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  1. PromoTheRobot
    It does feel like we're cursed.
  2. PromoTheRobot
    Oh you think that will happen? Then let me ask you this: Where are those fans now? They are certainly not attending games. Let's take the Canadiens game for example. Tickets were going for as little as $20 but the FNC was filled with Habs jerseys. Why? If anything the place should have been packed with rabid Sabres fans taking advantage of the huge savings off the regular box office prices, right? So what happened? My theory is the tank blew off a sizable portion of the fan base. Chet and Muffy have moved on, apparently. Seems that Eichel, Kane and O'Reilly have yet to inspire the masses. So your argument that speculators are preventing real fans from going to games is specious because those same fans have every opportunity to attend games now, at a discount no less, but choose not to. In fact speculators might actuality be propping up the Sabres ticket base.
  3. PromoTheRobot
    You know how I became a season ticket holder? I got on the wait list. And right right after Drury and Briere left town, when all the real fans bailed, I got my chance to buy. So sorry if I don't shed a tear for those who can't buy right now.
  4. PromoTheRobot
    It's not when my goal is breaking even. Maybe more "real fans" need to step up and buy season tickets? It's not like they couldn't have before.
  5. PromoTheRobot
    How about the Bills game in London?
  6. PromoTheRobot
    It's hard to imagine any team looking as bad as the tank teams, yet our results are the same. I know it's a matter of time before they all get it, but right know I just shake my head. Maybe we are double-secret tanking?
  7. PromoTheRobot
    Three goal posts and three wide open net chances. They should have lit Condon up.
  8. PromoTheRobot
    What's worse? Your backup goalie letting in some softies or your scorers hitting pipe and missing empty nets?
  9. PromoTheRobot
    That was 5-hole.
  10. PromoTheRobot
    Deflected. Tough save.
  11. PromoTheRobot
    Short side post actually.
  12. PromoTheRobot
    Why should I spend hundreds of dollars when I can attend for free? At least that was the plan that worked for years. Besides why should I risk getting sold out of a game I want to see? What disturbs me is seeing that many opposing fans when prices are so depressed. I can see a Sabres fan grabbing the cash by selling their Leafs and Habs tickets. But what does it say when people are probably losing money on the deal? It tells me that there are wayyyy more speculators than Sabres fans. That's frightening.
  13. PromoTheRobot
    What's weak is our D just standing there. :wallbash: Johnson gave up a keyhole and they hit that. We keep hitting posts.
  14. PromoTheRobot
    Can't f%#@!n' score!! :angry:
  15. PromoTheRobot
    There's a lid on their goal
  16. PromoTheRobot
    Nothing Johnson could do there. Maybe we can answer before the final 5 minutes of regulation.
  17. PromoTheRobot
    Do you realize that if you could really freeze time, light wouldn't work, so you couldn't see a thing?
  18. PromoTheRobot
    I see a lot of bleu, blanc un rouge in the crowd, along with a lot of empty seats.
  19. PromoTheRobot
    The Sabres thought they were smart capping seasons at 16,000. But now they run ads asking people to buy those 3,000+ tickets, so they are feeling the lack of enthusiasm too. Don't be surprised if that ST cap gets lifted soon. And before you get all high and mighty on those speculators, keep in mind they kept the FNC filled during the tank. All those nights with announced attendance of 17,000+ when the building might have only 8,000 actual fans in attendance.
  20. PromoTheRobot
    Mind you there is a huge gap between box office face value and STH face value. People can go to StubHub and pay $10 less than at the box office and I still cover my cost that game. But even weekend games against marquee teams (like MTL tonight/NJ tomorrow) are going for $15-20. That's unheard of. I live in NH so I only get to 3-4 games a season, so my break-even is much lower than you're envisioning. I've had my seats since 2008 and always made enough to renew until the tank. Year 1 was a small loss. Year 2 was over a thousand in the red. So far this season is looking just as bad. I don't get it. People bought tickets when it was Ville Leino and we were falling short of the 8th seed. Now we have a couple of franchise players and fans are like "meh."
  21. PromoTheRobot
    I suffered through the tank, taking big losses on my season tickets because I figured the excitement would return once Eichel was here. But I am still losing $10+ a ticket because there is little demand on the secondary market. A Saturday night game for $15?? It hasn't been this bad since the Rigas era. Things better pick up of I'm going to have to give up my seats.
  22. PromoTheRobot
    Any Polish speakers here? The word "piesek" (pr: PYES-sek) means "little dog."
  23. PromoTheRobot
    Almost.
  24. PromoTheRobot
    Great effort...crap luck.
  25. PromoTheRobot
    It was worth the pass to Eichel. Babsy looks really pink.
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