Neutral site games in Sabres history

[Stoner]

Regular season, of course.

Can you name the location and/or opponent (bonus points for the result)?

Hints: There have been eight games. The games came in three bunches separated by as little as one day and as much as two years. Four games in the first bunch, then two and two. Three different owners for each bunch.

[mphs mike]

My recollection is that they played a couple of games in Germany a few years ago.

Are you counting the outdoor games in the two Winter Classic's as "neutral"?

[Stoner]

46 minutes ago, mphs mike said:

My recollection is that they played a couple of games in Germany a few years ago.

Are you counting the outdoor games in the two Winter Classic's as "neutral"?

You're half right. And no.

[Ogre]

There were two games vs the Kings to start a season somewhere neutral....but where? Without google I couldn’t say.

[Eleven]

Two in Paul Hamilton, Ontario.  And one in a then-former, now current NHL city, right?

[Stoner]

14 minutes ago, Ogre said:

There were two games vs the Kings to start a season somewhere neutral....but where? Without google I couldn’t say.

You're also half right. The Sabres played the Kings in Berlin the second game of 2011-12. They played another Cali team the day before in another European city.

13 minutes ago, Eleven said:

Two in Paul Hamilton, Ontario.  And one in a then-former, now current NHL city, right?

You are correct, sir.

[Sabres Fan in NS]

14 minutes ago, Eleven said:

Two in Paul Hamilton, Ontario.  And one in a then-former, now current NHL city, right?

Winterpeg?

[Eleven]

3 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

You are correct, sir.

I've been waiting to hear these words from you for 14 years. 

[LTS]

4 minutes ago, PASabreFan said:

You're also half right. The Sabres played the Kings in Berlin the second game of 2011-12. They played another Cali team the day before in another European city.

You are correct, sir.

The Ducks in Prague?

[Eleven]

Just now, LTS said:

The Ducks in Prague?

They are especially delicious.  The Czechs prepare them with a seasoning unlike anything we have in the States, and then they sauté them so lightly.  It's such a tender dish.

[Ogre]

24 minutes ago, LTS said:

The Ducks in Prague?

I think Prague is right because Ehrhoff was from there or near...Right? My brain still only remembers the Kings though. I do remember winning both games and getting my hopes up. Fooled I was.

[Eleven]

Just now, Ogre said:

I think Prague is right because Ehrhoff was from there or near...Right? My brain still only remembers the Kings though. I do remember winning both games and getting my hopes up. Fooled I was.

Ehrhoff is German.

I have no idea whether the Sabs played in Prague, but Ehrhoff is why the Sabres played at Adler Mannheim, I think?

[PerreaultForever]

ya they played Vancouver in Hamilton Ontario. I was there. terrible game. 

[Stoner]

1 hour ago, LTS said:

The Ducks in Prague?

Another halfsie.

[Neo]

2 hours ago, Eleven said:

They are especially delicious.  The Czechs prepare them with a seasoning unlike anything we have in the States, and then they sauté them so lightly.  It's such a tender dish.

You’re on a roll, tonight.  Angry Eleven has become Whimsical Eleven.

I hear Hal 9000, slightly buzzed.

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Is Rochester a neutral site?

Edited November 7, 2019 by Neo

[Eleven]

30 minutes ago, Neo said:

You’re on a roll, tonight.  Angry Eleven has become Whimsical Eleven.

I hear Hal 9000, slightly buzzed.

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Is Rochester a neutral site?

I've changed?

(I wouldn't consider Roch a neutral site, btw.)

[Eleven]

3 hours ago, New Scotland (NS) said:

Winterpeg?

St. Paul.  I suppose that technically Bloomington is a suburb of Minneapolis and not St. Paul, but I'm not being too pedantic here and I doubt that PA is.

Edited November 7, 2019 by Eleven

[Broken Ankles]

45 minutes ago, Eleven said:

St. Paul.  I suppose that technically Bloomington was a suburb of Minneapolis and not St. Paul, but I'm not being too pedantic here and I doubt that PA is.

Against the Islanders.   Don’t remember but Elliotte Friedman wrote about it after the game in Saskatchewan.  I guess the turnout was below expectations.  

[Eleven]

1 hour ago, Broken Ankles said:

Against the Islanders.   Don’t remember but Elliotte Friedman wrote about it after the game in Saskatchewan.  I guess the turnout was below expectations.  

If the Sabres left, and the league decided that some weird regular season game would be played here, I wouldn't go.

[Stoner]

10 hours ago, Eleven said:

I've changed?

(I wouldn't consider Roch a neutral site, btw.)

You are incorrect, sir, as always.

[Stoner]

9 hours ago, Broken Ankles said:

Against the Islanders.   Don’t remember but Elliotte Friedman wrote about it after the game in Saskatchewan.  I guess the turnout was below expectations.  

Attendance was 8, 016, third-lowest of the six games held in 93-94 in the Target Center in Minneapolis (per Wikipedia).

[shrader]

Remember when Ville Leino opened the year with a goal but then it felt like he never scored again?