Slava Kozlov genuinely surprised me because a lot of players on these things are generally journey men. Kozlov was a long time Red Wing and Thrasher but I completely forgot he had a cup of coffee in Buffalo
Ugh. Fuck Raffi Torres. Fuck Eric Staal. Fuck Taylor Hall.
Simmonds is absolutely the wildest one no doubt.
You missed Tim Horton.
Known as a Leaf but ended his career (and life) as a Sabre.
Mannn you gotta feel for Berglund. His agent dropped the ball hard so much on his no trade situation 😢
Being a Rochester native I weirdly primarily think of Thorburn as a Sabre
I am *aware* that Simmonds was a Sabre, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually *seen* Simmonds as a Sabre
David Legwand… to me that guy is a Pred only
It’s so weird being a fan and feel like Roloson, Torres, and Zubrus (at least for me) seemed like they played a whole lot more games than they did. Maybe Torres just came up waaaaaayyyy too often and it felt like an eternity.
Jesus Taylor hall had a long ass 37 games
Check out the windshield on Kozlov. Did he get that off a Boeing for fuck sakes?
Goalie Bob!
Patrick Berglund has to have the weirdest Buffalo Sabres story. He had a 20 team no trade clause with the blues beginning July 1 2018. He talked with his agent and made the list(which included buffalo) but his agent failed to submit it in time. He was then traded on July 1 2018 to Buffalo. He played 23 games and hated it so much he quit the NHL leaving behind a 3 year 13 million contract.
Wow Bob Essensa! To me he was always a Jet!
Edit: I just looked on wikipedia, we’ll see him again very soon it seems, and a few times
Where is the picture of Halak at that one practice he was apart of?
At this point im not even phased when I see Taylor Halls name in these.
Dick Duff
I went to the game after the Sabres acquired essensa at the deadline. I was sitting next to the Zamboni entrance. I yelled ‘bob essensa is the answer’ and didn’t realize he was standing there. He got a good chuckle out of it.
Been loving these posts
Niedermayer and Essensa got me this time!
Taylor Hall has popped up in too many of these so far.
As a Sabres fan who grew up in that era, I was surprised Gilmour & Roloson had so few of games with the team.
Will always remember Kozlov as the return for Hasek.
Surprised the Ovie photo in Sabres gear didn’t slip in here as a joke.
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For anyone interested here are the previous ones:
[Anaheim](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1e068lx/players_on_unusual_teams_anaheim_edition/)
[Arizona](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1e12rgm/players_on_unusual_teams_arizona_edition/)
[Atlanta](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1e1s59m/players_on_unusual_teams_atlanta_edition/)
[Boston](https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/1e2px9i/players_on_unusual_teams_boston_edition/)
Doug Gilmour is a wild one
Slava Kozlov genuinely surprised me because a lot of players on these things are generally journey men. Kozlov was a long time Red Wing and Thrasher but I completely forgot he had a cup of coffee in Buffalo
If you don’t mind the rare EBUG in the ranks….[Arturs Irbe](https://www.si.com/.image/t_share/MTY4MjU2NTYyMjUwODUyMjUz/arturs-irbe-sabresjpg.jpg).
Ugh. Fuck Raffi Torres. Fuck Eric Staal. Fuck Taylor Hall.
Simmonds is absolutely the wildest one no doubt.
You missed Tim Horton.
Known as a Leaf but ended his career (and life) as a Sabre.
Mannn you gotta feel for Berglund. His agent dropped the ball hard so much on his no trade situation 😢
Being a Rochester native I weirdly primarily think of Thorburn as a Sabre
I am *aware* that Simmonds was a Sabre, but I don’t think I’ve ever actually *seen* Simmonds as a Sabre
David Legwand… to me that guy is a Pred only
It’s so weird being a fan and feel like Roloson, Torres, and Zubrus (at least for me) seemed like they played a whole lot more games than they did. Maybe Torres just came up waaaaaayyyy too often and it felt like an eternity.
Jesus Taylor hall had a long ass 37 games
Check out the windshield on Kozlov. Did he get that off a Boeing for fuck sakes?
Goalie Bob!
Patrick Berglund has to have the weirdest Buffalo Sabres story. He had a 20 team no trade clause with the blues beginning July 1 2018. He talked with his agent and made the list(which included buffalo) but his agent failed to submit it in time. He was then traded on July 1 2018 to Buffalo. He played 23 games and hated it so much he quit the NHL leaving behind a 3 year 13 million contract.
Wow Bob Essensa! To me he was always a Jet!
Edit: I just looked on wikipedia, we’ll see him again very soon it seems, and a few times
Where is the picture of Halak at that one practice he was apart of?
At this point im not even phased when I see Taylor Halls name in these.
Dick Duff
I went to the game after the Sabres acquired essensa at the deadline. I was sitting next to the Zamboni entrance. I yelled ‘bob essensa is the answer’ and didn’t realize he was standing there. He got a good chuckle out of it.
Been loving these posts
Niedermayer and Essensa got me this time!
Taylor Hall has popped up in too many of these so far.
As a Sabres fan who grew up in that era, I was surprised Gilmour & Roloson had so few of games with the team.
Will always remember Kozlov as the return for Hasek.
Surprised the Ovie photo in Sabres gear didn’t slip in here as a joke.
This series is helping my Puckdoku games.
Boston Bruins goalie coach legend Bob Essensa
edit: [forgot he actually suited up as the backup at one point](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mDSC-IslU8)
I loved Zubrus. Wish we had had him for longer.
https://preview.redd.it/8mi4uzlehkcd1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bb37826c104c33cd01eedaac908842dfe15d42be
Michael Leighton (0 games in 2005-06).
No Taro Tsujimoto? For shame