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| Click above to stay in "check" with all the Buffalo Sabres Alumni happenings! |
| (photo by Mike's wifee Steph) |
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| Team FedEx from Hamilton-Ont. played us at Copps Collisium on March 1, 2008! |
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| Buffalo Sabres / D.C. Snipers at Hamburg, NY. 03/01/2008 |
Buffalo Sabres Alumni 2008: Ric Martin, Ric Seiling, Darryl Shannon, Mark LaForest, Mike Boland, Craig Muni,
Scot Metcalf, Frank Standfield and Hanson Brother Steve Carlson!
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| Jon and Rob sandwich Buffalo Sabre great Ric Martin! (of the French Connection) |
Sabres Alumni 2007: Can you find Buffalo favorites: Ric Martin (Rico), Derek Smith, Richie Dunn, Ric Seiling,
Yuri Khmylev, Rob Ray, Darryl Shannon, Grant Ledyard, Mike Boland, Craig Charron AND --The originial Hanson Brothers?
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| Rob Ray (L) gives Jon a rest. Razor has been to all our games in Buffalo! |
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| Mark "Trees" LaForest played goal for us in 2008! (and in a bunch of NHL games) |
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| Mike and his better half --wife Steph with Steve Carlson in Hamilton, Ontario! |
The fastest goal of the day!
"In one of my shifts I witnessed the fastest goal I have ever been on the ice for. After a strong
wrist shot that went wide on our goalie, Sabre Alum Yuri Khmylev, cleared the puck out of the zone with a nice pass to fellow
alum Craig Charron who passed to fellow alum Ric Seiling who was weaving through traffic. As I chugged up the
left side like a slow moving freight train, Seiling passed back to Charron who crossed the blue line and weaved in and out
of defenders before firing a close range wrist shot.... SCORE. I didn't even touch the puck! All I did was skate
up the left side and watch in amazement. After the goal Charron skated backwards past me on the way to the bench
and said while smiling; "it's easy --- just like that, eh?" That short 10-second shift was incredible and memorable,
to say the least..." (By Rob Ziemba-2007)
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| Sabre Mike Boland (C) got cut in our game! John Persinger let the game get out -of-hand! |
| Craig Muni earned -3- Stanley Cup's with Edmonton! |
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| He also played for the Sabres---and us! |
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| Late night hockey at Copps Collisium in Hamilton was great, but no fans showed up! |
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| Rob and Jon with the Boys in Buffalo in March 2007! |
Two Memorable Moments at Buffalo in 2007 and 2008:
2007: As "Play It Again" for Charity Chairman Jon was
leaving the HSBC Arena after our pickup game he noticed a broken Ty Conklin goalie stick in the trash can from the
Buffalo practice earlier in the day. Jon thought; "man, this would look great on our living room wall at home" and proceeded
to remove it from trash can." All of sudden, an older security guard - almost instantly--grabbed the stick out of Jon's hand
and said. " YOU CAN'T TAKE STUFF OUT OF THE GARBAGE CAN HERE!" Gimme back my stick! Jon thought as he lowered his head
and walked away---without the stick! (it was estimated that Jon actually held the broken stick for about 90-seconds before
Security wrestled the stick away from him)
2008: What's believed to be the same grumpy security guard from above -- told Jon to exit the ice quickly. Witnesses say our team (except for Jon) had already exited the
HSBC Arena Ice after our game on March 2, 2008. As Jon stayed on and talked to family while standing on the ice
near the bench, the same "grumpy" security from last year approached the Sabre Bench and yelled to Jon to "get
off the ice--now!"
Locker room talk produced the following two reasons for this. 1) The guy has a bug in his ear for Jon. 2) NHL Rules mandate that no-one be on the ice 3-hours
before a game. (#2 is the right answer, althought #1 sounds better)
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