There are 17 members of the Hockey Hall of Fame with connections to the Buffalo Sabres. Sabres co-founder Seymour H. Knox, III and former Sabres coaches Scotty Bowman, George “Punch” Imlach and Marcel Pronovost have all been honored with induction into the Hall of Fame. Joining them are former Sabres players Tim Horton, Gilbert Perreault, Dale Hawerchuk, Clark Gillies, Grant Fuhr, Pat LaFontaine, Dick Duff, Doug Gilmour, Dominik Hasek, Phil Housley, Dave Andreychuk, Tom Barrasso and Pierre Turgeon.

Additionally, long-time team play-by-play broadcaster Ted Darling was honored in 1994 upon receiving the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for excellence in broadcasting, an award that his successor, Rick Jeanneret, received in 2012. Harry Neale, who joined Jeanneret in the Sabres’ broadcast booth in 2007 after more than 20 years as a color analyst on Hockey Night in Canada, received the award the following year. Rip Simonick, a member of the Sabres’ equipment staff since the beginning of the team’s existence in 1970, was honored with induction into the Professional Hockey Athletic Trainers Society/Society of Professional Hockey Equipment Managers Wall of Honour in 2018. In addition, four members of the newspaper industry
in Western New York have received the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award: Charlie Barton, Dick Johnston, Jack Gatecliff and Jim Kelley.