Buffalo Sabres Logo — Buffalo Sabres are a team of professional ice hockey U.S. located in the city of Buffalo (New York). Founded in 1970, emerged as one of the expansion teams of the championship. The Sabres now play for the National Hockey League, framed in the Northeastern Division.

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The Sabres were, along with Vancouver Canucks, one of two expansion franchises that appeared after the 1970-71 season in the NHL. Its first owners were Seymour Knox III and Northrup Knox, two members of a family of entrepreneurs and bankers of Western New York, and the team caused excitement in a city that already had successful teams in the lower leagues. The name chosen for the franchise was Sabres (sabers). More