Later this year, Dominik Hasek will take his rightful place in the pantheon of Sabres greats as the team announced today that Hasek will have his #39 jersey retired on January 13, when the Sabres fittingly host the Detroit Red Wings.

Hasek was inducted into the Sabres Hall of Fame last season (also in a game versus Detroit) and will become the seventh member of the Sabres to have his jersey retired. While his time here ended controversially, there's no question that Hasek was one of the best, if not the best, to ever wear the blue and gold, and was named to our all-time Sabres team last summer, clearly his biggest accomplishment to date.

Read the team's full press release below, and give us your thought in the comments: