‘My season seats in Section 117 cost $49/game in 2006; now they are $77, an increase of 57%. That’s before this latest development. They have gone way up irrespective of the team’s poor play because that’s how sports works. The greatest example of the Sabres’ thriftiness is still and forever will be that at the end of last season’s lockout, when teams all over the league were slashing the price of concessions or even giving food away, the Sabres discounted the price of soda pop to $4.25. They had to have that quarter.’