“Can the Buffalo Sabres Break the Cycle of Heartbreak? A Fan’s Tale of Endurance and Hope”
“For 15 years, it was very rare that we even missed a game,” Gott said. “We built our whole relationship in that arena.”
Around the start of the Sabres’ playoff drought, Gott’s father got sick, and Gott took over the season tickets. In 2016, his father died, and for the last eight seasons, Gott has kept the tickets and recently started splitting them with a friend.
He almost gave them up a couple of years ago, but the Sabres’ employees in the ticket office went to great lengths to keep his business. For the last 10 games of the season, they upgraded his seats from the 300-level to the 100-level. They sent an employee up to his seats and brought him to a bar to have drinks. They even got him tickets to a concert at the arena he wanted to go to.
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