“Can the Buffalo Sabres Break the Cycle of Heartbreak? A Fan’s Tale of Endurance and Hope”
This time around, Gott told them he didn’t want to be convinced. The friend he split the tickets with told him, “Don’t even ask me.” Gott told his ticket rep not to call him unless there was a “huge organizational shakeup.”
“I’m like apologetic when I call them,” Gott said. “I’m not going to sit here and scream at them. It’s a tough job.”
This season, the Sabres are 30th in the NHL in attendance by average percentage of capacity with 84 percent. One of the lower teams is the Utah Hockey Club, which can only count unobstructed seats toward attendance figures, skewing their number. The other is the last-place San Jose Sharks. The Sabres are 27th in average raw attendance with 16,070 people per game. That number is up from an average of 15,981 last season and 15,567 the season before. It’s a better situation than the one the Sabres faced coming out of the pandemic when the team averaged 9,998 tickets sold per game, but the prolonged losing is hurting the franchise’s bottom line.
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