photo by Noel Walker

I am an obsessed hockey freakazoid. A nut. As in, can’t get enough. If I were an extra-terrestrial, I’d come from the planet Sin Bin. Of course it would be an ice-covered planet. I love the hip-check, the sound of rubber hitting iron on it’s way into the net, and playoff hockey. I respect the history of the game, and devour as much of it as my small brain will absorb. I love reading the old stories, looking at the classic photos, and wonder what it must have been like “back when…”. When it comes to this sport, my mind works endlessly, adversely, and in strange ways. So, quite often, I think outside the penalty box, and try to look at Buffalo Sabres history in a different way.

I imagine things otherwise, if we had only done this, or that, or the other. It may be fantasizing, daydreaming, or a waste of my time (and now, your time). I don’t care. It’s fun, and it keeps the game and it’s memories interesting and fresh. So, in this first edition of The ol’ Blue & Gold “what if”…, I take a look at the 1977 NHL amateur draft. For those of you with knowledge of Sabres draft history, you may know where I am going here…

…on a trip back to the disco era.

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