RIP, Dave Dryden...
Dave Dryden, former Sabres goalie and brother of Hall of Famer, dies at 81
Dryden was a part of the first four seasons in Sabres history.buffalonews.com
I met him when we had him speak at our high school hockey end of year banquet. He was super friendly; answered all our questions, and he even gave me mimeographed instructions on how to make a plaster cast of my face and how to make my own fiberglass mask. I had the book from his dad called "Playing the Shots at Both Ends" which he signed for me. He is credited with mask modifications that led to the hybrid cage/mask that everyone uses today. A sad day, indeed. RIP Dave. A pioneer and a genuinely nice guy.Well that's some sad news.
Funny that Muni also wound up as part of the deal that brought Darryl Shannon and Michel Grosek to Buffalo... and sent the pick the Jets used on future Sabre Danny Briere to Winnipeg. (That deal happened on the day of the top prospects game and I wanted to give Muckler a piece of my mind about dealing that pick which they'd gotten with Varada in the deal for Bodger.)
I found this kind of cool doing this Twitter thing. That’s quite the career changes.
Any updates on Ville Leino?
The man himself liked what I said. This is probably the highlight of doing this so far. It’s still a very underrated mask throughout NHL history, my Buffalo fandom be damned.
Fuhr did indeed have the best Sabres mask ever and I'll usually post this from time to time, but I've always been fond of this one. The native (American or Canadian) in the moonlight/sunlight is just so freaking cool.
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Brad May was in VegasThe passing of Peter McNab had me wondering, how many former Sabres are doing commentary/studio work around the NHL. Off the top of my head:
Rayzor & Marty - Buffalo
Randy Moller - Florida
Dave Andreychuk, Brian Engblom - Tampa
Jean-Luc Grand-Pierre - Columbus, TNT
Curtis Brown - San Jose
Garry Galley, Craig Simpson - HNIC