Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2023-24 revision of our top 50 Buffalo Sabres.

As for all of our top 50 players in hockey, we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, the Sabres were hoping to break their long playoff drought and play meaningful spring hockey but could not reach the postseason.  There were no new entrants and three elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Dominik Hasek
2. Gilbert Perreault
3. Rick Martin
4. Ryan Miller
5. Mike Ramsey

You can find the entire list here.

Three-time Defenseman All-Star Rasmus Dahlin jumped from #34 to 26.

Left Wing Jeff Skinner, who is now with Edmonton, reached #35 from #44.

Forward Tage Thompson moved from #47 to #42.

We thank you for your continued support of our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

The problem with running a Hall of Fame-related website is that many of the big ones we cover all have announcements within months of each other.  The backbone of what we do is list-related, resulting in a long push to revise what we already have, specifically now with our Football Hockey and Basketball Lists.

At present, we have a minor update as we have completed the next ten of the 2024 Hockey List, which you can comment on and vote on:

The new 21 to 30:

21. Rick Martin
22. Rick Middleton
23. John Tonelli
24. Carl Brewer
25. Curtis Joseph
26. Ralph Backstrom
27. Nikolai Khabibulin
28. Peter Bondra
29. Marc Tardif
30. Kent Nilsson

Rankings are impacted annually based on your comments and votes.

Thank you all for your patience. We will soon unveil more changes to the football and basketball lists.

Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Buffalo Sabres.

As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the National Hockey League.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, Buffalo again failed to make the playoffs, but was still able to generate three new players on this list.

As always, we present our top five, which was not impacted by last season:

1. Dominik Hasek

2. Gilbert Perreault

3. Rick Martin

4. Ryan Miller

5. Mike Ramsey

You can find the entire list here.

Defenseman and two-time All-Star, Rasmus Dahlin, enters at #34.

Left Wing, Jeff Skinner, comes in at #44.

The third new entrant is Center, Tage Thompson, who debuts at #47.

We welcome your input and comments and as always, we thank you for your support.

In 1970, the Buffalo Sabres took Gilbert Perreault with the First Overall Pick.  The year after, Buffalo had the number five pick, and they would take another native of Quebec, and soon-to-be linemate (and junior teammate), Rick Martin.

As part of Buffalo’s vaunted “French Connection” line, Rick Martin was part of the most exciting lines in hockey in the 1970s. Martin was a lethal sniper and once he mastered his defensive skills was one of the better two-way players in hockey. With two 50 goal seasons (not exactly easy in the ’70s) and as a perennial All-Star, Martin should have enjoyed some success in the ’80s and have a steady decline into his 30’s the way most star players do. Sadly, a brutal injury in November of 1980 essentially put an end to his career, and he only played a handful of games after. Had Rick Martin made it through at least a few of the free-wheeling 80’s, his career stats would have likely been padded sufficiently to make the Hall. Currently, he remains one of the top stars of the 70’s on the outside looking in.