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A girl I knew won 2 tickets in blue seats for a game in 1990 at the Aud. She proceeded to ask me if I wanted to go the game. I did, we've been married for 32 years.

Only losers have a rally after LOSING. Beyond pathetic

Dies a month later

GO BILLS

0:52 They're Roommates in Hockey Heaven now. 💙💛 #WishGranted

I’m 19 years old, born and raised in buffalo and am of course a lifelong diehard Sabres fan. Kinda crazy to think that they’ve now been playing longer at HSBC than they did at the aud

Rip memorial auditorium you will always be in my heart

RIP Van Miller-

The horn was legendary

He's right. TED WAS AMAZING

Aud had the best goal horn period thing used to scare hell out of me when I was little lol

Great job allowing the crowd roar and not trying to broadcast over it as many would be trying to do. Plus thankfully just one train horn blow allowing the same. That was one of the great old barns -like Chicago Stadium-Boston and Maple Leaf Gardens and soon to be gone Nassau Coliseum that really had a ROAR to it. Those older ones were built to hold that noise in. I recall sitting in last row orange in a corner and was never in a higher arena for hockey. Great old place missed by many here.

Nothing like hearing Gary glitter back in the 90’s at all the sports events

My parents were there my mom has the commertavie ticks still

Goosebumps

I have a piece of the Aud, when they tore it down we snuck under the fence and nabbed some bricks

I was lucky enough to do 1 game there in Jan 1992, Wings 9 at Sabres 4 but the Aud was awesome:) I was I had a camera back then.

Thanks for posting this. I had the honor of editing this piece when I was on staff at WGRZ. Man I miss the aud.

wow i was a young man

Rick Jeanneret is first class all day every day

I want the aud back. I loved walking into it as a kid. Felt intimate. My brother used to tease me and say if you sit in the orange you can fall over. I finally sat in the orange for a wrestling event and he wasn't kidding. Felt like it at least.

I did so many innapriate things at that place. And I ain’t sorry for none of them! (A single tear. Thanks Pat. Classy)

RIP Rick

Hartford's coach looks 17

At the 1:16 mark... that is me and my now husband!

What a rink. I dont care what anybody says, the old buildings had so much character. Each was more unique than the last.

HE CAME BACK

He was ba k tonight at the sabres home opener in their 50th year

I play junior hockey Buffalo Montreal Toronto parts of lower New York and I loved the odd obviously we never sold out but there was something about it it’s hard to explain it just smelled and felt like hockey

What a crazy building. I was just a kid when I was there, but I remember the steps being really steep

Oh yeah he was real tough. I notice he didn't pull that with Brad may. He didn't seem so eager to rush at may to engage lol

With a 5 on 3 there is a fight WOW

Should have turned into a homeless shelter so many bums played there. Not like the original six arenas

If anyone wonders, this is how you say goodbye to an old barn. Let's go Buffalo.

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Whenever I hear the chant LETS GO BUFFALO I know that I am watching a Sabres home game. I listened to the last game on WGR 550 while I was studying for a test. I don't remember how well I did on the test but I sure do remember the game like it was yesterday. Growing up in Southern Ontario you get lots of Sabres and Leafs games on the radio and tv. I was at the Aud in 1995 with my Mom and we had a good look around the building. Sabres fans sure know how to party, just like fans of the Islanders and Rangers. What can I say New York in the state of hockey.

Look at the way LaFontaine looks up at the banners, taking it all in. You could tell that he cared IMMENSELY-not just about the team's success, but its history and its city as well. He was fully bought-in. Shame about the injuries that took him out of the game. And shame that his short time as President of Hockey Ops for the Sabres was handled as poorly as it was, as he brought that same passion that he had there in '96.

This gives me chills everytime I see this. My dad always told me how he remembers watching the sabres with my grandpa on tv when he was little

Who else thinks it's time for the return of the classic Sabre Dance theme?

to bad the idiot who owned the islanders didn't watch this. there was no ceremony islanders last reg season game at Nassau veterans memorial coliseum. a building that the greatest team to ever lace up skates won 3 of their 4 straight Stanley cups in. kudos to the sabres on this

that horn almost sound like the Chicago Blackhawks' goal horn

is there anyone at the game that night?

the mighty whale strikes again.

How funny would it have been if Lafontaine somehow hit the post 😆😆😆😆

I was at the aud only once I have always wanted to go back but never did

I was at the Aud in 1967 or 68 with my dad at at Canisius College Fairfield basketball game! It was old then! lol

My first game was the next year when the Aud was destined for demolition. I was among the first to enter HSBC but I feel cheated I never got to go to the Auditorium. I fell in love with the Sabres watching Mogilny, Ray, Lafontaine, Audette, Hasek, and all the others but never got to see them where the the french connection played. My relationship with the Aud comes from stories my old man passed down. I was a year too late.

what was the song at the end in the background

+28brasco The reason why they play both national anthems at Sabres games is because of Buffalo's close proximity to Canada, as well as the team's substantial number of Canadian fans.

These were the days