Old Team Tuesday: The Buffalo Majors
Old Team Tuesday is a weekly feature taking a look at former teams that have gone by the wayside. This week’s edition is about the first pro hockey team to call the City of Buffalo home. ********************************************** With Canada just across the border, and winters expectedly cold and snowy, Buffalo seems like an ideal hockey town. In 1970, the city’s love for the game was rewarded when the National Hockey League awarded an expansion team to the Knox brothers, who established the Sabres. But when the league was looking for its start, it opted to set up its American clubs in cities that had much larger populations than Buffalo. Because of this, Buffalo’s first representative in the world of professional hockey – the Buffalo Bisons – actually began playing across the border in Fort Erie, Ontario in 1928. Two short years later, the city got a team all for itself in the form of the Buffalo Buffaloes. --- Trials and errors --- Larry Welch, owner of the B...