Buffalo Sabres Top 5 Most Penalized Players In History
4. Brad May
Brad May’s NHL career lasted until 2010, but it all began right here, with the Buffalo Sabres.
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May, a left winger, was drafted 14th overall by the Buffalo Sabres in the 1990 NHL Entry Draft. He’d end up playing seven seasons with the Buffalo Sabres, from 1991 until 1998.
All in all, May would appear in 425 games with the Buffalo Sabres. In that time, he would rack up 1,323 penalty minutes — fourth most of any player in Buffalo Sabres franchise history.
That’s an average of 3.11 penalty minutes per game during his time with the Buffalo Sabres.
Of course, his penalty minutes aren’t the thing that most Buffalo Sabres will remember May for. It’s the May Day goal, of course, but regardless of that goal, May was known as an enforcer.
Nonetheless, May went on to play for Vancouver, Phoenix, Colorado, Anaheim, Toronto and Detroit before hanging up his skates.
His NHL career saw him rack up 2,360 penalty minutes in 1,129 games – an average of 2.09 penalty minutes per game.
As a rookie in the NHL in the 1991-92 season, May set his career-high record with 309 penalty minutes in just 69 games, as a 20-year-old. To this day, he still holds the Buffalo Sabres record for most penalty minutes by a rookie.