Best all-time commercials during Sabres games

[Andrew Amerk]

 

[Kruppstahl]

 

[Stoner]

Gather round children and let us elders tell you a story of olden days when these commercials would supply the necessary stress relief, if just for 30 seconds, during the emotional maelstrom of something you might have heard of: the playoffs.

[bobm253]

My favorite of all time was the bubble hockey game with talking players with the heavy french Canadian accent.

[mphs mike]

 

[ubkev]

I think this one was just a CNY commercial, but it was on for like all of the playoffs in 06, and it's just about my favorite commercial of all time.

 

[The Big Lebowski]

17 hours ago, SHAAAUGHT!!! said:

The correct answer is the Adelphia commercial with Zhitnik and Hasek.  Hasek is sitting on the couch trying to watch TV and is being screened by player standing in front him.  Zhitnik comes in and DESTROYS the other player and apologizes to Hasek before offering him a shrimp off a serving platter.  Pure comedy gold.

I have searched for this commercial high and low over the years but haven't been able to find it...

This was easily, my favorite commercial too. I spent years searching for this one as well. To no avail.

However, instead of shrimp, I'm pretty sure Hasek ended the commercial by saying to Zhitnik...

Hasek: "Here have a cocktail weenie"

Edited November 20, 2019 by FiXCzeR

[SHAAAUGHT!!!]

 

32 minutes ago, FiXCzeR said:

This was easily, my favorite commercial too. I spent years searching for this one as well. To no avail.

However, instead of shrimp, I'm pretty sure Hasek ended the commercial by saying to Zhitnik...

Hasek: "Here have a cocktail weenie"

You are 100% right!  I'm hoping one day I find a box of VHS recordings of Sabres games from '94-'01 at a garage sale so I can find it and share.  

 

[Randall Flagg]

21 hours ago, Doohickie said:

That's the one drawback about watching Sabres games on NHL.tv on my Roku stick- they totally mess with the commercials.  They cut off the broadcast commercials and replace them with the same 3 commercials all game long.  Maddening.  When I watched Center Ice on DirecTV, they usually showed the local commercials or nothing at all.

When I lived in Detroit, the Wings were owned by Mike Ilitch (who also owned Little Caesar's), so naturally there were a lot of Little Caesar's commercials.  Back then they had the most bizarre people on their commercials, people purposefully selected because they looked so bizarre.  I'm not sure if they were shown nationally or just in the Detroit market.  Here's a sample (I won't actually display the Youtube since it wasn't a Buffalo commercial.

Linda Cohn's hockey on ESPN+ will result in a shattered television before this season is over.

[darksabre]

 

[Doohicksie]

12 minutes ago, Randall Flagg said:

Linda Cohn's hockey on ESPN+ will result in a shattered television before this season is over.

YES. 

That's the other one.  GAWD I HATE THAT COMMERCIAL.

[miles]

I have two that I hate. I dont know if WNY has them like I have in nj

I think it's for Walmart and there is a lady singing, but she does sound effects like a "chew chew train" and a ringing sound. Its horrible. 

 

The second one is for some fruit pie or something where the kids make a princess toast or something and the lady goes ohhhhhhh in an exaggerated voice. 

Edited November 20, 2019 by miles

[Taro T]

35 minutes ago, miles said:

I have two that I hate. I dont know if WNY has them like I have in nj

I think it's for Walmart and there is a lady singing, but she does sound effects like a "chew chew train" and a ringing sound. Its horrible. 

 

The second one is for some fruit pie or something where the kids make a princess toast or something and the lady goes ohhhhhhh in an exaggerated voice. 

Not fruit pie.  Gummie vitamins.  Nearly as bad and yes, that commercial is one of the ones that makes it oh, so nice to dvr the game and start watching about 30 minutes after the start.

[Zamboni]

 

[Zamboni]

 

[walstib]

This commercial led directly to a sign I remember that was displayed once when Vaclav Varada returned to Buffalo when he played for Ottawa. It read something like: "Hey Varada - try the roast duck with the mango salsa." Twas a thing of beauty...

 

[SABRES 0311]

On 11/19/2019 at 1:45 PM, Getpucksdeep said:

Honey we need some Tuna!

I thought of something funny but not sure it’s safe on here. 

[Doohicksie]

2 minutes ago, SABRES 0311 said:

I thought of something funny but not sure it’s safe on here. 

Oh we all had that thought.  And you're right:  Best left unsaid.

[SABRES 0311]

9 minutes ago, Doohickie said:

Oh we all had that thought.  And you're right:  Best left unsaid.

I know. I don’t want anyone getting mad if I point out Peca is the reason for all those dented cans.

We’re talking about the same thing right?

[Doohicksie]

Yes.  Yeah, that's it.  ?

[That Aud Smell]

On 11/19/2019 at 4:45 PM, Getpucksdeep said:

Honey we need some Tuna!

Oh, Kristin Peca (nee Herzog). You minx, you.

[That Aud Smell]

I said it recently: I’d love to find a link to the French Connection’s Chef’s commercial where they sing That’s Amore. Probably a few times a month, I still find occasion to say in an awful Quebecois accent: “We didn’t have our Chef’s pasta sauce!”

[shrader]

4 hours ago, That Aud Smell said:

Oh, Kristin Peca (nee Herzog). You minx, you.

So that was the house you were hiding out in front of back in those days?  Good to know.

[That Aud Smell]

18 minutes ago, shrader said:

So that was the house you were hiding out in front of back in those days?  Good to know.

[Stoner]

Bumpity.