This road blue knit gamer by Maska was worn by Andre Savard during the 1979-80 NHL season. Savard had a 12 year NHL career that began in 1973, where he spent a total of 3 seasons with the Boston Bruins. Andre then spent 7 years in Buffalo, before finishing his career in Quebec for a couple of seasons. He produced better than 200 career goals, all of them coming as a member of the rugged and highly competitive Adams division. His finest individual season came in 1980-81 with Buffalo where he struck for a career best 31 goals.

Sewn to the right breast of this beautiful Maska knit is the 1980 Olympic patch. The game use on this sweater is solid consisting of stick marks, board burns, board paint transfer, inner pilling, un-repaired holes and by our count no less than 10 team-sewn repairs. This set of sweaters was worn by the Sabres for the majority of the 1979-80 NHL season. Under new boss Scotty Bowman for the first time, Buffalo won the Adams division with 110 points and allowed a mere 201 goals against, a league best total. The Sabres stormed into the playoffs eventually falling at the hands of the New York Islanders dynasty in the Semi Finals, thus completing one of the most exciting seasons in team history. The 1980 Olympics are thought of by many hockey fans as the greatest moment in the history of the sport. Those Olympic Games took place in Lake Placid, New York. Buffalo was one of two NHL teams, the New York Islanders being the other, who donned the 1980 Olympic patch on their game jerseys. This jersey has been buried away for over a quarter century since leaving Savard’s back and is now entering our hobby for the very first time.