Q 01/05

The Sabres joined the NHL in 1970 alongside which other expansion team?

A) New York Islanders

B) Vancouver Canucks

C) Atlanta Flames

D) Washington Capitals

Answer · why

B) Vancouver Canucks

The Vancouver Canucks and the Sabres were the NHL's two 1970 expansion teams, each paying a $6 million fee and starting play in the 1970-71 season.

Q 02/05

The Sabres' founding owners, the Knox brothers, were grandsons of the co-founders of which retail chain?

A) Kresge's

B) Sears

C) Woolworth's

D) Montgomery Ward

Answer · why

C) Woolworth's

Woolworth's was co-founded by their grandfather Seymour H. Knox I, a cousin and partner of Frank Woolworth who merged his own five-and-dime stores int...

Q 03/05

Why did Seymour Knox choose the name Sabres from the name-the-team contest?

A) It was the name of the polo team he had captained

B) It rhymed with the surname of his business partner

C) It honoured a local cavalry regiment from the Civil War

D) A sabre is a leader's weapon, good on offence and defence

Answer · why

D) A sabre is a leader's weapon, good on offence and defence

Knox explained that 'A sabre is a leader's weapon, good on offence and defence', calling it clean, sharp and decisive on attack and a parrying weapon ...

Q 04/05

Who composed 'Sabre Dance', the Sabres' signature music since 1970?

A) Aram Khachaturian

B) Sergei Prokofiev

C) Dmitri Shostakovich

D) Igor Stravinsky

Answer · why

A) Aram Khachaturian

Aram Khachaturian wrote 'Sabre Dance' for the final act of his 1942 ballet Gayane; the Sabres adopted it as their theme when they entered the NHL in 1...

Q 05/05

The Sabres won the right to draft Gilbert Perreault in 1970 through what method?

A) A lottery of ping-pong balls

B) A coin flip at centre ice

C) A spin of a wheel of fortune

D) A trade with the Vancouver Canucks

Answer · why

C) A spin of a wheel of fortune

A spin of a wheel of fortune settled the first pick: Clarence Campbell misread the pointer as 1 and announced the wrong winner, then looked again at P...