5 random players you forgot were on the Buffalo Sabres

3. Joe Juneau

First he beat the Sabres, then he joined them. And in both cases, his employer attained the same basic upshot.

But of the back-to-back Stanley Cup finalists he played for, Juneau is better known for the 1998 Washington Capitals. He ended two rounds that spring with an overtime goal, first to eliminate his old friends in Boston, then to clinch the Prince of Wales Trophy in Buffalo.

After being swept by Detroit in the final, the Caps collapsed in 1998-99. Going nowhere, they sent Juneau to the Sabres before the trade deadline.

Juneau’s history of trivia at Buffalo’s expense even predated his six-year Washington tenure. As a Bruins rookie in 1993, he scored his first of two career hat tricks to spell the difference in a 5-2 win over the visiting Sabres at the Boston Garden.

The tables on that matchup turned for the 1999 conference semifinals. Juneau charged up a goal and four assists (including one in the Game 6 clincher) on Buffalo’s behalf against the Bruins.

But while the Sabres proceeded to get over the Eastern Conference hump and match his previous team’s feat, Juneau was much quieter for the latter half of the playoffs. He managed one goal in Game 2 of a five-game triumph over Toronto, then an assist in Game 1 of a six-game championship loss to Dallas. (Conversely, he had four points in as many games of the 1998 final.)

With that, his Buffalo fling was finished. Juneau logged five more NHL seasons afterward, lasting a full year each in Ottawa and Phoenix, followed by three in Montreal.