(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1970 2002 2011 Buffalo Sabres Team Formation The Sabres, along with the Vancouver Canucks, joined the NHL in the 1970 – 1971 season. Their first owners were Seymour Knox III and Northrup Knox, scions of a family long prominent in Western New York, along with Robert O. Swados, a Buffalo attorney. Buffalo had a history …