil Housley, along with Darrin Shannon and 1990 1st round pick (Keith Tkachuk) to the Winnipeg Jets for Dale Hawerchuk and a 1990 1st round pick (Brad May). Hawerchuk and May would help form the core of the Sabres through the early 1990's.

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Also during the 1992-93 NHL season, the Sabres executed what probably was the most important trade in team history, and acquired goaltender Dominik Hasek from the Chicago Blackhawks for Stephane Beauregard and a 1993 4th round draft pick (Eric Daze). Hasek had spent the previous two seasons as a backup goalie in Chicago, however "The Dominator" became the Sabres' starting goaltender the next season, and blossomed into one of the best goaltenders in the history of the game. Hasek swiftly broke many long-standing NHL records for goaltenders and was the game's preeminent defensive player for several years in the NHL and in international competition.

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New owner John Rigas' first act was to fire general manager John Muckler, who had a noted feud with Nolan. All-Star goaltender Hasek openly told reporters at the NHL Awards ceremony that he did not respect Nolan, placing new GM Darcy Regier in a tough position. He offered Nolan just a one-year contract for a reported $500,000. Nolan refused on the grounds that his previous contract was for two years, before he was Coach of the Year. Regier then pulled the contract off the table and didn't offer another one, ending Nolan's tenure as Sabres coach. Aside from several early job offers from the Tampa Bay Lightning and New York Islanders (both rejected by Nolan), Nolan has not been offered an NHL coaching position since, despite having some success as a head coach in the QMJHL. After Nolan, former Sabres captain Lindy Ruff was hired as head coach on July 21, 1997 - agreeing to a three-year deal.

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In 1999, Satan scored 40 goals, and the Sabres added centres Stu Barnes from the Pittsburgh Penguins and Joe Juneau from the Washington Capitals. Michal Grosek had the best season of his career, and the Sabres again played the Stanley Cup finals, this time against the Dallas Stars. In the sixth game of the seven-game series, Brett Hull's triple-overtime goal -- one that remains controversial as Hull's skate was visibly in the goal crease-- ended the series, and the Stars were awarded the Cup. In 1999, it was illegal to score a goal whilst an offensive player's skate was in the goal crease. At the time, even Dallas Morning News hockey writer Keith Gave questioned the legality of the goal. The NHL officials, however, maintained that Hull's three shots in the goal mouth constituted possession of the puck, and their ruling stood. ESPN's "Page 2" staff has ranked the call as the 5th worst officiating call in sports history.

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In the summer of 2002, Rigas and his sons were arrested for investor fraud for embezelling more than one billion dollars from Adelphia (Rigas eventually was convicted on United States federal securities charges, and presently is appealing a sentence of a fifteen-year prison term). The league took control of the team, though Rigas remained the owner on paper. The affair came as something of an embarrassment to the NHL.

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On March 7, 2005, the Sabres lost their main television broadcaster, as the Empire Sports Network (which had been on the air from 1991 to 2005) ceased operations due to the Adelphia scandal (Empire, like the Sabres, had been owned by Adelphia). Hence, for the 2005-06 campaign, the Madison Square Garden Network (MSG), a New York-based channel which mostly broadcasts New York Rangers games, agreed to broadcast Sabres games to television viewers in western New York.