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During the last stadium lease negotiations, the State and the County did approach Ralph Wilson about building a New Stadium. He turned it down as the debt associated with it would have been passed to the New Owners.

https://www.sabrespace.com/community/topic/29908-sabres-training-camp-starts-september-23rd/ September 23rd per Granato

It helps when Your Agent is also Your Uncle

Official

The entire thread disappeared somehow

Official now https://twitter.com/buffalosabres/status/1433508925672992768?s=21

They both have very good analytics departments which are heavily involved in their draft processes. It will be interesting to see what Sam Ventura develops over the next year for the the Sabres Scouting Department.

He touched on this and mentioned the newer stadiums are becoming smaller. The Raiders Stadium which will host Superbowls, Final Fours and possibly the BCS Championship only has 65k seats, expandable to 71k. Also a retractable roof adds to the cost. I agree it should be a dome though

Another way to look at this is that the most productive line (in a small sample size under Granato) Thompson, Mitts and Asplund are all under contract for the next two seasons for a total of 4.7 Million AAV per year

Yes he’s a RFA at the end of the deal

If they draft Logan Cooley and Ruger McGroaty they win the draft based on names alone

60-64k stadium, outdoor with partial covering of some of the seats. To be built directly across from the existing stadium. Total Project time once started 42-48 months Downtown Stadium would be 1.9 Billion plus another possible 500-700 Million in infrastructure improvements

Raccuia mentioned this AM, getting the Bills New Stadium figured out is first priority, then KBC will be looked at.

Plus this one

Per Granato