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1977–78 Buffalo Sabres season

NHL hockey team season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ4577942 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1977–78 Buffalo Sabres season was the Sabres' eighth season of operation for the National Hockey League (NHL) franchise that was established on May 22, 1970.

Regular season

Final standings

Note: GP = Games played, W = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals againstNote: Teams that qualified for the playoffs are highlighted in bold.

Record vs. opponents

Schedule and results

Playoffs

Preliminary round vs. New York Rangers

Quarterfinals vs. Philadelphia Flyers

Draft picks

Buffalo's draft picks at the 1977 NHL amateur draft held at the Mount Royal Hotel in Montreal.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1977–78 Buffalo Sabres season” is nHL hockey team season. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Buffalo, Sabres and season, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1977, 1970—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Buffalo, Sabres and season is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “1977–78 Buffalo Sabres season” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.