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 first ten of the 2024 Hockey List, which you can comment on and vote on:

The new 1 to 10:

11. Keith Tkachuk
12. Bernie Nicholls
13. Henrik Zetterberg
14. Ryan Getzlaf*
15. Carey Price*
16. P.K. Subban*
17. J.C. Tremblay
18. Ryan Miller
19. Lorne Chabot
20. Dave Taylor 

*Denotes First Year of Eligibility

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.

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is news to us that Ryan Miller will be inducted into the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame and that his number 30 will also be retired during the 2022-23 season.

The Michigan-born Goalie played the first eleven seasons of his NHL career with the Sabres where he won the 2010 Vezina Trophy.  With an overall Sabres record of 284-186-57, Miller led Buffalo to back-to-back Eastern Conference Finals (2006 & 2007).  He also was electric for the United States Olympic team in 2010, that won the Silver Medal.

Miller’s jersey retirement sees him join Tim Horton (#2), Rick Martin (#7), Gilbert Perreault (#11), Rene Robert (#12), Pat LaFontaine (#16, Danny Gare (#18) and Dominik Hasek (#39).  He will also become the 43^rd member of the Sabres Hall of Fame.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate Ryan Miller for his impending honors.

Because of the sheer greatness of Dominik Hasek, Ryan Miller was never going to be the best Goalie in Sabres history.  That being said, we know that Miller was pretty damned good.

Miller joined the Sabres organization after three years at Michigan State, and in his fourth year of professional hockey, Miller became the primary netminder for Buffalo.  He kept his GAA well under three, and finished sixth in Vezina voting in 2006-07, but Miller would have a banner year in 2009-10.  That season, Miller led the NHL in Point Shares (16.8), winning the Vezina and was fourth in Hart Trophy voting.  Miller would also post career-highs in Wins (41), GAA (2.22) and Save Percentage (.929).  On top of everything, Miller was the prime Goalie for the United States in the Olympics, and while the Americans fell to Canada in the Gold Medal Game, it was widely believed that Miller was the best player of the tournament.

Miller could not match that year, but he remained a strong Goalie, later playing for St. Louis, Vancouver and Anaheim, finishing an 18-year career in 2021.  He played in 540 Games, and had a 284-186-57 Record with a 2.58 GAA.

One of the better American Goalies in recent memory, Ryan Miller was a three-time CCHA Goalie of the Year at Michigan State, and the undrafted Spartan signed with the Buffalo Sabres, who he debuted for in 2002.

Many of our regular visitors are aware that in our Hockey section, we put up active players who are on the downside of their career.  The reason we do this is that for the Hockey Hall of Fame, retired players are eligible after only three years and the “HOF Clock” begins much sooner.

As such, we have added additional active players to our TBD (to be determined) list.

They are as follows:

Chris Kunitz, a former First Team NHL Star and three time Stanley Cup Champion.

Daniel Sedin, a former Art Ross Trophy Winner.

Dany Heatley, a former Calder Trophy winner and First Team All Star.

Francois Beauchemin, a former Stanley Cup Champion and Second Team All Star.

Henrik Sedin, a former Hart Trophy and Art Ross Trophy Winner.

Martin Havlat, a former two time All Star.

Ryan Miller, a former Vezina Trophy Winner.



They join existing players, Alex Tanguay, Andrei Markov, Brian Campbell, Dan Boyle, Eric Brewer, Jarome Iginla, Jaromir Jagr, Joe Thornton, Marian Hossa, Mark Streit, Mike Ribeiro, Niklas Backstrom, Patrik Elias, Patrick Marleau, Pavel Datsyuk, Roberto Luongo, Shane Doan, Shawn Horcoff, Simon Gagne, Stephane Robidas and Zdeno Chara.



You know what we want you to do!

Take a look at this crop of potential Hockey Hall of Fame inductees and tell us if they belong in Toronto.

As always, we here at Notinhalloffame.com thank you for your support!

For a spell, an argument could be made that American Goalie, Ryan Miller was the best in between the pipes.  In the 2009/10 season, Miller won the Vezina Trophy and was named the Olympic MVP in the States’ Silver Medal performance in the Vancouver Games.  Miller never had a season at that level again, but was always considered one of the better of the lot, though he may need a few more accolades to really be considered a Hall of Fame contender.