Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) – The Buffalo Sabres announced Wednesday the team will induct the two newest members of the Sabres Hall of Fame – Thomas Vanek and Jason Pominville – on Jan. 14 just before a matchup against the Colorado Avalanche.<\/p>\n
Vanek and Pominville go into the Sabres Hall of Fame together, just as they started their careers together with the Rochester Americans in the American Hockey League.<\/p>\n
Pominville played 733 games with the Sabres, finishing 10th in franchise history with 217 goals, ninth all-time with 304 assists, and his 521 career points in Buffalo ranks eighth on the all-time franchise list. That equated to 0.71 points per-game with the franchise.<\/p>\n
As for Vanek, he played 598 career games with the Sabres, ranking fifth in franchise history with 254 goals, 14th all-time with 243 assists and 11th in team history with 497 points. He averaged more points per-game than Pominville at 0.83.<\/p>\n
In his NHL career, Pominville played 1,060 games, scoring 293 goals and 434 assists for 727 points. <\/p>\n
Vanek played 1,029 career NHL games, scoring 373 goals and 416 assists for 789 points. <\/p>\n
After the two former captains go into the Sabres Hall of Fame, there will be 46 members.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Buffalo, N.Y. (WGR Sports Radio 550) – The Buffalo Sabres announced Wednesday the team will induct the two…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":641641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5100],"tags":[60627,1107,229,5133,5,28292,4,1108,18088,60626],"class_list":["post-641640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-buffalo-sabres","tag-all-local","tag-buffalo","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-buffalosabres","tag-hockey","tag-jason-pominville","tag-nhl","tag-sabres","tag-thomas-vanek","tag-wgr"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117083622809879396","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/641641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}