30 years ago, that game against Colorado was the day Detroit arrived.

Do we look back at March 8, 26, and say, this is the day the Buffalo Sabres arrived on the scene?

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Dom, Elliot, I got to think if your B-Z needed a charge on Sunday night, all you had to do was plug it directly into Key Bank Center during the Sabres

and Lightning. One of the games of the year, 8-7 Buffalo comes out on top, top spot in the

division for the time being on the line, 102 penalty minutes, multiple lead changes, a four-point

night for Tage Thompson, three points for Nikita Kut changes, a four-point night for Tage Thompson, three

points for Nikita Kutrov after a four-pointer in Toronto the night before. It was nasty

throughout my kind of hockey, as Lindy Ruff put it in the post game. It's as if Elliot, the

Sabres said to Tampa, you may not have to worry about

Florida down the stretch this year, but now you got to worry about 60 minutes of sizing each

other up. The buzz is back in Buffalo. It was like watching hockey at the Thunderdome or the Roman Coliseum.

Very nice.

There are sometimes television, and I was watching on television on Sunday, does not do justice to the atmosphere of an arena.

There was no problem with that on Sunday afternoon.

Like you could feel the energy.

I've said this before, and the Maple Leafs are playing in Buffalo on Saturday,

but when the leaves and the Sabres were good,

you'd get all the leaf ends who would come down to Buffalo and watch those games,

and the crowd, there would be as many fights in there as there were on the ice.

I would always, when both those teams were good,

I would always make sure, uh, Toronto, Buffalo, keep that night free.

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