Sabres Blue Jackets Postponed

[bob_sauve28]

[PromoTheRobot]

55 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Looks like the game will be played as scheduled 

 

 

Should be a great game. Sabres haven't played or practiced in two weeks and the arena will be devoid of fans. 

[Brawndo]

The City of Buffalo Driving Ban will be lifted at 12:01am on December 29th 

[Porous Five Hole]

Honestly, with the NHL schedule as condensed as it is…it makes sense to try to squeeze this game in if safe/possible. 

[Stoner]

Someone check on SDS.

Seriously guys.

[Taro T]

17 hours ago, pastajoe said:

The Bills moved their sellout home game to Detroit. Did all the fans go to Detroit? Of course not.

The roads will be clear enough that a team bus would be allowed to pick those living downtown up. 
 

Rerouting a flight from Pittsburgh to Rochester instead of Buffalo is not a major accomplishment. 

Try again. 🙄

 

2 TOTALLY different situations.

Football plays a 17 game schedule over only 18 weeks.  And they only play a max of 1 game during any given week.  They had to get that game played that weekend.

Hockey plays 82 games through a roughly 187 day window.  IF there were need to reschedule the game there are plenty of options that don't entail screwing over 16k people.

So, even if there was still a travel ban, which would be the only reason the game wouldn't be played, you're fine with driving a bus through the middle of the travel ban to pick up players.  Any other entertainers that should be treated as essential workers in your world view?

And there is more to getting Detroit into Ra-cha-cha than simply altering a single flight.  (Which still can be a task in itself on kess than a day's notice as that plane has to fit into the schedule of everything else heading into ROC.)  They also have to work out ground transportation & hotel accommodations for the team & equipment.

You sure are awfully cavalier w/ other people's time and money regarding those paying fans.  Couldn't have anything to do w/ giving you a 1 hour trip to see them rather than a 2 hour trip now could it?

Too bad for you the game will be played as scheduled.

[Taro T]

15 hours ago, PromoTheRobot said:

Should be a great game. Sabres haven't played or practiced in two weeks and the arena will be devoid of fans. 

Why will the arena be devoid of fans?

[PromoTheRobot]

31 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Why will the arena be devoid of fans?

I assumed many streets are still not cleared. 

[pastajoe]

1 hour ago, Taro T said:

2 TOTALLY different situations.

Football plays a 17 game schedule over only 18 weeks.  And they only play a max of 1 game during any given week.  They had to get that game played that weekend.

Hockey plays 82 games through a roughly 187 day window.  IF there were need to reschedule the game there are plenty of options that don't entail screwing over 16k people.

So, even if there was still a travel ban, which would be the only reason the game wouldn't be played, you're fine with driving a bus through the middle of the travel ban to pick up players.  Any other entertainers that should be treated as essential workers in your world view?

And there is more to getting Detroit into Ra-cha-cha than simply altering a single flight.  (Which still can be a task in itself on kess than a day's notice as that plane has to fit into the schedule of everything else heading into ROC.)  They also have to work out ground transportation & hotel accommodations for the team & equipment.

You sure are awfully cavalier w/ other people's time and money regarding those paying fans.  Couldn't have anything to do w/ giving you a 1 hour trip to see them rather than a 2 hour trip now could it?

Too bad for you the game will be played as scheduled.

You’re right, the Bills moving was more complex and affected many more people. You’re making excuses that could be easily rectified by a league that had to deal with multiple last minute Covid scheduling issues. And I wouldn’t go to the game in Rochester, the Amerks STHs should have been given first priority. But it’s a moot point now.

[Doohicksie]

Has the CBJ game been rescheduled yet?

[Taro T]

1 hour ago, Doohickie said:

Has the CBJ game been rescheduled yet?

Nope.

Still simply listed as "PPD."

[Doohicksie]

I wonder why it's so hard to adjust.  Certainly there's a night open somewhere...

[Two or less]

6 hours ago, Doohickie said:

Has the CBJ game been rescheduled yet?

It’s interesting, bc this morning Adams said no dates have been mentioned yet for the Columbus reschedule and he was expecting a call either today or tomorrow to discuss some dates. 
 

But Dreger said the other day most likely it’ll be added to at the end of our schedule. So instead of Ottawa being our last game, it’ll be our last home game and then a trip to Columbus.