Rob Ray, a resident of Stirling-Rawdon is heading to the Buffalo Sabres Hall of Fame.
Razor, as he was known to his teammates, played all but a handful of his NHL games with the Sabres organization.
The former Trenton Bobcat will be honoured later this season.
He said the following during the MSG broadcast last week. “It’s a complete honour,” Ray told Brian Duff and Marty Biron during the first intermission on MSG. “This has been my life for the last 35 years and I know nothing else. I’ve never had another job. This is me. I don’t know, I’m just so excited. I know I don’t show it sometimes, but I’m trying not to cry in front of everybody because I’ve got to kind of act tough. It’s the greatest thing that could happen. For me, it’s an u and it’s a privilege to even be named with a lot of those guys on the wall.”
According to the Sabres – Ray ranks fourth in franchise history with 889 games played spanning 14 seasons in a Sabres uniform, during which he became one of the most iconic enforcers in NHL history. He holds the team record for penalty minutes with 3,189 while his 3,207 career penalty minutes (including two seasons with Ottawa) rank sixth on the league’s all-time list.
